Government of India taps MIT expertise for energy solutions
Minister Piyush Goyal meets with MIT Energy Initiative and Tata Center leadership, says of India’s electrification goals: “We will make it happen.”
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The second semiconductor revolution
Materials Day, Oct. 14, presents insights into the next generation of extremely thin, tough quantum materials for sensing, energy. and computing devices.
Predicting change in the Alzheimer’s brain
Combining MRI and other data helps machine-learning systems predict effects of neurodegenerative disease.
Significant foundation grant extends two-way partnership with Italy through 2020
Agreement will support a number of joint research projects, seminars, lectures, and other programming.
Finding a noninvasive way to measure pressure in the brain
MIT researchers team up with Boston Medical Center and Philips to test a noninvasive way to measure intracranial pressure.
Soft robotic hand can pick up and identify a wide array of objects
Team from Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab develops silicone rubber gripper and advanced object-identification algorithms.
Learning language by playing games
System learns to play text-based computer game using only linguistic information.
Viruses join fight against harmful bacteria
Engineered viruses could combat human disease and improve food safety.
Personalized heart models for surgical planning
System can convert MRI scans into 3D-printed, physical models in a few hours.
A day in the sun
MIT Solar Day brings the MIT community together to preview the coming decades of solar energy innovation.
Abraham Bers, professor emeritus of electrical engineering, dies at 85
Bers, a longtime member of the MIT community, was expert in plasma physics.
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.
Silicon photonics meets the foundry
Lionel Kimerling, Rajeev Ram, and other MIT researchers explore practical ways to bring optical interconnection toward and directly onto chips.
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.