Predicting Traffic Crashes Before They Happen With Artificial Intelligence
A deep model was trained on historical crash data, road maps, satellite imagery, and GPS to enable high-resolution crash maps that could lead to safer…
A deep model was trained on historical crash data, road maps, satellite imagery, and GPS to enable high-resolution crash maps that could lead to safer…
Deep learning identifies synergistic drug blends for treating viruses like SARS-CoV-2. The existential threat of COVID-19 has highlighted an acute need to develop working therapeutics…
MIT scientists show how fast algorithms are improving across a broad range of examples, demonstrating their critical importance in advancing computing. Algorithms are sort of…
ARROW, a reconfigurable fiber optics network developed at MIT, aims to take on the end of Moore’s law. Wide Area Networks (WANs), the global backbones…
PhD student Sarah Nyquist applies computational methods to understudied areas of reproductive health, such as the cellular composition of breast milk. Sarah Nyquist got her…
Algorand uses a unique architecture developed by MIT Professor Silvio Micali to offer a decentralized, secure, and scalable blockchain. The Republic of the Marshall Islands…
By measuring a person’s movements and poses, smart clothes developed at MIT CSAIL could be used for athletic training, rehabilitation, or health-monitoring for elder-care facilities….
Netra, co-founded by Shashi Kant SM ’06, uses artificial intelligence to help companies sort and manage video content. At any given moment, many thousands of…
Robotic arm equipped with a hairbrush helps with brushing tasks and could be an asset in assistive-care settings. With rapidly growing demands on health care…
“Programmable matter” technique could enable product designers to churn out prototypes with ease. When was the last time you repainted your car? Redesigned your coffee…
Deep-learning technique optimizes the arrangement of sensors on a robot’s body to ensure efficient operation. There are some tasks that traditional robots — the rigid…
Graphs — data structures that show the relationship among objects — are highly versatile. It’s easy to imagine a graph depicting a social media network’s…
Researchers created a risk-assessment algorithm that shows consistent performance across datasets from US, Europe, and Asia. To catch cancer earlier, we need to predict who…
The new type of neural network could aid decision making in autonomous driving and medical diagnosis. MIT researchers have developed a type of neural network…
A new algorithm capable of inferring goals and plans could help machines better adapt to the imperfect nature of human planning. In a classic experiment…
Neuroscientists find that interpreting code activates a general-purpose brain network, but not language-processing centers. In some ways, learning to program a computer is similar to…
MIT researchers’ new system optimizes the shape of robots for traversing various terrain types. So, you need a robot that climbs stairs. What shape should…
System developed at MIT CSAIL aims to help linguists decipher languages that have been lost to history. Recent research suggests that most languages that have…