Making better decisions when outcomes are uncertain
A simple statistical trick could help make a ubiquitous model of decision processes more accurate.
Security for multirobot systems
New technique could protect robot teams’ communication networks from malicious hackers.
Putting data in the hands of doctors
Computer scientist Regina Barzilay empowers cancer treatment with machine learning.
Voice control everywhere
Low-power special-purpose chip could make speech recognition ubiquitous in electronics.
Researchers add a splash of human intuition to planning algorithms
Incorporating strategies from skilled human planners improves automatic planners’ performance.
Fadel Adib joins Media Lab faculty
Adib is directing a new research group at the Media Lab, aiming to uncover, analyze, and engineer natural and human-made networks.
Play Labs, a playful tech accelerator for MIT students and alumni, launches
MIT Game Lab, Bayview Labs, and Seraph Group announce funding, facilities, and mentorship for startups focusing on virtual, augmented, and mixed reality.
SMART automation
MIT Professor Daniela Rus combines automation and mobility to create a smarter world.
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.
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.
Computer learns to recognize sounds by watching video
Machine-learning system doesn’t require costly hand-annotated data.