Following nine years leading MIT’s work on digital learning, Sanjay Sarma will step down as vice president for open learning, and focus on teaching, research, writing, and entrepreneurship.
The FutureMakers programs hosted by MIT’s Responsible AI for Social Empowerment and Education (RAISE) initiative foster children’s education around artificial intelligence through workshops and Create-a-Thons, where kids not only engage with AI, but also gain awareness of the technologies’ social implications, along with leadership and professional development skills.
MIT Professor Cynthia Breazeal has been appointed MIT's dean for digital learning. She will supervise MIT xPRO, Bootcamps, Horizon, Center for Advanced Virtuality, MIT Integrated Learning Initiative, RAISE, and other strategic initiatives centered on developing digital technologies for learning.
Jibo may have breathed its last robotic breaths back in 2019, but researchers at MIT believe the social robot may have been onto something. Sure, the world wasn’t ready for a pricey social robot a few years back, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t some positives to take away from the experience — namely, the […]
MIT research finds that when families interact with a voice-user interface, like a smart speaker or social robot, they are more likely to trust the device, engage with it, and find it to be competent if it exhibits more human-like social behaviors.