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A new database interface looks like a spreadsheet. Users don’t need to know database scripting languages such as SQL to create new database queries.

Democratizing databases

With a new tool, any competent spreadsheet user can construct custom database interfaces.

July 8, 2016

Fireworks lit up the night sky and MIT's campus on July 4.

Scene at MIT: Independence Day spectacular

July 6, 2016

Duane Boning named LeBel Professor

A leader in the field of manufacturing and design has been appointed the Clarence J. LeBel Professor of Electrical Engineering.

June 30, 2016

Robert Metcalfe '68 gave a talk during StartMIT.

Q&A: Robert Metcalfe on the "Inoversity"

Ethernet and 3Com co-founder and MIT Visiting Innovation Fellow discusses how universities can drive innovation.

June 28, 2016

CoalMap is an online tool that allows users explore the potential effects of various market factors on the cost-competitiveness of coal versus renewable energy.

Mapping coal’s decline and renewables' rise

CoalMap online tool shows what policy regulations and technological advancements can do for the cost-competitiveness of solar and wind energy.

June 22, 2016

From MIT CSAIL: The left-most column shows the frame before the action begins, with the algorithm's prediction below it. The right columns show the next frames of the video.

Teaching machines to predict the future

Deep-learning vision system from the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab anticipates human interactions using videos of TV shows.

June 21, 2016

The researchers’ compiler takes as input differential equations and translates them into voltages and current flows across an analog chip.

Analog computing returns

New analog compiler could help enable simulation of whole organs and even organisms.

June 20, 2016

“Multicore systems are really hard to program,” says Daniel Sanchez, an assistant professor in MIT’s Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. “You have to explicitly divide the work that you’re doing into tasks, and then you need to enforce some synchronization between tasks accessing shared data. What this architecture does, essentially, is to remove all sorts of expli...

Parallel programming made easy

New chip design makes parallel programs run many times faster and requires one-tenth the code.

June 20, 2016

Researchers developed a simple application for devices that use Apple’s iOS operating system. The application flashes a small dot somewhere on the device’s screen, attracting the user’s attention, then briefly replaces it with either an “R” or an “L,” instructing the user to swipe either the right or left side of the screen. Correctly executing the swipe ensures that the user has act...

Eye-tracking system uses ordinary cellphone camera

Crowd-sourced data yields system that determines where mobile-device users are looking.

June 15, 2016

Researchers at MIT and Sandia National Laboratories have designed a device that is an array of 37 microfabricated lasers on a single chip. Its power requirements are relatively low because the radiation emitted by all of the lasers is “phase locked,” meaning that the troughs and crests of its waves are perfectly aligned.

New approach to microlasers

Technique for “phase locking” arrays of tiny lasers could lead to terahertz security scanners.

June 13, 2016

Artificial intelligence produces realistic sounds that fool humans

Video-trained system from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab could help robots understand how objects interact with the world.

June 13, 2016

Left to right: School of Engineering Dean Ian A. Waitz, graduate student Zachary Sherman, and Alan Oppenheim '59, '64 ScD, sponsor of the School of Engineering Graduate Student Award for Extraordinary Teaching and Mentoring.

School of Engineering awards for 2016

Awards were given to outstanding faculty, undergraduates, and graduate students.

June 10, 2016

Andrea Campbell (left), head of the MIT Department of Political Science and the Arthur and Ruth Sloan Professor of Political Science, and Valerie Karplus, assistant professor of global economics and management, take part in a panel discussion at the Technology and Policy Program 40th anniversary event.

Technology and Policy Program celebrates 40 years

Special event marks four decades of TPP and looks to the future of technology and policy.

June 9, 2016

Clockwise from top left: Shreya Dave, Carolena Ruprecht, Michael Birk, and Mohammed Alsobay

Energy grads launch careers in research, engineering, and analysis

June 8, 2016

An artist's drawing of a black hole named Cygnus X-1. It formed when a large star caved in. This black hole pulls matter from the blue star beside it.

A method to image black holes

New algorithm could stitch together astronomical measurements made across the globe.

June 6, 2016

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