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Documentation Academy Aims to Empower Open Source Newcomers
Canonical's Open Documentation Academy aims to help newcomers participate in the open source community, offering mentorship and…
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Privacy Challenges
Just four pieces of information are enough to identify 90 percent of the people in a data set recording three months of credit-card transactions by 1.1 million...
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Extracting Audio from Visual Information
An algorithm can recover speech from the vibrations of a potato-chip bag or other objects filmed through soundproof glass.
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Collecting Just the Right Data
When data is either difficult to collect or too time-consuming to process, the new technique can identify the subset of items to target that will yield the most...
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No-Wait Data Centers
The Fasspass network-management system has been shown to reduce data-transmission delays in a Facebook data center by 99.6 percent.
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Who's Using Your Data?
Researchers at MIT are developing a protocol they call "HTTP with Accountability" (HTTPA) which will automatically monitor the transmission of private data and...
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Bake Your Own Robot
Printable robots—those that can be assembled from parts produced by 3-D printers—have long been a topic of research in the lab of Daniela Rus, the Andrew and Erna...
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Spruce p Your Selfie
Researchers have developed a new algorithm that could allow users to transfer the distinctive styles of acclaimed photographers to cellphone photos.
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Tiny Anti-Counterfeiting Particles Could Help Verify Goods
Researcbers hope smartphone-readable microparticles could crack down on counterfeit currency, electronics, pharmaceuticals, luxury goods, and other products.
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Democratizing Data Visualization
An in-depth study on the use of Exhibit, a set of Web development tools that lets novice users quickly put together interactive data visualizations, will be presented...
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Soft Robotic Fish Moves Like the Real Thing
Soft robots—which don’t just have soft exteriors but are also powered by fluid flowing through flexible channels—have become a sufficiently popular research topic...
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Social Physics
Since 2001, the Human Dynamics Laboratory at the MIT Media Lab has used digital technologies—from home-brewed portable sensors to cellphone call records—to try...
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Workshop Reviews Big Data Privacy Policy
MIT hosted a daylong workshop on big data and privacy, co-sponsored by the White House, as part of a 90-day review of data privacy policy announced in January...
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Materials Database Proves Its Mettle With New Discoveries
A massive computerized database and simulation system can sort through thousands of materials and help materials scientists identify those that could improve the...
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Storage System for 'Big Data' Speeds Access to Information
Researchers have developed a storage system for big-data analytics that can dramatically speed up the time it takes to access information.
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Seeing Things: A New Transparent Display System Could Provide Heads-up Data
Transparent displays have a variety of potential applications—such as the ability to see navigation or dashboard information while looking through the windshield...
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Marvin Minsky Honored For Lifetime Achievements in Artificial Intelligence
MIT Media Lab professor emeritus Marvin Minsky, 86, a pioneer in the field of artificial intelligence, has won the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award...
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Catching (radio) Waves
In 2000, five MIT Media Lab alumni co-founded ThingMagic to help bring radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology—wireless readers and data-transmitting tags—to...
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'wise Chisels': Art, Craftsmanship, and Power Tools
It's often easy to tell at a glance the difference between a mass-produced object and one that has been handcrafted: The handmade item is likely to have distinctive...
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Powering Better Online Document Viewing
Startup Crocodoc is developing technology that converts documents into HTML for easy viewing and embedding.
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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...
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