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On The Front Lines Of Space Innovation
George Lordos is not your typical graduate student. A degree in economics from Oxford University, an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management, and a 20-year professional career were not the end of his learning journey. His longtime passion for space, particularly the prospect of making a sustainable society on Mars a reality, drew …
An AI that Can Resurrect Memories
Do you also have old pictures of yourself or close ones that didn’t age well or that you, or your parents, took before we could produce high-quality images? I do, and I felt like those memories were damaged forever. Boy, was I wrong! This new and completely free AI model can fix most of your …
How Artificial Intelligence Can Help Combat Systemic Racism
In 2020, Detroit police arrested a Black man for shoplifting almost $4,000 worth of watches from an upscale boutique. He was handcuffed in front of his family and spent a night in lockup. After some questioning, however, it became clear that they had the wrong man. So why did they arrest him in the first …
From Auto Racing To AI, These Four Leaders Bring Very Different Workloads To OCI
Formula One race simulations. Self-learning artificial intelligence. Petabyte-scale video streaming. Real-time transactions for auctions. Behind the numbers that show accelerating demand for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) are stories like these, stories of the world’s leading companies bringing a huge range of workloads to OCI. From containers to AI to ERP, companies like GoTo, Aleph Alpha, …
Unlocking New Doors To Artificial Intelligence
Artificial intelligence research is constantly developing new hypotheses that have the potential to benefit society and industry; however, sometimes these benefits are not fully realized due to a lack of engineering tools. To help bridge this gap, graduate students in the MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science’s 6-A Master of Engineering (MEng) Thesis …
Zombify Your Face For Halloween With This Creepy AI App
You can also try transforming into an evil doll. Halloween is fast approaching, but you’ll probably have to postpone the parties this year and instead spend a lonesome evening at home with a bottle of scotch. Well, that’s my plan anyway. Still, the social restrictions don’t mean you can’t experiment with devilish new looks from the …
Deep Learning Helps Predict New Drug Combinations To Fight COVID-19
The existential threat of COVID-19 has highlighted an acute need to develop working therapeutics against emerging health threats. One of the luxuries deep learning has afforded us is the ability to modify the landscape as it unfolds — so long as we can keep up with the viral threat, and access the right data. As …
“AI For Impact” Lives Up To Its Name
For entrepreneurial MIT students looking to put their skills to work for a greater good, the Media Arts and Sciences class MAS.664 (AI for Impact) has been a destination point. With the onset of the pandemic, that goal came into even sharper focus. Just weeks before the campus shut down in 2020, a team of …
How Humans And Machines Can Enhance Each Other’s Strengths With Collaborative Intelligence
“Artificial intelligence is transforming all sectors of the economy, but there’s no reason to fear that robots will replace all human employees. In fact, companies that automate their operations mainly to cut their workforces will see only short-term productivity gains, say the authors. Their research, involving 1,500 firms in a range of industries, shows that …
Sweat-Proof “Smart Skin” Takes Reliable Vitals, Even During Workouts And Spicy Meals
MIT engineers and researchers in South Korea have developed a sweat-proof “electronic skin” — a conformable, sensor-embedded sticky patch that monitors a person’s health without malfunctioning or peeling away, even when a wearer is perspiring. The patch is patterned with artificial sweat ducts, similar to pores in human skin, that the researchers etched through the …