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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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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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