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Proving Quantum Computers Feasible
Quantum computers are devices—still largely theoretical—that could perform certain types of computations much faster than classical computers; one way they might...
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Speeding Algorithms By Shrinking Data
MIT researchers have developed a technique to represent data so that it takes up much less space in memory but can still be processed in conventional ways.
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Predicting What Topics Will Trend on Twitter
Twitter's home page features a regularly updated list of topics that are "trending," meaning that tweets about them have suddenly exploded in volume.
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3 Questions: A Web For Everyone
During the opening ceremonies of this summer’s Olympic games in London, a musical performance culminated with a stage-set house rising into the rafters to reveal...
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'Invisibility' Could Be a Key to Better Electronics
MIT researchers have applied the concept of harnessing cloaking mechanisms developed to conceal objects from view to the movement of electrons, which could lead...
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Mit's Csail Launches New Center to Tackle the Future of Wireless and Mobile Technologies
MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory recently launched Wireless@MIT, an interdisciplinary center focused on developing next-generation...
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MIT Team Builds Most Complex Synthetic Biology Circuit Yet
MIT researchers have developed circuit components that do not interfere with one another, enabling them to produce complex synthetic circuits.
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Automatic Building Mapping Could Help Emergency Responders
MIT researchers have built a wearable sensor system that automatically creates a digital map of the environment through which the wearer is moving.
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Mapping Neurological Disease
MIT researchers have developed an algorithm that can analyze information from medical images to identify diseased areas of the brain and their connections with...
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Making Web Applications More Efficient
Most major Websites these days maintain huge databases: Shopping sites have databases of inventory and customer ratings, travel sites have databases of seat availability...
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Making Crowdsourcing Easier
MIT researchers have developed Qurk, a database system that automatically crowdsources tasks that are difficult or impossible to perform computationally.
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One-Molecule-Thick Material Has Big Advantages
MIT researchers have developed a method for using molybdenum disulfide to make a variety of electronic components.
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New Router Enhances the Precision of Woodworking
Anyone who has tried to build a piece of furniture from scratch knows the frustration of painstakingly cutting pieces of wood, only to discover that they won't...
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Research pdate: Chips With Self-Assembling Rectangles
MIT researchers have developed an approach to creating the array of wires on microchips that uses a system of self-assembling polymers. The process produces arrays...
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Lessons Learned From Mitx's Prototype Course
MIT and Harvard University are preparing to offer free online courses in the fall through the edX project, which is based on MIT's MITx platform.
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Sharing Data Links in Networks of Cars
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Georgetown University, and National University of Singapore recently presented an algorithm that enables...
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Communication Scheme Makes Popular Applications 'gracefully Mobile'
MIT researchers have developed the mobile shell remote-login program, which addresses the lack of mobility of the popular SSH program.
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Computer Science Tackles 30-Year-Old Economics Problem
MIT researchers have developed an algorithm for finding an almost perfect approximation of the optimal design of a multi-item auction.
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Researchers Amplify Variations in Video, Making the Invisible Visible
At this summer's Siggraph—the premier computer-graphics conference—researchers from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory will present new...
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