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How Associa transforms document classification with the GenAI IDP Accelerator and Amazon Bedrock

This is a guest post co-written with David Meredith and Josh Zacharias from Associa. Associa, North America’s largest community management company, oversees approximately 7.5 million homeowners with 15,000 employees across more than 300 branch offices. The company manages approximately 48 million documents across 26 TB of data, but their existing document management system lacks efficient […]

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A practical guide to Amazon Nova Multimodal Embeddings

Embedding models power many modern applications—from semantic search and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) to recommendation systems and content understanding. However, selecting an embedding model requires careful consideration—after you’ve ingested your data, migrating to a different model means re-embedding your entire corpus, rebuilding vector indexes, and validating search quality from scratch. The right embedding model should deliver

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Brian Hedden named co-associate dean of Social and Ethical Responsibilities of Computing

Brian Hedden PhD ’12 has been appointed co-associate dean of the Social and Ethical Responsibilities of Computing (SERC) at MIT, a cross-cutting initiative in the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing, effective Jan. 16. Hedden is a professor in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, holding an MIT Schwarzman College of Computing shared position with the

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Antonio Torralba, three MIT alumni named 2025 ACM fellows

Antonio Torralba, Delta Electronics Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and faculty head of artificial intelligence and decision-making at MIT, has been named to the 2025 cohort of Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Fellows. He shares the honor of an ACM Fellowship with three MIT alumni: Eytan Adar ’97, MEng ’98; George Candea ’97,

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3 Questions: Using AI to accelerate the discovery and design of therapeutic drugs

In the pursuit of solutions to complex global challenges including disease, energy demands, and climate change, scientific researchers, including at MIT, have turned to artificial intelligence, and to quantitative analysis and modeling, to design and construct engineered cells with novel properties. The engineered cells can be programmed to become new therapeutics — battling, and perhaps

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Accelerating your marketing ideation with generative AI – Part 2: Generate custom marketing images from historical references

Marketing teams face major challenges creating campaigns in today’s digital environment. They must navigate through complex data analytics and rapidly changing consumer preferences to produce engaging, personalized content across multiple channels while maintaining brand consistency and working within tight deadlines. Using generative AI can streamline and accelerate the creative process while maintaining alignment with business

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