Robot hand is soft and strong

Gripper device inspired by “origami magic ball” can grasp wide array of delicate and heavy objects.

Rachel Gordon | MIT CSAIL • mit
March 15, 2019 ~6 min

Negotiating with infrastructure cyberterrorists

Researchers design a negotiation strategy to help cities and organizations minimize losses when their data are held hostage.

Rob Matheson | MIT News Office • mit
March 4, 2019 ~8 min


Twenty-five ways in which MIT has transformed computing

From digital circuits to ingestible robots, the Institute has helped spearhead key innovations in the technology revolution.

Adam Conner-Simons | Rachel Gordon | MIT CSAIL • mit
Feb. 25, 2019 ~9 min

Achieving greater efficiency for fast data center operations

System better allocates time-sensitive data processing across cores to maintain quick user-response times.

Rob Matheson | MIT News Office • mit
Feb. 21, 2019 ~8 min

Putting data privacy in the hands of users

New platform acts as a gatekeeper to ensure web services adhere to a user’s custom data restrictions.

Rob Matheson | MIT News Office • mit
Feb. 20, 2019 ~7 min

Peering under the hood of fake-news detectors

Study uncovers language patterns that AI models link to factual and false articles; underscores need for further testing.

Rob Matheson | MIT News Office • mit
Feb. 6, 2019 ~7 min

Putting neural networks under the microscope

Researchers pinpoint the “neurons” in machine-learning systems that capture specific linguistic features during translation tasks.

Rob Matheson | MIT News Office • mit
Feb. 1, 2019 ~8 min

Filling the gaps in a patient’s medical data

Neural network assimilates multiple types of health data to help doctors make decisions with incomplete information.

Rob Matheson | MIT News Office • mit
Jan. 25, 2019 ~8 min


Identifying artificial intelligence “blind spots”

Model identifies instances when autonomous systems have learned from examples that may cause dangerous errors in the real world.

Rob Matheson | MIT News Office • mit
Jan. 24, 2019 ~8 min

A faster, more efficient cryptocurrency

Design reduces by 99 percent the data users need to join the network and verify transactions.

Rob Matheson | MIT News Office • mit
Jan. 23, 2019 ~9 min

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