Algorithms

This graphic depicts the top 0.25 percent of the relationships that the researchers' techniques found in data on the concentration of microbes in the human gut.

Data mining without prejudice

A new technique for finding relationships between variables in large datasets makes no prior assumptions about what those relationships might be.

December 16, 2011

Double duty

A computational biologist and physician, Collin Stultz takes a unique approach to studying diseases that could lead to new treatments.

December 2, 2011

At a crossroads

New research predicts which cars are likeliest to run lights at intersections.

November 30, 2011

New algorithm could substantially speed up MRI scans

Faster scans could reduce the time patients spend in the machine from 45 to 15 minutes.

November 1, 2011

In these time-lapse photos, a robot is guided by two different algorithms as it attempts to grasp a coffee cup on a desk. In the first (top), the robot flails about randomly before reaching toward the cup. But when it runs a new algorithm designed by MIT researchers (bottom), its movements are much more efficient and predictable.

Smarter robot arms

A combination of two algorithms developed at MIT allows autonomous robots to execute tasks much more efficiently — and move more predictably.

September 21, 2011

Andrew Lo, the Harris & Harris Group Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management and director of MIT’s Laboratory for Financial Engineering

Andrew Lo joins CSAIL

Economist hopes to merge the fields of computer science and artificial intelligence with research on financial markets and risk.

August 30, 2011

Beginning with the second edition in 2001, <i>Introduction to Algorithms</i>' cover acquired a blue tint, which cost it its decade-old nickname 'the big white book.'

Milestone for MIT Press’s bestseller

What began as lecture notes for an MIT computer-science class has become the standard text in the field, selling half a million copies in 20 years.

August 10, 2011

Not only do the images produced by GelSight, a new, portable imaging system from researchers in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, have a resolution that previously required expensive laboratory equipment, but they're 3-D, too. Here, GelSight images particles of ink spelling the word 'ink' on a piece of paper.

Portable, super-high-resolution 3-D imaging

A simple new imaging system could help manufacturers inspect their products, forensics experts identify weapons and doctors identify cancers.

August 9, 2011

Missy Cummings and student Jason Ryan work on a virtual planning tool designed to organize planes and personnel on aircraft carrier deck.

Clearing the decks

A new planning tool helps direct traffic on aircraft carriers.

August 2, 2011

Safer skies

A new algorithm could help prevent midair collisions, which involve 10 to 12 small aircraft every year.

July 5, 2011

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.

June 29, 2011

The researchers test their algorithm using a miniature autonomous vehicle traveling along a track that partially overlaps with a second track for a human-controlled vehicle, observing incidences of collision and collision avoidance.

‘Smart cars’ that are actually, well, smart

Mechanical engineers work to develop intelligent onboard transportation systems that can prevent car crashes.

June 14, 2011

The researchers test their program on a real-life robot, which is able to decide that a can needs to be picked up, then plan and execute the actual motions necessary to lift it from a table.

Honing household helpers

MIT computer scientists work toward improving robots’ ability to plan and perform complex actions, domestically and elsewhere.

May 26, 2011

One of two Slocum gliders owned and operated by the USC Center for Integrated Networked Aquatic PlatformS (CINAPS).

Speeding swarms of sensor robots

A new algorithm ensures that robotic environmental sensors will be able to focus on areas of interest without giving other areas short shrift.

May 3, 2011

A graph is a group of vertices (circles) connected by edges (lines); a maximal independent set is a group of vertices (glowing circles), unconnected to each other, at least one of which <i>is</i> connected to any vertex omitted from the group.

Targeted results

By envisioning data as 'graphs,' MIT researchers show how to find local solutions to otherwise overwhelmingly complex problems.

March 31, 2011

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