A week at MIT
The first week of the new year brought smatterings of undergraduates returning to the MIT campus after the holidays — and 54 new faces were among them.These students traveled from across the country to...
View ArticleComputer system passes “visual Turing test”
Researchers at MIT, New York University, and the University of Toronto have developed a computer system whose ability to produce a variation of a character in an unfamiliar writing system, on the first...
View ArticleMachines that learn like people
Object-recognition systems are beginning to get pretty good — and in the case of Facebook’s face-recognition algorithms, frighteningly good.But object-recognition systems are typically trained on...
View ArticleFirst major database of non-native English
After thousands of hours of work, MIT researchers have released the first major database of fully annotated English sentences written by non-native speakers.The researchers who led the project had...
View ArticleDecoding hidden dreams
The brain connects sensory information from the environment to our subjective experiences, resulting in our perceptions, emotions, and memories. However, our brains need to disconnect — i.e., sleep —...
View ArticleHow the brain builds panoramic memory
When asked to visualize your childhood home, you can probably picture not only the house you lived in, but also the buildings next door and across the street. MIT neuroscientists have now identified...
View ArticleHow the brain recognizes faces
MIT researchers and their colleagues have developed a new computational model of the human brain’s face-recognition mechanism that seems to capture aspects of human neurology that previous models have...
View ArticleLooking ahead to the future of computer-driven cars
The field of transportation is undergoing a seismic shift with the introduction of autonomous driving — or computer-driven cars. Computer vision scientist and Mobileye co-founder Amnon Shashua PhD ’93...
View ArticleExplained: Neural networks
In the past 10 years, the best-performing artificial-intelligence systems — such as the speech recognizers on smartphones or Google’s latest automatic translator — have resulted from a technique called...
View ArticleA noninvasive method for deep brain stimulation
Delivering an electrical current to a part of the brain involved in movement control has proven successful in treating many Parkinson’s disease patients. This approach, known as deep brain stimulation,...
View ArticleBabies can learn that hard work pays off
If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again.A new study from MIT reveals that babies as young as 15 months can learn to follow this advice. The researchers found that babies who watched an adult...
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How we determine who’s to blame
How do people assign a cause to events they witness? Some philosophers have suggested that people determine responsibility for a particular outcome by imagining what would have happened if a suspected...
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How badly do you want something? Babies can tell
Babies as young as 10 months can assess how much someone values a particular goal by observing how hard they are willing to work to achieve it, according to a new study from MIT and Harvard...
View ArticleComputer systems predict objects’ responses to physical forces
Josh Tenenbaum, a professor of brain and cognitive sciences at MIT, directs research on the development of intelligence at the Center for Brains, Minds, and Machines, a multiuniversity,...
View ArticleInstitute launches the MIT Intelligence Quest
MIT today announced the launch of the MIT Intelligence Quest, an initiative to discover the foundations of human intelligence and drive the development of technological tools that can positively...
View ArticleMIT announces leadership of its Quest for Intelligence
Antonio Torralba has been named the inaugural director of the MIT Quest for Intelligence, effective immediately, Provost Martin Schmidt announced today in an email to the MIT community.Launched on...
View ArticleRecognizing the partially seen
When we open our eyes in the morning and take in that first scene of the day, we don’t give much thought to the fact that our brain is processing the objects within our field of view with great...
View ArticleModel helps robots navigate more like humans do
When moving through a crowd to reach some end goal, humans can usually navigate the space safely without thinking too much. They can learn from the behavior of others and note any obstacles to avoid....
View ArticleFujitsu Laboratories and MIT’s Center for Brains, Minds and Machines Broaden...
Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd. and MIT's Center for Brains, Minds and Machines (CBMM) has announced a multi-year philanthropic partnership focused on advancing the science and engineering of intelligence...
View ArticleMachines that learn language more like kids do
Children learn language by observing their environment, listening to the people around them, and connecting the dots between what they see and hear. Among other things, this helps children establish...
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