Fifteen individuals and three teams were recipients of MIT Excellence Awards this year, and were presented with their honors during a ceremony held on Wednesday, March 4. Here Michael Tarkanian, a technical instructor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, receives his Serving the Client award from Chancellor Phillip Clay.
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The Lincoln Laboratory–developed laser communications payload operates at the data rates required to image these never-before-seen thin halos of light.
MIT CSAIL researchers used AI-generated images to train a robot dog in parkour, without real-world data. Their LucidSim system demonstrates generative AI's potential for creating robotics training data.