The SLOOP software system is designed to automate part of the process of matching images of animals in massive catalogs. MIT News From ACM TechNews | May 6, 2013
Researchers are developing robotic systems that can negotiate with people to determine the best way to achieve their goals.MIT News From ACM TechNews | May 3, 2013
It's often said that we live in an age of increased specialization: physicians who treat just one ailment, scholars who study just one period, network administrators...MIT News Office From ACM News | May 1, 2013
Modern medicine is largely based on treating patients with "small-molecule" drugs, which include pain relievers like aspirin and antibiotics such as penicillin.MIT News Office From ACM News | March 11, 2013
Many commercial robotic arms perform what roboticists call "pick and place" tasks: The arm picks up an object in one location and places it in another.MIT News Office From ACM News | March 1, 2013
MIT researchers have developed a processor chip that can quickly create more realistic or enhanced lighting in a photograph. MIT News From ACM TechNews | February 20, 2013
Twitter's home page features a regularly updated list of topics that are "trending," meaning that tweets about them have suddenly exploded in volume.MIT News Office From ACM News | November 2, 2012
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
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Georgetown University, and National University of Singapore recently presented an algorithm that enables...MIT News From ACM TechNews | July 6, 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
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
In December, MIT announced the launch of an online learning initiative called "MITx." Starting this week, interested learners can now enroll for free in the initiative’s...MIT News Office From ACM Careers | February 13, 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