Customizing 3-D printing
Design tool lets novices do in minutes what would take experts in computer-aided design hours.
Department
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Self-driving golf carts
Autonomous vehicles share sidewalk space with pedestrians in six-day trial in Singaporean public garden.
Observing invisible vibrations
PhD student Justin Chen magnifies minuscule vibrations in structures to detect damage.
Study identifies new cheating method in MOOCs
Research from MIT and Harvard shows how to exploit and protect MOOC certification.
Crash-tolerant data storage
Formally verified working file system could lead to computers guaranteed never to lose your data.
A metabolic master switch underlying human obesity
Researchers find pathway that controls metabolism by prompting fat cells to store or burn fat.
Could a pen change how we diagnose brain function?
Team from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab detects dementia using AI and a digital pen.
Robots collaborate to deliver meds, supplies, and even drinks
Bots from the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab work together more effectively in the face of uncertainty.
President Obama invites MIT entrepreneurs to give demo at the White House
Wireless motion-tracking device from CSAIL researchers is among highlighted innovations at “Demo Day.”
Computing at full capacity
MIT spinout Jisto helps companies optimize utilization with real-time deployment, monitoring, and analytics.
Making the new silicon
Gallium nitride electronics could drastically cut energy usage in data centers, consumer devices.
Shoring up Tor
Researchers mount successful attacks against popular anonymity network — and show how to prevent them.
Consortium including MIT awarded $110M national grant to promote photonics manufacturing
Partnership of government, industry, and academia will pursue integration of optical devices with electronics.
Object recognition for robots
Robots’ maps of their environments can make existing object-recognition algorithms more accurate.