Computer science and technology
Toward the Semantic Web
June 21, 2010
A new standard from the World Wide Web Consortium brings the Web a step closer to realizing the vision of its inventor, Tim Berners-Lee.
More is less
June 2, 2010
Complex computer models can involve thousands of variables. But paradoxically, adding more variables can sometimes make them easier to work with.
Gesture-based computing on the cheap
May 20, 2010
With a single piece of inexpensive hardware — a multicolored glove — MIT researchers are making Minority Report-style interfaces more accessible.
Rivest wins faculty’s Killian Award
May 19, 2010
MIT encryption pioneer recognized for ‘extraordinary’ contributions in computer science
Machines that learn better
May 18, 2010
New math will make it much easier to build machine-learning systems that tackle a wider range of problems.
Slideshow: Mapping the oil spill
May 17, 2010
MIT student leads project using balloons and kites to provide aerial documentation of the Gulf oil slick’s extent and effects
Also labeled: Energy, Environment, Gulf of Mexico, In the world, Media Lab, Oil spill, Students, Technology and society
When good enough is better
May 13, 2010
By exploiting a simple but counterintuitive trick, a new system finds sections of computer programs where accuracy can be traded for speed.
Seeing the forest for the trees
May 7, 2010
Object recognition systems that break images into ever smaller parts should be much more efficient and may shed light on how the brain works.
EECS Masterworks 2010: A sweet serving of wits, work and wonder
May 4, 2010
Also labeled: Electrical engineering and electronics, Students
In Profile: Missy Cummings
April 5, 2010
Former U.S. Naval fighter pilot aims to improve how humans and computers interact.
Also labeled: Aeronautical and astronautical engineering, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), Education, teaching, academics, Electrical engineering and electronics, Engineering Systems, Faculty, Mechanical engineering, Artificial intelligence, Security studies and military
A grand unified theory of AI
March 30, 2010
A new approach unites two prevailing but often opposed strains in the history of artificial-intelligence research.
Web sites that can take a punch
March 17, 2010
By preventing web applications from deviating from their normal behavior, a new MIT system can keep them online even during a cyberattack.
Self-assembling computer chips
March 16, 2010
Molecules that arrange themselves into predictable patterns on silicon chips could lead to microprocessors with much smaller circuit elements.
Explained: Linear and nonlinear systems
February 26, 2010
Much scientific research across a range of disciplines tries to find linear approximations of nonlinear behaviors. But what does that mean?
Cell-inspired electronics
February 25, 2010
By mimicking cells, MIT researcher designs electronic circuits for ultra-low-power and biomedical applications.
Jack Wozencraft, information theorist at MIT, 1925-2009
January 21, 2010
Jack Wozencraft, considered one of the pioneers of coding theory in the nascent field of information theory, died peacefully August 31, 2009.
Picture-driven computing
January 20, 2010
New research could enable computer programming based on screen shots, not just code
Straining forward
January 6, 2010
Nanowires made of ‘strained silicon’ — silicon whose atoms have been pried slightly apart — show how to keep increases in computer power coming.
A classic text, 40 years in the making
January 4, 2010
Putting the squeeze on data
December 21, 2009
In work that could make it easier to handle huge data sets, MIT researchers improve data compression's fidelity without sacrificing speed
Five from MIT named 2010 IEEE Fellows
December 14, 2009
Three EECS faculty members, Hu, Rus and Sudan, and two research staff members of the MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Reynolds and Stokes, are elevated to Fellow status of the IEEE effective Jan. 1
Also labeled: Electrical engineering and electronics, Faculty, Lincoln Laboratory, Research, Staff, IEEE
Computing with a wave of the hand
December 11, 2009
A new Media Lab system turns LCD displays into giant cameras that provide gestural control of objects on-screen. And that’s just for starters.
A social network that ballooned
December 11, 2009
An MIT team’s savvy use of social media to locate weather balloons as part of a $40,000 DARPA contest may shed light on how to mobilize resources during emergencies.
Life after silicon
December 8, 2009
Researchers in MIT’s Microsystems Technology Laboratories are making the case for using exotic materials to help microchips keep improving.
Rethinking artificial intelligence
December 7, 2009
Broad-based MIT project aims to reinvent AI for a new era. By going back and fixing mistakes, researchers hope to produce ‘co-processors’ for the human mind.
CIMIT awards three graduate fellowships to MIT students
December 4, 2009
Fine-tuned laser
December 4, 2009
A wholly new approach to tuning a laser’s frequency brings us a step closer to airport scanners that can distinguish aspirin from explosives.
Flight of fancy
December 3, 2009
Using an autonomous mini-helicopter, an MIT team stunned the Association for Unmanned Vehicles International by solving one of its notoriously tough challenges on the first try.
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