This tiny, tamper-proof ID tag can authenticate almost anything

MIT engineers developed a tag that can reveal with near-perfect accuracy whether an item is real or fake. The key is in the glue on the back of the tag.

Adam Zewe | MIT News • mit
Feb. 18, 2024 ~7 min

MIT, Applied Materials, and the Northeast Microelectronics Coalition Hub to bring 200mm advanced research capabilities to MIT.nano

State-of-the-art toolset will bridge academic innovations and industry pathways to scale for semiconductors, microelectronics, and other critical technologies.

MIT.nano • mit
Jan. 30, 2024 ~7 min


Accelerating AI tasks while preserving data security

The SecureLoop search tool efficiently identifies secure designs for hardware that can boost the performance of complex AI tasks, while requiring less energy.

Adam Zewe | MIT News • mit
Oct. 30, 2023 ~9 min

Report: CHIPS Act just the first step in addressing threats to US leadership in advanced computing

The Advanced Computing Users Survey, sampling sentiments from 120 top-tier universities, national labs, federal agencies, and private firms, finds the decline in America’s advanced computing lead spans many areas.

Rachel Gordon | MIT CSAIL • mit
Feb. 28, 2023 ~10 min

A new chip for decoding data transmissions demonstrates record-breaking energy efficiency

The chip, which can decipher any encoded signal, could enable lower-cost devices that perform better while requiring less hardware.

Adam Zewe | MIT News Office • mit
Feb. 22, 2023 ~7 min

Making computer science research more accessible in India

Passionate about creating educational opportunities in India, PhD student Siddhartha Jayanti recently explored multiprocessor speed limits, in a paper written in the Indian language Telugu.

Alex Shipps | MIT CSAIL • mit
Jan. 30, 2023 ~8 min

Busy GPUs: Sampling and pipelining method speeds up deep learning on large graphs

New technique significantly reduces training and inference time on extensive datasets to keep pace with fast-moving data in finance, social networks, and fraud detection in cryptocurrency.

Lauren Hinkel | MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab • mit
Nov. 29, 2022 ~11 min

Researchers discover a new hardware vulnerability in the Apple M1 chip

CSAIL scientists’ novel hardware attack against the Apple M1 chip defeats the last line of security while leaving no trace.

Rachel Gordon | MIT CSAIL • mit
June 10, 2022 ~6 min


Integrating optical components into existing chip designs | MIT News

Technique would allow addition of optical communication components to existing chips with little modification of their designs.

Larry Hardesty | MIT News Office • mit
April 19, 2018 ~7 min

Practical parallelism | MIT News

System enables large speedups — as much as 88-fold — on common parallel-computing algorithms.

Larry Hardesty | MIT News Office • mit
June 30, 2017 ~7 min

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