May 17, 2023
Today, the U.S. Department of Education (Department) released proposed regulations to establish the strongest set of safeguards ever to protect students from unaffordable debt or insufficient earnings from career training programs, along with new measures to increase...
May 17, 2023
Posted by Deborah Cohen, Staff Research Scientist, and Craig Boutilier, Principal Scientist, Google Research As virtual assistants become ubiquitous, users increasingly interact with them to learn about new topics or obtain recommendations and expect them to deliver...
May 17, 2023
Medical researchers are awash in a tsunami of clinical data. But we need major changes in how we gather, share, and apply this data to bring its benefits to all, says Leo Anthony Celi, principal research scientist at the MIT Laboratory for Computational Physiology...
May 17, 2023
The Dark Ages were not entirely dark. Advances in agriculture and building technology increased Medieval wealth and led to a wave of cathedral construction in Europe. However, it was a time of profound inequality. Elites captured virtually all economic gains. In...
May 17, 2023
To study ocean currents, scientists release GPS-tagged buoys in the ocean and record their velocities to reconstruct the currents that transport them. These buoy data are also used to identify “divergences,” which are areas where water rises up from below the surface...
May 16, 2023
Good morning, Chairwoman Foxx, Ranking Member Scott, and distinguished members of the Committee. I am pleased to join you today to testify on behalf of President Biden’s fiscal year 2024 Budget Request for the Department of Education. I often say that investing...
May 16, 2023
Posted by Candice Schumann, Software Engineer, and Gbolahan O. Olanubi, User Experience Researcher, Google Research Skin tone is an observable characteristic that is subjective, perceived differently by individuals (e.g., depending on their location or culture) and...
May 16, 2023
Posted by Jerry Wei, Student Researcher, and Denny Zhou, Principal Scientist, Google Research There have recently been tremendous advances in language models, partly because they can perform tasks with strong performance via in-context learning (ICL), a process...
May 15, 2023
Maybe you can’t tell a book from its cover, but according to researchers at MIT you may now be able to do the equivalent for materials of all sorts, from an airplane part to a medical implant. Their new approach allows engineers to figure out what’s going on inside...
May 15, 2023
When medical companies manufacture the pills and tablets that treat any number of illnesses, aches, and pains, they need to isolate the active pharmaceutical ingredient from a suspension and dry it. The process requires a human operator to monitor an industrial dryer,...
