CSAIL hosts Demo Day, attended by Mayor Walsh
Boston Mayor Marty Walsh, local students attend the National Robotics Week event
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Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL)
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Soft robotic fish moves like the real thing
A new robotic fish can change direction almost as rapidly as a real fish.
Upcoming conference puts supply chain management in broad context
Host Yossi Sheffi thinks supply chains change, and are changed by, the world.
Give him the hook: New data shows baseball managers when to replace the starting pitcher
As MIT’s major sports analytics conference begins, novel research provides data-based guidance for big-league skippers.
Self-completing programs
A system that automatically fills in the gaps in programmers’ code becomes more powerful.
White House to co-host workshop at MIT on ‘big data’ and privacy
March 3 event convenes academics, representatives of industry, and top government officials to discuss big data and the role of technology in protecting privacy.
Rise of the compliant machines
MIT spinout Meka Robotics, recently acquired by Google, creates ‘sociable’ humanoids that could help advance human-robot interaction.
Smarter caching
Cleverer management of the local memory banks known as ‘caches’ could improve computer chips’ performance while reducing their energy consumption.
Herding robots
A new system combines simple control programs to enable fleets of robots — or other “multiagent systems” — to collaborate in unprecedented ways.
Storage system for ‘big data’ dramatically speeds access to information
Using multiple nodes allows the same bandwidth and performance from a storage network as far more expensive machines.
Expanding our view of vision
New brain-scanning technique allows scientists to see when and where the brain processes visual information.
New algorithm can dramatically streamline solutions to the ‘max flow’ problem
Research could boost the efficiency even of huge networks like the Internet.