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Five with MIT ties elected to National Academy of Medicine for 2025

Professors Facundo Batista and Dina Katabi, along with three additional MIT alumni, are honored for their outstanding professional achievement and commitment to service.

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Creating AI that matters

How the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab is shaping AI-sociotechnical systems for the future.

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New software designs eco-friendly clothing that can reassemble into new items

To reduce waste, the Refashion program helps users create outlines for adaptable clothing, such as pants that can be reconfigured into a dress. Each component of these pieces can be replaced, rearranged, or restyled.

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Method teaches generative AI models to locate personalized objects

After being trained with this technique, vision-language models can better identify a unique item in a new scene.

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Blending neuroscience, AI, and music to create mental health innovations

Media Lab PhD student Kimaya Lecamwasam researches how music can shape well-being.

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Checking the quality of materials just got easier with a new AI tool

Acting as a “virtual spectrometer,” SpectroGen generates spectroscopic data in any modality, such as X-ray or infrared, to quickly assess a material’s quality.

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Helping scientists run complex data analyses without writing code

Co-founded by an MIT alumnus, Watershed Bio offers researchers who aren’t software engineers a way to run large-scale analyses to accelerate biology.

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MIT Schwarzman College of Computing and MBZUAI launch international collaboration to shape the future of AI

The MIT–MBZUAI Collaborative Research Program will unite faculty and students from both institutions to advance AI and accelerate its use in pressing scientific and societal challenges.

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Using generative AI to diversify virtual training grounds for robots

New tool from MIT CSAIL creates realistic virtual kitchens and living rooms where simulated robots can interact with models of real-world objects, scaling up training data for robot foundation models.

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Fighting for the health of the planet with AI

Assistant Professor Priya Donti’s research applies machine learning to optimize renewable energy.