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MIT Schwarzman College of Computing awards named professorships to two faculty members

Dina Katabi and Aleksander Madry receive additional support to pursue their research and develop their careers.

Getting dressed with help from robots

A human-aware motion planning algorithm addresses the safety gap in collaboration between robots and humans.

Sertac Karaman named director of the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems

Associate professor of aeronautics and astronautics will head MIT’s longest continuously-running lab.

Summer 2021 recommended reading from MIT

Enjoy these recent titles from Institute faculty and staff.

The power of two

Graduate student Ellen Zhong helped biologists and mathematicians reach across departmental lines to address a longstanding problem in electron microscopy.

Intelligent carpet gives insight into human poses

Tactical sensing carpet estimates 3D human poses without the use of cameras, and could improve health monitoring and smart homes.

Unlocking the potential of blockchain technology

Algorand uses a unique architecture developed by MIT Professor Silvio Micali to offer a decentralized, secure, and scalable blockchain.

Training robots to manipulate soft and deformable objects

A virtual environment embedded with knowledge of the physical world speeds up problem-solving.

On a quest through uncharted territory

Math professor Ankur Moitra seeks algorithms with provable guarantees, to pin down the mechanisms of machine learning.

The potential of artificial intelligence to bring equity in health care

Nearly 1,400 joined the AI for Health Care Equity Conference that explored new AI technologies as a platform for change.