PhD Seminar Series: MCP servers: Why You Need to Know About Them and How They Work

MCP have revolutionized the way AI connects to resources. Standard API approaches required the developer to customize each connection. With MCP servers, a standardized protocol replaces these fragmented API connections with a single, universal connection method. MCP servers enable the researcher to connect to multiple data sources simultaneously, create reproducible data pipelines, get the most out of agentic AI, and build large libraries that can be quickly and easily queried/summarized.