Getting to the root of genetics
Manolis Kellis uses computational techniques to decipher human disease.
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Simulating tomorrow’s chips
A new system makes hardware models of multicore chips more efficient, easier to design and more reliable.
All in a day’s work: Design and print your own robot
MIT project, funded with $10 million NSF grant, could transform robotic design and production
Self-sculpting sand
New algorithms could enable heaps of ‘smart sand’ that can assume any shape, allowing spontaneous formation of new tools or duplication of broken mechanical parts.
Four professors named 2012 MacVicar Fellows
Broadhead, Kaelbling, Kaiser and Rose awarded the Institute’s highest undergraduate teaching honor.
Anant Agarwal named director of new unit to advance MITx
Instructor of inaugural 6.002x course will step down as CSAIL director.
New CSAIL research could help secure the cloud
DARPA funding awarded to a project that aims to develop a smart, self-healing cloud computing infrastructure.
Guiding robot planes with hand gestures
MIT researchers are developing a system that would allow aircraft-carrier crews to direct autonomous planes using ordinary hand gestures.
Scott Aaronson wins NSF’s Alan T. Waterman Award
National Science Foundation’s most prestigious award will help fuel CSAIL researcher’s work.
First course offered by MITx begins
More than 90,000 people have registered for 6.002x: Circuits and Electronics
Game on
As MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference kicks off, scholars and fans have produced a growing avalanche of quantitative research.
New system allows robots to continuously map their environment
Algorithm to build 3-D maps requires a low-cost camera, no human input.
Microchips’ optical future
To keep energy consumption under control, future chips may need to move data using light instead of electricity — and the technical expertise to build them may reside in the United States.