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Electrical Engineering & Computer Science (eecs)
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Ingestible robots, glasses-free 3-D, and computers that explain themselves
A look at 16 of the coolest things that happened at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in 2016.
December 16, 2016 -
Data diversity
Preserving variety in subsets of unmanageably large data sets should aid machine learning.
December 16, 2016 -
Making big data manageable
Technique shrinks data sets while preserving their fundamental mathematical relationships.
December 14, 2016 -
Helping policy and technology work together
Engineering grad student Keertan Kini is working to strengthen the intersection of policy and technology.
December 12, 2016 -
Four CSAIL researchers named ACM fellows
Association for Computer Machinery cites Erik Demaine, Fredo Durand, William Freeman, and Daniel Jackson for having "provided key knowledge" to computing.
December 8, 2016 -
Henry Smith awarded IEEE Noyce Medal
Professor emeritus of electrical engineering recognized for contributions to field of nanofabrication.
December 7, 2016 -
“Google Docs” for life sciences accelerates discovery
Cloud-based platform assists in managing, sharing data facilitates research.
December 7, 2016 -
Learning words from pictures
System correlates recorded speech with images, could lead to fully automated speech recognition.
December 6, 2016 -
Design your own custom drone
CSAIL system lets users design and fabricate drones with a wide range of shapes and structures.
December 5, 2016 -
Four MIT students named Schwarzman Scholars
Alix de Monts, Lisa Ho, Anita Liu, and Melody Liu will study for one year at Tsinghua University in China.
December 2, 2016 -
Computer learns to recognize sounds by watching video
Machine-learning system doesn’t require costly hand-annotated data.
December 2, 2016 -
How the brain recognizes faces
Machine-learning system spontaneously reproduces aspects of human neurology.
December 1, 2016 -
Bold research visions recognized and rewarded
Four proposals from six MIT faculty members to receive Professor Amar G. Bose Research Grants.
December 1, 2016 -
Harder, better, faster, stronger
The MIT Formula SAE team takes a great leap forward to build their 2017 race car.
November 29, 2016 -
Creating videos of the future
Given a still image, CSAIL deep-learning system generates videos that predict what will happen next in a scene.
November 29, 2016 -
Four MIT students named 2017 Marshall Scholars
Matthew Cavuto, Zachary Hulcher, Kevin Zhou, and Daniel Zuo will pursue two years of study in the U.K.
November 28, 2016 -
Meeting of the minds for machine intelligence
Industry leaders, computer scientists, and venture capitalists gather to discuss how smarter computers are remaking our world.
November 22, 2016 -
Toward X-ray movies
Low-power tabletop source of ultrashort electron beams could replace car-size laboratory devices.
November 22, 2016 -
Teaching Hong Kong students to embrace computational thinking
Powered by MIT expertise and regional universities, CoolThink@JC will offer training to primary teachers and students at 32 schools.
November 15, 2016 -
Enabling wireless virtual reality
Developed at Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, “MoVR” system allows VR headsets to communicate without a cord
November 14, 2016