Saturday, October 17, 2026

A new stamp on cyberfraud prevention

For Rupert Young ’95, SM ’95, his career in data science and cybersecurity began when his grandfather gifted him thousands of stamps: He built intricate databases to catalogue them, displaying the “precise eye” for detail and nuance that his MIT application essay said would make him a good engineer. Young is now chief product officer…

Launching youth entrepreneurship

Even as a teenager, Laurie Stach ’06 says, she had a “crazy ambition to take on the world and solve problems.” At MIT, she realized she wasn’t the only one. “Adults always see these youth who are good at math and science and say, ‘You’re going to do great things—someday,’” says Stach. “Meanwhile, traditional education…

AI Agents Don’t Need More Context — They Need Typed Context

AI agents don’t just have a context problem—they have a context typing problem. When instructions, memory, retrieved evidence, and tool outputs are flattened into one string, their semantic boundaries can disappear. I built a lightweight, zero-dependency Python runtime that keeps those boundaries explicit, tracks provenance, and rejects invalid context transformations before they reach the model.…

Can an LLM Forget the Right Things?

Most LLM inference runtimes have no idea a physical deadline exists. This one refuses admission rather than miss a 33ms robot control cycle, evicts KV cache by meaning instead of age, and is written entirely in hand-written CUDA — no cuBLAS, no libtorch. The post Can an LLM Forget the Right Things? appeared first on…

Interpretable Multimodal Classification with Linear Discriminant Tree Ensembles

arXiv:2608.20384v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal affect and behaviour classifiers that fuse heterogeneous text, audio, and visual streams must simultaneously achieve competitive accuracy and produce human-understandable explanations of the cues driving their decisions -- a dual objective that current high-capacity models, notably Transformers, only partially address. While Transformers attain strong predictive performance, their distributed representations…