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A new system warns programmers when compilers — which convert high-level programs into machine-readable instructions — might simply discard their code.MIT News From ACM Careers | October 16, 2013
Small cubes with no exterior moving parts can propel themselves forward, jump on top of each other, and snap together to form arbitrary shapes.MIT News From ACM Careers | October 4, 2013
Researchers have developed new tools that allow people with minimal programming skill to rapidly build cellphone applications that can help with disaster relief...MIT News From ACM Careers | September 30, 2013
Catherine Havasi used more than a decade of artificial intelligence research as the technological foundation for a startup whose commercial software is helping...MIT News From ACM Careers | September 25, 2013
MIT computer scientist Dina Katabi is among 24 recipients of a 2013 MacArthur Fellowship, sometimes referred to as a "genius grant."MIT News From ACM Careers | September 25, 2013
By translating images into the language spoken by object-recognition systems, then translating them back, researchers hope to explain the recognition systems'...MIT News From ACM Careers | September 19, 2013
A new version of 'zero-knowledge proofs' allows cloud customers to verify the proper execution of their software with a single packet of data.MIT News From ACM Careers | September 11, 2013
The birth of artificial-intelligence research as an autonomous discipline is generally thought to have been the monthlong Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial...MIT News Office From ACM News | September 10, 2013
In May 2009, the Mars rover Spirit cracked through a crusty layer of Martian topsoil, sinking into softer underlying sand.MIT News Office From ACM News | September 9, 2013
Computer scientists at MIT and the National University of Ireland at Maynooth have developed a mapping algorithm that creates dense, highly detailed 3-D maps of...MIT News From ACM Careers | August 29, 2013
Since 1948, when Claude Shannon's seminal paper on information theory first appeared, most information-theoretic analyses of secure schemes have depended on a common...MIT News From ACM Careers | August 14, 2013
Professor emeritus Rodney Brooks gained fame in the 1990s for co-founding iRobot, an MIT spinoff that brought the world the Roomba and other innovative, helpful...MIT News Office From ACM Opinion | August 9, 2013
A newly published study found that positive comments on a website create an illusory snowball effect, while negative responses get cancelled out.MIT News From ACM Careers | August 9, 2013
MIT Ph.D. student Kuang Xu has found a way to apply predictive modeling to improve emergency-room wait times.MIT News From ACM Careers | August 7, 2013
A new model of wireless networks that better represents the real world could lead to more robust communications protocols.MIT News From ACM Careers | August 6, 2013
While studying physics and electrical engineering as an MIT undergraduate in the late 1990s, Mehmet Fatih Yanik managed to avoid taking any biology classes until...MIT News Office From ACM Careers | July 31, 2013
The phenomenon of false memory has been well-documented: In many court cases, defendants have been found guilty based on testimony from witnesses and victims who...MIT News Office From ACM News | July 26, 2013
Earlier this year, MIT researchers developed a way to easily and efficiently edit the genomes of living cells. Now, the researchers have discovered key factors...MIT News Office From ACM News | July 24, 2013
Systems that can convert written specifications into working code in a few narrow cases could be generalized to other tasks.MIT News From ACM Careers | July 11, 2013
Technology developed by two MIT alumni entrepreneurs is helping developers create smarter online music-streaming services.MIT News From ACM Careers | July 10, 2013