Crash-tolerant data storage
Formally verified working file system could lead to computers guaranteed never to lose your data.
Could a pen change how we diagnose brain function?
Team from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab detects dementia using AI and a digital pen.
Robots collaborate to deliver meds, supplies, and even drinks
Bots from the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab work together more effectively in the face of uncertainty.
Shoring up Tor
Researchers mount successful attacks against popular anonymity network — and show how to prevent them.
Consortium including MIT awarded $110M national grant to promote photonics manufacturing
Partnership of government, industry, and academia will pursue integration of optical devices with electronics.
Object recognition for robots
Robots’ maps of their environments can make existing object-recognition algorithms more accurate.
Siting wind farms more quickly, cheaply
New model predicts wind speeds more accurately with three months of data than others do with 12.
What buyers want
MIT professors’ choice-modeling software predicts customer preferences for retailers.
Cutting cost and power consumption for big data
New network design exploits cheap, power-efficient flash memory without sacrificing speed.
CSAIL report: Giving government special access to data poses major security risks
Whether “backdoor” or “front-door,” government access imperils your data, report authors say.
Helping students stick with MOOCs
New techniques could help identify students at risk for dropping out of online courses.
Woman in technology
A high-school outreach program first brought Tamara Broderick to MIT in 2002. Now she's back, as an assistant professor in EECS.
Automatic bug repair
System fixes bugs by importing functionality from other programs — without access to source code.
Middle schoolers turn into Roombas
Engineers from iRobot provide workshop for students from the Boston area in the MIT STEM Mentoring Program.
Amplifying small motions in large motions
Video-processing algorithm magnifies motions indiscernible to naked eye, even in moving objects.