Making wireless communication more energy efficient
Along with studying theory, "it's also important to me that the work we are doing will help to solve real-world problems,” says LIDS student Omer Tanovic.
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Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Experiments show dramatic increase in solar cell output
Method for collecting two electrons from each photon could break through theoretical solar-cell efficiency limit.
Angelika Amon and Dina Katabi named Carnegie Corporation “Great Immigrants”
MIT biologist and electrical engineer are two of 38 naturalized U.S. citizens honored for contributions to American society.
MIT Energy Initiative awards seven Seed Fund grants for early-stage energy research
Annual MITEI awards support research on methane conversion, efficient energy provision, plastics recycling, and more.
Teaching artificial intelligence to create visuals with more common sense
An MIT/IBM system could help artists and designers make quick tweaks to visuals while also helping researchers identify “fake” images.
Drag-and-drop data analytics
System lets nonspecialists use machine-learning models to make predictions for medical research, sales, and more.
New AI programming language goes beyond deep learning
General-purpose language works for computer vision, robotics, statistics, and more.
Smart workout apparel, “Vegetable Assassins,” and inspiration from medieval music
In a popular EECS class, student teams design, program, build, and demonstrate their own cloud-connected, handheld, or wearable embedded systems.
Want to learn how to train an artificial intelligence model? Ask a friend.
MIT Machine Intelligence Community introduces students to nuts and bolts of machine learning.
From one brain scan, more information for medical artificial intelligence
System helps machine-learning models glean training information for diagnosing and treating brain conditions.
QS ranks MIT the world’s No. 1 university for 2019-20
Ranked at the top for the eighth straight year, the Institute also places first in 11 of 48 disciplines.
Automated cryptocode generator is helping secure the web
System automatically writes optimized algorithms to encrypt data in Google Chrome browsers and web applications.
Teaching artificial intelligence to connect senses like vision and touch
MIT CSAIL system can learn to see by touching and feel by seeing, suggesting future where robots can more easily grasp and recognize objects.
Toward artificial intelligence that learns to write code
Researchers combine deep learning and symbolic reasoning for a more flexible way of teaching computers to program.
Chip design drastically reduces energy needed to compute with light
Simulations suggest photonic chip could run optical neural networks 10 million times more efficiently than its electrical counterparts.