Defibrillator for stalled software
A new tool interrupts the ‘infinite loops’ that cause computer hang-ups, letting users save data and finish tasks before restarting a stalled program.
Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL)
Computer learns language by playing games
By basing its strategies on the text of a manual, a computer infers the meanings of words without human supervision.
The math of the Rubik’s cube
New research establishes the relationship between the number of squares in a Rubik’s-cube-type puzzle and the maximum number of moves required to solve it.
You can take it with you
A new system lets you transfer open applications between a computer and a cellphone simply by pointing the phone’s camera at the computer’s screen.
Faster computer graphics
Digitally mimicking the photographic blur caused by moving objects is surprisingly hard, but new research offers ways to make it easier.
Cookies, anyone?
Graduate student Mario Bollini of Professor Daniela Rus' Distributed Robotics Lab is currently programming the PR2 robot to bake chocolate chip cookies.
Of minds and machines
Final installment of MIT’s 150th anniversary symposia explores intelligence — both human and artificial.
Demaine’s artwork selected for Smithsonian exhibit
Part of the 40 Under 40: Craft Futures exhibition, which will run starting in 2012.
Information Age
As part of MIT’s 150th-birthday celebration, computer science luminaries — many from MIT's faculty — gathered on campus for a two-day symposium.
Flying like the birds
Multidisciplinary university research initiative, led by a CSAIL researcher, is developing a bird-sized UAV.
Targeted results
By envisioning data as 'graphs,' MIT researchers show how to find local solutions to otherwise overwhelmingly complex problems.
Kaashoek wins ACM’s prize for young researchers
The professor of computer science, 45, is only the fourth recipient of the prize from the Association for Computing Machinery.
Dueling algorithms
If software companies design their algorithms with the sole intention of outperforming each other, the customer can be the loser.
Rivest unlocks cryptography's past, looks toward future
Public-key system has worked and made Internet commerce feasible, but new systems are ready in case flaws are found.