Google’s App Inventor, which lets people with no previous programming experience build applications for mobile phones, draws on decades of MIT research.MIT News Office From ACM News | August 20, 2010
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's McGovern Institute of Brain Research have devised a computational model describing how the primate brain...MIT News From ACM TechNews | June 7, 2010
MIT researchers have developed Surround Vision, a system that works with Internet-connected handheld devices to enable TV viewers to see what is happening off screen...MIT News From ACM TechNews | April 15, 2010
Professor Mary (Missy) Cummings, director of MIT's Humans and Automation Laboratory, wants to make it easier for humans to supervise automatic control systems,...MIT News From ACM TechNews | April 12, 2010
A new system that lets people enter data into a tablet computer simply by drawing diagrams on the screen could lead to interactive whiteboards.MIT News Office From ACM News | February 19, 2010
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) researchers have developed Sikuli, a system that enables computer users to write programs using screen shots of graphical...MIT News From ACM TechNews | January 22, 2010
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...MIT News From ACM TechNews | December 16, 2009
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...MIT News Office From ACM News | October 23, 2009
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab researcher Hiroshi Ishii is developing tactile user interfaces that are designed to integrate computer use...MIT News From ACM TechNews | April 14, 2009