Learning spoken language
System learns to distinguish words’ phonetic components, without human annotation of training data.
Department
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
First new cache-coherence mechanism in 30 years
More efficient memory-management scheme could help enable chips with thousands of cores.
MIT joins $171M public-private consortium on manufacturing flexible electronics
Government, industry, and academia partner to bring new generation of electronics to commercial scale.
Silicon photonics meets the foundry
Lionel Kimerling, Rajeev Ram, and other MIT researchers explore practical ways to bring optical interconnection toward and directly onto chips.
CSAIL joins with Toyota on $25 million research center for autonomous cars
Seeking to reduce traffic casualties, center will focus on robotics and artificial intelligence systems.
Wine matching: Tasty uses for algorithms
A pair of Class of 2010 roommates, entrepreneurial buddies while on campus, recently teamed up to launch a wine club based on big data.
Customizing 3-D printing
Design tool lets novices do in minutes what would take experts in computer-aided design hours.
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.