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MIT researchers have designed a new chip to implement neural networks. It is 10 times as efficient as a mobile GPU, so it could enable mobile devices to run powerful artificial-intelligence algorithms locally, rather than uploading data to the Internet for processing.

Energy-friendly chip can perform powerful artificial-intelligence tasks

Advance could enable mobile devices to implement “neural networks” modeled on the human brain.

February 3, 2016

Researchers have designed an RFID chip that prevents so-called side-channel attacks, which analyze patterns of memory access or fluctuations in power usage when a device is performing a cryptographic operation, in order to extract its cryptographic key. Pictured here is a standard RFID chip.

Toward hack-proof RFID chips

New technology could secure credit cards, key cards, and pallets of goods in warehouses.

February 3, 2016

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MISTI Global Seed Funds winners announced

MISTI program awards over $2 million to faculty across the Institute.

February 2, 2016

Thomas Levenson, professor of science writing and director of the MIT-SHASS Graduate Program in Science Writing

Thomas Levenson receives the 2016 Levitan Prize in the Humanities

Award will support research on the South Sea Bubble crisis as an example of connections between scientific developments and their larger social consequences.

February 2, 2016

A new chip could enable devices that help visually impaired users navigate their environments.

A virtual “guide dog” for navigation

Low-power chip processes 3-D camera data, could enable wearable device to guide the visually impaired.

February 2, 2016

MIT has announced several Institute-wide initiatives aimed at coordinating and expanding its programs in residential and digital education, at all levels of teaching and learning.

FAQs: Reshaping MIT’s programs in online and digital education

New initiatives aim to accelerate learning research and its applications.

February 2, 2016

The integrated science of learning — now emerging as a significant field of research — will be the core of MITili (pronounced “mightily”), a cross-disciplinary, Institute-wide initiative to foster rigorous quantitative and qualitative research on how people learn.

New initiatives accelerate learning research and its applications

Gabrieli, Belcher, Sarma leading new efforts to understand learning, improve it at all levels of education.

February 2, 2016

Using a new protein labeling technique based on squeezing cells, researchers labeled the nuclear envelope protein LaminA with green probes and histone 2B with magenta. Using traditional protein labeling, they also stained microtubules red and a lysosomal protein blue.

Cell squeezing enhances protein imaging

Compressing cells allows delivery of new fluorescent tags to track proteins in living cells.

February 1, 2016

“This finding really excites us because it makes us think that this is a gene repair system that could be used to treat a range of diseases — not just tyrosinemia but others as well,” Daniel Anderson says.

Curing disease by repairing faulty genes

New delivery method boosts efficiency of CRISPR genome-editing system.

February 1, 2016

Images produced by the researchers show the molecular structure of different samples of kerogen and reveal the significant structural differences between "mature" kerogens, at top, and "immature" kerogens, at bottom.

Structure of kerogen revealed

Nanopores may be trapping oil and gas in the ancient hydrocarbon instead of allowing them to flow.

February 1, 2016

Course 6 junior Ashley Wang presents her project, “Visualizing Big Data in Mobile Application Development,” at the SuperUROP Research Preview in December.

Learning to solve

Hallmark program “SuperUROP” lets undergrad engineers dive into a year-long research experience.

February 1, 2016

"Even when you have great technology, you need some incentive for people to reduce pollution. We need to find ways to make the benefit of reducing pollution felt by the ones who are paying the cost of reducing pollution." —Ariel Zucker, MIT doctoral student in economics

Incentives matter

Working with the Tata Center, two MIT economics students are testing projects to reduce industrial pollution in India.

January 29, 2016

“One of the most intriguing aspects of this research is that we’ve found that there are indeed universal properties of correct code that you can learn from one set of applications and apply to another set of applications,” Martin Rinard says.

Recognizing correct code

Automatic bug-repair system fixes 10 times as many errors as its predecessors.

January 29, 2016

“We wanted to find the link,” Gloria Choi says. “How do you go all the way from the immune system in the mother to the child’s brain?”

How severe maternal inflammation can lead to autism-like behavior

Immune molecules in infected mothers tied to brain and behavior abnormalities in offspring.

January 28, 2016

A cleaner ballot box

In Brazil, auditing voter rolls has shrunk the electorate — to the dismay of incumbents.

January 28, 2016

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