Topic
Computer science and technology
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Lincoln Laboratory enters licensing agreement to produce its localizing ground-penetrating radar
Commercial prototypes of the system will be available to the self-driving vehicle industry.
July 18, 2017 -
Bringing neural networks to cellphones
Method for modeling neural networks’ power consumption could help make the systems portable.
July 18, 2017 -
Ultra-high-contrast digital sensing
Technique could lead to cameras that can handle light of any intensity, audio that doesn’t skip or pop.
July 14, 2017 -
Watch 3-D movies at home, sans glasses
CSAIL system converts 3-D movies into a more TV-friendly format.
July 12, 2017 -
Miniaturizing the brain of a drone
Method for designing efficient computer chips may get miniature smart drones off the ground.
July 11, 2017 -
Using chip memory more efficiently
System for generating ad hoc “cache hierarchies” increases processing speed while reducing energy consumption.
July 7, 2017 -
Why do some neighborhoods improve?
Density of highly educated residents, rather than income or housing costs, predicts revitalization.
July 6, 2017 -
Lucas Mason-Brown named 2017 Echoing Green Fellow
MIT graduate student in mathematics honored for using equations to boost racial equality.
July 6, 2017 -
Researchers use Kinect to scan T. rex skull
System with $150 worth of hardware offers alternative to 3-D scanners that cost 200 times as much.
July 5, 2017 -
New 3-D chip combines computing and data storage
Advance points toward new generation of computers for coming superstorm of data.
July 5, 2017 -
Practical parallelism
System enables large speedups — as much as 88-fold — on common parallel-computing algorithms.
June 30, 2017 -
Peering into neural networks
New technique helps elucidate the inner workings of neural networks trained on visual data.
June 29, 2017 -
Computer system predicts products of chemical reactions
Machine learning approach could aid the design of industrial processes for drug manufacturing.
June 27, 2017 -
Drones that drive
CSAIL team’s system of quadcopters that fly and drive suggest another approach to developing flying cars.
June 26, 2017 -
Origami anything
New algorithm generates practical paper-folding patterns to produce any 3-D structure.
June 21, 2017 -
Advanced Functional Fabrics of America opens headquarters steps from MIT campus
New AFFOA facility represents a significant MIT investment in advanced manufacturing innovation.
June 19, 2017 -
AFFOA launches state-of-the-art facility for prototyping advanced fabrics
New center for development of high-tech fibers and fabrics opens headquarters, unveils two products ready for commercialization.
June 19, 2017 -
Toward optical quantum computing
Prototype device enables photon-photon interactions at room temperature.
June 16, 2017 -
Shrinking data for surgical training
Technique that reduces video files to one-tenth their initial size enables speedy analysis of laparoscopic procedures.
June 16, 2017 -
AgeLab researching autonomous vehicle systems in ongoing collaboration with Toyota
Innovative MIT research focuses on developing systems to perceive and identify objects in their environment and understand social interactions in traffic.
June 8, 2017