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Adding artificial intelligence to search engines enables enhanced Search Engine Optimization and Marketing.
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The Next Operating System
Operating systems for multicore chips will need more information about their own performance—and more resources for addressing whatever problems arise.
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3D Tv? How About Holographic Tv?
Using a single Xbox Kinect and standard graphics chips, MIT researchers demonstrate the highest frame rate yet for streaming holographic video.
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Breaking Bottlenecks
A new algorithm enables much faster dissemination of information through self-organizing networks with a few scattered choke points.
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The Surprising sefulness of Sloppy Arithmetic
A computer chip that performs imprecise calculations could process some types of data thousands of times more efficiently than existing chips.
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Multicore May Not Be So Scary
Research suggests that the free operating system Linux will keep up with the addition of more "cores," or processing units, to computer chips.
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Mastering Multicore
MIT researchers have developed software that makes computer simulations of physical systems run more efficiently on multicore chips.
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Computing, Sudoku-Style
Though still in its infancy, the work of Alexey Radul as a postdoc at MIT could someday have consequences for artificial-intelligence research, parallel computing...
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Crts Going Down the Tubes? Hardly
Many people may assume that conventional television sets and computer monitors — the kind that use CRTs rather than flat panel screens — have virtually disappeared...
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Computing With a Wave of the Hand
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab researchers have devised a way to turn liquid crystal displays (LCDs) into lens-less cameras through the use of...
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Parallel Course
In 1995, a good computer chip had a clock speed of about 100 megahertz. Seven years later, in 2002, a good computer chip had a clock speed of about three gigahertz...
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Breaking the Law, at the Nanoscale
A well-established physical law formulated by Max Planck describes the transfer of heat between two objects, but some physicists have long predicted that the law...
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Drawing Inspiration From Nature to Build a Better Radio
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) engineers have developed a fast, ultra-broadband, low-power radio chip for use in wireless devices. MIT professor Rahul...
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New Material Could Lead to Faster Chips
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have built an experimental graphene-based microchip that could lead to cell phones and other communications...
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