Associate professor of linguistics Athulya Aravind, co-director of the MIT Language Acquisition Lab, is leading a set of studies investigating children's acquisition of "expletives" or “dummy words,” words that don't seem to have any meaning.
Scientists from MIT and IBM Research made a computer vision model more robust by training it to work like a part of the brain that humans and other primates rely on for object recognition.
MIT researchers César Terrer and Wenzhe Jiao are leveraging a new generation of remote sensing devices to provide high-resolution plant water stress data at regional to global scales.