MIT researchers have developed a machine-learning system that can comb through repairs to open-source computer programs and learn their general properties, in order to produce new repairs for a different set of programs.
Computer Sciences
Jan 29, 2016
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Today, computer chips are built by stacking layers of different materials and etching patterns into them.
Engineering
Jan 28, 2016
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Rice University researchers have won $2.4 million from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to conduct the most extensive experimental research yet of wireless technology that uses 100 or more antennas per base station to ...
Telecom
Nov 24, 2015
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77
As smartphones become people's primary computers and their primary cameras, there is growing demand for mobile versions of image-processing applications.
Computer Sciences
Nov 13, 2015
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By exploiting the graphics-rendering software that powers sports video games, researchers at MIT and the Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI) have developed a system that automatically converts 2-D video of soccer games ...
Computer Sciences
Nov 4, 2015
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While designing models for the Multiphase Flow with Interphase Exchanges (MFiX) code, one of the National Energy Technology Laboratory's most robust computational tools, Physical Research Scientist Jordan Musser realized ...
General Physics
Oct 20, 2015
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With 2.5 million daily users, the Tor network is the world's most popular system for protecting Internet users' anonymity. For more than a decade, people living under repressive regimes have used Tor to conceal their Web-browsing ...
Security
Jul 29, 2015
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998
Researchers of the Universitat Politècnica de València have designed EYES, a new system for smartphones and tablets –now in the prototype phase– which aims to make overtaking manoeuvres safer on highways. EYES provides ...
Engineering
Jul 6, 2015
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Moving closer to the possibility of "materials that compute" and wearing your computer on your sleeve, researchers at the University of Pittsburgh Swanson School of Engineering have designed a responsive hybrid material that ...
Materials Science
Jun 24, 2015
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301
An MIT team has developed a way of making soft materials, using a 3-D printer, with surface textures that can then be modified at will to be perfectly smooth, or ridged or bumpy, or even to have complex patterns that could ...
Materials Science
Jun 11, 2015
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