The Kennedy College of Science, Richard A. Miner School of Computer & Information Sciences, invites you to attend a doctoral dissertation proposal defense by Nidhi Vakil, titled: "Foundations for ...

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While standard models suffer from context rot as data grows, MIT’s new Recursive Language Model (RLM) framework treats ...

We stand at a technological precipice. From AI to CRISPR, discover why inclusive global governance is critical to shaping a future that serves all of humanity.

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Flat Earth arguments often sound confident but fall apart under basic scrutiny. Repeated experiments fail, yet the conclusions never change. Evidence is dismissed when it contradicts belief. This ...

After the White House called for billions of dollars in funding reductions, senators and representatives said they wanted to safeguard and even boost funds for basic research. By William J. Broad ...

The dictionary of life has a new update. A DNA sequence that signals cells in almost all other organisms to stop synthesising proteins instead encodes a rare amino acid in some archaea, according to a ...

This repository contains the code to reproduce the examples in the paper Motion Planning around Obstacles with Convex Optimization by Tobia Marcucci, Mark Petersen, David von Wrangel, and Russ Tedrake ...