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A Healthy Dose of AI
Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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The Next Operating System
Operating systems for multicore chips will need more information about their own performance—and more resources for addressing whatever problems arise.
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Rivest nlocks Cryptography's Past, Looks Toward Future
Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Ronald Rivest recently gave a speech about the history of the RSA cryptographic system, which is currently used...
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3D Tv? How About Holographic Tv?
Using a single Xbox Kinect and standard graphics chips, MIT researchers demonstrate the highest frame rate yet for streaming holographic video.
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Survey Reveals Potential Innovation Gap in the U.s.
Young women in the U.S. represent an untapped group of potential inventors, according to the 2011 Lemelson-MIT Invention Index. The latest index shows that women...
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Breaking Bottlenecks
A new algorithm enables much faster dissemination of information through self-organizing networks with a few scattered choke points.
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Text-Based Video Navigation
The MIT150 website, celebrating the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's 150th anniversary, offers a collection of video interviews that makes use of a new navigation...
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The Power of 'convergence'
In white paper, MIT scientists discuss potential for revolutionary advances in biomedicine and other fields.
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The Surprising sefulness of Sloppy Arithmetic
A computer chip that performs imprecise calculations could process some types of data thousands of times more efficiently than existing chips.
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Collective Memory
An MIT project provides a way to preserve information in constantly changing networks, without resorting to a shared server.
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MIT Expands and Strengthens its Links to China
MIT's connections to China, already well-established, are set to be strengthened and expanded as part of a major, long-term effort to promote intellectual and...
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When the Playroom Is the Computer
A block-shaped robot that seems to roll onto a computer screen is part of an educational-media system that gets kids out of their chairs.
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How Wise Are Crowds?
By melding economics and engineering, researchers show that as social networks get larger, they usually get better at sorting fact from fiction.
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Social Studies
In MIT's Human Dynamics Lab, Sandy Pentland uses cellphones and wearable sensors to research nonverbal signals, information flow, and the value of face-to-face...
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Teaching Real-World Programming
In an innovative software-engineering class, students meet for regular "code reviews" with senior programmers from Boston-area companies.
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Programming Crowds
With the Web, people worldwide can work on distributed tasks. But getting reliable results requires algorithms that specify workflow between people, not transistors...
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Faster Websites, More Reliable Data
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have developed TxCache, a database caching system that eliminates certain types of asymmetric data retrieval while...
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Multicore May Not Be So Scary
Research suggests that the free operating system Linux will keep up with the addition of more "cores," or processing units, to computer chips.
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Cars as Traffic Sensors
Researchers working on MIT's CarTel project are studying how cars could be used as ubiquitous mobile sensors. The researchers developed an algorithm that optimizes...
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First Improvement of Fundamental Algorithm in 10 Years
The max-flow problem, which is ubiquitous in network analysis, scheduling, and logistics, can now be solved more efficiently than ever.
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