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Dude, Where's My Code?
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Dude, Where's My Code?

A new system warns programmers when compilers — which convert high-level programs into machine-readable instructions — might simply discard their code.

Surprisingly Simple Scheme for Self-Assembling Robots
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Surprisingly Simple Scheme for Self-Assembling Robots

Small cubes with no exterior moving parts can propel themselves forward, jump on top of each other, and snap together to form arbitrary shapes.

Building Disaster-Relief Phone Apps on the Fly
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Building Disaster-Relief Phone Apps on the Fly

Researchers have developed new tools that allow people with minimal programming skill to rapidly build cellphone applications that can help with disaster relief...

Bringing 'Common Sense' to Text Analytics
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Bringing 'Common Sense' to Text Analytics

Catherine Havasi used more than a decade of artificial intelligence research as the technological foundation for a startup whose commercial software is helping...

MIT Computer Scientist Dina Katabi Wins Macarthur 'genius Grant'
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MIT Computer Scientist Dina Katabi Wins Macarthur 'genius Grant'

MIT computer scientist Dina Katabi is among 24 recipients of a 2013 MacArthur Fellowship, sometimes referred to as a "genius grant."

Teaching Computers to See–by Learning to See Like Computers
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Teaching Computers to See–by Learning to See Like Computers

By translating images into the language spoken by object-recognition systems, then translating them back, researchers hope to explain the recognition systems'...

Detecting Program-Tampering in the Cloud
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Detecting Program-Tampering in the Cloud

A new version of 'zero-knowledge proofs' allows cloud customers to verify the proper execution of their software with a single packet of data.

Artificial-Intelligence Research Revives Its Old Ambitions
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Artificial-Intelligence Research Revives Its Old Ambitions

The birth of artificial-intelligence research as an autonomous discipline is generally thought to have been the monthlong Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial...

Terramechanics Research Aims to Keep Mars Rovers Rolling
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Terramechanics Research Aims to Keep Mars Rovers Rolling

In May 2009, the Mars rover Spirit cracked through a crusty layer of Martian topsoil, sinking into softer underlying sand.

3-D Mapping in Real Time, Without the Drift
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3-D Mapping in Real Time, Without the Drift

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...

Encryption Is Less Secure Than We Thought
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Encryption Is Less Secure Than We Thought

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...

Professor Emeritus Rodney Brooks Refines the Sequel to Irobot
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Professor Emeritus Rodney Brooks Refines the Sequel to Irobot

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...

How Online Ratings Affect Your Judgment
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How Online Ratings Affect Your Judgment

A newly published study found that positive comments on a website create an illusory snowball effect, while negative responses get cancelled out.

From Theory to Practice
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From Theory to Practice

MIT Ph.D. student Kuang Xu has found a way to apply predictive modeling to improve emergency-room wait times.

Reliable Communication, ­nreliable Networks
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Reliable Communication, ­nreliable Networks

A new model of wireless networks that better represents the real world could lead to more robust communications protocols.

The Brains Behind Research on the Brain
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The Brains Behind Research on the Brain

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...

Neuroscientists Plant False Memories in the Brain
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Neuroscientists Plant False Memories in the Brain

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...

Research Update: Genome Editing Becomes More Accurate
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Research Update: Genome Editing Becomes More Accurate

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...

Writing Programs ­sing Ordinary Language
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Writing Programs ­sing Ordinary Language

Systems that can convert written specifications into working code in a few narrow cases could be generalized to other tasks.

Finding Harmony with Big Data
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Finding Harmony with Big Data

Technology developed by two MIT alumni entrepreneurs is helping developers create smarter online music-streaming services.
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