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Remembering Professor Emerita Jeanne Shapiro  Bamberger, a pioneer in music education

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MIT Music and Theater Arts fondly remembers the legacy of Professor Emerita Jeanne Shapiro Bamberger, who passed away peacefully at home in Berkeley, California, of natural causes on Dec. 12, 2024 at the age of 100. For three decades at the Institute, Bamberger found ways to use computers to engage students and help them learn music. A […]

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Creating AI that matters

Algorithms, Artificial Intelligence, Business and management, Collaboration, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), Computer science and technology, data, Electrical engineering and computer science (EECS), IDSS, Industry, Machine Learning, MIT Schwarzman College of Computing, MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab, Research, School of Engineering, Technology and society

When it comes to artificial intelligence, MIT and IBM were there at the beginning: laying foundational work and creating some of the first programs — AI predecessors — and theorizing how machine “intelligence” might come to be.Today, collaborations like the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab, which launched eight years ago, are continuing to deliver expertise for

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What does the future hold for generative AI?

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When OpenAI introduced ChatGPT to the world in 2022, it brought generative artificial intelligence into the mainstream and started a snowball effect that led to its rapid integration into industry, scientific research, health care, and the everyday lives of people who use the technology.What comes next for this powerful but imperfect tool?With that question in

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Improving the workplace of the future

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Whitney Zhang ’21 believes in the importance of valuing workers regardless of where they fit into an organizational chart.Zhang is a PhD student in MIT’s Department of Economics studying labor economics. She explores how the technological and managerial decisions companies make affect workers across the pay spectrum. “I’ve been interested in economics, economic impacts, and related social

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