Fleet of autonomous boats could service some cities, reducing road traffic | MIT News

Researchers design 3-D-printed, driverless boats that can provide transport and self-assemble into other floating structures.

Rob Matheson | MIT News Office • mit
May 23, 2018 ~9 min

Gauging language proficiency through eye movement | MIT News

Study tracks eye movement to determine how well people understand English as a foreign language.

Peter Dizikes | MIT News Office • mit
May 22, 2018 ~6 min


Making driverless cars change lanes more like human drivers do | MIT News

Algorithm computes “buffer zones” around autonomous vehicles and reassess them on the fly.

Larry Hardesty | MIT News Office • mit
May 22, 2018 ~5 min

Applying machine learning to challenges in the pharmaceutical industry | MIT News

MIT researchers and industry form new consortium to aid the drug discovery process.

Stefanie Koperniak | Department of Chemical Engineering • mit
May 17, 2018 ~9 min

Self-driving cars for country roads | MIT News

Today’s autonomous vehicles require hand-labeled 3-D maps, but CSAIL’s MapLite system enables navigation with just GPS and sensors.

Adam Conner-Simons | Rachel Gordon | CSAIL • mit
May 7, 2018 ~6 min

Protecting confidentiality in genomic studies | MIT News

Cryptographic system could enable “crowdsourced” genomics, with volunteers contributing information to privacy-protected databases.

Larry Hardesty | MIT News Office • mit
May 7, 2018 ~7 min

Building AI systems that make fair decisions | MIT News

Harini Suresh, a PhD student at MIT CSAIL, studies how to make machine learning algorithms more understandable and less biased.

Rachel Gordon | CSAIL • mit
April 24, 2018 ~7 min

Vinod Vaikuntanathan wins Edgerton Faculty Award | MIT News

Electrical Engineering and Computer Science faculty member is honored for his innovative work in cybersecurity and his engaging teaching style.

Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science • mit
April 23, 2018 ~5 min


A new way to automatically build road maps from aerial images | MIT News

“RoadTracer” system from the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory could reduce workload for developers of apps like Google Maps.

Adam Conner-Simons | CSAIL • mit
April 17, 2018 ~6 min

Three MIT graduate students awarded 2018 Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans | MIT News

Award honors immigrants’ contributions to the United States.

Julia Mongo | Office of Distinguished Fellowships • mit
April 17, 2018 ~7 min

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