Roger Levy News Today

MIT professors Roger Levy, Tracy Slatyer, and Martin Wainwright won 2024 Guggenheim Fellowships in neuroscience, physics, and data science. Guggenheim Fellows are awarded monetary stipend to pursue independent work and research.

Following MIT President Sally Kornbluth’s second call for proposals, 16 teams of MIT scholars have been selected to develop research papers analyzing the impact of generative AI on a broad range of topics and disciplines.

The MIT Simons Center for the Social Brain catalyzes multiperspective, multiscale research collaborations to understand the neural mechanisms underlying social cognition and behavior.

The MIT School of Science awarded professors Roger Levy, Pulin Li, and David McGee teaching prizes for exceptional undergraduate and graduate instruction.

When babies first start talking, their vocabulary is extremely limited. One of the first sounds babies make is "da," which could mean dad, a dog, a dot, or nothing at all.

"Human adults are bringing a set of helpful assumptions to the table to be able to understand what children say," psychologist Elika Bergelson told Newsweek.

This context-based interpretation by adults may provide valuable feedback, aiding babies in language acquisition.

MIT Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences professors Ev Fedorenko, Ted Gibson, and Roger Levy believe they have an answer to a fundamental question: What is the purpose of language?

Building on recent advances in machine learning, MIT researchers developed a model that better predicts the ease, or lack thereof, with which individuals produce and comprehend sentences.

Standing by its commitment to provide equitable and open access to scholarship, MIT has ended negotiations with Elsevier for a new journals contract. Elsevier failed to present a proposal that aligned with the principles of the MIT Framework for Publisher Contracts.