A large-scale benchmark for evolving soft robots
- Scientific American — Evolution Gym Sculpts Novel Robot Bodies and Brains (December 2021)
- IEEE Spectrum — Algorithm Uses Evolution To Design Robots: MIT’s Evolution Gym brings the Darwin to robotics (December 2021)
- WIRED — See Little Robots Get Swole in This Virtual ‘Gym’ (December 2021)
- MIT News — A system for designing and training intelligent soft robots (December 2021)
- TRT World — Mind your language: How anti-Palestinian bias is framed in US media (May 2021)
Virtually unfolding sealed locked letters
- Scientific American — Algorithm Virtually Unfolds a Historical Letter without Unsealing It (April 2021)
- The New York Times — New Technique Reveals Centuries of Secrets in Locked Letters (March 2021)
- WIRED — Sleuths Read Old Booby-Trapped Letters Without Opening Them (March 2021)
- NPR — Reading A Letter That’s Been Sealed For More Than 300 Years, Without Opening It (March 2021)
- Wall Street Journal — A Letter Sealed for Centuries Has Been Read—Without Even Opening It (March 2021)
- MIT News — Researchers virtually open and read sealed historic letters (March 2021)
- CNN — Rare ‘locked’ letter sealed 300 years ago is finally opened virtually (March 2021)
- The Economist — Origami in reverse: Cracking the security on a trove of 17th-century letters (March 2021)
- The Guardian — Researchers read sealed 17th-century letter without opening it (March 2021)
- New Scientist — Algorithm reveals contents of fragile letters sealed for 300 years (March 2021)
- MIT MacVicar Day — “Pushing Boundaries: A Legacy of Learning Through Exploration and Discovery” (March 2017)
Building an evolutionary tree of the Galaxy
- MIT News — Q&A: Holly Jackson on building a cosmic family tree
Genetic algorithms for programmable 3D truss structures
Science behind the strongest stitch