Bringing neural networks to cellphones
Method for modeling neural networks’ power consumption could help make the systems portable.
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Microscopy technique could enable more informative biopsies
Expanding tissue samples before imaging offers detailed information about disease.
Ultra-high-contrast digital sensing
Technique could lead to cameras that can handle light of any intensity, audio that doesn’t skip or pop.
Felice Frankel: Creating images to explain science concepts
MIT researcher helps scientists and engineers hone their visual imagery.
Jessica Myers: Liberté, Égalité, Sécurité
A novel thesis in the form of a podcast gives voice to issues of security and identity in New York and Paris.
Proximity boosts collaboration on MIT campus
Study: Being near colleagues helps cross-disciplinary research on papers and patents.
Using chip memory more efficiently
System for generating ad hoc “cache hierarchies” increases processing speed while reducing energy consumption.
MIT convenes ad hoc task force on open access to Institute’s research
Group will explore opportunities to disseminate MIT knowledge as widely as possible.
New 3-D chip combines computing and data storage
Advance points toward new generation of computers for coming superstorm of data.
Practical parallelism
System enables large speedups — as much as 88-fold — on common parallel-computing algorithms.
Online program wins engineering education award
More than 1,600 professionals have completed the Architecture and Systems Engineering course series developed by MIT in collaboration with Boeing and edX.
MIT space hotel wins NASA graduate design competition
Module would serve as a commercially owned space station, featuring a luxury hotel as the primary anchor tenant and NASA as a temporary co-anchor tenant.
School of Science professors granted tenure
Seven award-winning faculty members represent the departments of Physics, Chemistry, and Biology.
Charting a better future for Africa
Kenneth Strzepek applies models to help decision makers advance food security and sustainable development in a climate-compromised continent.
Illuminating the developing world’s “invisible” consumers
Texting-based surveys capture purchasing and behavior data from people living in remote areas.