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Energy Conference spotlights military's green energy
Student-led event featured assessments of non-fossil energy's future from leaders in industry, defense and research
Dueling algorithms
If software companies design their algorithms with the sole intention of outperforming each other, the customer can be the loser.
Improv game puts the role-playing back in RPG
“Improviso” develops AI research by asking players to take on actual roles.
The big picture on energy loss
MIT system, tested in Cambridge, gives comprehensive view of energy inefficiency across large areas.
‘We need to see ahead’
In Compton Lecture, Secretary of Homeland Security Napolitano calls for ‘a deeper partnership’ between government and scientists on national security.
Committee says DOD should pay some of the costs of transportation infrastructure near U.S. military bases
Professor Joseph Sussman chaired committee that also required funding for public transportation
Four professors named MacVicar fellows
Sanyal, Schuh, Verghese and Winston honored for undergraduate teaching excellence
David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research feted
MIT celebrates the official opening of the institute's new building.
Language barrier
To take advantage of multicore chips, programmers will need software development systems that let them express themselves in fundamentally new ways.
No backtalk
One key to making parallel algorithms efficient is to minimize the amount of communication between cores.
Designing the hardware
Improving communication between distributed processors and managing shared data are two of the central challenges in creating tomorrow’s chips.
Professor Eric Grimson named next chancellor
Current head of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science to succeed Phillip L. Clay.