Topic
Artificial intelligence
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Marvin Minsky, “father of artificial intelligence,” dies at 88
Professor emeritus was a co-founder of CSAIL and a founding member of the Media Lab.
January 25, 2016 -
Machines that learn like people
Algorithms could learn to recognize objects from a few examples, not millions; may better model human cognition.
December 23, 2015 -
Deep-learning algorithm predicts photos’ memorability at “near-human” levels
Future versions of an algorithm from the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab could help with teaching, marketing, and memory improvement.
December 16, 2015 -
CSAIL shows off demos to 150 high-schoolers for “Hour of Code”
Robots, 3-D printers, and a surprise guest aim to get students excited about computer science.
December 14, 2015 -
Computer system passes “visual Turing test”
Character-drawing machines can fool human judges.
December 10, 2015 -
NASA gives MIT a humanoid robot to develop software for future space missions
Team led by Professor Russ Tedrake of CSAIL to develop algorithms for 6-foot-tall “Valkyrie” robot to travel to Mars and beyond.
November 17, 2015 -
Streamlining mobile image processing
Technique for mobile image processing in the cloud cuts bandwidth use by more than 98 percent.
November 13, 2015 -
Automating big-data analysis
System that replaces human intuition with algorithms outperforms 615 of 906 human teams.
October 16, 2015 -
Robots and us
Should cars be fully driverless? No, says an MIT engineer and historian.
October 13, 2015 -
Predicting change in the Alzheimer’s brain
Combining MRI and other data helps machine-learning systems predict effects of neurodegenerative disease.
October 6, 2015 -
More-flexible machine learning
Giving machine-learning systems “partial credit” during training improves image classification.
October 1, 2015 -
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 -
Learning language by playing games
System learns to play text-based computer game using only linguistic information.
September 23, 2015 -
Personalized heart models for surgical planning
System can convert MRI scans into 3D-printed, physical models in a few hours.
September 17, 2015 -
CSAIL joins with Toyota on $25 million research center for autonomous cars
Seeking to reduce traffic casualties, center will focus on robotics and artificial intelligence systems.
September 4, 2015 -
Self-driving golf carts
Autonomous vehicles share sidewalk space with pedestrians in six-day trial in Singaporean public garden.
September 1, 2015 -
Could a pen change how we diagnose brain function?
Team from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab detects dementia using AI and a digital pen.
August 13, 2015 -
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 -
Object recognition for robots
Robots’ maps of their environments can make existing object-recognition algorithms more accurate.
July 23, 2015 -
Siting wind farms more quickly, cheaply
New model predicts wind speeds more accurately with three months of data than others do with 12.
July 17, 2015