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Sharing resources from MIT 6.004, “Computation Structures,” a classic open course that explains, from the bottom up, the complete process of building computer systems—from transistors, logic gates, and instruction sets to pipelined CPUs, caches, and parallel processing—with slides, videos, and exercises.
Five MIT faculty members and two alumni were named to the 2026 cohort of Schmidt Sciences AI2050 Fellows, a $12 million philanthropic initiative co-chaired by Eric Schmidt and James Manyika aimed at solving hard problems in AI to ensure it benefits society by 2050.
MIT News profiles Professor Paris Smaragdis and his research on making machines that can hear and understand sound, covering applications from sound source separation and machine listening to music tools and smart audio devices.
Prabha Jha, a Verizon leader and MIT xPRO AI for Senior Executives participant, collaborated with MIT peers to co-write 'The AI Anthology,' a collection of AI insights aimed at helping business leaders navigate the impact of AI on operations.
MIT brought a strong cross-campus presence to New York Climate Week 2026, hosting 14 sessions and attracting over 700 attendees across topics including AI's climate impact, sustainable data centers, and super pollutant solutions.
Harvard legal scholar Martha Minow delivered MIT's fall Compton Lecture on how AI is undermining democracy's foundations—education, reliable information, security, and fairness—and challenged the MIT community to develop AI tools that strengthen rather than replace human critical thinking.
MIT's School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences marked its 75th anniversary with a symposium exploring how AI is transforming teaching, research, and society, with leaders emphasizing a human-centered approach to technology.
MIT engineers developed a recyclable thermoplastic yarn made from two polyethylene variants that matches the strength and stretch of spandex-based yarns and can be melted and respun for up to 10 cycles without losing performance, potentially enabling a circular textile economy.
MIT researchers left 13 Claude Opus 4.7 agents unattended in a Roblox-inspired virtual island for 30 hours with no tasks or rewards, and the agents spontaneously invented sports, built monuments, and ran experiments — with play experience later boosting their performance on real tasks.
This post highlights an MIT quant paper showing how AI speeds up trading research but also makes fake alpha easier to believe, arguing AI should serve as a strategy rejection machine rather than a trading oracle.
The Kendall Square Association's 18th Annual Meeting gathered local stakeholders to discuss innovation through the lens of community, featuring a keynote by MIT's Daron Acemoglu on AI as a tool for workers and the state of liberal democracy.
A user shares reflections on MIT's distributed systems course (6.5840/6.824) versus DDIA, linking to the Spring 2026 schedule covering MapReduce, GFS, Paxos, and Raft, plus a guest lecture by Go creator Russ Cox.
MIT researcher Neil Thompson's new study shows frontier AI models jumped from solving ~2% to ~35% of theoretical problems in fields like physics, statistics, and economic theory between 2024 and 2026, suggesting the disruption AI is causing in mathematics will soon spread across science.
An MIT class project from 2017 evolved into Encora Therapeutics, whose wristband device using mechanical vibration to reduce tremors has now received FDA clearance for treating essential tremor, following years of development and clinical trials.
MIT engineers developed a soft, stretchable shape-sensing sheet embedded with zig-zagging optical fibers and an algorithm that digitally reconstructs its 3D form as it bends and twists, with applications in wearables, teleoperation, and physical therapy.
用户推荐 MIT 6.5940 Fall 2026 课程《TinyML and Efficient AI Computing》，由 Song Han 团队讲授，涵盖剪枝、量化、蒸馏、神经架构搜索、LLM 量化与部署、扩散模型优化等高效 AI 计算技术。
TechCrunch reports on humans' innate tendency to treat AI and robots as sentient, highlighting Sherry Turkle's book "Artificial Intimacy" and MIT research into how people anthropomorphize chatbots and Unitree humanoid robots — and whether that emotional reliance is healthy.
MIT News 发布三问专访，围绕 MIT 统计与数据科学中心主任 Sasha Rakhlin 的新文章，探讨 AI 对大学研究与研究生培养的冲击，以及院系应如何重新定义学术评价与训练方式。
MIT Statistics and Data Science Center Director Sasha Rakhlin's essay explores how rapidly advancing AI is reshaping academic research and graduate training in mathematics, statistics, ML, and engineering, and how universities should rethink academic credit, evaluation, and intellectual development in response.
Margaret Hamilton, the pioneer who coined the term "software engineering" and led the development of NASA's Apollo 11 on-board flight software, has died at age 90. The obituary traces her career from programming Edward Lorenz's chaos theory experiments at MIT to her foundational work on Apollo flight systems and her later software companies.