Algorithms

Flickr users tagged a photograph similar to this one
“architecture," “tourism," and "travel.” A machine-learning system that
used a novel training strategy developed at MIT proposed “sky," “roof,”
and “building”; when it used a conventional training strategy, it came up
with “art," “sky,” and "beach.”

More-flexible machine learning

Giving machine-learning systems “partial credit” during training improves image classification.

October 1, 2015

A new soft robotic gripper from MIT can estimate the size and shape of an object accurately enough to identify it from a set of multiple items.

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.

September 30, 2015

New system from MIT and Boston Children’s Hospital researchers converts MRI scans into 3D-printed heart models (shown here).

Personalized heart models for surgical planning

System can convert MRI scans into 3D-printed, physical models in a few hours.

September 17, 2015

Illustration of hands on a computer screen

More personalized online shopping

Startup’s platform analyzes data from multiple sources to better predict buying preferences.

September 15, 2015

Learning spoken language

System learns to distinguish words’ phonetic components, without human annotation of training data.

September 14, 2015

First new cache-coherence mechanism in 30 years

More efficient memory-management scheme could help enable chips with thousands of cores.

September 9, 2015

Richard Yau ’10 and Joe Laurendi ’10, MEng ’11 launched Bright Cellars to help match individual tastes with good wine.

Wine matching: Tasty uses for algorithms

A pair of Class of 2010 roommates, entrepreneurial buddies while on campus, recently teamed up to launch a wine club based on big data.

September 3, 2015

The autonomous golf carts (shown here) deployed in the Singapore public gardens relied on just a few unobtrusive sensors.

Self-driving golf carts

Autonomous vehicles share sidewalk space with pedestrians in six-day trial in Singaporean public garden.

September 1, 2015

MIT civil and environmental engineering PhD student Justin Chen

Observing invisible vibrations

PhD student Justin Chen magnifies minuscule vibrations in structures to detect damage.

August 27, 2015

Illustration of points in an arbitrary high-dimensional space that live close to a one-dimensional, tree-like structure, as might arise from genomes generated by mutation and selection in evolution. Although high-dimensional at a fine scale, at the coarser scale of covering spheres, the data cloud looks nearly one-dimensional, which enables entropy scaling of similarity search.

Searching big data faster

Theoretical analysis could expand applications of accelerated searching in biology, other fields.

August 26, 2015

Policing sex trafficking in the digital age

Mitali Thakor works with tech companies and police to understand what sex trafficking looks like today.

August 18, 2015

CSAIL researchers converted their lab into a miniature “bar” that included a PR2 robot “bartender” and two four-wheeled Turtlebot "waiters."

Robots collaborate to deliver meds, supplies, and even drinks

Bots from the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab work together more effectively in the face of uncertainty.

August 10, 2015

A simple robotic gripper can adjust its grip using the environment. Here, a robot grips a rod lightly while pushing it against a tabletop.

Giving robots a more nimble grasp

Engineers use the environment to give simple robotic grippers more dexterity.

August 3, 2015

Graphic of shopping cart and colorful lines and visualizations coming out of it

What buyers want

MIT professors’ choice-modeling software predicts customer preferences for retailers.

July 10, 2015

Computer program fixes old code faster than expert engineers

What takes coders months, CSAIL’s “Helium” can do in an hour.

July 9, 2015

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