With the explosion of the Internet and the commoditization of autonomous robots (such as the Roomba) and small sensors (such as the ones in most cell phones),...MIT News Office From ACM News | June 13, 2011
Imagine a robot able to retrieve a pile of laundry from the back of a cluttered closet, deliver it to a washing machine, start the cycle and then zip off to the...MIT News Office From ACM News | May 31, 2011
Do scientists' job locations have any impact on the way their work spreads? Or, in today’s highly networked world, does research flow around the globe without...MIT News Office From ACM News | May 25, 2011
At first glance, a diagram of the complex network of genes that regulate cellular metabolism might seem hopelessly complex, and efforts to control such a system...MIT News Office From ACM News | May 13, 2011
MIT researchers have developed HR3D, a new method for glasses-free 3D displays. The researchers say their method could double the battery life of devices such...MIT News From ACM TechNews | May 10, 2011
While the primary job of DNA in cells is to carry genetic information from one generation to the next, some scientists also see the highly stable and programmable...MIT News Office From ACM News | April 29, 2011
An MIT-produced interactive game, "Vanished," now being played by thousands online, offers a novel experiment in alternative science education.MIT News Office From ACM News | April 27, 2011
MIT announced that Joichi (“Joi” — pronounced “Joey”) Ito has been selected as the next director of the MIT Media Lab.MIT News Office From ACM News | April 26, 2011
For most of the 20th century, the paradigm of wireless communication was a radio station with a single high-power transmitter. As long as you were within 20 miles...MIT News Office From ACM News | April 15, 2011
Network coding is an innovative new approach to network design that promises much more efficient use of bandwidth, and MIT researchers have made seminal contributions...MIT News Office From ACM News | April 6, 2011
By envisioning data as "graphs," MIT researchers show how to find local solutions to otherwise overwhelmingly complex problems.MIT News Office From ACM News | April 1, 2011
There's an old joke about two hikers on a trail, one wearing hiking boots and the other running shoes. "Why the running shoes?" the first hiker asks. "In case...MIT News Office From ACM News | March 22, 2011
U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano emphasized the importance of science and technology research as a means of keeping the nation safe in an...MIT News Office From ACM News | March 17, 2011
Using a single Xbox Kinect and standard graphics chips, MIT researchers demonstrate the highest frame rate yet for streaming holographic video.MIT News Office From ACM News | January 25, 2011
A new algorithm enables much faster dissemination of information through self-organizing networks with a few scattered choke points.MIT News Office From ACM News | January 12, 2011
The MIT150 website, celebrating the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's 150th anniversary, offers a collection of video interviews that makes use of a new navigation...MIT News Office From ACM TechNews | January 10, 2011
In white paper, MIT scientists discuss potential for revolutionary advances in biomedicine and other fields.MIT News Office From ACM News | January 6, 2011
An MIT project provides a way to preserve information in constantly changing networks, without resorting to a shared server.MIT News Office From ACM News | December 13, 2010
A block-shaped robot that seems to roll onto a computer screen is part of an educational-media system that gets kids out of their chairs.MIT News Office From ACM News | November 23, 2010
By melding economics and engineering, researchers show that as social networks get larger, they usually get better at sorting fact from fiction.MIT News Office From ACM News | November 22, 2010