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A new system for autonomous vehicles called, FailureNet, is a recurrent neural network trained end-to-end on trajectories of both nominal and reckless drivers in a scaled miniature city. FailureNet observes the poses of vehicles as they approach an intersection and detects whether a failure is present in the autonomy stack, warning cross-traffic of potentially dangerous drivers.
Barry Duncan is a master palindromist who has been honing his craft for decades. He’s a bookseller at the MIT Press Bookstore, but when not surrounded by words for his job, he’s busy working words into two-way prose to the delight of many.
A new computational tool from MIT CSAIL is the first system for creating what they call Polagons: machine-made polarized light mosaics crafted from cellophane with user-defined color-changing behaviors.These designs could be used for data visualization, education, fashion, and more.
A team of scientists, engineers, and designers embark on an Arctic expedition to test space technology. The MIT Space Exploration Initiative expedition in Svalbard was not simply a space analog mission, but an experience to learn how to help enable better access to remote regions from the far corners of planet Earth, to the Moon and Mars.
With the start of the spring semester, Commencement is on the horizon for MIT seniors. Recent alumna Elissa Gibson, SB’22, who double-majored in Course 16 (aerospace engineering) and Course 9 (brain and cognitive sciences) reflects on her undergraduate experience.
MIT’s long-running programming competition, Battlecode, invites participants from around the world to write code to program entire armies – not just individual bots – before they duke it out on screen.