web.mit.edu 2021-12-23 03:00 MIT in the media: 2021 in review From Institute-wide efforts to address the climate crisis to responding to Covid-19, members of the MIT community made headlines this year... web.mit.edu 2021-12-17 04:25 Q&A: Cathy Wu on developing algorithms to safely integrate robots into our world Cathy Wu is the Gilbert W. Winslow Assistant Professor of Civil and... web.mit.edu 2021-12-16 05:00 From counting blood cells to motion capture, sensors drive patient-centered research Sensors and sensing systems — from devices that count white blood cells to... web.mit.edu 2021-12-08 01:30 A system for designing and training intelligent soft robots Let’s say you wanted to build the world’s best stair-climbing robot.... web.mit.edu 2021-12-07 12:00 Making her way through MIT Lucy Du, a doctoral student in the MIT Media Lab, has a remarkable passion for making. She spends her work day in lab designing and... web.mit.edu 2021-12-07 12:00 Technique enables real-time rendering of scenes in 3D Humans are pretty good at looking at a single two-dimensional image and... web.mit.edu 2021-12-06 23:00 Jelena Vučković delivers 2021 Dresselhaus Lecture on inverse-designed photonics As her topic for the 2021 Mildred S. Dresselhaus Lecture, Stanford University...
web.mit.edu 2021-12-06 23:00 Generating a realistic 3D world While standing in a kitchen, you push some metal bowls across the counter into the sink with a clang, and drape a towel over the back of a chair. In another room, it sounds like some precariously stacked wooden blocks...
web.mit.edu 2021-12-06 12:00 Taking some of the guesswork out of drug discovery In their quest to discover effective new medicines, scientists search for drug-like molecules that can attach to disease-causing proteins and change their functionality. It is crucial that they know the 3D shape of a...
web.mit.edu 2021-12-05 12:00 The intersection of math, computers, and everything else Shardul Chiplunkar, a senior in Course 18C (mathematics with computer science), entered MIT interested in computers, but soon he was trying everything from spinning fire to building firewalls. He dabbled in audio...
web.mit.edu 2021-12-01 20:00 3 Questions: Can we fix our flawed software? Sometimes, software is just like us. It can be bloated, slow, and messy. Humans might see a doctor if these symptoms persist (maybe not for messiness), but rarely do we push a flawed software program to go see its...
web.mit.edu 2021-11-29 21:00 Energy hackers give a glimpse of a postpandemic future After going virtual in 2020, the MIT EnergyHack was back on campus last weekend in a brand-new hybrid format that saw teams participate both in person and virtually from across the globe. While the hybrid format...
web.mit.edu 2021-11-29 12:00 Artificial intelligence that understands object relationships When humans look at a scene, they see objects and the relationships between them. On top of your desk, there might be a laptop that is sitting to the left of a phone, which is in front of a computer monitor. Many deep...
web.mit.edu 2021-11-23 03:00 Peeking into a chrysalis, videos reveal growth of butterfly wing scales If you brush against the wings of a butterfly, you will likely come away with a fine sprinkling of powder. This lepidopteran dust is made up of tiny microscopic scales, hundreds of thousands of which paper a...
web.mit.edu 2021-11-23 01:00 Nanograins make for a seismic shift In Earth’s crust, tectonic blocks slide and grind past each other like enormous ships loosed from anchor. Earthquakes are generated along these fault zones when enough stress builds for a block to stick, then suddenly...
web.mit.edu 2021-11-22 23:00 Getting quantum dots to stop blinking Quantum dots, discovered in the 1990s, have a wide range of applications and are perhaps best known for producing vivid colors in some high-end televisions. But for some potential uses, such as tracking biochemical...
web.mit.edu 2021-11-20 03:20 Design’s new frontier In the 1960s, the advent of computer-aided design (CAD) sparked a revolution in design. For his PhD thesis in 1963, MIT Professor Ivan Sutherland developed Sketchpad, a game-changing software program that enabled users...
web.mit.edu 2021-11-17 00:20 Theoretical breakthrough could boost data storage A trio of researchers that includes William Kuszmaul — a computer science PhD student at MIT — has made a discovery that could lead to more efficient data storage and retrieval in computers. The team’s findings...
web.mit.edu 2021-11-13 00:50 Dexterous robotic hands manipulate thousands of objects with ease At just one year old, a baby is more dexterous than a robot. Sure, machines can do more than just pick up and put down objects, but we’re not quite there as far as replicating a natural pull toward exploratory or...
web.mit.edu 2021-11-09 03:00 Embarking upon a leadership journey Current developments in the Middle East continue to challenge people in the region and open windows to make a sustainable impact. Challenges like water access, health care, IT, vocational training, and others can be...
web.mit.edu 2021-11-05 11:00 Giving robots social skills Robots can deliver food on a college campus and hit a hole-in-one on the golf course, but even the most sophisticated robot can’t perform basic social interactions that are critical to everyday human life. MIT...
web.mit.edu 2021-11-04 11:00 Toward speech recognition for uncommon spoken languages Automated speech-recognition technology has become more common with the popularity of virtual assistants like Siri, but many of these systems only perform well with the most widely spoken of the world’s roughly 7,000...
web.mit.edu 2021-11-02 11:00 Avoiding shortcut solutions in artificial intelligence If your Uber driver takes a shortcut, you might get to your destination faster. But if a machine learning model takes a shortcut, it might fail in unexpected ways. In machine learning, a shortcut solution occurs when...
web.mit.edu 2021-11-02 01:25 School of Science appoints 11 faculty members to named professorships The School of Science has announced that 11 faculty members have been appointed to named professorships. These positions offer additional support to professors to advance their research and develop their...
web.mit.edu 2021-10-29 03:00 Creating dynamic symmetry in quantum systems Physicists and engineers have long been interested in creating new forms of matter, those not typically found in nature. Such materials might find use someday in, for example, novel computer chips. Beyond applications,...
