Homing pigeon missiles, dead trout swimming, butt breathing honored with Ig Nobel Prize
Mad science award ceremony returns to MIT after four years online
Bootnotes14 Sep 2024 | 71
MIT
MIT's bionic leg upgrade leaves amputees walking like the wind
Researchers expect treatment to be available clinically in around 5 years
Science02 Jul 2024 | 18
MIT professor hoses down predictions AI will put a rocket under the economy
It's easier to foresee growing inequality than surging growth
AI + ML29 May 2024 | 38
MIT breakthrough means there's no material too weird for 3D printing
Thanks to sensors and math, machines can 'learn' to adapt to new mediums
OSes15 Apr 2024 | 18
War of the workstations: How the lowest bidders shaped today's tech landscape
Feature The MIT and New Jersey schools of software design, and how big lies turned into holy truths
OSes25 Dec 2023 | 224
Scientists turn to mid-20th century tech for low-power underwater comms
Hat tip to the late Lester Clare Van Atta, whose array is behind the system
Science07 Sep 2023 | 19
BROADER TOPICS
MIT bods offer PhotoGuard gadget to thwart AI deepfakes
Open source image-massage works … up to a point
AI + ML01 Aug 2023 | 6
MIT discovery suggests a new class of superconductors
You who think superconductivity can't happen without spin polarization? Hold my FeSe
Science23 Jun 2023 | 23
MIT researchers propose modular, multi-mission Moon robots
Fancy playing with some space Lego?
Science14 Mar 2023 | 1
Check out Codon: A Python compiler if you have a need for C/C++ speed
Caveats apply, your mileage may vary
Devops11 Mar 2023 | 70
Boffins concoct interference-busting radios
What’s the frequency, Kenneth?
Systems28 Feb 2023 | 26
MIT Press to trial open access journals, so long as someone else pays for it
Great: Fewer paywalls. Not great: Long-term funding is still a question
Science07 Feb 2023 | 17
US could save billions in health costs if it changed wind energy strategy
Socio-economic disparities between who benefits from new plants still remain, say MIT researchers
Science05 Dec 2022 | 22
Boffins' beam forming kit opens the door to more realistic holograms
MIT's hardware speeds up light manipulation by a factor of 10
Science30 Nov 2022 | 10
Machine learning research in acoustics could open up multimodal metaverse
Jury still out on whether any kind of metaverse is strictly necessary
AI + ML02 Nov 2022 | 10
MIT boffins cram ML training into microcontroller memory
Neat algorithmic trick squeezing into 256KB of RAM, barely enough for inference let alone teaching
Edge + IoT05 Oct 2022 | 6
Soviet-era tech could change the geothermal industry
Gyrotrons can super heat plasma, maybe vaporize 20km of rock, too
Science28 Jun 2022 | 122
Climate model code is so outdated, MIT starts from scratch
Julia replaces Fortran as the basis for Earth's new digital twin
HPC13 Apr 2022 | 106
MIT, Amazon, TSMC, ASML and friends to work on non-planet-killing AI hardware
Program co-lead tells us 'energy efficiency is the greatest need'
AI + ML30 Mar 2022 | 2
Harvard, MIT, Berkeley are still fighting over genome-editing patents. Now another ruling
Who says organic chemistry doesn't have its drama?
Science02 Mar 2022 | 7
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