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Recent news from the MIT Siegel Family Quest for Intelligence: December 2025
Thanks to a generous gift from The Siegel Family Endowment, the MIT Quest for Intelligence is now the MIT Siegel Family Quest for Intelligence. This November, we gathered with members of the extended Quest community to celebrate our next chapter.
A new name, a continued commitment to understanding intelligence
The MIT Quest for Intelligence has been renamed the MIT Siegel Family Quest for Intelligence in recognition of generous support from the Siegel Family Endowment.
Recent news from the MIT Quest for Intelligence: October 2025
An important part of research at MIT's Quest for Intelligence is understanding how people, animals, and machines interact with their surrounding environment. In this issue of our newsletter, we are sharing how and why research in this area happens.
UROP Spotlight: Computational Basis of Everyday Action Planning
To explore the way humans complete simple tasks, Beckett Roberge '28 spent a UROP in the Kanwisher Lab creating a virtual reality simulation of catching a ball. He is now working with Aryan Zoroufi on tracking subjects' movements and comparing them to how different computational techniques catch the ball in the same simulation.
3Q with Nick Roy
Nick Roy's research interests in AI, machine learning, human-computer interaction, and robotics drew him to the Embodied Intelligence Mission.