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Senior Elizabeth Rider uses atmospheric chemistry research to create international connections
Rider has conducted her thesis research in the lab of Noelle Selin.
READ MORECSAIL launches artificial intelligence initiative with industry
SystemsThatLearn@CSAIL (STL) aims to develop new “human-like systems” for data science and other fields. (Tommi Jaakola is a faculty lead of STL.)
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Leshner Leadership Fellow Noelle Selin catalyzes dialogue with public, policymakers
Profile on Noelle Selin, describing her work as an AAAS Leshner Leadership Fellow.
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Fighting online extremists with machine learning
LIDS alum Tauhid Zaman and his student Christopher Marks have built a model to predict which Twitter users likely belonged to ISIS, allowing those accounts to be pre-emptively identified and shut down.
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What makes this the hottest class at MIT?
Tommi Jaakkola and Regina Barzilay talk about their popular Introduction to Machine Learning class.
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Multi-university effort will advance materials, define the future of mobility
With support from the Toyota Research Institute, MIT faculty will focus on next-generation energy storage. (Suvrit Sra working on a project as part of this initiative.)
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Paper co-authored by Daron Acemoglu examines impact of automation on U.S. job market
Researchers found that “between 1990 and 2007, each industrial robot added per thousand workers reduced employment in America by nearly six workers.”
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For the sake of safe self-driving cars, companies need to share data
Prof. Sertac Karaman and postdoc Lex Fridman speak with Boston Globe columnist Scott Kirsner about why companies developing self-driving cars should share data.
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Faster page loads
System allocates data center bandwidth more fairly, so no part of a webpage lags behind others. (Paper co-written by Devavrat Shah.)
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MIT experts urge Trump administration to take immediate action on cybersecurity
Report warns of hacking risk to electric grid, oil pipelines, and other critical infrastructure.
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