MIT Portugal PhD student awarded Fulbright Research Grant
With grant, Henrique Pombeiro will study how to improve energy efficiency in buildings.
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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.
Predicting change in the Alzheimer’s brain
Combining MRI and other data helps machine-learning systems predict effects of neurodegenerative disease.
More-flexible machine learning
Giving machine-learning systems “partial credit” during training improves image classification.
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.
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.
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.
A week of celebration and inspiration — Boston-style
At Solve, MIT will host gathering of leaders to spur action on world problems.
Learning language by playing games
System learns to play text-based computer game using only linguistic information.
SMART electronics research
Eugene Fitzgerald pursues new models for innovation in electronics as part of the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology.
Learning spoken language
System learns to distinguish words’ phonetic components, without human annotation of training data.
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.
Self-driving golf carts
Autonomous vehicles share sidewalk space with pedestrians in six-day trial in Singaporean public garden.
Observing invisible vibrations
PhD student Justin Chen magnifies minuscule vibrations in structures to detect damage.
Searching big data faster
Theoretical analysis could expand applications of accelerated searching in biology, other fields.