Jun 3, 2024
Let’s say you want to train a robot so it understands how to use tools and can then quickly learn to make repairs around your house with a hammer, wrench, and screwdriver. To do that, you would need an enormous amount of data demonstrating tool use. Existing robotic...
May 30, 2024
EDITOR’S NOTE: The following message was posted today on the Education Department’s Homeroom blog. In a letter sent to all staff today, U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona outlined comprehensive steps the Department is taking to improve Federal...
May 29, 2024
The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) today announced that the Rapid City Area Schools district in South Dakota has entered into a resolution agreement to ensure compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 when imposing school...
May 29, 2024
The internet is awash in instructional videos that can teach curious viewers everything from cooking the perfect pancake to performing a life-saving Heimlich maneuver. But pinpointing when and where a particular action happens in a long video can be tedious. To...
May 29, 2024
Researchers from the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and Google Research may have just performed digital sorcery — in the form of a diffusion model that can change the material properties of objects in images. Dubbed Alchemist, the...
May 29, 2024
“We need more female power in STEM, so please join us!” At the start of each school year, this is my rallying call as I visit all the 9th-grade math classes in my high school to recruit students for our Computer Science (CS) pathway program. As a lifelong STEM...
