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An image of a Quad-Core AMD Opteron™ processor

Parallel course

As chip makers turn to multiple 'cores' to improve performance, MIT researchers help ease programmers' transition to parallel programming.

October 23, 2009

Goldwasser, Stubbe named Franklin Institute laureates

October 21, 2009

A new object recognition algorithm treats unrelated images (top and middle right) as if they were consecutive frames of video. Since it assumes that the objects in both images are the same, it tries to deform the objects in the first image until they map onto the objects in the second (above). If the objects in one of the images have already been outlined and labeled (bottom right), the algorithm ...

Seeing things

Researchers from MIT's CSAIL teach computers to recognize objects.

October 13, 2009

Avinatan Hassidim, a postdoc in the Research Laboratory of Electronics, writes out a system of four linear equations with four variables. The quantum algorithm that he, Seth Lloyd, and Aram Harrow devised can solve systems with a trillion equations and a trillion variables.

Quantum computing may actually be useful

A quantum algorithm that solves systems of linear equations could point in a promising new direction.

October 9, 2009

Four computer PCs sit in a line, each with a mask wrapped around center

Securing the web

A new MIT programming tool would automatically plug holes that hackers exploit.

October 8, 2009

Whose Internet is it, anyway?

One of the Internet's chief architects looks at the FCC's proposed Net neutrality rules.

September 28, 2009

Digital Democracy

The World Wide Web Consortium weighs in on government transparency

September 24, 2009

Intel PhD fellowship recipients announced

Four students from the EECS have been named among this year's winners of the Intel PhD Fellowships

September 22, 2009

In a wireless network, different transmission frequencies work better for different users. That's because the same transmission reaches each user along several different paths; at one frequency, the signals arriving over different paths might reinforce each other, while at another frequency, they might cancel each other out.

Sharing the air

Unused wireless spectrum is getting scarce; MIT researchers are teaching emerging technologies to coexist in what's left

September 22, 2009

Graduate student Will Chung displays a hybrid chip being developed in Professor Tomas Palacios' lab. The machine in the background is used to combine the semiconductor materials into one chip.

Two chips in one

MIT team finds a way to combine materials for semiconductor manufacture. The advance helps address the limitations of conventional silicon microprocessors.

September 15, 2009

MIT 4th overall among U.S. universities, U.S. News says

Engineering again ranked best in class

August 20, 2009

Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) Director Victor Zue, left, Quanta Computer Chairman Barry Lam and MIT President Susan Hockfield sign a five-year, $25 million agreement that extends Quanta's research collaboration with CSAIL on developing new information technologies.

Quanta Computer extends collaboration with CSAIL

$25 million agreement to fund research on cloud computing, mobile technologies

July 17, 2009

Harvard graduate students Ankush Sharma, right, and Alexis Geancotes, left, (who also study at MIT) represent the MoCa team, which developed mobile diagnostics to improve health care in the developing world.

A phone is not just a phone

Student projects explore innovative cellphone uses in developing world

July 2, 2009

Collaboration eyes computing boost for New England

Rooted at MIT, effort brings together state, industry, academia

June 11, 2009

Awards and Honors: June 10, 2009

June 10, 2009

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