Computer science and technology

Instead of relying on silicon-based devices, a new chip uses carbon nanotubes and resistive random-access memory (RRAM) cells. The two are built vertically over one another, making a new, dense 3-D computer architecture with interleaving layers of logic and memory.

New 3-D chip combines computing and data storage

Advance points toward new generation of computers for coming superstorm of data.

July 5, 2017

A new system dubbed Fractal achieves 88-fold speedups through a parallelism strategy known as speculative execution.

Practical parallelism

System enables large speedups — as much as 88-fold — on common parallel-computing algorithms.

June 30, 2017

Neural networks learn to perform computational tasks by analyzing large sets of training data. But once they’ve been trained, even their designers rarely have any idea what data elements they’re processing.

Peering into neural networks

New technique helps elucidate the inner workings of neural networks trained on visual data.

June 29, 2017

A new computer system predicts the products of chemical reactions. “The vision is that you’ll be able to walk up to a system and say, ‘I want to make this molecule.’ The software will tell you the route you should make it from, and the machine will make it,” says professor Klavs Jensen.

Computer system predicts products of chemical reactions

Machine learning approach could aid the design of industrial processes for drug manufacturing.

June 27, 2017

One of the researchers' quadcopter drones with wheels.

Drones that drive

CSAIL team’s system of quadcopters that fly and drive suggest another approach to developing flying cars.

June 26, 2017

Researchers have created a universal algorithm for folding origami shapes that guarantees a minimum number of seams.

Origami anything

New algorithm generates practical paper-folding patterns to produce any 3-D structure.

June 21, 2017

The proximity of the new headquarters of the Advanced Functional Fabrics of America (AFFOA) Institute to MIT's campus will help connect students and faculty to new facilities, including the Fabric Discovery Center that provides end-to-end prototyping from fiber design to system integration of new textile-based products.

Advanced Functional Fabrics of America opens headquarters steps from MIT campus

New AFFOA facility represents a significant MIT investment in advanced manufacturing innovation.

June 19, 2017

Marty Ellis, of Inman Mills in South Carolina, checks a machine manufacturing fabric developed through AFFOA.

AFFOA launches state-of-the-art facility for prototyping advanced fabrics

New center for development of high-tech fibers and fabrics opens headquarters, unveils two products ready for commercialization.

June 19, 2017

A micrograph of the MIT researchers’ new device, with a visualization of electrical-energy measurements and a schematic of the device layout superimposed on it.

Toward optical quantum computing

Prototype device enables photon-photon interactions at room temperature.

June 16, 2017

Researchers at MIT and Massachusetts General Hospital have designed a new system that can efficiently search through hundreds of hours of video of laparoscopic surgeries to identify relevant events and visual features.

Shrinking data for surgical training

Technique that reduces video files to one-tenth their initial size enables speedy analysis of laparoscopic procedures.

June 16, 2017

The MIT AgeLab and Toyota CSRC set up a camera system at a busy Cambridge intersection to study minute details of pedestrian movements.

AgeLab researching autonomous vehicle systems in ongoing collaboration with Toyota

Innovative MIT research focuses on developing systems to perceive and identify objects in their environment and understand social interactions in traffic.

June 8, 2017

Engineers design drones that can stay aloft for five days

New design could provide communication support in disaster zones.

June 6, 2017

A GelSight sensor attached to a robot’s gripper enables the robot to determine precisely where it has grasped a small screwdriver, removing it from and inserting it back into a slot, even when the gripper screens the screwdriver from the robot’s camera.

Giving robots a sense of touch

GelSight technology lets robots gauge objects’ hardness and manipulate small tools.

June 5, 2017

New algorithms power a prototype system for helping visually impaired users avoid obstacles and identify objects.

Wearable system helps visually impaired users navigate

Device provides information from a 3-D camera, via vibrating motors and a Braille interface.

May 31, 2017

A team of researchers from MIT, Harvard University, and Sandia National Laboratories reports a new technique for creating targeted defects in diamond materials, which is simpler and more precise than its predecessors and could benefit diamond-based quantum computing devices.

Toward mass-producible quantum computers

Process for positioning quantum bits in diamond optical circuits could work at large scales.

May 26, 2017

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