“You prevailed because the MIT community that I know would never tolerate a genocide.” Vemuri condemned MIT’s ties to Israel. “There are no universities left in Gaza.

ne July afternoon in 2024, Ryan Williams set out to prove himself wrong. Two months had passed since he’d hit upon a startling discovery about the relationship between time and memory in computing. It ...

MIT researchers have created a periodic table that orders AI algorithms based on the properties they share with a mathematical framework known as information contrastive learning (I-Con).

The challenge is to devise a strategy for organizing books in some kind of sorted order—alphabetically, for instance—that minimizes how long it takes to place a new book on the shelf.

We prove convergence of an approximate dynamic programming algorithm for a class of high-dimensional stochastic control problems linked by a scalar storage device, given a technical condition. Our ...

Three books explore the promise and peril of artificial intelligence. A metronome ticks. A record spins. And as a feel-good pop track plays, a giant compactor slowly crushes a Jenga tower of ...

The team designed a fully dynamic APSP algorithm in the MPC model with low round complexity that is faster than all the existing static parallel APSP algorithms.

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has introduced an innovative algorithm that can learn language solely by watching videos. Mark Hamilton, a PhD student in electrical engineering and ...

Several algorithms have already been developed to run on this architecture, including the most famous one – Shors algorithm, which will one day crack many of today’s public key cryptosystems.

Algorithms may entrench our biases, homogenize and flatten culture, and exploit and suppress the vulnerable and marginalized. But these aren’t completely inscrutable systems or inevitable outcomes.

The book is a work of explanatory criticism, offering an in-depth consideration of the invisible forces people invoke when talking about “the algorithm.” ...