In 2008, four students at the MIT Sloan School of Management developed a system for captioning online video that was far more efficient than traditional methods, which involve pausing a video frequently to write text and ...
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Apr 9, 2015
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Optimization algorithms, which try to find the minimum values of mathematical functions, are everywhere in engineering. Among other things, they're used to evaluate design tradeoffs, to assess control systems, and to find ...
Computer Sciences
Jan 21, 2015
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A new study, published today in the journal PNAS, compares the ability of computers and people to make accurate judgments about our personalities. People's judgments were based on their familiarity with the judged individual, ...
Computer Sciences
Jan 12, 2015
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For household robots ever to be practical, they'll need to be able to recognize the objects they're supposed to manipulate. But while object recognition is one of the most widely studied topics in artificial intelligence, ...
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Jan 12, 2015
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For over a half-century, games have been test beds for new ideas in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the resulting successes have marked significant milestones - Deep Blue defeated Kasparov in chess and Watson defeated Jennings ...
Computer Sciences
Jan 8, 2015
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A Web page today is the result of a number of interacting components—like cascading style sheets, XML code, ad hoc database queries, and JavaScript functions. For all but the most rudimentary sites, keeping track of how ...
Computer Sciences
Dec 23, 2014
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For decades, neuroscientists have been trying to design computer networks that can mimic visual skills such as recognizing objects, which the human brain does very accurately and quickly.
Computer Sciences
Dec 18, 2014
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Most modern cryptographic schemes rely on computational complexity for their security. In principle, they can be cracked, but that would take a prohibitively long time, even with enormous computational resources.
Computer Sciences
Oct 30, 2014
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Scientists have crunched data to predict crime, hospital visits, and government uprisings—so why not the price of Bitcoin?
Computer Sciences
Oct 22, 2014
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Error-correcting codes are one of the glories of the information age: They're what guarantee the flawless transmission of digital information over the airwaves or through copper wire, even in the presence of the corrupting ...
Computer Sciences
Oct 1, 2014
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