MIT researchers have established theoretical limits on the efficiency of packet-switched on-chip communication networks, and have presented measurements from a...MIT News From ACM TechNews | April 11, 2012
Aircraft-carrier crew use a set of standard hand gestures to guide planes on the carrier deck. But as robot planes are increasingly used for routine air missions...MIT News Office From ACM News | March 16, 2012
Sometimes the fastest pathway from point A to point B is not a straight line: for example, if you're underwater and contending with strong and shifting currents...MIT News Office From ACM News | March 12, 2012
MIT researchers have developed Hornet, a software simulator they say models the performance of multicore chips much more accurately than its predecessors. MIT News From ACM TechNews | March 9, 2012
Basketball dominates the American sports landscape in March. So perhaps it’s fitting that the sixth annual MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference, held last week...MIT News Office From ACM News | March 9, 2012
Microelectromechanical systems, or MEMS, are small devices with huge potential. Typically made of components less than 100 microns in size—the diameter of a human...MIT News Office From ACM News | February 29, 2012
To keep energy consumption under control, future chips may need to move data using light instead of electricity—and the technical expertise to build them may reside...MIT News Office From ACM News | February 17, 2012
Researchers at MIT, Tel Aviv University, and Google have developed a coding scheme that guarantees the fastest possible delivery of data over fluctuating wireless...MIT News From ACM TechNews | February 13, 2012
The design of aromas—the flavors of packaged food and drink and the scents of cleaning products, toiletries and other household items—is a multibillion-dollar business...MIT News Office From ACM News | January 25, 2012
Researchers at MIT and the University of Utah have developed a technique that they say surpasses the fundamental limits of microchip design and could lead to more...MIT News From ACM TechNews | December 16, 2011
MIT researchers have developed a system that enables hardware designers to specify, in a single programming language, all of the functions they want a device to...MIT News From ACM TechNews | December 14, 2011
Consider the following scenario: A scout surveys a high-rise building that's been crippled by an earthquake, trapping workers inside. After looking for a point...MIT News Office From ACM News | November 30, 2011
There has been enormous progress in recent years toward the development of photonic chips—devices that use light beams instead of electrons to carry out their...MIT News Office From ACM News | November 29, 2011
In the process of winning DARPA's Red Balloon Challenge, the MIT researchers collected and analyzed a large amount of data on the size and scope of Internet connections...MIT News From ACM TechNews | November 1, 2011
On the deck of an aircraft carrier, where up to 60 aircraft are crammed into 4.5 acres (1.8 hectares), real estate is at a premium. While aircraft directors wave...MIT News Office From ACM News | August 3, 2011
MIT professor Devavrat Shah thinks that the most common approach to recommendation systems is fundamentally flawed; he says recommendation systems should ask users...MIT News From ACM TechNews | July 11, 2011
A quantum computer is a device—still largely theoretical—that could perform some types of calculations much more rapidly than classical computers. While a bit...MIT News Office From ACM News | June 7, 2011
In the 1980s and '90s, competition in the computer industry was all about "clock speed"—how many megahertz, and ultimately gigahertz, a chip could boast. But...MIT News Office From ACM News | May 16, 2011