Artificial intelligence system learns concepts shared across video, audio, and text
A machine-learning model can identify the action in a video clip and label it, without the help of humans.
Security tool guarantees privacy in surveillance footage
“Privid” could help officials gather secure public health data or enable transportation departments to monitor the density and flow of pedestrians, without learning personal information about people.
Lincoln Laboratory honored for transfer of security-enhancing technologies
FLC Excellence in Technology Transfer Award recognizes two innovations that have transitioned to commercial use.
Improving the way videos are organized
Netra, co-founded by Shashi Kant SM ’06, uses artificial intelligence to help companies sort and manage video content.
3 Questions: Claude Grunitzky MBA '12 on launching TRUE Africa University
CIS research affiliate describes his goals in creating a webinar series exploring sustainable development in Africa.
Tik-Tokking all about science
MIT students Malik and Miles George gain attention on the video-sharing social network for their captivating, funny science videos.
How to reduce the environmental impact of your next virtual meeting
Study uncovers overlooked environmental impacts of internet use by estimating associated carbon, land, and water footprints.
Eight Lincoln Laboratory technologies named 2020 R&D 100 Award winners
Several of the winning innovations apply artificial intelligence to solutions for challenges to national security.
MIT launches website to help with captioning media content
Website, online tools will help MIT fulfill National Association of the Deaf lawsuit settlement terms.
Using computers to view the unseen
A new computational imaging method could change how we view hidden information in scenes.
Creating 3-D-printed “motion sculptures” from 2-D videos
CSAIL system could help athletes, dancers, and others better analyze how they move.
Helping computers fill in the gaps between video frames
Machine learning system efficiently recognizes activities by observing how objects change in only a few key frames.
Rock music helps students and educators explore engineering
Playful Learning Lab, founded by AnnMarie Thomas ’01, is collaborating with rock band OK Go to create hands-on PK-12 engineering experiences.
Q&A: Jay Scheib on theater, daring, and love
MIT professor directs award-winning rock musical “Bat Out of Hell.”