Daniel A. Spielman and colleague Shang-hua Teng solved the mystery of the Simplex Method using a technique called smoothed analysis…
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Researchers have developed an approach that uses experimental chemistry and artificial intelligence to facilitate delivery of a drug to treat Duchenne muscular...MIT News From ACM TechNews | August 17, 2021
A technique developed by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology removes common errors in the operation of a two-quantum bit (qubit).
MIT News From ACM TechNews | June 21, 2021
Researchers have developed a slender robot finger with tactile sensing capabilities that can help locate and identify buried objects.
MIT News From ACM TechNews | May 28, 2021
A Twitter field experiment found that after corrections to tweeted misinformation, there was an increase in retweeting lower-quality and more partisan news.
MIT News From ACM TechNews | May 24, 2021
A system developed by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology automatically cleans "dirty data."
MIT News From ACM TechNews | May 14, 2021
Software developed by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology uses machine learning to transform healthcare data into insights that can inform...MIT News From ACM TechNews | April 15, 2021
A new robot can locate and grasp hidden objects using radio waves in combination with traditional computer vision.
MIT News From ACM TechNews | April 5, 2021
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have developed a system to detect and reduce errors when patients administer their own medication.
MIT News From ACM TechNews | March 22, 2021
Researchers have developed and built a silicon-based LED that can be integrated directly onto a computer chip.
MIT News From ACM TechNews | December 16, 2020
Researchers have developed a cognitive model that learns to use objects in novel ways to solve problems, like humans do.
MIT News From ACM TechNews | December 3, 2020
Researchers have enabled a neural network to rapidly process data, yielding both predictions and confidence levels based on the quality of the available data.
MIT News From ACM TechNews | December 1, 2020
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have developed a system that simulates and optimizes robot design and control programs.
MIT News From ACM TechNews | November 30, 2020
Researchers have developed the world's first fleet of autonomous boats, along with algorithms to permit communication and collaboration among the boats.
MIT News From ACM TechNews | November 5, 2020
Researchers trained a hybrid language-vision machine learning model to recognize abstract concepts in video.
MIT News From ACM TechNews | September 4, 2020
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have unveiled a quantum computing architecture that performs low-error computations while rapidly sharing quantum...MIT News From ACM TechNews | August 10, 2020
Massachusetts Institute of Technology engineers have developed a process for manufacturing and integrating artificial atoms with photonic circuitry.
MIT News From ACM TechNews | July 15, 2020