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January 19, 2021Electrical engineer William Oliver develops technology to enable reliable quantum computing at scale.
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January 14, 2021Anantha Chandrakasan, Alan Edelman, and Samuel Madden are recognized for work that underpins contemporary computing.
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January 13, 2021The grant will support two CBL Graduate Fellowships in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science over a period of two years, beginning in the Summer-Fall 2021.
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January 8, 2021Sensor developed by SMART researchers would allow rapid diagnosis of nutrition deficiency in plants, enabling farmers to maximize crop yield in a sustainable way.
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January 8, 2021MIT mechanical engineers, working alongside a trio of EECS graduate students from Professor Daniela Rus’s group in CSAIL, have developed technologies to help hospitals around the world provide life-saving oxygen to patients with Covid-19 and other respiratory illnesses.
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January 4, 2021Animators spend hours adding textures to objects. A new machine-learning system simplifies the process.
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January 4, 2021The advance could cut production costs and reduce the size of microelectronics for sensing and communication.
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January 4, 2021Quantum computers could usher in a golden age of computing power, solving problems intractable on today’s machines.
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January 4, 2021A new algorithm capable of inferring goals and plans could help machines better adapt to the imperfect nature of human planning.
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January 4, 2021Neuroscientists find that interpreting code activates a general-purpose brain network, but not language-processing centers.
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January 4, 2021Physicist and Harvard University professor discusses silicon vacancies, reflects on inspiration from Mildred Dresselhaus.
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January 4, 2021The design, which uses entangled atoms, could help scientists detect dark matter and study gravity’s effect on time.
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December 23, 2020MIT’s second annual Interdisciplinary Quantum Hackathon, to be held virtually from Friday, January 29th through Sunday, January 31st, will give interested participants from any background access to some of the most cutting-edge computing technology on the planet.
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December 23, 2020AAAI Fellows are selected in recognition of their significant and extended contributions to the field (contributions which typically span a decade or more), including technical results, publications, patent awards, and contributions to group efforts.
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December 21, 2020A smart thermostat quickly learns to optimize building microclimates for both energy consumption and user preference.
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December 21, 2020SMART researchers use Raman spectroscopy for early detection of SAS, which can help farmers better monitor plant health and improve crop yields.
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December 21, 2020Three MIT professors, including EECS Department Head Asu Ozdaglar, faculty head of EE Joel Voldman, and a principal staff member from Lincoln Laboratory, are among the 2021 class of Fellows.
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December 18, 2020Founded by an MIT alumnus, Newfront Insurance offers brokers and businesses digital tools for responding to a rapidly changing risk landscape.
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December 18, 2020A new deep-learning algorithm could provide advanced notice when systems — from satellites to data centers — are falling out of whack.
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December 11, 2020Thomas Shi-Tao Huang SM ’60, ScD ’63, a former professor of Electrical Engineering at MIT, passed away on April 25, 2020, three months after the death of his beloved wife Margaret. A pioneer in image processing and compression, computer vision, pattern recognition, multimedia retrieval, and human-computer interaction, Huang’s breadth and depth of scholarship was informed by a wide-ranging appetite for music and art.
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December 11, 2020A new approach could lower computing costs and increase accessibility to state-of-the-art natural language processing.
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December 11, 2020MIT researchers’ new system optimizes the shape of robots for traversing various terrain types.
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December 11, 2020New system enables realistic variations in glossiness across a 3D-printed surface. The advance could aid fine art reproduction and the design of prosthetics.
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December 11, 2020MIT Social Impact Interns partner with the Naval War College to develop an educational disaster response game.
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December 11, 2020Once deemed suitable only for high-speed communication systems, an alloy called InGaAs might one day rival silicon in high-performance computing.
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