Model sheds light on purpose of inhibitory neurons
Study suggests computational role for neurons that prevent other neurons from firing.
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Seven from MIT are named 2017 IEEE Fellows
Five Lincoln Laboratory staff members and two others from MIT honored for the advancement of engineering, science, and technology.
How ride-sharing can improve traffic, save money, and help the environment
Study shows carpooling apps could reduce congestion by a factor of three while still serving the same number of people.
Ingestible robots, glasses-free 3-D, and computers that explain themselves
A look at 16 of the coolest things that happened at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in 2016.
Data diversity
Preserving variety in subsets of unmanageably large data sets should aid machine learning.
Making big data manageable
Technique shrinks data sets while preserving their fundamental mathematical relationships.
3Q: Charles Sodini on MIT’s Hong Kong Innovation Node
Entering its second year, collaborative effort will soon launch a second program.
Helping policy and technology work together
Engineering grad student Keertan Kini is working to strengthen the intersection of policy and technology.
Four CSAIL researchers named ACM fellows
Association for Computer Machinery cites Erik Demaine, Fredo Durand, William Freeman, and Daniel Jackson for having "provided key knowledge" to computing.
Apple CEO Tim Cook to deliver MIT’s 2017 Commencement address
Head of world’s largest publicly traded corporation will address the Class of 2017 on June 9.
“Google Docs” for life sciences accelerates discovery
Cloud-based platform assists in managing, sharing data facilitates research.
Learning words from pictures
System correlates recorded speech with images, could lead to fully automated speech recognition.
Professor Emeritus Bruce Mazlish, pioneer in the field of global history, dies at 93
Historian and prolific author served as an MIT professor for more than 50 years.