A paraphrasing of Gerald Jay Sussman's explanation for MIT's switch from Scheme to Python in its undergraduate computer science program, focusing on the changing nature of programming and the need to adapt to modern systems and libraries.
A new method called Clio enables robots to quickly map a scene and identify the items they need to complete a given set of tasks.
MIT CSAIL researchers have developed three neurosymbolic frameworks - LILO, Ada, and LGA - that use natural language to help large language models (LLMs) build better abstractions for coding, AI planning, and robotics tasks.
