A recent episode at the New York Stock Exchange was designed to prove that robots and people can happily coexist. Business research proves it’s possible — with certain caveats. More details

On October 18, alumni, postdocs, graduate students, and professors gathered at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering’s annual New Research Alumni Reception. The annual event invites the broader MIT CEE community back to campus to network with peers and become informed about the innovative research projects that the civil and environmental engineering faculty are working on. Topics covered ranged from machine learning and blockchain to regional impacts of global climate change, and creative computing for high performance design in structural design.  McAfee Professor of Engineering and department head Markus Buehler began the night by discussing new additions to CEE and MIT such as the grand opening of MIT.nano, the new MIT Schwarzman College of Computing to support the rise of artificial intelligence and data science, and a revamped student lounge named in honor of late professor and former department head Joseph Sussman.  Buehler also highlighted the fieldwork offered in CEE, such as ONE-MA3 (Materials in Continuer la lecture Highlighting new research opportunities in civil and environmental engineering→

Google is helping relieve the knowledge workers of the world from the drudgery of email — by revealing how inhuman it was in the first place. More details

A new £10m medical technology centre in Coventry will use artificial intelligence (AI) to help speed up disease diagnosis. Business Secretary Greg … More details

On 16 November, the European Disability Forum (EDF) and Österreichischer Behindertenrat will host and event on “Using Artificial Intelligence to … More details