“Almost all our students are familiar with the scientific method, which they learn at an early age,” Paul Pettigrew says. “We take the same approach in teaching design. We teach a design process: ideate, iterate, prototype.”

A new technique diminishes errors that hamper super-fast analog optical neural networks, which process data using light instead of electrical signals. The advance could enable researchers to scale up these devices, making them large enough for commercial uses.

The health benefits of switching to wind energy could quadruple if the most polluting power plants are swapped out, a new study shows. But disadvantaged communities would reap a smaller share of these benefits, so more measures are needed, the researchers say.

“We want to harness the forefront of results in computing and infuse them with the other disciplines,” says Professor Dan Huttenlocher, inaugural dean of the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing.

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U.S. law incentivizes hospitals to digitize health records. This data could help improve and streamline care, but much of it is trapped in the jargon of doctors’ notes. Now CSAIL researchers have used large language models to help decipher these records.