To get a sense of what StructCode is all about, says Mustafa Doğa Doğan, think of Superman. Not the “faster than a speeding bullet” and “more powerful than a locomotive” version, but a Superman, or Superwoman, who sees the world differently from ordinary mortals — someone who can look around a room and glean all kinds of information about ordinary…
Rethinking the Role of PPO in RLHF TL;DR: In RLHF, there’s tension between the reward learning phase, which uses human preference in the form of comparisons, and the RL fine-tuning phase, which optimizes a single, non-comparative reward. What if we performed RL in a comparative way? Figure 1: This diagram illustrates the difference between reinforcement learning from absolute feedback and…
The construction jobsites are full of danger zones. A danger zone can be any place, especially near a machine or any equipment, where a worker may be hit by the machine/equipment, or struck under any lifting object(s), or caught in between the moving parts of any machine/equipment. Thus, danger zone can be any place in the construction site, whose intrusion…
The National Academy of Medicine announced the election of 100 new members to join their esteemed ranks in 2023, among them five MIT faculty members and seven additional affiliates. MIT professors Daniel Anderson, Regina Barzilay, Guoping Feng, Darrell Irvine, and Morgen Sheng were among the new members. Justin Hanes PhD ’96, Said Ibrahim MBA ’16, and Jennifer West ’92, along…
Workplace safety has always been a point of concern for the Government of Hong Kong. Regularly reviewing the safety management system in public works is an important approach towards this end. Apart from this, the government also takes several other steps to uphold site safety performance that includes evaluation of tenders, supervision of works, regulation of contractors, measures related to…
Growing up as a shy kid in Palestine, Joseph Michael didn’t have much exposure to computer science. As a result, he couldn’t see how it applied to his life. But in 2018, at the age of 14, Michael joined the Middle East Entrepreneurs of Tomorrow (MEET), a three-year, Jerusalem-based program that brings together promising young Palestinian and Jewish Israeli students…
Facility management is crucial for the commercial as well as the non-commercial organizations. Merely constructing the built environment is not enough. In order to ensure the longevity of the built environment along with the smooth functioning of all the operations in the facilities, it is essential for organizations to ensure a constant and uninterrupted flow of communication, knowledge sharing, efficiency…
Forklifts are a common sight in manufacturing plants, warehouses, and many other jobsites. These powered industrial trucks make lifting and transportation of loads effortless. Undoubtedly, these industrial machines are powerful and perform their task of loading and transportation of load with great deft and precision, yet they are a significant source of workplace hazards. In today's fast-paced world, the manufacturing…
Tower cranes are a common sight in the construction jobsites. These are amongst one of most important and expensive equipment used in construction sites. Tower cranes are especially common in Modular Integrated Construction (MiC) jobsites. Despite their great importance, tower cranes can tend to be extremely dangerous and fatal if adequate safety measures are not followed. Unsafe working practices can…
The beauty of a nice infographic published alongside a news or magazine story is that it makes numeric data more accessible to the average reader. But for blind and visually impaired users, such graphics often have the opposite effect. For visually impaired users — who frequently rely on screen-reading software that speaks words or numbers aloud as the user moves…
Imagine you're in an airplane with two pilots, one human and one computer. Both have their “hands” on the controllers, but they're always looking out for different things. If they're both paying attention to the same thing, the human gets to steer. But if the human gets distracted or misses something, the computer quickly takes over. Meet the Air-Guardian, a…
Imagine grasping a heavy object, like a pipe wrench, with one hand. You would likely grab the wrench using your entire fingers, not just your fingertips. Sensory receptors in your skin, which run along the entire length of each finger, would send information to your brain about the tool you are grasping. In a robotic hand, tactile sensors that use…
Alzheimer’s disease affects more than 6 million people in the United States, and there are very few FDA-approved treatments that can slow the progression of the disease. In hopes of discovering new targets for potential Alzheimer’s treatments, MIT researchers have performed the broadest analysis yet of the genomic, epigenomic, and transcriptomic changes that occur in every cell type in the…
Generative AI, which is currently riding a crest of popular discourse, promises a world where the simple transforms into the complex — where a simple distribution evolves into intricate patterns of images, sounds, or text, rendering the artificial startlingly real. The realms of imagination no longer remain as mere abstractions, as researchers from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory…
Five MIT professors have been selected to receive the 2023 Simons Investigators awards from the Simons Foundation. Virginia Vassilevska Williams and Vinod Vaikuntanathan are both professors in MIT’s Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) and principal investigators in MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). Aram Harrow and Leonid Mirny are professors in the Department of Physics,…
The recent times have seen the rise in offsite construction (OSC) techniques, Modular Integrated Construction (MiC) being a significant one. The ever-increasing global population has made it necessary that housing be delivered both at a faster pace while keeping sustainability in consideration. Especially the pandemic has plunged the economies of various nations and their growth and has also dropped the…
Innovating at the intersection of chemistry, biology, and engineering, Professor Brad Pentelute and the Pentelute Lab at MIT invent new chemistry, platforms, and techniques that might revolutionize therapeutics. Their formula in brief: nature-inspired research that begins at the molecular level, infused with state-of-the-art machine learning and automation, aimed at solving real-world problems. Take, for example, biotechnology’s longstanding protein delivery problem.…
An age-old adage, often introduced to us during our formative years, is designed to nudge us beyond our self-centered, nascent minds: "Two heads are better than one." This proverb encourages collaborative thinking and highlights the potency of shared intellect. Fast forward to 2023, and we find that this wisdom holds true even in the realm of artificial intelligence: Multiple language…
The manufacturing industry is one of the enduring pillars of global economies, and its products form the very backbone of the modern world. From the cars we drive to the smartphones we rely on, virtually every aspect of our daily lives is intertwined with the outputs of this sector. However, the journey from raw materials to finished goods is not…
As 3D printers have become cheaper and more widely accessible, a rapidly growing community of novice makers are fabricating their own objects. To do this, many of these amateur artisans access free, open-source repositories of user-generated 3D models that they download and fabricate on their 3D printer. But adding custom design elements to these models poses a steep challenge for…
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