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Researchers have discovered that in people with dyslexia the brain has a diminished ability to acclimate to a repeated input — a trait known as neural adaptation.

Distinctive brain pattern may underlie dyslexia

Study suggests reduced plasticity could account for reading difficulties.

December 21, 2016

MIT postdoc Carl Schoellhammer (center) takes home gold at the Collegiate Inventor’s Competition for his SuonoCalm system.

Carl Schoellhammer wins gold medal at 2016 National Collegiate Inventors Competition

MIT postdoc honored for his work developing a technique to quickly deliver medicine to the gastrointestinal tract.

December 15, 2016

Now in its 21st year, the “product engineering processes” class led by David Wallace is designed to give its students a strong sense of what’s involved in taking a product all the way from brainstorming ideas, through preliminary design and testing, to a final, fully functional product design and a basic business plan.

Student product ideas range from lifesaving to just plain fun

Finale of mechanical engineering class unveils wide variety of ingenious new product concepts.

December 13, 2016

MIT student Brandon Wang interviews Lorenzo Candelaria, whose family has been tending the same farm near Albuquerque for over 300 years.

Terrascope Radio documentary wins national award

MIT students’ personal account of desert farming in New Mexico earns top honors from college broadcasting association.

December 13, 2016

"Song of the Human" made its world premiere at the Winter Garden in New York City. Discovering MIT Professor Shigeru Miyagawa’s research on birdsong was “validating and inspiring,” creator Pete Wyer says.

"Song of the Human": An origin story

New work by composer Pete M. Wyer draws inspiration from MIT linguistic scholar Shigeru Miyagawa's hypothesis on the origins of human language.

December 13, 2016

MIT researchers have developed a new approach to training speech-recognition systems that doesn’t depend on transcription. Instead, their system analyzes correspondences between images and spoken descriptions of those images, as captured in a large collection of audio recordings.

Learning words from pictures

System correlates recorded speech with images, could lead to fully automated speech recognition.

December 6, 2016

“We make sense of the world through stories, and we remember the world through experience. That’s how it works as human beings. I am telling a story and making people live an experience at the same time,” says MIT Visiting Artist Karim Ben Khelifa.

Face to face with "The Enemy"

Visiting Artist Karim Ben Khelifa creates immersive experiences using virtual and augmented reality to humanize soldiers in global conflicts.

December 2, 2016

The researchers’ neural network was fed video from 26 terabytes of video data downloaded from the photo-sharing site Flickr. Researchers found the network can interpret natural sounds in terms of image categories. For instance, the network might determine that the sound of birdsong tends to be associated with forest scenes and pictures of trees, birds, birdhouses, and bird feeders.

Computer learns to recognize sounds by watching video

Machine-learning system doesn’t require costly hand-annotated data.

December 2, 2016

Architect's rendering of the Wiesner Student Art Gallery renovation

Wiesner Gallery relaunched

Inaugural exhibition in the newly renovated space features work from 20 MIT Arts Scholars.

November 30, 2016

On Nov. 17, the MIT Festival Jazz Ensemble, led by Fred Harris, delivered Mark Harvey’s composition “No Walls,” an anthem to inclusiveness inspired by Duke Ellington’s credo of living and making music “beyond category.”

“Uniting through Voice and Song” event celebrates values that connect the MIT community

November 22, 2016

Tamara Broderick, assistant professor of electrical engineering and computer science at MIT, was a presenter at the 2016 Machine Intelligence Summit.

Meeting of the minds for machine intelligence

Industry leaders, computer scientists, and venture capitalists gather to discuss how smarter computers are remaking our world.

November 22, 2016

A light-trapping diamond waveguide developed at MIT Lincoln Laboratory is one of the technologies honored with a 2016 R&D 100 Award. The waveguide is capable of efficiently guiding a green excitation laser beam along a meter-long optical path in a millimeter-scale diamond.

MIT Lincoln Laboratory garners six 2016 R&D 100 Awards

Innovations in air traffic safety, biomedical devices, and magnetic field detection earn accolades.

November 21, 2016

“I’m working on bigger questions not only from a scientific perspective, but also from a societal perspective,” says Brian Henderson, Stanton Fellow in Nuclear Science and Security.

Brian Henderson: Experimenting with physics and policy

Nuclear Science and Engineering Stanton Fellow Brian Henderson brings his physics experience to bear on nuclear weapons disarmament policies.

November 21, 2016

In this illustration, each colored line represents a different state of a “spin chain,” which can be thought of as the magnetic orientations, or spins, of a string of quantum particles. Where the line rises, the spin is up; where it falls, the spin is down; and where it’s flat, the spin is zero. MIT researchers modeled the entanglement of a quantum system as the “superposition” of such s...

Entanglement bonanza

Relatively simple quantum computers could be much more powerful than previously realized.

November 18, 2016

Left to right: Carlos Gonçalves, MIT Portugal visiting student; Shenghua Wu, MIT Portugal visiting Scholar; Carolina Furtado, MIT Portugal visiting student; Manuel Heitor, Minister for Science, Technology and Higher Education of Portugal; Gonçalo Pereira, MIT postdoc; and Golnar Hejazi, MIT Portugal visiting student.

Manuel Heitor, Portuguese minister for science, technology, and higher education, visits MIT

Visit aims to strengthen the scientific and technological cooperation between Portugal and the United States.

November 18, 2016

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Learning words from pictures

Face to face with "The Enemy"

Computer learns to recognize sounds by watching video

Wiesner Gallery relaunched

“Uniting through Voice and Song” event celebrates values that connect the MIT community

Meeting of the minds for machine intelligence

MIT Lincoln Laboratory garners six 2016 R&D 100 Awards

Brian Henderson: Experimenting with physics and policy

Entanglement bonanza

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