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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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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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Can You Find Me Now?
By demonstrating fundamental limits on their accuracy, MIT researchers show how to improve wireless location-detection systems.
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Sizing Samples
Many scientific disciplines use computers to infer patterns in data. But how much data is enough to ensure that the inferences are right?
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The MIT Roots of Google
Google’s App Inventor, which lets people with no previous programming experience build applications for mobile phones, draws on decades of MIT research.
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Shape-Shifting Robots
Self-folding sheets of a plastic-like material point the way to robots that can assume any conceivable 3D structure.
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nraveling the Matrix
Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Gilbert Strang has developed a way to split certain types of matrices into simpler ones, which could help produce...
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Machines That Learn Better
New mathematics will make it much easier to build machine-learning systems that tackle a wider range of problems.
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Computing, Sudoku-Style
Though still in its infancy, the work of Alexey Radul as a postdoc at MIT could someday have consequences for artificial-intelligence research, parallel computing...
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Nonlinear Thinker
Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Pablo Parrilo has developed a set of techniques that makes it easier to understand nonlinear systems. Parrilo uses...
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What Computer Science Can Teach Economics
Professor Constantinos Daskalakis in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory is applying the theory...
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The Explainer: P vs. Np
The Clay Mathematics Institute has a standing offer of $1 million for anyone who is able to prove or disprove one of seven problems that have never been solved....
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Parallel Course
In 1995, a good computer chip had a clock speed of about 100 megahertz. Seven years later, in 2002, a good computer chip had a clock speed of about three gigahertz...
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Researchers Sharpen Photos By Capturing Multiple Low-Quality Images
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers Sam Hasinoff, Fredo Durand, and William Freeman, along with University of Toronto researcher Kiriakos Kutulakos...
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Breaking the Law, at the Nanoscale
A well-established physical law formulated by Max Planck describes the transfer of heat between two objects, but some physicists have long predicted that the law...
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