Footprint ‘reading’ tech is a new way to protect rhinos
New software helps track rhinos by their footprints, bringing "a centuries-old tracking skill into the 21st century," says Zoe Jewell.
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Photon device offers ‘X-ray vision’ through fog
A new algorithm lets researchers reconstruct the movements of photons to see through clouds, fog, and other obstructions.
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Making health care more personal
The company Health at Scale uses machine learning to improve outcomes for individual patients.
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Data systems that learn to be better
Storage tool developed at MIT CSAIL adapts to what its datasets’ users want to search.
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Avalanches inspire tool to predict ‘black swan’ events
By looking systems in which things suddenly go very wrong, researchers created a tool that could help predict the next gigantic global disaster.
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Avalanches inspire tool to predict ‘black swan’ events
Looking at systems where things go very wrong suddenly, researchers have created a tool that could help predict the next gigantic global disaster.
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AI methods make COVID-19 forecasting more local
Inspired by artificial intelligence techniques, researchers have developed a new COVID-19 forecasting tool that could give more accurate local info.
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Can a quantum strategy help bring down the house?
Study finds quantum entanglement could, in principle, give a slight advantage in the game of blackjack.
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An automated health care system that understands when to step in
Machine learning system from MIT CSAIL can look at chest X-rays to diagnose pneumonia — and also knows when to defer to a radiologist.
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Algorithm finds hidden connections between paintings at the Met
A team from MIT helped create an image retrieval system to find the closest matches of paintings from different artists and cultures.
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