Topic
Computer science and technology
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Joy Buolamwini wins national contest for her work fighting bias in machine learning
Media Lab graduate student selected from over 7,300 entrants, awarded $50,000 scholarship in contest inspired by the film "Hidden Figures."
January 17, 2017 -
Creating “big, beautiful things”
Senior Garrett Parrish combines art and technology, with dramatic effects.
January 13, 2017 -
Split-second data mapping
New type of database-analytics platform queries and maps billions of data points in milliseconds.
January 11, 2017 -
Model sheds light on purpose of inhibitory neurons
Study suggests computational role for neurons that prevent other neurons from firing.
January 9, 2017 -
Ingestible robots, glasses-free 3-D, and computers that explain themselves
A look at 16 of the coolest things that happened at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in 2016.
December 16, 2016 -
Making big data manageable
Technique shrinks data sets while preserving their fundamental mathematical relationships.
December 14, 2016 -
Caroline Colbert: Paving a path to medicine
Nuclear science and engineering senior Caroline Colbert has found herself on an unexpected career path in the medical field.
December 12, 2016 -
Helping policy and technology work together
Engineering grad student Keertan Kini is working to strengthen the intersection of policy and technology.
December 12, 2016 -
Foiling cyberattackers with rerandomization
A unique moving target technique combats information leakage attacks.
December 9, 2016 -
Four CSAIL researchers named ACM fellows
Association for Computer Machinery cites Erik Demaine, Fredo Durand, William Freeman, and Daniel Jackson for having "provided key knowledge" to computing.
December 8, 2016 -
Apple CEO Tim Cook to deliver MIT’s 2017 Commencement address
Head of world’s largest publicly traded corporation will address the Class of 2017 on June 9.
December 8, 2016 -
Learning words from pictures
System correlates recorded speech with images, could lead to fully automated speech recognition.
December 6, 2016 -
Design your own custom drone
CSAIL system lets users design and fabricate drones with a wide range of shapes and structures.
December 5, 2016 -
Computer learns to recognize sounds by watching video
Machine-learning system doesn’t require costly hand-annotated data.
December 2, 2016 -
How the brain recognizes faces
Machine-learning system spontaneously reproduces aspects of human neurology.
December 1, 2016 -
Lincoln Laboratory's supercomputing system ranked most powerful in New England
New Dell EMC petaflop-scale supercomputer has 6 times more processing power and 20 times more bandwidth than its predecessor.
December 1, 2016 -
Creating videos of the future
Given a still image, CSAIL deep-learning system generates videos that predict what will happen next in a scene.
November 29, 2016 -
Meeting of the minds for machine intelligence
Industry leaders, computer scientists, and venture capitalists gather to discuss how smarter computers are remaking our world.
November 22, 2016 -
Professor Emeritus Jay Forrester, digital computing and system dynamics pioneer, dies at 98
The inventor of an early form of RAM had an outsized influence on organizational dynamics, supply chains, and sustainability.
November 19, 2016 -
Entanglement bonanza
Relatively simple quantum computers could be much more powerful than previously realized.
November 18, 2016