Michael Sipser named interim dean of the School of Science Mathematician has been a member of the faculty since 1980 and department head since 2004. December 6, 2013 Read full story →
Andrea Bocelli and MIT showcase research advancements this Friday Andrea Bocelli will attend workshops at MIT featuring research on vision impairment and social impact programs funded by the Andrea Bocelli Foundation and conducted at MIT. December 5, 2013 Read full story →
Finding ‘rising stars’ in EECS MIT-hosted conference encourages the top women studying electrical engineering and computer science nationwide to become professors. November 18, 2013 Read full story →
Machine learning branches out An algorithm that extends an artificial-intelligence technique to new tasks could aid in analysis of flight delays and social networks. November 14, 2013 Read full story →
MIT Big Data Initiative launches transportation challenge, privacy working group New efforts aimed at improving the use and management of big data November 12, 2013 Read full story →
How to program unreliable chips A new language lets coders reason about the trade-off between fidelity of execution and power or time savings in the computers of the future. November 4, 2013 Read full story →
Building culture in digital media Fox Harrell’s new book presents a ‘manifesto’ detailing how computing can create powerful new forms of expression and culture. October 23, 2013 Read full story →
Automatic speaker tracking in audio recordings A new system dispenses with the human annotation of training data required by its predecessors but achieves comparable results. October 18, 2013 Read full story →
Taking a new look at subway map design CSAIL researchers are using a computational model that better understands peripheral vision to test the usability of MBTA subway maps. October 4, 2013 Read full story →
Surprisingly simple scheme for self-assembling robots Small cubes with no exterior moving parts can propel themselves forward, jump on top of each other, and snap together to form arbitrary shapes. October 4, 2013 Read full story →
Building disaster-relief phone apps on the fly Researchers combine powerful new Web standards with the intuitive, graphical MIT App Inventor to aid relief workers with little programming expertise. September 30, 2013 Read full story →
Dina Katabi and Sara Seager win MacArthur ‘genius grants’ Two MIT professors are among 24 recipients nationwide of this year’s unrestricted $625,000 prizes from the MacArthur Foundation. September 25, 2013 Read full story →
Bringing ‘common sense’ to text analytics Luminoso Technologies uses artificial-intelligence research as a commercial springboard. September 24, 2013 Read full story →