History of MITby Stefanie Koperniak | MIT Open Learning17 Jun 2026
From the icy expanse of the South Pole, John Della Costa, a researcher on the Background Imaging of Cosmic Extragalactic Polarization (BICEP) project, watches STS.042/8.225 (Einstein, Oppenheimer...
History of MITby Julie Diop | Initiative for New Manufacturing16 Jun 2026
In May, the Initiative for New Manufacturing (INM) marked its first anniversary with MIT Manufacturing Week, four days of events that attracted more than 800 registrants including students...
History of MITby Lillian Eden | Department of Biology12 Jun 2026
In winter 1997, at age 60, when many researchers might be looking forward to retirement, Harriet Latham Robinson SM ’61, PhD ’65 was pursuing a faculty position as the chief of microbiology and...
blargby mhoye12 Jun 2026
June 12, 2026 Ted Chiang recently wrote that: The term deepfake traditionally refers to photos, audio, and video, but when it comes to discussions of consciousness, we need to regard text as a...
History of MITby Peter Dizikes | MIT News12 Jun 2026
Debates about vaccines are a recurring feature of contemporary politics. It turns out they actually date back more than 200 years, since the development of the first smallpox vaccine.
History of MITby Maria Iacobo | School of Architecture and Planning11 Jun 2026
Jinhua Zhao MCP ’04, SM ’04, PhD ’09 has been appointed head of the Department of Urban Studies and Planning (DUSP), effective July 1.
Amazon Science Homepageby Ali Saidi10 Jun 2026
AWS Graviton processors have improved steadily across generations, with each iteration delivering advances in computational performance, price performance, energy efficiency, and memory capacity.
Amazon Science Homepageby Dominic Mulligan; Nathan Chong10 Jun 2026
Today we announced the general availability of the new M9g and M9gd instances of Amazon Web Services’ (AWS’s) Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), the first instance types powered by Graviton5, the latest...
History of MITby Zach Winn | MIT News10 Jun 2026
The rise of artificial intelligence is riding on the back of an enormous data center expansion. Data centers are projected to account for anywhere from 9 to 17 percent of total electricity usage in...
Amazon Science Homepageby Rose Yu8 Jun 2026
The year 2026 marks a definitive shift in the AI landscape: we have moved from models that simply know to agents that do.
Amazon Science Homepageby Gaurav Gupta; Vatshank Chaturvedi8 Jun 2026
AI agent performance is not just a modeling problem; it is fundamentally a systems problem. A modern agent combines an LLM with a harness, software that mediates the LLM’s interaction with tools...
History of MITby Amanda Diehl | MIT Schwarzman College of Computing5 Jun 2026
On April 30, the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing’s Social and Ethical Responsibilities of Computing (SERC) initiative hosted a full-day research symposium examining how artificial intelligence...
History of MITby Media Lab4 Jun 2026
MIT, in collaboration with Georgia State University and a growing network of educational institutions, has announced expanded work under PATH (Pathways for AI Training and Hiring) — a multiyear...
Scott H Youngby Scott Young4 Jun 2026
Learning multiplies the distinctions we can make. We learn to see differences between things we had previously been lumping together.
smitten kitchenby deb3 Jun 2026
One of my most exasperating traits — or, perhaps one that makes me ideally suited for this space I invented, coincidentally, to suit my collection of traits — is that I have a terrific amount of...
Amazon Science Homepageby Venkatesh Saligrama3 Jun 2026
Today, the key challenge in AI isn’t only how to build better models; it’s how to build evaluation systems that can keep up.
History in 28-minutesby History Is Now Magazine30 May 2026
He was not supposed to be remembered this way. Caleb Bradham was a pharmacist, trained for local steadiness rather than worldwide success, a man expected to move plainly through small-town commerce...
Amazon Science Homepageby Giacomo Bernardi; Ratul Mahajan; Seshadhri Comandur28 May 2026
Routing in today’s data centers is usually governed by a data structure called a “fat tree”, which is similar to a corporate organizational chart, with nodes in each layer connecting to multiple...
Amazon Science Homepageby Amazon Research Awards team27 May 2026
Amazon Research Awards (ARA) provides unrestricted funds and AWS Promotional Credits to academic researchers investigating various research topics in multiple disciplines.
Amazon Science Homepageby Sheng Jia; Xiao Wang; Shiva Kasiviswanathan26 May 2026
Large language models (LLMs) are pretrained on huge volumes of unlabeled data, but afterward, they’re typically post-trained on specific tasks such as instruction following, avoiding harmful...
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