Could LLMs help design our next medicines and materials?
A new method lets users ask, in plain language, for a new molecule with certain properties, and receive a detailed description of how to synthesize it.
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Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL)
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A new way to bring personal items to mixed reality
“InteRecon” enables users to capture items in a mobile app and reconstruct their interactive features in mixed reality. The tool could assist in education, medical environments, museums, and more.
New method assesses and improves the reliability of radiologists’ diagnostic reports
The framework helps clinicians choose phrases that more accurately reflect the likelihood that certain conditions are present in X-rays.
For this computer scientist, MIT Open Learning was the start of a life-changing journey
Ana Trišović, who studies the democratization of AI, reflects on a career path that she began as a student downloading free MIT resources in Serbia.
MIT affiliates named 2024 AAAS Fellows
The American Association for the Advancement of Science recognizes six current affiliates and 27 additional MIT alumni for their efforts to advance science and related fields.
A new way to make graphs more accessible to blind and low-vision readers
The Tactile Vega-Lite system, developed at MIT CSAIL, streamlines the tactile chart design process; could help educators efficiently create these graphics and aid designers in making precise changes.
At the core of problem-solving
Stuart Levine ’97, director of MIT’s BioMicro Center, keeps departmental researchers at the forefront of systems biology.
3D printing approach strings together dynamic objects for you
“Xstrings” method enables users to produce cable-driven objects, automatically assembling bionic robots, sculptures, and dynamic fashion designs.
High-performance computing, with much less code
The Exo 2 programming language enables reusable scheduling libraries external to compilers.
Robotic helper making mistakes? Just nudge it in the right direction
New research could allow a person to correct a robot’s actions in real-time, using the kind of feedback they’d give another human.
Letterlocking: A new look at a centuries-old practice
A first history of the document security technology, co-authored by MIT Libraries’ Jana Dambrogio, provides new tools for interdisciplinary research.
MIT faculty, alumni named 2025 Sloan Research Fellows
Annual award honors early-career researchers for creativity, innovation, and research accomplishments.
Like human brains, large language models reason about diverse data in a general way
A new study shows LLMs represent different data types based on their underlying meaning and reason about data in their dominant language.
AI model deciphers the code in proteins that tells them where to go
Whitehead Institute and CSAIL researchers created a machine-learning model to predict and generate protein localization, with implications for understanding and remedying disease.
To keep hardware safe, cut out the code’s clues
New “Oreo” method from MIT CSAIL researchers removes footprints that reveal where code is stored before a hacker can see them.