Regina Barzilay, the School of Engineering Distinguished Professor for AI and Health within the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) at MIT, received the IEEE Frances E. Allen Medal for 'innovative machine learning algorithms that have led to advances in human language technology and demonstrated impact on the field of medicine.' Barzilay focuses on machine learning algorithms for modeling molecular properties in the context of drug design, with the goal of elucidating disease biochemistry and accelerating the development of new therapeutics. In the field of clinical AI, she focuses on algorithms for early cancer diagnostics. She is also the AI faculty lead within the MIT Abdul Latif Jameel Clinic for Machine Learning in Health and an affiliate of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Institute for Medical Engineering and Science, and Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research. Barzilay is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, the National Academy of Medicine, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She has earned the MacArthur Fellowship, MIT's Jamieson Award for excellence in teaching, and the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence's $1 million Squirrel AI Award for Artificial Intelligence for the Benefit of Humanity. Barzilay is a fellow of AAAI, ACL, and AIMBE....

A huge collaboration has confirmed growing concerns that fake or flawed research is polluting medical systematic reviews, which summarize evidence from multiple clinical trials and shape treatment guidelines worldwide. The study is part of an effort to address the problem by creating a short checklist that will help researchers to spot untrustworthy trials. Combined with automated integrity tools, this could help those conducting systematic reviews to filter out flawed work ' in medicine and beyond. In the study, which has taken two years and was posted on 26 November to the medRxiv preprint server1, a team of more than 60 researchers trawled through 50 systematic reviews published under the aegis of Cochrane, an organization renowned for its gold-standard reviews of medical evidence. After applying a barrage of checks, the authors ' many of whom are themselves editors or authors of Cochrane reviews ' reported that they had 'some concerns' about 25% of the clinical trials in the reviews, and 'serious concerns' about 6% of them....

In a fall letter to MIT alumni, President Sally Kornbluth wrote: '[T]he world has never been more ready to reward our graduates for what they know ' and know how to do.' During her tenure leading MIT Career Advising and Professional Development (CAPD), Deborah Liverman has seen firsthand how ' and how well ' MIT undergraduate and graduate students leverage their education to make an impact around the globe in academia, industry, entrepreneurship, medicine, government and nonprofits, and other professions. Here, Liverman shares her observations about trends in students' career paths and the complexities of the job market they must navigate along the way. A: We routinely survey our undergraduates and graduate students to track post-graduation outcomes, so fortunately we have a wealth of data. And ultimately, this enables us to stay on top of changes from year to year and to serve our students better. The short answer is that our students fare exceptionally well when they leave the Institute! In our 2023 Graduating Student Survey, which is an exit survey for bachelor's degree and master's degree students, 49 percent of bachelor's respondents and 79 percent of master's respondents entered the workforce after graduating, and 43 percent and 14 percent started graduate school programs, respectively. Among those seeking immediate employment, 92 percent of bachelor's and 87 percent of master's degree students reported obtaining a job within three months of graduation....

Flying through Earth's orbit are thousands of satellites and two operational space stations, including the International Space Station, which weighs as much as 77 elephants. The International Space Station, or ISS, hosts scientists and researchers from around the world as they contribute to discoveries in medicine, microbiology, Earth and space science, and more. The ISS travels very quickly around the Earth at 5 miles per second (8 kilometers per second), which means it could fly from Atlanta to London in 14 minutes. But at the same time, small chunks of rock called meteoroids shoot through space and burn up when they hit Earth's atmosphere. How is it that some objects ' such as the International Space Station ' orbit the Earth unscathed, while others, such as asteroids, burn up' Meteoroids are small chunks of rock and metal that orbit the Sun. These space rocks can travel between 7 and 25 miles per second (12 to 40 km per second). That's fast enough to cross the entire United States in about 5 minutes....