Using AI To Cure Blinding Eye Diseases
NIH discovery sheds light on tissue targeted by age-related macular degeneration and other diseases Researchers have identified distinct differences among the cells comprising a tissue…
Computer Science
Faster Than the Speed of Light: Overcoming the Physical Limitations of Today’s Telecommunications
With a grant from Independent Research Fund Denmark, a team of researchers and experts from industry and Aarhus University will try to solve the fundamental…
Open-Source “Unique Building Identifier” Can Help Track and Reduce Energy Use and Emissions
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory researchers create geo-location program with energy-saving goals Computerized maps and their multiple features are a marvel. They’ll get you from point…
Gaming the Known and Unknown via Puzzle Solving With an Artificial Intelligence Agent
Researchers design multiple strategies for an artificial intelligent (AI) agent to solve a stochastic puzzle like Minesweeper. For decades, efforts in solving games had been…
Security Tool – Privid – 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…
Do Humans and AI Think Alike?
A new technique compares the reasoning of a machine-learning model to that of a human, so the user can see patterns in the model’s behavior….
MIT Neuroscientists Discover That Computers Identify Faces in a Surprisingly Human-Like Fashion
When artificial intelligence is tasked with visually identifying objects and faces, it assigns specific components of its network to face recognition — just like the…
New System Allows Severely Motor-Impaired Individuals To Type Quickly and Accurately
For individuals who communicate using a single switch, a new interface learns how they make selections, and then self-adjusts accordingly. In 1995, French fashion magazine…
MIT AI Hardware Program Aims To Lead in Artificial Intelligence Technology Development
MIT AI Hardware Program launches with five inaugural companies to advance AI technologies for the next decade. The MIT AI Hardware Program is a new academia and…
Our Human Future in an Age of Artificial Intelligence
For the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing Dean Dan Huttenlocher, bringing disciplines together is the best way to address challenges and opportunities posed by rapid…
Molecular Engineers Show How To Make “Computer” Out of Liquid Crystals
Breakthrough at UChicago could pave the way for applications in robotics, computing using soft materials. Researchers with the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Molecular…
A Security Technique To Fool Would-Be Cyber Attackers – Method Safeguards a Computer Program’s Secret Information
Researchers demonstrate a method that safeguards a computer program’s secret information while enabling faster computation. Multiple programs running on the same computer may not be…
Using Artificial Intelligence To Find Anomalies Hiding in Massive Datasets in Real Time
A new machine-learning technique could pinpoint potential power grid failures or cascading traffic bottlenecks in real time. Identifying a malfunction in the nation’s power grid…
r2c: An Open-Source Tool for Software Security
The startup r2c, founded by MIT alumni, offers a database of software security checks to simplify the process of securing code. The unfortunate reality of…
MIT Develops New Programming Language for High-Performance Computers
With a tensor language prototype, “speed and correctness do not have to compete … they can go together, hand-in-hand.” High-performance computing is needed for an…
Twist: MIT’s New Programming Language for Quantum Computing
Time crystals. Microwaves. Diamonds. What do these three disparate things have in common? Quantum computing. Unlike traditional computers that use bits, quantum computers use qubits…
MIT’s New Tool for Tackling Hard Computational Problems
David Gamarnik has developed a new tool, the Overlap Gap Property, for understanding computational problems that appear intractable. The notion that some computational problems in…
Making Computation Come Alive at MIT: Using Computational Techniques To Solve Real-World Problems
A new course teaches students how to use computational techniques to solve real-world problems, from landing a spacecraft to placing cell phone towers. As a…
