Computer learns language by playing games
By basing its strategies on the text of a manual, a computer infers the meanings of words without human supervision.
Improving recommendation systems
Researchers believe that comparing products, rather than rating them on an absolute scale, will lead to algorithms that better predict customers’ preferences.
Health care of the future
The Clinical Decision Making Group looks to advance health care by applying natural-language processing techniques to make better sense of medical records.
Chandrakasan named head of electrical engineering and computer science
Succeeds Grimson as leader of MIT's largest academic department
Protecting medical implants from attack
A new system would jam wireless signals sent to medical implants by unauthorized users.
Faster computer graphics
Digitally mimicking the photographic blur caused by moving objects is surprisingly hard, but new research offers ways to make it easier.
Inside the infant mind
New study shows that babies can perform sophisticated analyses of how the physical world should behave.
Honing household helpers
MIT computer scientists work toward improving robots’ ability to plan and perform complex actions, domestically and elsewhere.
What makes an image memorable?
Hint: We tend to remember pictures of people much better than wide open spaces.
Two from MIT named Goldwater Scholars
Undergraduates receive top honor in collegiate math, science and engineering education
Origami: Not just for paper anymore
DNA, folded into complex shapes, could have a big impact on nanotechnology.
Information Age
As part of MIT’s 150th-birthday celebration, computer science luminaries — many from MIT's faculty — gathered on campus for a two-day symposium.
Flying like the birds
Multidisciplinary university research initiative, led by a CSAIL researcher, is developing a bird-sized UAV.