New software enables blind and low-vision users to create interactive, accessible charts

Screen-reader users can upload a dataset and create customized data representations that combine visualization, textual description, and sonification.

Adam Zewe | MIT News • mit
March 27, 2024 ~8 min

Boosting faith in the authenticity of open source software

Speranza system brings hope to users that the package they download is functional software, not malware.

Steve Nadis | MIT CSAIL • mit
Dec. 11, 2023 ~9 min


Fast-tracking fusion energy’s arrival with AI and accessibility

MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center will receive DoE support to improve access to fusion data and increase workforce diversity.

Julianna Mullen | Plasma Science and Fusion Center • mit
Sept. 1, 2023 ~6 min

System tracks movement of food through global humanitarian supply chain

Unique barcodes scannable in a mobile application will enable food-aid stakeholders to follow individual items from production through delivery.

Ariana Tantillo | MIT Lincoln Laboratory • mit
July 17, 2023 ~13 min

Python-based compiler achieves orders-of-magnitude speedups

Codon compiles Python code to run more efficiently and effectively while allowing for customization and adaptation to various domains.

Rachel Gordon | MIT CSAIL • mit
March 14, 2023 ~8 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

Ushering in a new era of computing

Dan Huttenlocher is a professor of electrical engineering and computer science and the inaugural dean at MIT Schwarzman College of Computing.

Daniel de Wolff | MIT Industrial Liaison Program • mit
Nov. 30, 2022 ~7 min

The “last mile” from credentials to employment

Digital Credentials Consortium’s new report explores barriers to adoption.

MIT Open Learning • mit
Nov. 3, 2022 ~8 min


A programming language for hardware accelerators

Researchers created Exo for writing high-performance code on hardware accelerators.

Rachel Gordon | MIT CSAIL • mit
July 11, 2022 ~8 min

Researchers release open-source photorealistic simulator for autonomous driving

MIT scientists unveil the first open-source simulation engine capable of constructing realistic environments for deployable training and testing of autonomous vehicles.

Rachel Gordon | MIT CSAIL • mit
June 21, 2022 ~8 min

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