Computer science and technology

ROBOAT, a new collaboration between researchers from MIT and partner institutions in the Netherlands, seeks to design and deploy a fleet of autonomous boats on the canals of Amsterdam.

An autonomous fleet for Amsterdam

MIT, AMS Institute will collaborate to solve complex urban problems for Amsterdam with the development of autonomous "roboats."

September 19, 2016

Sophia Yakoubov lectures the 2016 LLCipher class on public key encryption.

Students unlock the secrets of cryptography

LLCipher workshop hosted by the Lincoln Laboratory teaches the mathematics behind cryptography.

September 14, 2016

Imaging scientist and social impact inventor Ramesh Raskar of MIT is the 2016 recipient of the $500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize.

Ramesh Raskar awarded $500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize

Imaging scientist and inventor sets sights on launching peer-to-peer invention platforms for global impact.

September 13, 2016

Researchers have designed a new programming language that lets application developers manage memory more efficiently in programs that deal with scattered data points in large data sets. In tests on several common algorithms, programs written in the new language were four times as fast as those written in existing languages.

Faster parallel computing

New programming language delivers fourfold speedups on problems common in the age of big data.

September 13, 2016

A new imaging system can read closed books. “The Metropolitan Museum in New York showed a lot of interest in this, because they want to, for example, look into some antique books that they don’t even want to touch,” says Barmak Heshmat, a research scientist at the MIT Media Lab.

Judging a book through its cover

New computational imaging method identifies letters printed on first nine pages of a stack of paper.

September 9, 2016

Nancy Lynch, the NEC Professor of Software Science and Engineering, and associate head of MIT's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Nancy Lynch named associate head of Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Expert in distributed computing to join department leadership.

September 7, 2016

Researchers from MIT and Ford Motor have developed a new computational system that uses cellphone location data to infer urban mobility patterns.

Inferring urban travel patterns from cellphone data

Big-data analysis could give city planners timelier, more accurate alternatives to commuter surveys.

August 29, 2016

Accelerometers around patients' necks capture data about the motions of their vocal folds to determine if their vocal behavior was normal or abnormal.

How machine learning can help with voice disorders

By detecting signs of vocal misuse, system from CSAIL and Mass General could eventually be used to help diagnose voice disorders.

August 29, 2016

PhD Ezzeldin Hamed, professor Dina Katabi, and visiting researcher Hariharan Rahul developed MegaMIMO to address spectrum crunch.

Solving network congestion

MegaMIMO system from the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab speeds data transfer by coordinating multiple routers at the same time.

August 23, 2016

“You need to have the ability for researchers and engineers to try out thousands of ideas,” says Hari Balakrishnan, the Fujitsu Professor in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT. “With this platform, you become constrained not by hardware or technological limitations, but by your creativity. You can innovate much more rapidly.”

Programmable network routers

New design should enable much more flexible traffic management, without sacrificing speed.

August 23, 2016

Computer scientist Margaret Hamilton poses with the Apollo guidance software she and her team developed at MIT.

Scene at MIT: Margaret Hamilton’s Apollo code

A brief history of the famous 1969 photo of the software that sent humans to the moon.

August 17, 2016

Simulations written in Simit, a new programming language, were dozens or even hundreds of times as fast as those written in existing simulation languages. But they required only one-tenth as much code as meticulously hand-optimized simulations that could achieve similar execution speeds.

User-friendly language for programming efficient simulations

New language can speed up computer simulations 200-fold or reduce the code they require by 90 percent.

August 10, 2016

Researchers from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and Indiana University at Bloomington describe a new system that permits database queries for genome-wide association studies but reduces the chances of privacy compromises to almost zero.

Protecting privacy in genomic databases

System helps ensure databases used in medical research will not leak patients’ personal information.

August 9, 2016

Toward practical quantum computers

Built-in optics could enable chips that use trapped ions as quantum bits.

August 8, 2016

To simulate objects, MIT CSAIL researchers analyzed video clips to find “vibration modes” at different frequencies that each represent distinct ways that an object can move.

Reach in and touch objects in videos with “Interactive Dynamic Video”

Technique from Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab could improve augmented reality and reduce the need for CGI green-screens.

August 2, 2016

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