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.
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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.
Siting wind farms more quickly, cheaply
New model predicts wind speeds more accurately with three months of data than others do with 12.
Cutting cost and power consumption for big data
New network design exploits cheap, power-efficient flash memory without sacrificing speed.
MIT pole vaulter goes ever higher
Senior Cimran Virdi is vaulting into the NCAA record books as an engineering major at MIT — a school with a history of success in track and field.
Computer program fixes old code faster than expert engineers
What takes coders months, CSAIL’s “Helium” can do in an hour.
Researchers develop basic computing elements for bacteria
Sensors, memory switches, and circuits can be encoded in a common gut bacterium.
Frederic Morgenthaler, professor emeritus of electrical engineering and computer science, dies at 82
Longtime member of the MIT faculty was a dedicated researcher and educator in the field of electromagnetism.
Woman in technology
A high-school outreach program first brought Tamara Broderick to MIT in 2002. Now she's back, as an assistant professor in EECS.