How wireless “X-ray vision” could power virtual reality, smart homes, and Hollywood
By seeing silhouettes through a wall, CSAIL device could help with motion capture, fall prevention and even your heating bill.
A basis for all cryptography
A tool that would provide a secure foundation for any cryptographic system may be close at hand.
Faster optimization
New general-purpose optimization algorithm promises order-of-magnitude speedups on some problems.
Automating big-data analysis
System that replaces human intuition with algorithms outperforms 615 of 906 human teams.
Predicting change in the Alzheimer’s brain
Combining MRI and other data helps machine-learning systems predict effects of neurodegenerative disease.
More-flexible machine learning
Giving machine-learning systems “partial credit” during training improves image classification.
High-school students decipher cryptography
At MIT Lincoln Laboratory's LLCipher workshop, students practice critical thinking and learn some cybersecurity basics.
Learning language by playing games
System learns to play text-based computer game using only linguistic information.
Personalized heart models for surgical planning
System can convert MRI scans into 3D-printed, physical models in a few hours.
More personalized online shopping
Startup’s platform analyzes data from multiple sources to better predict buying preferences.
Learning spoken language
System learns to distinguish words’ phonetic components, without human annotation of training data.
First new cache-coherence mechanism in 30 years
More efficient memory-management scheme could help enable chips with thousands of cores.
CSAIL joins with Toyota on $25 million research center for autonomous cars
Seeking to reduce traffic casualties, center will focus on robotics and artificial intelligence systems.
Customizing 3-D printing
Design tool lets novices do in minutes what would take experts in computer-aided design hours.