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CoolThink@JC will target 16,000 students at 32 primary schools across the city of Hong Kong, offering tools and expertise to boost computational thinking abilities. Insights from the initiative, being done in collaboration with MIT and others, will eventually inform the development of curriculum for all Hong Kong teachers and students.

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

A new cordless virtual reality device consists of two directional "phased-array" antennas, each less than half the size of a credit card.

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

Information extraction — or automatically classifying data items stored as plain text — is a major topic of artificial-intelligence research.

Artificial-intelligence system surfs web to improve its performance

“Information extraction” system helps turn plain text into data for statistical analysis.

November 10, 2016

A system developed by researchers at MIT and Stony Brook University should make it easier for researchers to solve complex computational problems using dynamic programming optimized for multicore chips — without the expertise that such programming typically requires.

Faster programs, easier programming

New system lets nonexperts optimize programs that run on multiprocessor chips.

November 7, 2016

An autonomous mobility scooter and related software were designed by researchers from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), the National University of Singapore, and the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART).

Driverless-vehicle options now include scooters

Self-driving scooter demonstrated at MIT complements autonomous golf carts and city cars.

November 7, 2016

A team of researchers at MIT, the University of Brasilia, and the University of British Columbia has now engineered an antimicrobial peptide that can destroy many types of bacteria, including some that are resistant to most antibiotics.

Engineers design a new weapon against bacteria

Antimicrobial peptides can kill strains resistant to existing antibiotics.

November 2, 2016

Researchers from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) have devised a way to train neural networks so that they provide not only predictions and classifications but rationales for their decisions.

Making computers explain themselves

New training technique would reveal the basis for machine-learning systems’ decisions.

October 27, 2016

First row (left to right): Matteo Bucci, Tal Cohen, and Ali Jadbabaie. Second row (left to right): Zachary P. Smith, Stefanie Mueller, Adam Belay, David Sontag, and Virginia Vassilevska Williams. Third row (left to right): Max Shulaker, Jennifer Rupp, Ryan Williams, Carmen Guerra-Garcia, and Zachary Hartwig

New engineering faculty for 2016-2017

The School of Engineering welcomes 13 new professors.

October 27, 2016

A team, including researchers from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, has created a new set of algorithms that can efficiently fit probability distributions to high-dimensional data.

Finding patterns in corrupted data

New model-fitting technique is efficient even for data sets with hundreds of variables.

October 26, 2016

Asu Ozdaglar, the Joseph F. and Nancy P. Keithley Professor of Electrical Engineering

Asu Ozdaglar named associate department head of EECS

Expert in optimization theory to join the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science leadership.

October 25, 2016

“Gitless" removes complicated concepts like "staging" and "stashing," without fundamentally changing Git's core functionality.

Making it easier to collaborate on code

CSAIL team's “Gitless” fixes Git’s biggest issues — and suggests their approach could help improve systems like Gmail and Dropbox.

October 25, 2016

Electric motors find new roles in robots, ships, cars, and microgrids

James Kirtley discusses the transition from gas to electric motors and the impact these motors have had on modern technologies.

October 24, 2016

“The goal of all this is to present the interesting stuff to the data scientists so that they can more quickly address all these new data sets that are coming in,” says Max Kanter MEng ’15.

Automating big-data analysis

With new algorithms, data scientists could accomplish in days what has traditionally taken months.

October 21, 2016

A team led by Polina Golland’s group at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory has made a new algorithm for identifying organs in fetal MRI scans, which should make MRI monitoring much more useful. Pictured is a stock image of a fetal MRI.

MRIs for fetal health

Algorithm could help analyze fetal scans to determine whether interventions are warranted.

October 21, 2016

Margaret Guo '16, a decorated MIT swimmer, was named the 2016 NCAA Woman of the Year.

Margaret Guo '16 named NCAA Woman of the Year

A decorated swimmer and engineer, Guo is the first MIT student-athlete and just the fourth Division III student-athlete to ever receive the honor.

October 19, 2016

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