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Designing for 3-D printing
Rachel Gordon | MIT News | CSAIL“Foundry” tool from the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab lets you design a wide range of multi-material 3-D-printed objects.To demonstrate Foundry, MIT...
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2016-2017 USAGE Students
The 2016–2017 Undergraduate Student Advisory Group in EECS (USAGE) includes 36 students from within Course 6 who help the department grow by providing feedback about their experiences. USAGE members...
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Prepping a robot for its journey to Mars
October 18, 2016Meg Murphy | School of EngineeringSenior Sarah Hensley aims to improve Earth's most advanced humanoid robot, in advance of its trip to the Red Planet.“One thing you realize working in...
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Algorithm connects students to the most interesting person they’ve never met
Sarah Goodman | MindHandHeart InitiativeTuka Al-Hanai and Mohammad Ghassemi have connected more than 500 MIT students for more than 1,000 face-to-face lunch meetings.MIT grad students Mohammad Ghassemi...
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In the Media: MIT graduate Margaret Guo named NCAA Woman of the Year
Date Posted: Monday, October 17, 2016 - 10:15amNews Image: Card Title: MIT graduate Margaret Guo named NCAA Woman of the YearCard URL:...
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MRIs for fetal health
October 21, 2016Larry Hardesty | MIT NewsAlgorithm could help analyze fetal scans to determine whether interventions are warranted.A team led by Polina Golland’s group at MIT’s Computer Science and...
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Automating big-data analysis
October 21, 2016Larry Hardesty | MIT NewsWith new algorithms, data scientists could accomplish in days what has traditionally taken months.“The goal of all this is to present the interesting stuff to...
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CSAIL computer vision team leads scene parsing challenge
October 21, 2016Rachel Gordon | CSAILThis week a team from CSAIL’s computer vision group co-hosted the first Scene Parsing Challenge at the 2016 European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) in...
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Asu Ozdaglar named associate department head
Expert in optimization theory to join department leadership.Asu Ozdaglar, the Joseph F. and Nancy P. Keithley Professor of Electrical Engineering, has been appointed as associate head of the Department...
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Electric motors find new roles in robots, ships, cars, and microgrids
October 24, 2016Eric Brown | MIT Industrial Liaison ProgramJames Kirtley discusses the transition from gas to electric motors and the impact these motors have had on modern technologies.Professor James...
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Finding patterns in corrupted data
October 26, 2016Larry Hardesty | MIT NewsNew model-fitting technique is efficient even for data sets with hundreds of variables.A team, including researchers from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial...
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Making it easier to collaborate on code
October 26, 2016Adam Connor-Simons | CSAILCSAIL team's “Gitless” fixes Git’s biggest issues — and suggests their approach could help improve systems like Gmail and Dropbox.“Gitless" removes complicated...
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MIT launches new venture for world-changing entrepreneurs
Rob Matheson | MIT NewsThe Engine will provide funding, space, and expertise — powering a network of innovation networks.Today MIT President L. Rafael Reif announced the creation of The Engine, a new...
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New EECS Faculty for 2016-2017
School of Engineering | MIT NewsEECS welcomes six new faculty.First row (left to right): Adam Belay, Stefanie Mueller, Max Shulaker. Second row (left to right): David Sontag, Ryan Williams, Virginia...
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Making computers explain themselves
Larry Hardesty | MIT NewsNew training technique would reveal the basis for machine-learning systems’ decisions.Researchers from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL)...
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The Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science is proud to present the following awards for SM and PhD theses for Fall 2016. 2016 George M. Sprowls Award for outstanding PhD thesis in CS...
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Driverless-vehicle options now include scooters
November 7, 2016Larry Hardesty | MIT NewsSelf-driving scooter demonstrated at MIT complements autonomous golf carts and city cars.An autonomous mobility scooter and related software were designed by...
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Faster programs, easier programming
November 7, 2016Larry Hardesty | MIT NewsNew system lets nonexperts optimize programs that run on multiprocessor chips.A system developed by researchers at MIT and Stony Brook University should make it...
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MIT awarded UNESCO Medal for contributions to nanoscience and nanotechnologies
November 7, 2016Terri Park | MIT Innovation InstituteNanoscience pioneer and Institute Professor Millie Dresselhaus accepted the medal in Paris on behalf of the Institute.Institute Professor Millie...
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Artificial-intelligence system surfs web to improve its performance
November 10, 2016Larry Hardesty | MIT News“Information extraction” system helps turn plain text into data for statistical analysis.Information extraction — or automatically classifying data items...
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