This object-recognition dataset stumped the world’s best computer vision models
Objects are posed in varied positions and shot at odd angles to spur new AI techniques.
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Toward more efficient computing, with magnetic waves
Circuit design offers a path to “spintronic” devices that use little electricity and generate practically no heat.
Transformation by design
Skylar Tibbits makes materials that water, heat, or mechanical forces can alter into new shapes.
Designing humanity’s future in space
The Space Exploration Initiative’s latest research flight explores work and play in microgravity.
3 Questions: Dan Huttenlocher on the formation of the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing
The inaugural dean shares an update on the process of building a college.
MIT’s new sustainability garden creates a buzz
Collaborative process makes space for community, plants, and pollinators alike.
Interdisciplinary team takes top prize in Mars colony design competition
MIT PhD student George Lordos and his brother Alexandros led the project; goal of the Mars Society competition was to establish a colony on Mars for 1,000 residents.
Driving toward a healthier planet
Materials Day speaker Brian Storey describes how the Toyota Research Institute is embracing machine learning to advance the use of electric vehicles.
Materials Day talks examine the promises and challenges of AI and machine learning
The ability to predict and make new materials faster highlights the need for safety, reliability, and accurate data.
Ten Lincoln Laboratory technologies earn 2019 R&D 100 Awards
International awards recognize innovations that can have significant impacts on society.
MIT announces updates on fact-finding and reviews of external engagements
Efforts also advance to protect whistleblowers, identify charity to benefit survivors of sexual abuse.
Nature can help solve optimization problems
A low-cost analog circuit based on synchronizing oscillators could scale up quickly and cheaply to beat out digital computers.
Two committees to examine MIT’s outside engagements
Chair of the faculty and provost announce committees to review practices related to gifts, as well as grants and collaborations.
Engineers put Leonardo da Vinci’s bridge design to the test
Proposed bridge would have been the world’s longest at the time; new analysis shows it would have worked.
Technology transfer award recognizes system that detects concealed objects on people
The technology, first developed at Lincoln Laboratory, is now licensed and will soon be tested to screen passersby in sports stadiums.