Computer science and technology
Computer science and technology

Building AI models that understand chemical principles

Connor Coley works at the interface of chemistry and machine learning, to discover and design new drug compounds.

Justin Solomon appointed associate dean of engineering education

MIT faculty member in electrical engineering and computer science to focus on innovation in engineering education and new pedagogical approaches.

Games people — and machines — play: Untangling strategic reasoning to advance AI

Assistant Professor Gabriele Farina mines the foundations of decision-making in complex multi-agent scenarios.

Solving the “Whac-a-mole dilemma”: A smarter way to debias AI vision models

A new debiasing technique called WRING avoids creating or amplifying biases that can occur with existing debiasing approaches.

The MIT-IBM Computing Research Lab launches to shape the future of AI and quantum computing

Building on a long-standing MIT–IBM collaboration, the new lab will chart the convergence of AI, algorithms, and quantum computing.

Enabling privacy-preserving AI training on everyday devices

A new method could bring more accurate and efficient AI models to high-stakes applications like health care and finance, even in under-resourced settings.

A faster way to estimate AI power consumption

The “EnergAIzer” method generates reliable results in seconds, enabling data center operators to efficiently allocate resources and reduce wasted energy.

MIT scientists build the world’s largest collection of Olympiad-level math problems, and open it to everyone

New dataset of 30,000-plus competition math problems from 47 countries gives AI researchers a harder test — and students worldwide a better training ground.

Teaching AI models to say “I’m not sure”

A new training method improves the reliability of AI confidence estimates without sacrificing performance, addressing a root cause of hallucination in reasoning models.

Human-machine teaming dives underwater

Researchers are developing hardware and algorithms to improve collaboration between divers and autonomous underwater vehicles engaged in maritime missions.