Computer science and technology
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.
Explained: The Discrete Fourier Transform
November 25, 2009
The theories of an early-19th-century French mathematician have emerged from obscurity to become part of the basic language of engineering.
Selling chip makers on optical computing
November 24, 2009
By designing chips that can be built using existing fabrication processes, MIT researchers show that computing with light isn’t so far fetched.
Feeling the way
November 23, 2009
Robotic device developed in MIT’s Touch Lab can help visually impaired people navigate around a virtual model of a real building.
Cryptographic voting debuts
November 13, 2009
A new system for ensuring accurate election tallies, which MIT researchers helped to develop, passed its first real-world test last Tuesday.
Detailed explanation of how the voting encryption system works
November 13, 2009
When Signals Cross: Medical Systems at CSAIL
November 10, 2009
Professor John Guttag and his team of graduate students are working in partnership with clinicians to produce technological solutions for medical problems.
Reporter's Notebook: Inventing language
November 9, 2009
MIT’s Barbara Liskov, winner of the Turing Award, describes how she helped lay the foundations for today’s programming languages.
What computer science can teach economics
November 8, 2009
Constantinos Daskalakis applies the theory of computational complexity to game theory, with consequences in a range of disciplines.
Inventor, lawyer and lecturer Robert H. Rines dies aged 87
November 4, 2009
Awards and honors: Nov. 4, 2009
November 4, 2009
Hockfield, Lander, Rivest and Han win awards
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