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Blinding the Watchman
Internet constellations could thwart killer asteroid discovery algorithms.
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Social Studies
In MIT's Human Dynamics Lab, Sandy Pentland uses cellphones and wearable sensors to research nonverbal signals, information flow, and the value of face-to-face...
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Programming Crowds
With the Web, people worldwide can work on distributed tasks. But getting reliable results requires algorithms that specify workflow between people, not transistors...
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Cars as Traffic Sensors
Researchers working on MIT's CarTel project are studying how cars could be used as ubiquitous mobile sensors. The researchers developed an algorithm that optimizes...
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First Improvement of Fundamental Algorithm in 10 Years
The max-flow problem, which is ubiquitous in network analysis, scheduling, and logistics, can now be solved more efficiently than ever.
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Can You Find Me Now?
By demonstrating fundamental limits on their accuracy, MIT researchers show how to improve wireless location-detection systems.
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Shape-Shifting Robots
Self-folding sheets of a plastic-like material point the way to robots that can assume any conceivable 3D structure.
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An Internet 100 Times As Fast
A new network design that avoids the need to convert optical signals into electrical ones could boost capacity while reducing power consumption.
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Toward the Semantic Web
The World Wide Web Consortium recently published the Rule Interchange Format, a new standard that should help bring the idea of the Semantic Web closer to reality...
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Web Sites That Can Take a Punch
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have developed a system to keep Web servers running even when they are under attack from cybercriminals.
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The Power of 'random'
Communications networks' efficiency could be upgraded with a new network coding approach co-developed by researchers at MIT in which a router mathematically combines...
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Drawing Inspiration From Nature to Build a Better Radio
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) engineers have developed a fast, ultra-broadband, low-power radio chip for use in wireless devices. MIT professor Rahul...
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