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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
A new technique developed by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology "reverse-engineers" complex three-dimensional (3-D) computer-aided design...MIT News From ACM TechNews | January 4, 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
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have developed software that could inform the selection of landing sites for scientific expeditions to Mars.
MIT News From ACM TechNews | September 28, 2018
A new system can learn to identify objects within an image, based on a spoken description of the image.
MIT News From ACM TechNews | September 24, 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
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...MIT News From ACM TechNews | September 12, 2018
A new neural network model can analyze raw text and audio data from clinical interviews to detect speech patterns signaling depression.
MIT News From ACM TechNews | September 5, 2018
A new "in-body global-positioning system" can locate ingestible implants within the body using low-power wireless signals.
MIT News From ACM TechNews | August 23, 2018
Researchers have embedded high-speed optoelectronic semiconductor devices within fibers woven into soft, washable fabrics, and converted them into communication...MIT News From ACM TechNews | August 14, 2018
A new optical filter on a chip can process optical signals from across an extremely wide spectrum of light simultaneously.
MIT News From ACM TechNews | August 8, 2018