Tiny machine learning design alleviates a bottleneck in memory usage on internet-of-things devices
New technique applied to small computer chips enables efficient vision and detection algorithms without internet connectivity.
Q&A: More-sustainable concrete with machine learning
MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab researchers aim to design concrete mixtures that use AI to shrink environmental footprint and cost, while recycling byproducts and increasing performance.
A system for designing and training intelligent soft robots
“Evolution Gym” is a large-scale benchmark for co-optimizing the design and control of soft robots that takes inspiration from nature and evolutionary processes.
Technique enables real-time rendering of scenes in 3D
The new machine-learning system can generate a 3D scene from an image about 15,000 times faster than other methods.
Jelena Vučković delivers 2021 Dresselhaus Lecture on inverse-designed photonics
Electrical engineer and Stanford University professor discusses how computer software can support advanced designs and new functionalities.
The intersection of math, computers, and everything else
Senior Shardul Chiplunkar aims to be a translator between the tech world and the rest of society.
Artificial intelligence that understands object relationships
A new machine-learning model could enable robots to understand interactions in the world in the way humans do.
In MIT visit, Dropbox CEO Drew Houston ’05 explores the accelerated shift to distributed work
Houston discusses leading the company through the pandemic in a fireside chat hosted by the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing.
Design’s new frontier
Mechanical engineers are using cutting-edge computing techniques to re-imagine how the products, systems, and infrastructures we use are designed.
Pushing the limits of electronic circuits
Ruonan Han seeks to develop next-generation electronic devices by harnessing terahertz waves.
Theoretical breakthrough could boost data storage
New work on linear-probing hash tables from MIT CSAIL could lead to more efficient data storage and retrieval in computers.
Toward speech recognition for uncommon spoken languages
Reducing the complexity of a powerful machine-learning model may help level the playing field for automatic speech-recognition around the world.
3 Questions: Blending computing with other disciplines at MIT
The Common Ground for Computing Education is facilitating collaborations to develop new classes for students to pursue computational knowledge within the context of their fields of interest.
Avoiding shortcut solutions in artificial intelligence
A new method forces a machine learning model to focus on more data when learning a task, which leads to more reliable predictions.
Taming the data deluge
A National Science Foundation-funded team will use artificial intelligence to speed up discoveries in physics, astronomy, and neuroscience.