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AI maps how a new antibiotic targets gut bacteria

Algorithms, Antibiotics, Artificial Intelligence, Bacteria, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), Computer science and technology, Disease, Drug development, Drug discovery, Electrical engineering and computer science (EECS), Health care, Health sciences and technology, Jameel Clinic, Machine Learning, Medicine, MIT Schwarzman College of Computing, Research, School of Engineering, Viruses

For patients with inflammatory bowel disease, antibiotics can be a double-edged sword. The broad-spectrum drugs often prescribed for gut flare-ups can kill helpful microbes alongside harmful ones, sometimes worsening symptoms over time. When fighting gut inflammation, you don’t always want to bring a sledgehammer to a knife fight.Researchers at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence

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Printable aluminum alloy sets strength records, may enable lighter aircraft parts

3-D printing, Artificial Intelligence, DMSE, Machine Learning, Materials science and engineering, Mechanical engineering, MIT.nano, Research, School of Engineering

MIT engineers have developed a printable aluminum alloy that can withstand high temperatures and is five times stronger than traditionally manufactured aluminum.The new printable metal is made from a mix of aluminum and other elements that the team identified using a combination of simulations and machine learning, which significantly pruned the number of possible combinations

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New prediction model could improve the reliability of fusion power plants

Aeronautical and astronautical engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Computer modeling, Energy, Fluid dynamics, Fusion, Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS), Machine Learning, MIT Schwarzman College of Computing, Nuclear power and reactors, Plasma Science and Fusion Center, Renewable energy, Research, School of Engineering, Sustainability

Tokamaks are machines that are meant to hold and harness the power of the sun. These fusion machines use powerful magnets to contain a plasma hotter than the sun’s core and push the plasma’s atoms to fuse and release energy. If tokamaks can operate safely and efficiently, the machines could one day provide clean and

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Fighting for the health of the planet with AI

Algorithms, Artificial Intelligence, Climate change, Computer science and technology, Electric grid, Electrical engineering and computer science (EECS), Energy, Faculty, Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS), Machine Learning, MIT Schwarzman College of Computing, Profile, Renewable energy, School of Engineering, Sustainability, Technology and policy

For Priya Donti, childhood trips to India were more than an opportunity to visit extended family. The biennial journeys activated in her a motivation that continues to shape her research and her teaching.Contrasting her family home in Massachusetts, Donti — now the Silverman Family Career Development Professor in the MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and

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Using generative AI to diversify virtual training grounds for robots

Artificial Intelligence, Computer modeling, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), Computer science and technology, data, Electrical engineering and computer science (EECS), Internet, Machine Learning, MIT Schwarzman College of Computing, Research, Robotics, School of Engineering, Simulation

Chatbots like ChatGPT and Claude have experienced a meteoric rise in usage over the past three years because they can help you with a wide range of tasks. Whether you’re writing Shakespearean sonnets, debugging code, or need an answer to an obscure trivia question, artificial intelligence systems seem to have you covered. The source of

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MIT Schwarzman College of Computing and MBZUAI launch international collaboration to shape the future of AI

Artificial Intelligence, Collaboration, Computer science and technology, Electrical engineering and computer science (EECS), Funding, International initiatives, MIT Schwarzman College of Computing, Research, School of Engineering, Technology and society

The MIT Schwarzman College of Computing and the Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI) recently celebrated the launch of the MIT–MBZUAI Collaborative Research Program, a new effort to strengthen the building blocks of artificial intelligence and accelerate its use in pressing scientific and societal challenges.Under the five-year agreement, faculty, students, and research staff

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Ray Kurzweil ’70 reinforces his optimism in tech progress

Alumni/ae, Artificial Intelligence, MIT Corporation, School of Humanities Arts and Social Sciences, Special events and guest speakers, Technology and society

Innovator, futurist, and author Ray Kurzweil ’70 emphasized his optimism about artificial intelligence, and technological progress generally, in a lecture on Wednesday while accepting MIT’s Robert A. Muh Alumni Award from the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (SHASS).Kurzweil offered his signature high-profile forecasts about how AI and computing will entirely blend with human functionality,

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Helping scientists run complex data analyses without writing code

Algorithms, Alumni/ae, Artificial Intelligence, Disease, Electrical engineering and computer science (EECS), Health, Innovation and Entrepreneurship (I&E), Machine Learning, Medicine, School of Engineering, Startups

As costs for diagnostic and sequencing technologies have plummeted in recent years, researchers have collected an unprecedented amount of data around disease and biology. Unfortunately, scientists hoping to go from data to new cures often require help from someone with experience in software engineering.Now, Watershed Bio is helping scientists and bioinformaticians run experiments and get

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Checking the quality of materials just got easier with a new AI tool

Artificial Intelligence, Imaging, Light, Machine Learning, manufacturing, Materials science and engineering, Mechanical engineering, Research, School of Engineering

Manufacturing better batteries, faster electronics, and more effective pharmaceuticals depends on the discovery of new materials and the verification of their quality. Artificial intelligence is helping with the former, with tools that comb through catalogs of materials to quickly tag promising candidates.But once a material is made, verifying its quality still involves scanning it with

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Optimizing food subsidies: Applying digital platforms to maximize nutrition

Abdul Latif Jameel Water and Food Systems Lab (J-WAFS), Algorithms, Alumni/ae, Artificial Intelligence, data, Faculty, Food, India, MIT Sloan School of Management, Policy, Poverty, Profile, Research, Sustainability

Oct. 16 is World Food Day, a global campaign to celebrate the founding of the Food and Agriculture Organization 80 years ago, and to work toward a healthy, sustainable, food-secure future. More than 670 million people in the world are facing hunger. Millions of others are facing rising obesity rates and struggle to get healthy

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