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Question: What do you see in the red circles? A bottle, a cell phone, a person, a shoe? The answer: They're all the same. Professor Antonio Torralba created these low-resolution images, in which the circled shapes were inserted and are all identical, to demonstrate how context affects our recognition of objects. Even the 'car' in the lower left image is the same object.

MIT helps develop new image-recognition software

May 21, 2008

Who ya gonna call? Riskbuster!

Professor Nancy Leveson has developed unique approach to managing risky businesses

May 21, 2008

Hope on the horizon: Robots

May 21, 2008

MIT class asks: Fly me to the moon?

May 21, 2008

Students robots in this year's 2.007 contest held at MIT competed in performing beaver-like tasks, including knocking down pool noodle 'trees' and dumping them in a ping-pong ball 'river,' to score points.

Beaver-like robots face off in annual MIT contest

May 9, 2008

MIT robot tourney concludes May 7-8

May 5, 2008

Meet Nexi, the Media Lab's latest robot and Internet star

April 9, 2008

Film loosely based on MIT blackjack team opens Friday

March 28, 2008

MIT students design graduate student development program

February 16, 2008

A screenshot of pre-programmed strategies for a match between two of the teams participating in MIT's BattleCode programming competition held during IAP.

Teams battle to on-screen victory

February 6, 2008

MIT and ABB announce energy research partnership

Five-year, $5-million partnership to help develop green technologies and train graduate students

January 24, 2008

The MIT Dance Theater Ensemble's production of 'Madness at Mokuba' features giant robots (such as the one portrayed here by Kristof Erkiletian) among its many characters. <a onclick="MM_openBrWindow('anime-1-enlarged.html','','width=509, height=583')">
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Anime takes the stage

Japanese animation-inspired play features live-action heroes, villains

November 27, 2007

MIT Corporation grants tenure to 50 faculty

November 14, 2007

MIT pair honored for biopsy advance

November 6, 2007

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MIT finishes fourth in DARPA challenge for robotic vehicles

November 5, 2007

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Who ya gonna call? Riskbuster!

Hope on the horizon: Robots

MIT class asks: Fly me to the moon?

Beaver-like robots face off in annual MIT contest

MIT robot tourney concludes May 7-8

Meet Nexi, the Media Lab's latest robot and Internet star

Film loosely based on MIT blackjack team opens Friday

MIT students design graduate student development program

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MIT and ABB announce energy research partnership

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MIT Corporation grants tenure to 50 faculty

MIT pair honored for biopsy advance

MIT finishes fourth in DARPA challenge for robotic vehicles

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