Computer Chips That Imitate the Brain
A new microelectronics device can program and reprogram computer hardware on demand by using electrical pulses What if a computer could learn to rewire its…
Computer Technology
New Method Can Stop Cyberattacks in Less Than a Second
Computers, laptops, and other smart gadgets in our homes could be protected by artificial intelligence that can quickly identify and eliminate malware. Cardiff University researchers…
Atomic Layer Etching Could Lead to Ever-More Powerful Microchips and Supercomputers
Over the course of almost 60 years, the information age has given the world the internet, smart phones, and lightning-fast computers. This has been made…
Ions in the Machine: Performing Complex Calculations Using Simple Liquids Like Water
Researchers led by Osaka University reveal the excellent information processing abilities of physical reservoirs based on electrochemical reactions in Faradic current and present a simple…
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…
New Computational Method Improves Resolution of Time-of-Flight Depth Sensors 1,000-Fold
For the past 10 years, the Camera Culture group at MIT’s Media Lab has been developing innovative imaging systems — from a camera that can…
MIT Develops a New Machine-Learning System for Analyzing Materials
Last month, three MIT materials scientists and their colleagues published a paper describing a new artificial-intelligence system that can pore through scientific papers and extract…
New Platform Analyzes Big Data to Answer Plain-Language Queries in Minutes
Companies often employ number-crunching data scientists to gather insights such as which customers want certain services or where to open new stores and stock products….
New Computer Systems Seek to Replicate Human Intelligence
Josh Tenenbaum, a professor of brain and cognitive sciences at MIT, directs research on the development of intelligence at the Center for Brains, Minds, and…
Teaching Artificial Intelligence Humor
We have a long history of yelling at our machines — cars that break down, televisions broadcasting our failing teams. But now, our machines understand us. And…
New Technique Illuminates the Inner Workings of AI Systems
Neural networks, which learn to perform computational tasks by analyzing huge sets of training data, have been responsible for the most impressive recent advances in…
SEAS Engineers Work Towards Hacker-Proof Computing
Every few days, the news brings us stories of massive data breaches, resulting in the theft of massive amounts of money, or the release of…
TrueNorth Computer Chip Emulates Human Cognition
Imagine working in an office where, once you’ve finished one task, you had to wait until everyone in all the other cubicles completed the tasks…
New Artificial Intelligence System To Aid In Materials Fabrication
Using a new artificial-intelligence system that would pore through research papers to deduce “recipes” for producing particular materials, scientists hope to close the materials-science automation…
New System for Performing “Tensor Algebra” Offers Faster Big-Data Analysis
A new MIT computer system speeds computations involving “sparse tensors,” multidimensional data arrays that consist mostly of zeroes. At the Association for Computing Machinery’s Conference…
New General-Purpose Technique Sheds Light on Inner Workings of Neural Nets
Researchers from MIT are set to present a new general-purpose technique for making sense of neural networks trained to perform natural-language-processing tasks, in which computers…
Drones Could Save Retailers Billions Lost Through Faulty Inventory Records
Engineers from MIT have developed a system that enables small, safe, aerial drones to read RFID tags in large warehouses at a distance of several…
