New system cleans messy data tables automatically

With just 50 lines of code, the program spots and fixes likely errors.

Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences • mit
May 11, 2021 ~11 min

Center to advance predictive simulation research established at MIT Schwarzman College of Computing

MIT is among nine universities selected as part of a program sponsored by the DoE to support science-based modeling and simulation and exascale computing technologies.

Terri Park | MIT Schwarzman College of Computing • mit
Nov. 24, 2020 ~7 min


Excel errors: the UK government has an embarrassingly long history of spreadsheet horror stories

Government needs to take its spreadsheets more seriously.

Simon Thorne, Senior Lecturer in Computing and ​Information Systems, Cardiff Metropolitan University • conversation
Oct. 7, 2020 ~5 min

MIT-led team to develop software to help forecast space storms

National Science Foundation awards proposal for space weather modeling.

Sara Cody | Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics • mit
Sept. 10, 2020 ~7 min

Technical interviews may pinpoint anxiety not skill

"Our study suggests that a lot of well-qualified job candidates are being eliminated because they're not used to working on a whiteboard in front of an audience."

Matt Shipman-NC State • futurity
July 14, 2020 ~6 min

Deep learning accurately stains digital biopsy slides

Pathologists who examined the computationally stained images could not tell them apart from traditionally stained slides.

Becky Ham | MIT Media Lab • mit
May 22, 2020 ~8 min

Tool finds software update bugs in hours, not days

"Updating software can sometimes turn on you when errors creep in and cause slowdowns." A new tool offers a quicker way to find the problem.

Texas A&M University • futurity
Feb. 13, 2020 ~5 min

Can ‘feminist design’ save hiring algorithms from bias?

Feminist design thinking could help rid hiring algorithms of some bias, researchers argue.

Matt Shipman-NC State • futurity
Feb. 10, 2020 ~3 min


Tool tells carpenters how to build stuff with what’s on hand

A new tool can design woodworking projects and then let carpenters know how to build them with materials and tools they already have.

Sarah McQuate-Washington • futurity
Dec. 4, 2019 ~4 min

Technique helps robots find the front door

Navigation method may speed up autonomous last-mile delivery.

Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office • mit
Nov. 4, 2019 ~8 min

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