Topic
Computer science and technology
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Letter regarding the MIT Intelligence Quest
February 1, 2018 -
Institute launches the MIT Intelligence Quest
New Institute-wide initiative will advance human and machine intelligence research.
February 1, 2018 -
New program from MIT offers refugees a career boost
ReACT will award credentials in computer and data science through online and in-person instruction.
January 23, 2018 -
Bots that talk more like people
AI platform allows chatbots to draw on robust language database to better navigate human conversation.
January 23, 2018 -
Location detection when GPS doesn’t work
Theoretical study shows how to make wireless localization much more accurate.
January 22, 2018 -
Engineers design artificial synapse for “brain-on-a-chip” hardware
Design is major stepping stone toward portable artificial-intelligence devices.
January 22, 2018 -
From undisciplined to interdisciplinary
Math professor Philippe Rigollet, once a “not very disciplined” student, moves between computer science and statistics.
January 21, 2018 -
3Q: D. Fox Harrell on his video game for the #MeToo era
The computer scientist’s group has designed a game that gets players to reflect on sexual misconduct in the workplace.
January 19, 2018 -
Three EECS professors join leadership team
Saman Amarasinghe and Joel Voldman are named associate department heads; Nancy Lynch is associate department head for strategic directions, a new post.
January 12, 2018 -
New depth sensors could be sensitive enough for self-driving cars
Computational method improves the resolution of time-of-flight depth sensors 1,000-fold.
December 21, 2017 -
Can computers help us synthesize new materials?
Machine-learning system finds patterns in materials “recipes,” even when training data is lacking.
December 21, 2017 -
Inventing the “Google” for predictive analytics
Platform analyzes big data to answer plain-language business queries in minutes instead of months.
December 19, 2017 -
Auto-tuning data science: New research streamlines machine learning
A new automated machine-learning system performs as well or better than its human counterparts — and works 100 times faster.
December 19, 2017 -
Unlocking marine mysteries with artificial intelligence
Students put their AI software for underwater vehicles to the test on the Charles River.
December 14, 2017 -
Computer systems predict objects’ responses to physical forces
Results may help explain how humans do the same thing.
December 13, 2017 -
Calculating the cost of tech-fueled discrimination
Math graduate student’s Data for Black Lives conference provides numbers behind the technologies that enable exclusion.
December 13, 2017 -
Four from MIT named 2017 Association for Computing Machinery Fellows
Professors Goldwasser, Lozano-Perez, Micali, and Sipser honored for "providing key knowledge" to computing.
December 11, 2017 -
Reading a neural network’s mind
Technique illuminates the inner workings of artificial-intelligence systems that process language.
December 10, 2017 -
MIT Lincoln Laboratory earns six R&D 100 Awards for 2017
Technologies named among the year's most significant innovations address health care, radar performance, aircraft collision avoidance, and 24-hour wide-area surveillance.
December 8, 2017 -
Try this! Researchers devise better recommendation algorithm
Improved recommendation algorithm should work especially well when ratings data are “sparse.”
December 6, 2017