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Driverless Cars: Who Gets Protected?
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Driverless Cars: Who Gets Protected?

A new study shows that the public is conflicted over the safety of autonomous vehicles, taking a notably inconsistent approach of how the vehicles should perform...

Parallel Programming Made Easy
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Parallel Programming Made Easy

Researchers from MIT CSAIL have created a chip design that could make parallel programs more efficient and easier to write.

Eye-Tracking System ­ses Ordinary Cellphone Camera
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Eye-Tracking System ­ses Ordinary Cellphone Camera

Researchers at MIT CSAIL and the University of Georgia believe they can make eye tracking technology pervasive with software turns any smartphone into an eye-tracking...

Why Do Women Leave Engineering?
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Why Do Women Leave Engineering?

A new study proposes that negative group dynamics of teamwork and internships may deter many women in the engineering profession.

Automatic Bug Finder
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Automatic Bug Finder

Researchers from MIT CSAIL and the University of Maryland have developed a system that analyzes applications that import functions from programming frameworks.

We Know Where You Live
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We Know Where You Live

Researchers have shown that the location stamps on just a handful of Twitter posts can disclose the addresses of the poster's home and workplace to a relatively...

Ingestible Origami Robot
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Ingestible Origami Robot

Researchers have developed a tiny origami robot that can unfold itself from a swallowed capsule and, steered by external magnetic fields, crawl across the stomach...

3-D Printing 101
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3-D Printing 101

It's been more than 30 years since the invention of 3-D printing, and yet in some ways the technology is still a frontier of unexplored potential.

Researchers Find Unexpected Magnetic Effect
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Researchers Find Unexpected Magnetic Effect

The discovery of an unexpected magnetic effect in a combination of thin-film materials could open up a new pathway to advanced electronic devices and even robust...

Can Technology Help Teach Literacy in Poor Communities?
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Can Technology Help Teach Literacy in Poor Communities?

A project to provide tablet computers loaded with literacy applications to young children in economically disadvantaged communities has reported encouraging results...

Robotic Consensus
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Robotic Consensus

MIT researchers will describe at ICRA 2016 a decentralized planning algorithm for teams of robots that factors in both stationary and moving obstacles.

Making Electronics Out of Coal
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Making Electronics Out of Coal

Instead of just burning coal, MIT Professor Jeffrey Grossman says electronic devices should be made from the complex hydrocarbon.

Patching ­p Web Applications
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Patching ­p Web Applications

By exploiting some peculiarities of the popular Web programming framework Ruby on Rails, MIT researchers have developed a system that can quickly comb through tens...

Stabilizing Quantum Bits
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Stabilizing Quantum Bits

MIT researchers have developed a new approach to preserving superposition in a class of quantum devices built from synthetic diamonds. The work could be an important...

New Institute Will Accelerate Innovations in Fibers and Fabrics
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New Institute Will Accelerate Innovations in Fibers and Fabrics

An independent non-profit founded by MIT has won a competition for U.S. federal funding to create an institute to accelerate the development of a high-tech, U.S...

Secure, ­ser-Controlled Data
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Secure, ­ser-Controlled Data

Cryptographic system would allow users to decide which applications access which aspects of their data.

When Slower Is Faster
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When Slower Is Faster

A newly published study claims that communicating vehicles will move more efficiently through intersections without traffic lights than with them. 

The Beginning of the End For Encryption Schemes?
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The Beginning of the End For Encryption Schemes?

Researchers from MIT and the University of Innsbruck in Austria report that they have designed and built a quantum computer from five atoms in an ion trap.

Enabling Human-Robot Rescue Teams
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Enabling Human-Robot Rescue Teams

MIT researchers have described a new way of modeling human-robot collaboration that reduces the need for communication by 60 percent, which could enable emergency...

Computer Science Meets Economics
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Computer Science Meets Economics

Constantinos Daskalakis adapts techniques from theoretical computer science to game theory.
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