New Low-Power Chip Will Help Miniature Drones Navigate
Researchers at MIT, who last year designed a tiny computer chip tailored to help honeybee-sized drones navigate, have now shrunk their chip design even further,…
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Researchers Develop a Wireless Way to Power Human Implants
MIT researchers, working with scientists from Brigham and Women’s Hospital, have developed a new way to power and communicate with devices implanted deep within the…
MIT Engineers Develop Autonomous Glider That Can Fly and Sail
MIT engineers have designed a robotic glider that can skim along the water’s surface, riding the wind like an albatross while also surfing the waves…
Machine-Learning System Replicates Human Auditory Behavior, Predicts Brain Responses
Using a machine-learning system known as a deep neural network, MIT researchers have created the first model that can replicate human performance on auditory tasks…
‘Deep Learning’ Algorithm Brings New Tools to Astronomy
A ‘deep learning’ algorithm trained on images from cosmological simulations has been surprisingly successful at classifying real galaxies in Hubble images. A machine learning method…
Integrating Photonics with Silicon Nanoelectronics Into Chip Designs
New technique would allow addition of optical communication components to existing chips with little modification of their designs. Two and a half years ago, a…
Optoelectronic Chips Reduce Energy Usage, Increase Speed
Startup’s optoelectronic chips could reduce energy usage by up to 50 percent in data centers while increasing computing speeds. With novel optoelectronic chips and a…
New Nanotech Device Provides Cat-Like ‘Hearing’
Researchers at Case Western Reserve University are developing atomically thin “drumheads” able to receive and transmit signals across a radio frequency range far greater than…
MIT Engineers Develop Autonomous “Selfie Drone”
If you’re a rock climber, hiker, runner, dancer, or anyone who likes recording themselves while in motion, a personal drone companion can now do all…
Scientists Discover Hidden Details in Picasso Blue Period Painting
An international partnership of the Northwestern University/Art Institute of Chicago Center for Scientific Studies in the Arts (NU-ACCESS), the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) and…
New Chip Reduces Neural Networks’ Power Consumption by 95 Percent
Most recent advances in artificial-intelligence systems such as speech- or face-recognition programs have come courtesy of neural networks, densely interconnected meshes of simple information processors…
MIT Engineers Develop Special-Purpose Computer Chip for Encryption
Most sensitive web transactions are protected by public-key cryptography, a type of encryption that lets computers share information securely without first agreeing on a secret…
Scientists Observe Self-Healing of a Confined Phase Change Memory Device
A collaboration between the lab of Judy Cha, the Carol and Douglas Melamed Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science, and IBM’s Watson Research…
Hydrodynamic Simulations Visualize the Large-Scale Structure of Galaxies
Astrophysicists from Heidelberg, Garching, and the USA present the thus far largest and most detailed calculations of the formation and evolution of galaxies. In their…
MIT Launches Intelligence Quest To Advance Human and Machine Intelligence Research
MIT today announced the launch of the MIT Intelligence Quest, an initiative to discover the foundations of human intelligence and drive the development of technological…
Physicists Apply Machine Learning to Solve the Universe’s Mysteries
Computers can beat chess champions, simulate star explosions, and forecast global climate. We are even teaching them to be infallible problem-solvers and fast learners. And…
Physicists Take First Step Towards Quantum Dot Based Spin Qubit Registers
The worldwide race to create more, better and reliable quantum processors is progressing fast, as a team of TU Delft scientists led by Professor Vandersypen…
Is This New Design a Major Step Toward Portable AI Devices?
When it comes to processing power, the human brain just can’t be beat. Packed within the squishy, football-sized organ are somewhere around 100 billion neurons….