Helping small science make big changes
Farnaz Niroui is exploring nanocale research from Mildred Dresselhaus’ former office.
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Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Student entrepreneurs think inside the box
Living and working in a glass cube, an interdisciplinary team of students reimagined the ambulance of the future as part of a global startup competition.
Three MIT researchers win U.S. Air Force Young Investigator Research Program grants
Riccardo Comin, Phillip “Donnie” Keathley, and Luqiao Lui are among 31 selected nationwide.
Model helps robots navigate more like humans do
In simulations, robots move through new environments by exploring, observing, and drawing from learned experiences.
Detecting fake news at its source
Machine learning system aims to determine if an information outlet is accurate or biased.
Regina Barzilay, James Collins, and Phil Sharp join leadership of new effort on machine learning in health
MacArthur “geniuses” in machine learning and synthetic biology to serve as faculty co-leads; Nobel laureate to chair advisory board of new research center.
Ideas abound at Quest for Intelligence workshop
Community event generates ideas for sparking innovative and ambitious plans to advance research in human and machine intelligence.
Report outlines keys to election security
MIT experts are among co-authors calling for ballot paper trails and other resilient practices to avoid election hacking.
New learning opportunities for displaced persons
Now accepting applications for new students, MIT ReACT Hub launched its first program in Jordan earlier this year with a certificate in computer and data science.
3Q: Antonio Torralba on what's next for the Quest for Intelligence
Inaugural director of The Quest discusses what's been accomplished since last spring's launch and what is on the horizon.
Reducing false positives in credit card fraud detection
Model extracts granular behavioral patterns from transaction data to more accurately flag suspicious activity.
Creating 3-D-printed “motion sculptures” from 2-D videos
CSAIL system could help athletes, dancers, and others better analyze how they move.
Anant Agarwal, MIT professor and edX CEO, wins Yidan Prize
Agarwal is recognized for making education more accessible to people around the world, via edX open-source online platform.
Machine-learning system tackles speech and object recognition, all at once
Model learns to pick out objects within an image, using spoken descriptions.
Helping computers fill in the gaps between video frames
Machine learning system efficiently recognizes activities by observing how objects change in only a few key frames.