Information Age
As part of MIT’s 150th-birthday celebration, computer science luminaries — many from MIT's faculty — gathered on campus for a two-day symposium.
Breaking bottlenecks
A new algorithm enables much faster dissemination of information through self-organizing networks with a few scattered choke points.
The surprising usefulness of sloppy arithmetic
A computer chip that performs imprecise calculations could process some types of data thousands of times more efficiently than existing chips.
Robert Morris wins 2010 Mark Weiser Award
ACM SIGOPS award recognizes ‘creativity and innovation’ in operating-systems research.
Harry Lee is inaugural holder of EECS Advanced Television and Signal Processing Chair
New professorship is made possible by Jae S. Lim.
Slideshow: President Hockfield in China
She meets with leaders of government, business and academia -- as well as MIT alumni -- during stops in Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong and Taipei.
New book, 'Bright Boys,' chronicles MIT’s pioneering of IT age
Foreword by Professor Emeritus Jay Forrester shares insight on team’s early work
Machines that learn better
New math will make it much easier to build machine-learning systems that tackle a wider range of problems.
Explained: Monte Carlo simulations
Mathematical technique lets scientists make estimates in a probabilistic world
Seeing the forest for the trees
Object recognition systems that break images into ever smaller parts should be much more efficient and may shed light on how the brain works.
A grand unified theory of AI
A new approach unites two prevailing but often opposed strains in the history of artificial-intelligence research.
Update on planning for high-performance computing center
Consortium members report 'considerable progress' in several aspects of project in Holyoke, Mass.
At Davos, MIT faculty discuss the nature of intelligence
Videos available of professors' presentations at World Economic Forum
Selling chip makers on optical computing
By designing chips that can be built using existing fabrication processes, MIT researchers show that computing with light isn’t so far fetched.