MIT Portugal PhD student awarded Fulbright Research Grant With grant, Henrique Pombeiro will study how to improve energy efficiency in buildings. October 7, 2015 Read full story →
Climate change contest selects grand prize winner Solar panel system wins $10,000 prize for technology that makes energy and water more accessible in the developing world. October 7, 2015 Read full story →
Predicting change in the Alzheimer’s brain Combining MRI and other data helps machine-learning systems predict effects of neurodegenerative disease. October 6, 2015 Read full story →
More-flexible machine learning Giving machine-learning systems “partial credit” during training improves image classification. October 1, 2015 Read full story →
Soft robotic hand can pick up and identify a wide array of objects Team from Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab develops silicone rubber gripper and advanced object-identification algorithms. September 30, 2015 Read full story →
MIT’s Public Service Center renamed to honor Priscilla King Gray Co-founder of the PSC and wife of former MIT President Paul Gray has continued to guide the center’s work. September 28, 2015 Read full story →
MIT Climate CoLab announces 32 winning climate strategies Winning ideas for solutions to climate change were crowdsourced by more than 50,000 members of the public. September 25, 2015 Read full story →
A week of celebration and inspiration — Boston-style At Solve, MIT will host gathering of leaders to spur action on world problems. September 25, 2015 Read full story →
Learning language by playing games System learns to play text-based computer game using only linguistic information. September 23, 2015 Read full story →
SMART electronics research Eugene Fitzgerald pursues new models for innovation in electronics as part of the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology. September 21, 2015 Read full story →
Learning spoken language System learns to distinguish words’ phonetic components, without human annotation of training data. September 14, 2015 Read full story →
CSAIL joins with Toyota on $25 million research center for autonomous cars Seeking to reduce traffic casualties, center will focus on robotics and artificial intelligence systems. September 4, 2015 Read full story →
Self-driving golf carts Autonomous vehicles share sidewalk space with pedestrians in six-day trial in Singaporean public garden. September 1, 2015 Read full story →
Observing invisible vibrations PhD student Justin Chen magnifies minuscule vibrations in structures to detect damage. August 27, 2015 Read full story →
Searching big data faster Theoretical analysis could expand applications of accelerated searching in biology, other fields. August 26, 2015 Read full story →