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CS Welcomes Six New Faculty
Columbia University News· 12 hours agoThe department is thrilled to introduce a cadre of new researchers poised to join the charge in artificial intelligence (AI) and quantum computing. “This...
We will all pay the price for the gullibility of our elites
The Telegraph via Yahoo Finance· 6 days agoApple briefly became the most valuable company in the world again last week, but this is no...
Dark Matter Found? New Study Furthers Stephen Hawking's Predictions About 'Primordial' Black Holes -...
Slashdot· 17 hours agoOther recent studies have confirmed the validity of Hawking's hypothesis, but the work of [MIT graduate student Elba] Alonso-Monsalve and [study co-author David] Kaiser, a ...
Gene therapy may cure rare diseases. But drugmakers have few incentives, leaving families desperate...
Texarkana Gazette· 6 hours agoRobin Alderman faces an agonizing reality: Gene therapy might cure her son Camden's rare, inherited...
How AI lies, cheats, and grovels to succeed - and what we need to do about it
ZDNet· 3 days agoIt has always been fashionable to anthropomorphize artificial intelligence (AI) as an "evil" force –...
God-Like AI And The Decentralized Internet
Forbes· 4 days agoIf all of this sounds esoteric, we can get a bit more of a real-world flavor from Ramesh Raskar who runs classes here at MIT on the future of AI (he’s...
Trump's nuke comments are more evidence of his 'mental instability': MSNBC guest
The Raw Story· 2 days agoOn Friday morning, the entire panel on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" expressed dismay at an anecdote in an upcoming book from Puerto Rico's former governor that Donald Trump glibly talked about using ...
How Vannevar Bush Engineered the 20th Century
IEEE Spectrum· 5 days agoIn the summer of 1945, Robert J. Oppenheimer and other key members of the Manhattan Project gathered in New Mexico to witness the first atomic bomb test....
Takeaways from AP's report on access to gene therapies for rare diseases
San Francisco Chronicle· 2 days agoCollectively, about 350 million people worldwide suffer from rare diseases, most of which are...
Former CDC director predicts bird flu pandemic: What to know
WJZY via Yahoo News· 6 days agoWhat are the symptoms of bird flu in humans? Jon Arizti Sanz, PhD, of the Broad Institute of MIT and...