Electrical engineering and computer science (EECS)

“Tor operates under the assumption that there’s not a global adversary that’s paying attention to every single link in the world,” Nickolai Zeldovich says. “Maybe these days this is not as good of an assumption.”

Untraceable communication — guaranteed

New untraceable text-messaging system comes with statistical guarantees.

December 7, 2015

Streamlining mobile image processing

Technique for mobile image processing in the cloud cuts bandwidth use by more than 98 percent.

November 13, 2015

An example of the Non-Local Variations algorithm that automatically detects and visualizes small deformations between repeating structures in a single image. On the left is the original image. In the right image, the variability in the shape of the corn’s kernels is reduced, and the misalignment of rows is corrected.

Amplifying — or removing — visual variation

Algorithms could offer new tools for graphics software or reveal structural defects.

November 5, 2015

An app for safer roads

Censio’s data analytics on driving behavior helps users improve safety and lower insurance rates.

November 2, 2015

A basis for all cryptography

A tool that would provide a secure foundation for any cryptographic system may be close at hand.

October 28, 2015

"Cutting plane" methods converge on the optimal values of a mathematical function by repeatedly cutting out regions of a much larger set of possibilities (gold sphere).

Faster optimization

New general-purpose optimization algorithm promises order-of-magnitude speedups on some problems.

October 23, 2015

Automating big-data analysis

System that replaces human intuition with algorithms outperforms 615 of 906 human teams.

October 16, 2015

Learning language by playing games

System learns to play text-based computer game using only linguistic information.

September 23, 2015

MIT researchers have devised a new mix-and-match system to genetically engineer bacteria-infecting viruses, called bacteriophages (yellow), to attack specific bacteria.

Viruses join fight against harmful bacteria

Engineered viruses could combat human disease and improve food safety.

September 23, 2015

New system from MIT and Boston Children’s Hospital researchers converts MRI scans into 3D-printed heart models (shown here).

Personalized heart models for surgical planning

System can convert MRI scans into 3D-printed, physical models in a few hours.

September 17, 2015

First new cache-coherence mechanism in 30 years

More efficient memory-management scheme could help enable chips with thousands of cores.

September 9, 2015

MIT's Stata Center, which houses the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory

CSAIL joins with Toyota on $25 million research center for autonomous cars

Seeking to reduce traffic casualties, center will focus on robotics and artificial intelligence systems.

September 4, 2015

A new Web-based interface for design novices allows a wide range of modifications to a basic design — such as a toy car or a black-and-white "yin-yang" cup — that are guaranteed to be both structurally stable and printable on a 3-D printer.

Customizing 3-D printing

Design tool lets novices do in minutes what would take experts in computer-aided design hours.

September 3, 2015

The autonomous golf carts (shown here) deployed in the Singapore public gardens relied on just a few unobtrusive sensors.

Self-driving golf carts

Autonomous vehicles share sidewalk space with pedestrians in six-day trial in Singaporean public garden.

September 1, 2015

Photo illustration of many hands selecting bubbles on a multiple-choice test

Study identifies new cheating method in MOOCs

Research from MIT and Harvard shows how to exploit and protect MOOC certification.

August 24, 2015

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