During the opening ceremonies of this summer’s Olympic games in London, a musical performance culminated with a stage-set house rising into the rafters to reveal...MIT News Office From ACM Opinion | October 22, 2012
MIT researchers have built a wearable sensor system that automatically creates a digital map of the environment through which the wearer is moving.MIT News Office From ACM News | September 28, 2012
Most major Websites these days maintain huge databases: Shopping sites have databases of inventory and customer ratings, travel sites have databases of seat availability...MIT News Office From ACM News | September 5, 2012
Anyone who has tried to build a piece of furniture from scratch knows the frustration of painstakingly cutting pieces of wood, only to discover that they won't...MIT News Office From ACM News | August 8, 2012
At this summer's Siggraph—the premier computer-graphics conference—researchers from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory will present new...MIT News Office From ACM News | June 25, 2012
When industrial robots were first introduced in the early 1960s initially on automobile assembly lines—computers were still in their infancy, so the robots were...MIT News Office From ACM News | April 25, 2012
Most computer chips today have anywhere from four to 10 separate cores, or processing units, which can work in parallel, increasing the chips' efficiency. But the...MIT News Office From ACM News | April 17, 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
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
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
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
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
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