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Artbot Engineers the Discovery of Art
Artbot is a new mobile website app that mines both user preferences and event tags to provide users with connections to the local art scene.
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MIT Engineers Hand 'cognitive' Control to nderwater Robots
Researchers have developed a new approach to programming autonomous underwater vehicles that increases their "cognitive" capabilities.
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Researchers nravel Secrets of Hidden Waves
Detailed new field studies, laboratory experiments, and simulations of the largest known "internal waves" in the Earth's oceans—phenomena that play a key role in...
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"fingerprinting" Chips to Fight Counterfeiting
Researchers are using microscopic variations to "fingerprint" silicon chips used in consumer-product tags to combat product counterfeiting.
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One Way to Reduce Email Stress: Re-Invent the Mailing List
Researchers at MIT CSAIL have developed a prototype system called Murmur that they hope will improve the experience of using email mailing lists by incorporating...
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Cloud Security Reaches Silicon
Researchers are working to implement a way to thwart criminals from inferring computer data based on the pattern in which the machine accesses its memory.
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Deans Announce New Institute For Data, Systems, and Society
On July 1, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology will officially launch the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society.
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Graphics in Reverse
Programs of less than 50 lines in a probabilistic programming language are as effective as conventional systems for completing some standard computer-vision tasks...
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Better Sensors For Medical Imaging, Contraband Detection
MIT researchers have developed a new, ultrasensitive magnetic-field detector that is 1,000 times more energy-efficient than its predecessors. It could lead to miniaturized...
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Wear Your Social Network
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab students are making it easier for people to make connections by broadcasting their social media interests offline...
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Diagnosis By Keyboard
Analyzing people's keystrokes as they type on a computer keyboard can reveal a great deal of information about the state of their motor function, according to a...
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Thousands of Atoms Entangled with a Single Photon
Physicists from MIT and the University of Belgrade have developed a new technique that can successfully entangle 3,000 atoms using only a single photon.
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Crowdsourced Tool For Depression
A new peer-to-peer networking tool enables people suffering from anxiety and depression to build online support communities and practice therapeutic methods.
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Better Debugger
Researchers last week unveiled a new algorithm for identifying integer-overflow bugs.
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Satellite Imagery Can Aid Development Projects
New software can identify houses in rural villages from satellite images, potentially saving time that would otherwise be spent sending teams from village to village...
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Teaching Programming to Preschoolers
Researchers are developing a system that enables young children to program interactive robots by placing stickers on laminated sheets of paper.
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Magnetic Brain Stimulation
Researchers at MIT have developed a method to stimulate brain tissue using external magnetic fields and injected magnetic nanoparticles—a technique allowing direct...
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Finger-Mounted Reading Device For the Blind
Researchers have developed a prototype of a finger-mounted device with a built-in camera that converts written text into audio for visually impaired users.
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Quantum Sensor's Advantages Survive Entanglement Breakdown
MIT researchers have demonstrated that entanglement can improve the performance of optical sensors, even when it does not survive light's interaction with the environment...
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