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For each image, the MemNet algorithm creates a heat map identifying its most memorable and forgettable regions.

Deep-learning algorithm predicts photos’ memorability at “near-human” levels

Future versions of an algorithm from the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab could help with teaching, marketing, and memory improvement.

December 16, 2015

CSAIL shows off demos to 150 high-schoolers for “Hour of Code”

Robots, 3-D printers, and a surprise guest aim to get students excited about computer science.

December 14, 2015

Humans and machines were given an image of a novel character (top) and asked to produce new versions. A machine generated the nine-character grid on the left.

Computer system passes “visual Turing test”

Character-drawing machines can fool human judges.

December 10, 2015

This self-folding microbot was among the many innovations that emerged from CSAIL in 2015.

Data, drones, and 3-D-printed hearts

Looking back on the year that was: Highlights from the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab in 2015.

December 8, 2015

“Tor operates under the assumption that there’s not a global adversary that’s paying attention to every single link in the world,” Nickolai Zeldovich says. “Maybe these days this is not as good of an assumption.”

Untraceable communication — guaranteed

New untraceable text-messaging system comes with statistical guarantees.

December 7, 2015

Clockwise from top left: Professors Karl Berggren, Edmund Bertschinger, Victor Zue, and Gerald Fink have been named AAAS Fellows.

Four MIT faculty elected 2015 AAAS Fellows

Berggren, Bertschinger, Fink, and Zue are among those recognized for efforts toward advancing science.

November 23, 2015

MIT researchers have shown that some phone apps engage in “covert communication.” “There might be a very good reason for this covert communication. We are not trying to say that it has to be eliminated. We’re just saying the user needs to be informed,” says Julia Rubin, a postdoc in MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.

What are your apps hiding?

Half of the communication connections established by the top 500 Android apps have no effect on user experience.

November 19, 2015

D. Fox Harrell, associate Professor of digital media, has appointments in MIT Comparative Media Studies/Writing, and the MIT Computer Science and Artificial intelligence Laboratory.

Designing virtual identities for empowerment and social change

D. Fox Harrell receives $1.35 million in grant funding to advance research at the intersection of social science and digital technology.

November 18, 2015

NASA's "Valkyrie" robot is 6 feet tall and weighs 290 pounds. Researchers at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory will test and develop the bot for future space missions.

NASA gives MIT a humanoid robot to develop software for future space missions

Team led by Professor Russ Tedrake of CSAIL to develop algorithms for 6-foot-tall “Valkyrie” robot to travel to Mars and beyond.

November 17, 2015

An example of the Non-Local Variations algorithm that automatically detects and visualizes small deformations between repeating structures in a single image. On the left is the original image. In the right image, the variability in the shape of the corn’s kernels is reduced, and the misalignment of rows is corrected.

Amplifying — or removing — visual variation

Algorithms could offer new tools for graphics software or reveal structural defects.

November 5, 2015

MIT CSAIL researchers found that pictograms, when employed appropriately, can dramatically improve information recall.

How to make better visualizations

Eye-tracking research reveals which types of visuals actually get the message across.

November 5, 2015

System automatically converts 2-D video to 3-D

Exploiting video game software yields broadcast-quality 3-D video of soccer games in real time.

November 4, 2015

The new Underworlds research project depends on learning and analyzing what is in our “collective gut.”

Real-time epidemiology from urban wastewater

MIT and Kuwait researchers have been awarded $4 million to fund Underworlds, a study of real-time epidemiology using biomarkers in urban sewage.

November 2, 2015

4Axis Solutions co-founders Minsara Madhawa, Dumindu Kanankage, Kapilan Karunananthan and Anuruddha Alwis

Empowering students in Sri Lanka to form mobile-app startups

MIT Global Startup Labs program leads to student-founded startups 4Axis Solutions and PayMedia.

October 30, 2015

How wireless “X-ray vision” could power virtual reality, smart homes, and Hollywood

By seeing silhouettes through a wall, CSAIL device could help with motion capture, fall prevention and even your heating bill.

October 28, 2015

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