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Computer Science Meets Economics
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Computer Science Meets Economics

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

Hack-Proof Rfid Chips
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Hack-Proof Rfid Chips

Researchers at MIT and Texas Instruments have developed a new type of radio frequency identification (RFID) chip that they say is virtually impossible to hack.

Recognizing Correct Code
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Recognizing Correct Code

MIT researchers have developed a machine-learning system that can comb through repairs to open-source computer programs and learn their general properties, in order...

A New Quantum Approach to Big Data
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A New Quantum Approach to Big Data

Some problems remain daunting and impractical for the most powerful modern supercomputers. Now, researchers have developed a new approach that would use quantum...

Switchable Material Could Enable New Memory Chips
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Switchable Material Could Enable New Memory Chips

Two MIT researchers have developed a thin-film material whose phase and electrical properties can be switched between metallic and semiconducting simply by applying...

Harnessing the Energy of Small Bending Motions
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Harnessing the Energy of Small Bending Motions

Researchers at MIT have developed an electrochemical-based method of generating electrical power that could harvest energy from a broad range of natural motions...

Organ-on-a-Chip
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Organ-on-a-Chip

In a step toward patient-specific drug testing, researchers coax human stem cells to form complex tissues.

Machines That Learn Like People
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Machines That Learn Like People

Researchers at MIT have developed a machine-learning system based on a computational model of visual representation that could make highly reliable object discriminations...

Scott Aaronson on Google's New Quantum-Computing Paper
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Scott Aaronson on Google's New Quantum-Computing Paper

Google researchers released a paper last week suggesting that the D-Wave computer exploits quantum phenomena. Scott Aaronson of MIT helps make sense of the new...

­ntraceable Communication – Guaranteed
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­ntraceable Communication – Guaranteed

A team of MIT researchers have developed an untraceable text-messaging system that provides a strong mathematical guarantee of user privacy.

Making 3-D Imaging 1,000 Times Better
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Making 3-D Imaging 1,000 Times Better

MIT researchers have shown that by exploiting the polarization of light they can boost the resolution of conventional 3-D imaging sensors as much as 1,000 times...

An App For Safer Roads
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An App For Safer Roads

Startup Censio has developed a mobile app that captures and analyzes data on driving behavior to show drivers where they can improve.

A Basis For All Cryptography
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A Basis For All Cryptography

A tool that would provide a secure foundation for any cryptographic system may be close at hand.

Faster Optimization
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Faster Optimization

A general-purpose optimization algorithm described in the winner of the best-student-paper award at the FOCS 2015 symposium promises order-of-magnitude speedups...

Smarter Lenses
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Smarter Lenses

A newly launched mobile eye-test device could lead to prescription virtual-reality screens.

Automating Big-Data Analysis
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Automating Big-Data Analysis

The 'Data Science Machine' developed by MIT researchers aims to find predictive patterns in raw data. The new system finished ahead of 615 of the 906 human teams...

Driverless Cars? Not So Fast
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Driverless Cars? Not So Fast

David Mindell, an MIT professor and author, argues that self-driving cars could be achieved without full autonomy.

Enhancing Movement With Computational Models
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Enhancing Movement With Computational Models

MIT Ph.D. student David Hill maps human locomotion in detail to improve rehabilitative and assistive robotic devices.

More-Flexible Machine Learning
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More-Flexible Machine Learning

Giving machine-learning systems "partial credit" during training improves image classification.

Learning Language By Playing Games
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Learning Language By Playing Games

MIT researchers have developed a computer system that learns how to play a text-based computer game with no prior assumptions about how language works. The system...
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