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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Jenga is a new system that reallocates a chip's memory cache access in real time to create "cache hierarchies" designed to the needs of particular programs.
MIT News From ACM TechNews | July 13, 2017
Researchers have used a computer vision system to quantify the physical improvement or deterioration of neighborhoods in five U.S. cities.
MIT News From ACM TechNews | July 12, 2017
Researchers have developed a system called Fractal that enables up to 88-fold acceleration in a parallelism strategy known as speculative execution.
MIT News From ACM TechNews | July 7, 2017
Researchers have developed a new approach to deep-learning computer systems that uses light instead of electricity.
MIT News From ACM TechNews | June 13, 2017
A new system to help visually impaired users navigate employs a three-dimensional camera, a belt with vibrational motors, and a refreshable Braille interface.
MIT News From ACM TechNews | June 2, 2017
Researchers have developed an algorithm to tune a Dynamic Vision Sensor camera to detect only specific changes in brightness that matter for a particular system...MIT News From ACM TechNews | May 31, 2017
When engineers design a new aircraft, they carry out much of the initial testing not on full-sized jets but on model planes that have been scaled down to fit inside...MIT News From ACM News | May 31, 2017
Researchers have developed a new method that could help lead to the development of practical, diamond-based quantum computing devices.
MIT News From ACM TechNews | May 26, 2017
Engineers have developed a new method for analyzing biologics in production, based on a series of nanoscale filters.
MIT News From ACM TechNews | May 23, 2017
Most robots are programmed using one of two methods: learning from demonstration, in which they watch a task being done and then replicate it, or via motion-planning...MIT News From ACM News | May 10, 2017
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 at the Singapore-Massachusetts Institute of Technology Alliance for Research and Technology have spent the last several years developing autonomous...MIT News From ACM TechNews | January 25, 2017
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