Research

With much of the U.S. in shutdown mode to limit the spread of the Covid-19 disease, a debate has sprung up about when the country might “reopen” commerce, to limit economic fallout from the pandemic. But as a new study co-authored by an MIT economist shows, taking care of public health first is precisely what generates a stronger economic rebound later.

Solar-Lezama has received a $10 million NSF Expeditions in Computing grant for his work on demonstrating that the combination of deep learning and symbolic reasoning can lead to new learning techniques that can better incorporate prior knowledge and produce interpretable models.

A simulation system invented at MIT to train driverless cars creates a photorealistic world with infinite steering possibilities, helping the cars learn to navigate a host of worse-case scenarios before cruising down real streets.