Computer science and technology

MIT, IBM team up on first PlayStationÂ®3 course

May 2, 2007

The stucco-like surface on the right looks darker and glossier than the one on the left even though the mean luminance of both images is equal. The luminance histogram of the image on the right is positively skewed and the one on the left is negatively skewed.

MIT shows how brain tells glossy from grainy surfaces

Work could let robots see better

April 19, 2007

MIT postdoctoral associate Aaron Edsinger gets some help from Domo, an assistive robot he has been developing for the last three years.

Assistive robot adapts to people, new places

April 9, 2007

Three MIT students, senior Brian Jacokes, junior Eric Price and senior Hubert Hwang compete in the Association for Computing Machinery International Collegiate Programming Finals held in March. The team won fourth place overall out of 88 teams.

MIT programmers strike gold

April 3, 2007

$Atomistic simulation provides unparalleled insight into fracture processes. Under the weight of an applied load, a crack in a silicon crystal (above, left) propagates until the crystal is cleaved.$

Think small! Think quickly! Atomistic model helps students visualize nanoscale problems

Software designed for genetics shows how materials behave under extreme loading

April 2, 2007

MIT researchers David Simchi-Levi, left, and Olivier L. de Weck released version 1.3 of their SpaceNet software this month.

Engineers create SpaceNet--the supply chain

Network of nodes could ensure delivery to moon

March 19, 2007

New center to explore quantum information theory

March 9, 2007

MIT students traveled to Lesotho in January 2006 to work on developing a solar micro-generator that would provide affordable energy.

PSC grants expand MIT's global reach

March 7, 2007

This three-dimensional atomic simulation shows the absorption of a line defect by an existing twin boundary in nano-twinned copper.

MIT model simulates atomic processes in nanomaterials

March 1, 2007

An MIT model for object recognition takes as input the unlabeled images of digital photographs from the street scene database (top) and generates automatic annotations (bottom row). The orange bounding boxes are for pedestrians ("ped") and cars ("car"). The system would have also detected bicycles if present. For sky, buildings, trees and road, the system uses color coding (blue, brown, green and ...

Computer model mimics neural processes in object recognition

Applications include surveillance, visual search engines, biomedical imaging analysis and robots with realistic vision

February 23, 2007

Graduate student Manu Prakash (left) and Professor Neil Gershenfeld discuss new applications for their microfluidic chips, which can carry on-chip process control information.

Flow of tiny bubbles mimics computer circuitry

Work could boost capabilities of 'labs on a chip'

February 8, 2007

Postdoc Peter Rakich worked with MIT colleagues to develp a novel way to add the power and speed of light waves to traditional electronics.

MIT 'optics on a chip' may revolutionize telecom, computing

Research integrates photonic circuitry on a silicon chip

February 6, 2007

Tim Berners-Lee receives Draper Prize

January 5, 2007

Francois Proulx, a visiting student from Montreal and an iFIND project leader, displays an iFIND map showing where his friends are on campus.

SENSEable City reveals 'friendspotting,' new MIT social networking form

December 13, 2006

From left, Ray Kurzweil, Rodney Brooks and David Gelernter speak at 'Creativity: The mind, machines and mathematics' held at MIT Nov. 30.

Hard drives will evolve into soft hearts ... or not

CSAIL debate on machine consciousness ends in a draw

December 5, 2006

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