A new robotic system uses machines to help people lift objects by monitoring their muscle movements, producing a smoother robot-human collaboration.
MIT News From ACM TechNews | May 30, 2019
A new system could enable autonomous vehicles to navigate complex environments by checking a basic global positioning system-like map and employing video feeds....MIT News From ACM TechNews | May 29, 2019
A new technique can derive fully comprehensive samples, or "sketches," of vast cellular datasets, to simplify analysis.
MIT News From ACM TechNews | May 9, 2019
Researchers suggest the vulnerability of compressed, or quantized, artificial intelligence models to adversarial attack could be remedied by adding a mathematical...MIT News From ACM TechNews | May 2, 2019
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology hosted a fireside chat, featuring six of its professors who have received ACM's A.M. Turing Award.
MIT News From ACM TechNews | March 7, 2019
Researchers are employing radio-frequency identification tags to help track moving objects with unprecedented accuracy and speed.
MIT News From ACM TechNews | February 21, 2019
Researchers have developed a method of identifying individual nodes in neural networks that capture specific linguistic features.
MIT News From ACM TechNews | February 4, 2019
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers demonstrated that crowdsourced judgments about the quality of news sources can marginalize online misinformation...MIT News From ACM TechNews | January 31, 2019
Researchers have developed a tool for nonstatisticians that automatically generates models for analyzing raw data. The tool takes in datasets and generates sophisticated...MIT News From ACM TechNews | January 18, 2019
A new computer program allows users to translate any free-form drawing into a two-dimensional, nanoscale structure made of DNA.
MIT News From ACM TechNews | January 7, 2019
Engineers used a deep neural network to train a computer to reconstruct transparent objects from images captured in almost total darkness.
MIT News From ACM TechNews | December 20, 2018
A new ingestible capsule can be customized to dispatch drugs, sense environmental conditions, or both, and can remain in the stomach for at least a month.
MIT News From ACM TechNews | December 17, 2018
Researchers found that factors such as excessive bickering and poorly worded arguments led to about a third of Requests for Comment by Wikipedia editors going unresolved...MIT News From ACM TechNews | November 9, 2018
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have developed an autonomous system to direct a fleet of drones.
MIT News From ACM TechNews | November 5, 2018
A new system uses reflected wireless signals to identify occupants within a home, even when they are not carrying mobile devices.
MIT News From ACM TechNews | October 22, 2018
A new machine learning technique can drastically reduce false positives in fraud-detecting technology that incorrectly flag credit card sales as suspicious.
MIT News From ACM TechNews | October 2, 2018
A new algorithm can take two-dimensional videos and turn them into three-dimensionally-printed "motion sculptures" that show how a human body moves through space...MIT News From ACM TechNews | September 21, 2018
Researchers are using two main approaches to replacing black-box machine learning models with prediction methods that are more transparent.
MIT News From ACM TechNews | September 13, 2018