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November 22, 2024

Gioele Zardini receives 2024 ETH Doctoral Dissertation Award

Gioele Zardini has received the Silver Medal of ETH Zurich for his 2023 doctoral thesis, “Co-Design of Complex Systems: From Autonomy to Future Mobility Systems”.

November 22, 2024

MIT researchers develop an efficient way to train more reliable AI agents

Fields ranging from robotics to medicine to political science are attempting to train AI systems to make meaningful decisions of all kinds.

November 7, 2024

A causal theory for studying the cause-and-effect relationships of genes

By sidestepping the need for costly interventions, a new method could potentially reveal gene regulatory programs, paving the way for targeted treatments.  

November 5, 2024

Despite its impressive output, generative AI doesn’t have a coherent understanding of the world

Researchers show that even the best-performing large language models don’t form a true model of the world and its rules, and can thus fail unexpectedly on similar tasks.

October 1, 2024

Marija Ilic receives 2024 IEEE PES Prabha S. Kundur Power System Dynamics and Control Award

The award is given annually for outstanding contributions to the understanding and control of the dynamics of the power system

September 30, 2024

Helping robots zero in on the objects that matter

A new method called Clio enables robots to quickly map a scene and identify the items they need to complete a given set of tasks.

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