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Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have developed what they call the first computer file system that ensures no loss of data when the system crashes...MIT News From ACM TechNews | August 24, 2015
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...MIT News Office From ACM News | August 6, 2015
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers say they have developed gallium nitride transistors to power electronic circuits.MIT News From ACM TechNews | July 30, 2015
The American Institute for Manufacturing Integrated Photonics will work to advance U.S. capabilities in integrated photonic technology.MIT News From ACM TechNews | July 29, 2015
John Leonard's group in the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering specializes in SLAM, or simultaneous localization and mapping, the technique whereby mobile...MIT News Office From ACM News | July 24, 2015
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researcher Sergio Cantu studies how light can act as an information carrier in computing and calculating. MIT News From ACM TechNews | July 16, 2015
At the Association for Computing Machinery's Programming Language Design and Implementation conference this month, MIT researchers presented a new system that repairs...MIT News Office From ACM News | June 29, 2015
Researchers have developed a new approach to programming autonomous underwater vehicles that increases their "cognitive" capabilities.MIT News From ACM TechNews | May 8, 2015
Physicists from MIT and the University of Belgrade have developed a new technique that can successfully entangle 3,000 atoms using only a single photon.MIT News Office From ACM News | April 2, 2015
The ninth annual MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference (SSAC) was the biggest meeting yet of sports-data experts: More than 3,100 people attended the event last...MIT News Office From ACM Careers | March 3, 2015
The sequencing of the human genome laid the foundation for the study of genetic variation and its links to a wide range of diseases. But the genome itself is only...MIT News From ACM News | February 20, 2015
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers say their new tablet-operated system serves as a visual embodiment of their latest work in distributed computing...MIT News From ACM TechNews | February 20, 2015
Computer chips' clocks have stopped getting faster. To keep delivering performance improvements, chipmakers are instead giving chips more processing units, or cores...MIT News Office From ACM News | February 18, 2015
Every undergraduate computer-science major takes a course on data structures, which describes different ways of organizing data in a computer’s memory.MIT News Office From ACM News | February 2, 2015
Optimization algorithms, which try to find the minimum values of mathematical functions, are everywhere in engineering. Among other things, they're used to evaluate...MIT News Office From ACM News | January 22, 2015
For household robots ever to be practical, they'll need to be able to recognize the objects they're supposed to manipulate.MIT News Office From ACM News | January 12, 2015
The Center for Spintronic Materials, Interfaces, and Novel Architectures wants to use the spin of electrons on nanomagnets to encode zeros and ones in computers...MIT News From ACM TechNews | January 9, 2015
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have found the most recent version of deep neural networks match the primate brain. MIT News From ACM TechNews | December 22, 2014
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have developed a nanocryotron , a computing circuit based on the cryotron.MIT News From ACM TechNews | October 20, 2014
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have developed an algorithm for bounding, and successfully implemented it in a robotic cheetah. MIT News From ACM TechNews | September 15, 2014