Quantum confirmation + robot training + new NAS members

By rahmat hidayat

Rabu, 30 Juli 2025

view in browser MIT Daily July 30, 2025 Greetings! Here’s the latest from the MIT community.   Have feedback to share? Email mitdailyeditor@mit.edu. Light’s Dual Identity Working with single atoms, MIT physicists recently stripped the famous double-slit experiment down to its quantum essentials. Their work confirms, with the most idealized experiment yet, that light exists as both a wave and a particle but cannot be observed in both forms at the same time. Full story via MIT News → Top Headlines New tool gives anyone the ability to train a robot MIT engineers designed a versatile interface that allows users to teach robots new skills in intuitive ways. Full story via MIT News → Why people favor AI in certain domains but not others To improve AI adoption in your organization, pay attention to both capability and personalization, new research suggests. Full story via MIT Sloan→ What do we owe each other? A new class teaches MIT students how to navigate a fast-changing world with a moral compass. Full story via MIT News → Five MIT faculty elected to the National Academy of Sciences for 2025 Rodney Brooks, Parag Pathak, Scott Sheffield, Benjamin Weiss, Yukiko Yamashita, and 13 MIT alumni are recognized by their peers for their outstanding contributions to research. Full story via MIT News → Professor Emeritus Keith Johnson, pioneering theorist in materials science and independent filmmaker, dies at 89 The longtime MIT solid-state physicist brought theoretical insights to an experiment-driven discipline — and later, to film. Full story via MIT News → #ThisisMIT Post via @kennyfharris on Instagram→ In the Media MIT’s Andrew Lo sees AI ready to run your money in five years // Bloomberg News Professor Andrew Lo discusses how artificial intelligence tools could be applied to the financial services industry. “I believe that within the next five years we’re going to see a revolution in how humans interact with AI,” says Lo. He adds that “the financial services industry has extra layers of protection that needs to be built before these tools can be useful.” Full story via Bloomberg News→ Opinion: AI is reimagining retirement, but who’s plugging it in? // Forbes Joseph Coughlin, director of the MIT AgeLab, explores the role of technology in the lives of retirees. “The AgeTech revolution is real. The technology that is coming is astonishing. But it risks stalling not because the tech isn’t good, but because no one is there to plug it in, literally and figuratively,” writes Coughlin. “Because in retirement living, the real innovation isn’t a gadget or form of artificial intelligence. The next big thing is trusted, human-centered service.”  Full story via Forbes→ Collegiate Collaborations MIT researchers work regularly with colleagues at universities across the U.S. to devise new solutions to complex challenges. These connections demonstrate how shared expertise and diverse viewpoints can amplify discovery and accelerate solutions that benefit communities across America and beyond. Recently, MIT and Carnegie Mellon University researchers created CHARCHA (Computer Human Assessment for Recreating Characters with Human Actions), a secure verification protocol that allows an individual’s likeness to appear in generative video content. Inspired by CAPTCHA’s verification legacy, CHARCHA relies on real-time physical interactions such as the poses shown above, to differentiate between humans and bots. By ensuring a person is interacting with the system, CHARCHA prevents pre-recorded video or still images from bypassing verification — and could be an essential tool for tackling the growing threat of unauthorized deepfakes. Full story via CMU Robotics Institute → This edition of the MIT Daily was brought to you by 150 years of advancing MIT. 🙌🏼 The MIT Daily is publishing on a summer Monday-Wednesday-Friday schedule through August. Thanks for reading, and enjoy your day! —MIT News Forward This Email Subscribe This email was sent to rh3252705.ikut@blogger.com because of your affiliation with MIT, or because you signed up for our newsletters. subscribe update preferences unsubscribe view in browser MIT News Office · 77 Massachusetts Avenue · Cambridge, MA 02139 · USA

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