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
Objects in space tend to spin—and spin in a way that's totally different from the way they spin on earth.MIT News Office From ACM News | September 11, 2014
For years, a team of researchers at MIT and Harvard University has been working on origami robots—reconfigurable robots that would be able to fold themselves into...MIT News Office From ACM News | August 8, 2014
The more cores—or processing units—a computer chip has, the bigger the problem of communication between cores becomes.MIT News Office From ACM News | June 25, 2014
The HTTP with Accountability protocol is designed to track the transmission of private data and enable the data owner to see how it is used online. MIT News From ACM TechNews | June 16, 2014
One of the reasons we don't yet have self-driving cars and mini-helicopters delivering online purchases is that autonomous vehicles tend not to perform well under...MIT News Office From ACM News | June 9, 2014
A new computer system can automatically solve the type of word problems common in introductory algebra classes. MIT News From ACM TechNews | May 2, 2014
Using a laser to place individual rubidium atoms near the surface of a lattice of light, scientists at MIT and Harvard University have developed a new method for...MIT News Office From ACM News | April 10, 2014
When he was in elementary school, Scott Aaronson, like many mathematically precocious kids of his generation, dreamed of making his own video games.MIT News Office From ACM Opinion | April 7, 2014
Researchers plan to demonstrate an analytics technique suggesting that, in a wide range of real-word scenarios, lock-free algorithms can provide wait-free performance...MIT News From ACM TechNews | March 24, 2014
Writing a program to control a single autonomous robot navigating an uncertain environment with an erratic communication link is hard enough; write one for multiple...MIT News Office From ACM News | February 12, 2014
By translating images into the language spoken by object-recognition systems, then translating them back, researchers hope to explain the recognition systems'...MIT News From ACM Careers | September 19, 2013
Artificial intelligence research has advanced significantly, but much work remains before computers can truly replicate or surpass human intelligence. MIT News From ACM TechNews | September 13, 2013
The birth of artificial-intelligence research as an autonomous discipline is generally thought to have been the monthlong Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial...MIT News Office From ACM News | September 10, 2013