3+ hour, 16+ min ago  (278+ words) Three MIT rising seniors have been selected to receive a 2026 Barry Goldwater Scholarship, including'Deeksha Kumaresh in the School of Engineering and'Anna Liu and Charlotte Myersin the School of Science. An estimated 5, 000 college sophomores and juniors from across the United States…...

4+ hour, 16+ min ago  (478+ words) In an outstanding performance at the 86th William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition, MIT's team once again took the top spot for the sixth consecutive year. MIT secured four of the five Putnam Fellows, who are the five highest-ranking students, and the…...

1+ day, 2+ hour ago  (185+ words) Four MIT faculty members are among the roughly 250 leaders from academia, the arts, industry, public policy, and research elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the academy announced April 22. Thirteen additional MIT alumni were also honored. One of…...

1+ mon, 4+ day ago  (758+ words) Large language models (LLMs) can generate credible but inaccurate responses, so researchers have developed uncertainty quantification methods to check the reliability of predictions. One popular method involves submitting the same prompt multiple times to see if the model generates the…...

6+ day, 18+ hour ago  (903+ words) Artificial intelligence is already proving it can accelerate drug development and improve our understanding of disease. But to turn AI into novel treatments we need to get the latest, most powerful models into the hands of scientists. The problem is…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (542+ words) In addition, several MIT faculty members " Professor Jorn Dunkel, Professor Yen-Jie Lee Ph D "11, Associate Professor Mingda Li Ph D "15, and Associate Professor Julien Tailleur " as well as 12 additional alumni were named APS Fellows. Yoel Fink Ph D "00, the Danae…...

2+ week, 9+ hour ago  (394+ words) Training a large artificial intelligence model is expensive, not just in dollars, but in time, energy, and computational resources. Traditionally, obtaining a smaller, faster model either requires training a massive one first and then trimming it down, or training a…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago  (856+ words) In biology, defects are generally bad. But in materials science, defects can be intentionally tuned to give materials useful new properties. Today, atomic-scale defects are carefully introduced during the manufacturing process of products like steel, semiconductors, and solar cells to…...

4+ week, 1+ hour ago  (663+ words) Proteins are far more than nutrients we track on a food label. Present in every cell of our bodies, they work like nature's molecular machines. They walk, stretch, bend, and flex to do their jobs, pumping blood, fighting disease, building…...

4+ week, 2+ day ago  (508+ words) Artificial intelligence holds promise for helping doctors diagnose patients and personalize treatment options. However, an international group of scientists led by MIT cautions that AI systems, as currently designed, carry the risk of steering doctors in the wrong direction because…...