Of minds and machines
Final installment of MIT’s 150th anniversary symposia explores intelligence — both human and artificial.
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Language barrier
To take advantage of multicore chips, programmers will need software development systems that let them express themselves in fundamentally new ways.
Computing, Sudoku-style
Computer scientists generally see computation as something like following a recipe. Alexey Radul sees it as more like a puzzle with interconnecting parts.
A grand unified theory of AI
A new approach unites two prevailing but often opposed strains in the history of artificial-intelligence research.
Rethinking artificial intelligence
Broad-based MIT project aims to reinvent AI for a new era. By going back and fixing mistakes, researchers hope to produce ‘co-processors’ for the human mind.
Saving lives through smarter hurricane evacuations
MIT student's software seen aiding emergency officials' decision-making
Computer model mimics neural processes in object recognition
Applications include surveillance, visual search engines, biomedical imaging analysis and robots with realistic vision
