(Photo: Adam Glanzman) Last summer, MIT President Sally Kornbluth and Provost Cynthia Barnhart issued a call for papers to “articulate effective roadmaps, policy recommendations, and calls for action across the broad domain of generative AI.” The response to the call far exceeded expectations with 75 proposals submitted. Of those, 27 proposals...
Initiative for Combatting Systemic Racism
Connection Science: The Technology of Innovation
Real Talk for Change
Ways of Seeing: Documenting Endangered Built Heritage in Afghanistan
Ways of Seeing: Documenting Endangered Built Heritage in Afghanistan
Ways of Seeing: Documenting Endangered Built Heritage in Afghanistan brings together an international team of archaeologists, architects, conservationists, digital artists, journalists, and political scientists to document endangered heritage sites in Afghanistan.
MIT’s Center for Constructive Communication takes aim at the destructive nature of social media
(Photo: Andy Ryan) An ambitious cross-disciplinary effort is launched to build healthier social networks. The MIT Center for Constructive Communication (CCC) and the closely affiliated nonprofit Cortico today announced the launch of a broad-based effort that draws on expertise in face-to-face human dialogue, digital networks, and machine learning to develop safe...
The business value of curated model collections
Model-based practices are now a staple in product design and engineering workflows, models are seldom managed as an enterprise collection, limiting their value, according to Donna Rhodes, a principal research scientist.
Kindness Goes Viral
Steve Hartman of CBS News visits MechE and IDSS Professor Anette ‘Peko’ Hosoi to explore the science behind whether a single act of kindness can change the world.
Simulating discrimination in virtual reality
Researchers designed and developed a virtual reality role-playing game called "On the Plane," which simulates in-group/out-group biases and enables players to engage in perspective-taking.