MetaCherchant Software Reveals New Causes of Antibiotic Resistance
Scientists from ITMO University and Center of Physical and Chemical Medicine developed an algorithm capable of tracking the spread of antibiotic resistance genes in gut…
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NASA Issues a Challenge – High Performance Fast Computing Challenge
Improve the speed of computational fluid dynamics algorithms in NASA’s FUN3D software. A prize purse of up to $55,000 in overall cash prizes is available….
“Data Science Machine” Replaces Human Intuition with Algorithms
Engineers from MIT have developed a new system that replaces human intuition with algorithms. The “Data Science Machine” outperformed 615 of 906 human teams in…
New Technique Could Enable Chips with Thousands of Cores
Researchers from MIT have unveiled the first fundamentally new approach to cache coherence in more than three decades, a memory-management scheme that could help enable…
New Algorithm Predicts the Evolution of Viruses
Using the branches of a genealogical tree as reference, a team of scientists has developed an algorithm that can predict the evolution of asexual organisms…
Interactive Coding Scheme is the First to Near Optimality
In a new research paper, MIT engineers describe the first interactive coding scheme to near optimality on the three classical measures: How much noise can…
Untethered Electric Robotic Cheetah Runs and Jumps Across the Grass
MIT researchers have developed a new algorithm that allows their electric powered robotic cheetah to run and jump, untethered, across grass. See the MIT cheetah-bot…
Machine-Learning Algorithms Could Help Debunk Twitter Rumors
Twitter is one of the fastest and most comprehensive ways of staying abreast of breaking news. However, it’s not always easy to tell whether these…
Artificial Intelligence Algorithm Helps Chart the Universe
A newly published study details the artificial intelligence algorithm a team of astronomers developed to help them chart and explain the structure and dynamics of…
Algorithm Analyzes Information from Medical Images to Identify Disease
Scientists at MIT have developed an algorithm that can analyze information from medical images to identify diseased areas of the brain and their connections with…
Halide, A New and Improved Programming Language for Image Processing Software
In an effort to improve image-processing software, a team of researchers developed a new programming language called Halide, which is easier to read, write and…
Algorithms Improve AUV Navigation and Detecting Capabilities
Scientists have taken a step forward on the path to engineering completely autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) for minesweeping and other risky underwater missions. MIT engineers…
Semiautonomous “Intelligent Co-Pilot” Helps Vehicles Avoid Collisions
Using an algorithm to analyze data and identify safe zones, a team of scientists developed a new semiautonomous safety system that uses an onboard camera…
New Algorithm Speeds Up Genome Sequencing
By developing a way to mathematically represent the genomes of different species, or of different individuals within a species, such that the overlapping data is…
New Algorithm Enables Wi-Fi Connected Vehicles to Share Data
Next month at the ACM SIGACT-SIGOPS Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing, a team of researchers will present a new algorithm they developed that allows…
New Software to Guide Autonomous Planes by Hand Gestures
Using an algorithm that infers body position and the shapes of the subjects’ hands, MIT engineers are working on software that could eventually help aircraft-carrier…
Software Predicts Optimal Path for Automated Underwater Vehicles
By using a mathematical procedure developed by a team of engineers at MIT, new software can optimize path planning for automated underwater vehicles (AUVs), even…
The Algorithmic Approach to the Mathematics of Cramming
Students tend to take far from optimal ways to assimilate information, especially when it comes to exams. Scientists Tim Novikoff, Jon Kleinbert, and Steve Strogatz…