How to assess a general-purpose AI model’s reliability before it’s deployed

A new technique estimates the reliability of a self-supervised foundation model, like those that power ChatGPT, without the need to know what task that model will be deployed on later.

Embracing the future we need

MIT Associate Professor Andy Sun works on new methods to integrate renewable energy into the electric grid.

ISSIP Announces 2 New Fellows - ISSIP

Dr. Richard C. Larson and Dr. Raymond P. Fisk honored as role models for lifetime achievements in advancing understanding and practice of service innovation Santa Clara, CA, May 23, 2023…

Is it easier to find half a needle than a full needle in a random network? | Network Pages

Common sense tells us that objects of comparable size should be equally hard to find. Yet, when searching inside a random network, surprises are awaiting... In our newest article, Noela Müller, from...

MIT Sloan School of Management researchers help redesign national lung transplant allocation system...

/PRNewswire/ -- United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) has rolled out a new organ allocation system designed to be more equitable and effective for patients...

MIT community members elected to the National Academy of Engineering for 2023

MIT professors Regina Barzilay, Markus Buehler, Elfatih Eltahir, Neil Gershenfeld, Roger Kamm, David Miller, and David Simchi-Levi were elected to the National Academy of Engineering for 2023, along...

Spotlight: Unpacking AI’s “black box” - Monday

Onto something: Leadership in healthcare engineering and patient safety

Amy Cohn’s unconventional approach to solving healthcare problems starts with students. It’s an approach that is gaining ground—at Michigan Medicine and beyond.

Investigating at the interface of data science and computing

MIT Professor Guy Bresler studies computational complexity and researches techniques to learn models from data. A theoretician, he works at the interface of computer science, statistics, probability,...

John Tsitsiklis appointed director of the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems

MIT Professor John Tsitsiklis has been appointed director of the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS) and associate director of the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society....

Spotlight: Optimizing health care logistics

Tackling hard computational problems

The Overlap Gap Property is a new tool for understanding computational problems that appear intractable. It was developed by MIT Professor David Gamarnik

Tackling hard computational problems

The Overlap Gap Property is a new tool for understanding computational problems that appear intractable. It was developed by MIT Professor David Gamarnik