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A sign indicating a hurricane evacuation route near Boca Raton, Florida.

Saving lives through smarter hurricane evacuations

MIT student's software seen aiding emergency officials' decision-making

August 28, 2008

An MIT model for object recognition takes as input the unlabeled images of digital photographs from the street scene database (top) and generates automatic annotations (bottom row). The orange bounding boxes are for pedestrians ("ped") and cars ("car"). The system would have also detected bicycles if present. For sky, buildings, trees and road, the system uses color coding (blue, brown, green and ...

Computer model mimics neural processes in object recognition

Applications include surveillance, visual search engines, biomedical imaging analysis and robots with realistic vision

February 23, 2007

Sherry Turkle worries the 'killer app' of sociable robots is that they elicit human care.

Robotic pets may be bad medicine for melancholy

Sherry Turkle finds human-machine love unsettling

November 29, 2006

Professor Ned Thomas, director of the Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, led a group from MIT to the Joint Readiness Training Center at Ft. Polk, Louisiana, in late January 2003.

News 2003: A look back at MIT news highlights

December 24, 2003

News You Can Use

October 1, 2003

Directors Victor Zue of LCS (left) and Rodney L. Brooks of the A.I. Lab will be joining forces at the New Laboratory for Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence on July 1.

LCS and AI Lab to merge

June 4, 2003

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April 9, 2003

Graduate student James McLurkin is featured on this diorama placed in two of Washington D.C.'s busiest Metro stations - Federal Center and Union Station - during September. It will be back again in December. Approximately 55,000 people come through each station daily.

Tiny ideas get big media play

October 23, 2002

High-school students Kyung Chang of Cairo (left) and Elena Glassman of Pennsylvania work with a circuit board during their electrical engineering class in the Women's Technology Program at MIT.

High school girls spend dream vacation in EECS program

July 17, 2002

Professor Seymour Papert started with a "cosmic question."

Papert misses 'Big Ideas' from early days of artificial intelligence

July 17, 2002

Kyung Chang, 18, and Elena Glassman, 15, work together on a project at the first Women's Technology Program at MIT.

Ms. Techno-Fixit's dream vacation is a summer at EECS

July 5, 2002

State Police colonel/superintendent named new police chief at MIT

September 6, 2001

Here & There

August 29, 2001

Professor Dava J. Newman shows the degree of mobility in the space suit she and colleagues designed and which they hope will be used in a future mission to Mars. Current space suits have feet that simply lock into place, but those in the next-generation suit will need to be able to move around more freely.

Videoconference looks at solutions to problems of traveling to Mars

May 23, 2001

Pete Dilworth, a research scientist in the Artificial Intelligence Lab, with Troody the walking robotic dinosaur.

AI Lab creates robotic dinosaur

May 16, 2001

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