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MIT Schwarzman College of Computing's inaugural Social and Ethical Responsibilities of Computing (SERC) Symposium convened experts from multiple disciplines to explore the challenges and opportunities that arise with the broad applicability of computing in many aspects of society.
OpenAI is working on a way to watermark text, according to a guest researcher working at the lab. But it's limited in key ways.
High school junior Jessica Wan received the top $50,000 prize, with a score of 17 out of 20, out of 240 girls in the U.S. and Canada competing in the Math Prize for Girls annual contest at MIT.
Fonts as puzzles: Can you solve them? A font created by Erik and Martin Demaine. The Demaines, a father-and-son team of algorithmic typographers, have confected an entire suite of mathematically inspired typefaces. Erik Demaine, Martin Demaine and Katie Steckles via The New York Times. by Siobhan Roberts (NYT NEWS SERVICE) .- The verb puzzle to perplex or confuse, bewilder or bemuse is of unknown origin. That kind of fits, said Martin Demaine, an artist-in-residence at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Its a puzzle where the word puzzle comes from. His son...
E-Mail Contemporary robots can move quickly. "The motors are fast, and they're powerful," says Sabrina Neuman. Yet in complex situations, like interactions with people, robots often don't move quickly. "The hang up is what's going on in the robot's head," she adds. Perceiving stimuli and calculating a response takes a "boatload of computation," which limits reaction time, says Neuman, who recently graduated with a PhD from the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). Neuman has found a way to fight this mismatch between a robot's "mind" and body. The method, cal...