Topic
Computer science and technology
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Democratizing databases
With a new tool, any competent spreadsheet user can construct custom database interfaces.
July 8, 2016 -
Pinpointing vehicles with high precision under adverse weather conditions
MIT Lincoln Laboratory radar system achieves centimeter-level localization; could help driverless cars stay in lane when road markings are obscured.
June 23, 2016 -
Analog computing returns
New analog compiler could help enable simulation of whole organs and even organisms.
June 20, 2016 -
Parallel programming made easy
New chip design makes parallel programs run many times faster and requires one-tenth the code.
June 20, 2016 -
Need hair? Press “print”
With fur, brushes, and bristles, Media Lab’s technique opens new frontier in 3-D printing.
June 16, 2016 -
Eye-tracking system uses ordinary cellphone camera
Crowd-sourced data yields system that determines where mobile-device users are looking.
June 15, 2016 -
Artificial intelligence produces realistic sounds that fool humans
Video-trained system from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab could help robots understand how objects interact with the world.
June 13, 2016 -
Using engineering savvy to improve product designs
From windmills to software, graduate student Ned Burnell creates better tools.
June 8, 2016 -
A method to image black holes
New algorithm could stitch together astronomical measurements made across the globe.
June 6, 2016 -
“Super Mario Brothers” is hard
Analysis shows popular video game is among the hardest problems in the “complexity class” PSPACE.
June 1, 2016 -
Finding relevant data in a sea of languages
A cross-language search engine enables English monolingual analysts to find foreign language documents relevant to their investigations.
May 27, 2016 -
Automatic bug finder
System could make complex analysis practical for programs that import huge swaths of code.
May 25, 2016 -
Speedy terahertz-based system could detect explosives
Spectroscopic system with chip-scale lasers cuts detection time from minutes to microseconds.
May 20, 2016 -
Helping others in daily doses
Senior Donald Little uses computer science to improve people’s everyday lives.
May 19, 2016 -
Lincoln Laboratory establishes a supercomputing center
New facility will enable interactive, high-performance computing for data analysis.
May 11, 2016 -
International team launches vast atlas of mathematical objects
New online resource represents enormous computational effort, will advance research across fields.
May 10, 2016 -
Robotic consensus
Control algorithm for teams of robots factors in moving obstacles.
April 21, 2016 -
Self-driving cars, meet rubber duckies
“Duckietown” class at Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab teaches autonomy, aims to become global research platform.
April 20, 2016 -
System predicts 85 percent of cyber-attacks using input from human experts
Virtual artificial intelligence analyst developed by the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab and PatternEx reduces false positives by factor of 5.
April 18, 2016 -
Patching up Web applications
New debugging method found 23 undetected security flaws in 50 popular Web applications.
April 15, 2016