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Researchers have created a $500 "nano-camera" that operates at the speed of light and could have applications in areas like medical imaging. MIT News From ACM TechNews | November 27, 2013
It's often easy to tell at a glance the difference between a mass-produced object and one that has been handcrafted: The handmade item is likely to have distinctive...MIT News Office From ACM News | November 26, 2013
Researchers have developed a robot-vision algorithm they say is 15 percent better than its best competitor at identifying familiar objects in cluttered scenes. ...MIT News From ACM TechNews | October 11, 2013
At first glance, Mars' clouds might easily be mistaken for those on Earth: Images of the Martian sky, taken by NASA's Opportunity rover, depict gauzy, high-altitude...MIT News Office From ACM News | October 9, 2013
Researchers at MIT, working with partners at NASA, have developed a new concept for a microscope that would use neutrons—subatomic particles with no electrical...MIT News Office From ACM News | October 7, 2013
M-Blocks are cube-shaped robots that can climb over and around one another, leap through the air, roll across the ground, and move while suspended upside down. MIT News From ACM TechNews | October 4, 2013
Bringing "common sense" to artificial intelligence is one of the biggest challenges in computer science: It entails equipping computers with the shared knowledge...MIT News Office From ACM News | September 26, 2013
Massachusetts Institute of Technology computer scientist Stephanie Seneff applies her natural language processing research to solving biological problems. MIT News From ACM TechNews | September 23, 2013
The birth of artificial-intelligence research as an autonomous discipline is generally thought to have been the monthlong Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial...MIT News Office From ACM News | September 10, 2013
Logistics data on neighborhoods in several world cities is available online in an open-access pool of information that is graphically represented on city maps. MIT News From ACM TechNews | September 9, 2013
In May 2009, the Mars rover Spirit cracked through a crusty layer of Martian topsoil, sinking into softer underlying sand.MIT News Office From ACM News | September 9, 2013
A new mapping algorithm that creates real-time, detailed three-dimensional maps of indoor and outdoor environments. MIT News From ACM TechNews | August 30, 2013
The phenomenon of false memory has been well-documented: In many court cases, defendants have been found guilty based on testimony from witnesses and victims who...MIT News Office From ACM News | July 26, 2013
Earlier this year, MIT researchers developed a way to easily and efficiently edit the genomes of living cells. Now, the researchers have discovered key factors...MIT News Office From ACM News | July 24, 2013
In a pair of recent papers, researchers at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory have demonstrated that, for a few specific tasks, it's...MIT News Office From ACM News | July 17, 2013
The comic-book hero Superman uses his X-ray vision to spot bad guys lurking behind walls and other objects.MIT News Office From ACM News | June 28, 2013
Researchers at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory have developed a new algorithm that can accurately measure the heart rates of people...MIT News Office From ACM News | June 21, 2013
Researchers have developed a system that helps users transform a regular camera into a light-field camera that can record high-resolution, multiview images. MIT News From ACM TechNews | June 20, 2013