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3-D-Printed Robots With Shock-Absorbing Skins
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3-D-Printed Robots With Shock-Absorbing Skins

By "programming" customized soft materials, an MIT CSAIL team can 3-D print safer, nimbler, more durable robots.

Detecting Emotions With Wireless Signals
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Detecting Emotions With Wireless Signals

By measuring an individual's heartbeat and breath, a device developed at MIT CSAIL can tell if a person's excited, happy, angry, or sad.

Solving Network Congestion
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Solving Network Congestion

The MegaMIMO system from MIT CSAIL speeds data transfer by coordinating multiple routers at the same time.

Artificial Intelligence Produces Realistic Sounds That Fool Humans
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Artificial Intelligence Produces Realistic Sounds That Fool Humans

Researchers from MIT CSAIL have demonstrated an algorithm that has effectively learned how to predict sound: When shown a silent video clip of an object being hit...

Single Wi-Fi Access Point Provides Accurate Localization
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Single Wi-Fi Access Point Provides Accurate Localization

A system from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) enables a single Wi-Fi access point to locate users to within tens of centimeters...

System Loads Web Pages Faster By Fetching Files More Effectively
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System Loads Web Pages Faster By Fetching Files More Effectively

Researchers from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and Harvard University have developed a system that decreases page-load times for...

Drones Do Donuts, Figure-Eights Around Obstacles
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Drones Do Donuts, Figure-Eights Around Obstacles

Motion-planning algorithms from the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab allow drones to fly in dense environments and avoid dozens of objects.

How to Make Better Visualizations
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How to Make Better Visualizations

Eye-tracking research reveals which types of visualizations best convey information and make it memorable. 

Csail Report: Giving Government Special Access to Data Poses Major Security Risks
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Csail Report: Giving Government Special Access to Data Poses Major Security Risks

Granting governments access to encrypted data would increase data security concerns, the authors of a new report say.

Learn a Language While You Text
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Learn a Language While You Text

An MIT graduate student's "WaitChatter" app teaches vocabulary during moments in between text and instant-message replies.

How a Computer Can Help Your Doctor Better Diagnose Cancer
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How a Computer Can Help Your Doctor Better Diagnose Cancer

A research team has developed a computational model that aims to automatically suggest cancer diagnoses by learning from thousands of data points from past pathology...

How Three Mit Students Fooled the World of Scientific Journals
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How Three Mit Students Fooled the World of Scientific Journals

A decade later, CSAIL alumni reflect on their generator of nonsensical computer science papers and reveal a new fake-conference project.

Can an Led-Filled 'robot Garden' Make Coding More Accessible?
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Can an Led-Filled 'robot Garden' Make Coding More Accessible?

An MIT team has created a "robot garden" with dozens of fast-changing LED lights and more than 100 crawling, swimming, and blooming origami robots to teach basic...

MIT Computer Scientists Can Predict the Price of Bitcoin
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MIT Computer Scientists Can Predict the Price of Bitcoin

A researcher at MIT recently developed a machine-learning algorithm that can predict the price of the infamously volatile cryptocurrency Bitcoin, allowing his...

Can You Out-Race a Computer?
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Can You Out-Race a Computer?

A deep-learning algorithm can size up a neighborhood better than humans.
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