Daniel A. Spielman and colleague Shang-hua Teng solved the mystery of the Simplex Method using a technique called smoothed analysis…
From ACM NewsAllyn Jackson Commissioned by CACM Staff| January 31, 2023
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Researchers have developed methods to reduce and "iron out" wrinkles in graphene, potentially enabling faster and more efficient electronic and photonic devices...MIT News From ACM TechNews | April 4, 2017
Researchers have developed a method that could make it possible to produce some of the narrowest microchip wires ever.
MIT News From ACM TechNews | March 30, 2017
Splinter is a new encryption system that disguises users' database queries so they reveal no private information.
MIT News From ACM TechNews | March 29, 2017
The Synthetic Data Vault is a new machine-learning system that automatically creates synthetic data, which can be used in data science efforts that otherwise would...MIT News From ACM TechNews | March 6, 2017
Researchers have demonstrated that silicon optical devices can reproduce physical phenomena used by high-end telecommunications optoelectronic components.
MIT News From ACM TechNews | February 27, 2017
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed a system that utilizes a wearable device and artificial intelligence to detect whether the...MIT News From ACM TechNews | February 3, 2017
A new big data management system aims to simplify the process of aggregating large datasets for analysis.
MIT News From ACM TechNews | January 24, 2017
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have developed a mathematical model to study the effects of scheduling policies on fuel consumption and travel...MIT News From ACM TechNews | December 21, 2016
Selecting diverse subsets from a much larger dataset promises to be much more practical using a new algorithm designed by researchers from the Massachusetts Institute...MIT News From ACM TechNews | December 19, 2016
Researchers presented a new coreset-generation technique for handling big data at the Neural Information Processing Systems conference in Barcelona, Spain.
MIT News From ACM TechNews | December 16, 2016
Massachusetts Institute of Technology engineers have developed an ultra-thin, high-resolution printing process that makes use of nanoporous stamps.
MIT News From ACM TechNews | December 12, 2016
Researchers have developed a way for consumers to design and develop drones to meet their unique specifications.
MIT News From ACM TechNews | December 8, 2016
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Institute for Data, Systems, and Society doctoral program is underway. MIT News From ACM TechNews | November 15, 2016
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers say they have developed a new approach to information extraction that inverts conventional machine learning. MIT News From ACM TechNews | November 14, 2016