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MIT News | February 25, 2026

AI to help researchers see the bigger picture in cell biology

By providing holistic information on a cell, an AI-driven method from researchers including IDSS faculty Caroline Uhler and recent SES graduate Xinyi Zhang could help scientists better understand disease mechanisms and plan experiments.

MIT Sloan Management Review | February 25, 2026

AI Is Not Improving Productivity: Nobel Laureate Daron Acemoglu

In a bonus episode of the Me, Myself, and AI podcast, Nobel Prize-winning economist Daron Acemoglu joins host Sam Ransbotham to challenge some of the most common assumptions about artificial intelligence’s future.

Statistics and Data Science Seminar Series

TBD

Sifan Liu (Duke University)
E18-304

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