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Cybersecurity Protects Food, Agriculture
Protecting the U.S. food supply from cyberattack.
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Helping Autonomous Vehicles See Around Corners
Massachusetts Institute of Technology engineers have created a system that perceives tiny fluctuations in ground shadows to ascertain whether an unseen object is...
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System Helps Smart Devices Find Their Position
A new system helps networks of smart devices find their positions in environments where GPS usually fails.
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MIT's Fleet of Autonomous Boats Can Now Shapeshift
Scientists have upgraded a fleet of autonomous boats to autonomously disconnect and reassemble into different forms of floating platforms, in the canals of Amsterdam...
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Guided by AI, Robotic Platform Automates Molecule Manufacture
A new artificial intelligence-guided system uses robots to automate small-molecule fabrication.
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From One Brain Scan, More Information for Medical AI
Researchers at MIT have developed a system to gather more information from images used to train machine-learning models, including those that can analyze medical...
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Bringing Human-Like Reasoning to Driverless Car Navigation
A new system could enable autonomous vehicles to navigate complex environments by checking a basic global positioning system-like map and employing video feeds....
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New Approach Could Accelerate Efforts to Catalog Vast Numbers of Cells
A new technique can derive fully comprehensive samples, or "sketches," of vast cellular datasets, to simplify analysis.
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Big Issues on the Table at the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference
NBA Commissioner Adam Silver listened to a question on stage Friday at the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference, paused for a moment, and delivered a surprising...
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Identifying Artificial Intelligence 'Blind Spots'
A novel model developed by MIT and Microsoft researchers identifies instances in which autonomous systems have "learned" from training examples that don't match...
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DNA Design That Anyone Can Do
A new computer program allows users to translate any free-form drawing into a two-dimensional, nanoscale structure made of DNA.
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Customizing Computer-Aided Design
A new technique developed by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology "reverse-engineers" complex three-dimensional (3-D) computer-aided design...
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Deep Learning Technique Reveals 'Invisible' Objects in the Dark
Engineers used a deep neural network to train a computer to reconstruct transparent objects from images captured in almost total darkness.
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Team Invents Method to Shrink Objects to the Nanoscale
MIT researchers have invented a way to fabricate nanoscale 3-D objects of nearly any shape. They can also pattern the objects with a variety of useful materials...
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E.T., We're Home
If extraterrestrial intelligence exists somewhere in our galaxy, a new MIT study proposes that laser technology on Earth could, in principle, be fashioned into...
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A Step Toward Personalized, Automated Smart Homes
A new system uses reflected wireless signals to identify occupants within a home, even when they are not carrying mobile devices.
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Machine Learning System Tackles Speech and Object Recognition, All at Once
A new system can learn to identify objects within an image, based on a spoken description of the image.
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Robots Can Now Pick p Any Object After Inspecting It
Dense Object Nets is a system that lets robots inspect random objects and visually understand them enough to accomplish specific tasks without having seen them...
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Wireless Communication Breaks Through Water-Air Barrier
MIT researchers have taken a step toward solving a longstanding challenge with wireless communication: direct data transmission between underwater and airborne...
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Faster Analysis of Medical Images
A new machine learning algorithm can register brain scans and other three-dimensional images about 1,000 times faster than previously possible using novel learning...
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