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Question: What do you see in the red circles? A bottle, a cell phone, a person, a shoe? The answer: They're all the same. Professor Antonio Torralba created these low-resolution images, in which the circled shapes were inserted and are all identical, to demonstrate how context affects our recognition of objects. Even the 'car' in the lower left image is the same object.

MIT helps develop new image-recognition software

May 21, 2008

Awards and honors

May 14, 2008

MIT's team competes at the International Collegiate Programming Contest.

MIT crowned regional champs in battle of brains

April 11, 2008

The creators of the MIT six-rotor vehicle, above, developed in collaboration with Ascending Technologies GmbH in Germany, won a tie for first place in a competition to develop a micro air vehicle to aid in a hypothetical hostage situation.

Awards & Honors

April 2, 2008

Joseph Weizenbaum, professor emeritus of computer science, 85

March 10, 2008

Learning about brains from computers, and vice versa

February 16, 2008

On the front lines of the genomic revolution

February 6, 2008

The human brain easily recognizes that these cars are all the same object, but the variations in the car's size, orientation and position are a challenge for computer-vision algorithms.

MIT neuroscientists see design flaws in computer vision tests

January 24, 2008

LuperFoy to direct UPOP

November 28, 2007

The robotic ankle is one of six MIT inventions singled out by Time magazine in its annual survey of the world's most promising visions of the future. MIT Media Lab Professor Hugh Herr and his team of researchers developed the world's first such ankle, an important advance for lower-limb amputees. <a onclick="MM_openBrWindow('time-ankle-enlarged.html','','width=509, height=583')">
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Time magazine honors MIT for inventions, inventors

November 14, 2007

MIT Corporation grants tenure to 50 faculty

November 14, 2007

Team analyzes genomes of 12 fly species

Approach could unlock secrets of human genome

November 9, 2007

CSAIL professor Regina Barzilay, right, and principal research scientist James Glass, left, use computer techniques to create a lecture-browsing system.

MIT develops lecture search engine to aid students

November 7, 2007

Wissam Jarjoui, 17, has become the first participant in MEET, a program that brings together Israeli and Palestinian youths, to enroll at MIT.

Unique Middle East program rooted at MIT bears fruit

Palestinian becomes first MEET student to enroll at MIT

September 19, 2007

MIT's entry for the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge competition is a self-piloted Land Rover LR3.

DARPA names MIT's 'robocar' a semifinalist

August 9, 2007

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