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November 19, 2019

Bot can beat humans in multiplayer hidden-role games

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Rob Matheson | MIT News Office

MIT researchers have developed a bot equipped with artificial intelligence that can beat human players in tricky online multiplayer games where player roles and motives are kept secret.

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November 19, 2019

Students push to speed up artificial intelligence adoption in Latin America

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Kim Martineau | MIT Quest for Intelligence

Omar Costilla Reyes reels off all the ways that artificial intelligence might benefit his native Mexico.

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November 4, 2019

School of Science appoints 14 faculty members to named professorships

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The School of Science has announced that 14 of its faculty members have been appointed to named professorships.

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October 23, 2019

MIT announces framework to guide negotiations with publishers

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Brigham Fay | MIT Libraries

The MIT Libraries, together with the MIT Committee on the Library System and the Ad Hoc Task Force on Open Access to MIT’s Research, announced that it has developed a

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October 21, 2019

Drug combination reverses hypersensitivity to noise

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Anne Trafton | MIT News Office

People with autism often experience hypersensitivity to noise and other sensory input.

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October 17, 2019

Open access task force releases final recommendations

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Brigham Fay | MIT Libraries

The Ad Hoc Task Force on Open Access to MIT’s Research has released its

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October 16, 2019

Controlling our internal world

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Sabbi Lall | McGovern Institute for Brain Research

Olympic skaters can launch, perform multiple aerial turns, and land gracefully, anticipating imperfections and reacting quickly to correct course.

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October 9, 2019

New method visualizes groups of neurons as they compute

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Anne Trafton | MIT News Office

Using a fluorescent probe that lights up when brain cells are electrically active, MIT and Boston University researchers have shown that they can image the activity of many neurons at once, in the brains of mice.

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October 8, 2019

Alzheimer’s plaque emerges early and deep in the brain

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David Orenstein | Picower Institute

Long before symptoms like memory loss even emerge, the underlying pathology of Alzheimer’s disease, such as an accumulation of amyloid protein plaques, is well underway in the brain.

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October 1, 2019

Study: Better sleep habits lead to better college grades

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David L. Chandler | MIT News Office

Two MIT professors have found a strong relationship between students’ grades and how much sleep they’re getting. What time students go to bed and the consistency of their sleep habits also make a big difference.

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