“Shrinking bull’s-eye” algorithm speeds up complex modeling from days to hours
Algorithm may be applied to a broad range of complicated problems.
Streamlining mobile image processing
Technique for mobile image processing in the cloud cuts bandwidth use by more than 98 percent.
Amplifying — or removing — visual variation
Algorithms could offer new tools for graphics software or reveal structural defects.
A basis for all cryptography
A tool that would provide a secure foundation for any cryptographic system may be close at hand.
Faster optimization
New general-purpose optimization algorithm promises order-of-magnitude speedups on some problems.
More-flexible machine learning
Giving machine-learning systems “partial credit” during training improves image classification.
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.
Personalized heart models for surgical planning
System can convert MRI scans into 3D-printed, physical models in a few hours.
More personalized online shopping
Startup’s platform analyzes data from multiple sources to better predict buying preferences.
Learning spoken language
System learns to distinguish words’ phonetic components, without human annotation of training data.
First new cache-coherence mechanism in 30 years
More efficient memory-management scheme could help enable chips with thousands of cores.
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.
Self-driving golf carts
Autonomous vehicles share sidewalk space with pedestrians in six-day trial in Singaporean public garden.
Observing invisible vibrations
PhD student Justin Chen magnifies minuscule vibrations in structures to detect damage.
Searching big data faster
Theoretical analysis could expand applications of accelerated searching in biology, other fields.