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Fighting Impersonation by AI
Finding ways to determine whether a voice message is real or generated by an artificial intelligence.
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Origami: Not Just For Paper Anymore
While the primary job of DNA in cells is to carry genetic information from one generation to the next, some scientists also see the highly stable and programmable...
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Learning Science Through Gaming
An MIT-produced interactive game, "Vanished," now being played by thousands online, offers a novel experiment in alternative science education.
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Joichi Ito Named Director of MIT Media Lab
MIT announced that Joichi (“Joi” — pronounced “Joey”) Ito has been selected as the next director of the MIT Media Lab.
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Constant Connection
For most of the 20th century, the paradigm of wireless communication was a radio station with a single high-power transmitter. As long as you were within 20 miles...
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Secure, Synchronized, Social Tv
Network coding is an innovative new approach to network design that promises much more efficient use of bandwidth, and MIT researchers have made seminal contributions...
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Targeted Results
MIT and Tel Aviv University researchers recently presented a mathematical framework for finding localized solutions to complex calculations, such as classic CS problems...
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Targeted Results
By envisioning data as "graphs," MIT researchers show how to find local solutions to otherwise overwhelmingly complex problems.
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Kaashoek Wins Acm's Prize For Young Researchers
Frans Kaashoek, a professor in the MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and associate director of the Computer Science and Artificial...
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Dueling Algorithms
There's an old joke about two hikers on a trail, one wearing hiking boots and the other running shoes. "Why the running shoes?" the first hiker asks. "In case...
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'we Need to See Ahead'
U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano emphasized the importance of science and technology research as a means of keeping the nation safe in an...
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The Quantum Singularity
MIT professor Scott Aaronson and grad student Alex Arkhipov will present a paper at ACM's 43rd Symposium on Theory of Computing that describes an experiment, which...
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Retooling Algorithms
MIT professor Charles Leiserson says the best method for rewriting algorithms to run on parallel processors is to use a divide-and-conquer technique, allowing the...
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Retooling Algorithms
Charles Leiserson and his team are experts at designing parallel algorithms—including one for a chess-playing program that outperformed IBM’s Deep Blue.
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The Next Operating System
Operating systems for multicore chips will need more information about their own performance—and more resources for addressing whatever problems arise.
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Rivest nlocks Cryptography's Past, Looks Toward Future
Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Ronald Rivest recently gave a speech about the history of the RSA cryptographic system, which is currently used...
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3D Tv? How About Holographic Tv?
Using a single Xbox Kinect and standard graphics chips, MIT researchers demonstrate the highest frame rate yet for streaming holographic video.
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Survey Reveals Potential Innovation Gap in the U.s.
Young women in the U.S. represent an untapped group of potential inventors, according to the 2011 Lemelson-MIT Invention Index. The latest index shows that women...
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Breaking Bottlenecks
A new algorithm enables much faster dissemination of information through self-organizing networks with a few scattered choke points.
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Text-Based Video Navigation
The MIT150 website, celebrating the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's 150th anniversary, offers a collection of video interviews that makes use of a new navigation...
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