News & features

Research Focus: Week of March 24, 2025
In this issue, we examine a new conversation segmentation method that delivers more coherent and personalized agent conversation, and we review efforts to improve MLLMs’ understanding of geologic maps. Check out the latest research and other updates.

Metasurface: Unlocking the future of wireless sensing and communication
| Lili Qiu and Hao Pan
Metasurfaces explore engineered 2D materials that manipulate electromagnetic and mechanical waves, offering advances in wireless tech. They can power indoor GPS, extend 5G/6G coverage, and enable wireless sensing and imaging.

Research Focus: Week of August 26, 2024
Learn what’s next for AI at Research Forum on Sept. 3; WizardArena simulates human-annotated chatbot games; MInference speeds pre-filling for long-context LLMs via dynamic sparse attention; Reef: Fast succinct non-interactive zero-knowledge regex proofs.

Research Focus: Week of April 15, 2024
In this issue: New research on appropriate reliance on generative AI; Power management opportunities for LLMs in the cloud; LLMLingua-2 improves task-agnostic prompt compression; Enhancing COMET to embrace under-resourced African languages:
In the news | National Academy of Inventors
Lili Qiu, Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors
The National Academy of Inventors (NAI) today announced the induction of 169 distinguished inventors to be NAI Fellows. Election as an Academy Fellow is the highest professional distinction awarded to academic inventors.