Artificial data give the same results as real data — without compromising privacy
New approach can help organizations scale their data science efforts with artificial data and crowdsourcing.
Professor Tom Leighton and Danny Lewin SM ’98 named to National Inventors Hall of Fame
Akamai founders honored for applying algorithms to solve web congestion.
Energy-efficient design
MIT researchers are helping architects optimize both design and energy efficiency.
SMART automation
MIT Professor Daniela Rus combines automation and mobility to create a smarter world.
Joy Buolamwini wins national contest for her work fighting bias in machine learning
Media Lab graduate student selected from over 7,300 entrants, awarded $50,000 scholarship in contest inspired by the film "Hidden Figures."
MIT Media Lab to participate in $27 million initiative on AI ethics and governance
Fund establishes a global initiative to advance artificial intelligence research for the public good.
How ride-sharing can improve traffic, save money, and help the environment
Study shows carpooling apps could reduce congestion by a factor of three while still serving the same number of people.
Ingestible robots, glasses-free 3-D, and computers that explain themselves
A look at 16 of the coolest things that happened at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in 2016.
Data diversity
Preserving variety in subsets of unmanageably large data sets should aid machine learning.
Making big data manageable
Technique shrinks data sets while preserving their fundamental mathematical relationships.
Learning words from pictures
System correlates recorded speech with images, could lead to fully automated speech recognition.
Design your own custom drone
CSAIL system lets users design and fabricate drones with a wide range of shapes and structures.
Creating videos of the future
Given a still image, CSAIL deep-learning system generates videos that predict what will happen next in a scene.