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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Automated Screening For Childhood Communication Disorders
Researchers have used machine learning to develop a computer system that can automatically screen young children for speech and language disorders.
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sing Light to Control Genome Editing
Researchers have added a new technique to the CRISPR genome-editing system that lets scientists control when and where gene editing occurs by using ultraviolet...
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Scientists Program Cells to Remember and Respond to Series of Stimuli
Synthetic biology allows researchers to program cells to perform novel functions such as fluorescing in response to a particular chemical or producing drugs in...
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How to Stay Anonymous Online
Anonymity networks protect people living under repressive regimes from surveillance of their Internet use. But the recent discovery of vulnerabilities in the most...
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'super Mario Brothers' Is Hard
Researchers found the problem of solving a level in the "Super Mario Brothers" video game is as challenging as the most vexing problems in the PSPACE complexity...
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We Know Where You Live
Researchers have demonstrated that snoopers armed with little sophisticated technology can expose the home and workplace addresses of Twitter users.
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Self-Driving Cars, Meet Rubber Duckies
A course in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory aimed to create a fleet of duckie-adorned self-driving...
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Robotic Consensus
Planning algorithms for teams of robots fall into two categories: centralized algorithms, in which a single computer makes decisions for the whole team, and decentralized...
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Phone-Based Laser Rangefinder Works Outdoors
Researchers have developed an infrared depth-sensing system, built from a smartphone with a $10 laser attached to it, that works indoors and outdoors.
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A Virtual 'guide Dog' For Navigation
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have modified an algorithm for processing three-dimensional camera data, with power conservation in mind.
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Recognizing Correct Code
A new machine-learning system can analyze repairs made to open source programs, learn their general properties, and produce new repairs for other programs.
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Nanodevices at One-Hundredth the Cost
In a recent paper, researchers described a method of inexpensively producing a type of microelectromechanical system with desktop fabrication system.
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Untraceable Communication—guaranteed
Anonymity networks, which sit on top of the public Internet, are designed to conceal people’s Web-browsing habits from prying eyes.
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Nasa Gives MIT a Humanoid Robot to Develop Software For Future Space Missions
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is home to one of two university research groups to receive a 6-foot, 290-pound humanoid robot.
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Predicting Change in the Alzheimer's Brain
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers are developing a computer system that uses multiple types of data to help predict the effects of disease on brain...
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More-Flexible Machine Learning
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers plan to present a machine-learning technique that enables semantically-related concepts to reinforce each other...
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Could a Pen Change How We Diagnose Brain Function?
Researchers have used artificial intelligence and a digital pen to diagnose dementia earlier than ever before.
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Giving Robots a More Nimble Grasp
Most robots on a factory floor are fairly ham-handed: Equipped with large pincers or claws, they are designed to perform simple maneuvers, such as grabbing an object...
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Object Recognition For Robots
John Leonard's group in the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering specializes in SLAM, or simultaneous localization and mapping, the technique whereby mobile...
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