More fun out of MIT's AI lab. Grad student Peng Yu happily showed off a couple of flying demos on our visit, controlling an Ar.Drone with a number of methods, including keyboard, tablet (touch), voice and gesture, each naturally presenting their own positives and negatives, in terms of ease of use and specificity. The latter was certainly the most intriguing... Read more
MACH system from MIT can coach those with social anxiety Plenty of people out there have a serious phobia of public speaking and there are tons of other disorders, such as Asperger's, that severely limit a person's ability to handle even simple social inter... Read more
Eyes-on: MIT Media Lab's Smarter Objects can map a user inte... While patrolling the halls of the CHI 2013 Human Factors in Computing conference in Paris, we spied a research project from MIT's Media Lab called "Smarter Objects" that turns Minority Report tech on ... Read more
IITian Anant Agarwal to head MIT`s largest lab Anant Agarwal has been named director of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). Read more
MIT president meets Maharashtra CM Mumbai, March 26 (IANS) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) president L. Rafael Reif Tuesday called on Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan along with chairman emeritus of Tata Group ... Read more
MIT imaging chip creates natural-looking flash photos Mobile image processing in itself isn't special when even high dynamic range shooting is virtually instant, at least with NVIDIA's new Tegras. A new low-power MIT chip, however, may prove its worth by... Read more
6 MIT scientists to address EmTech India in Bangalore Washington, March 23 (IANS) Six outstanding scientists and researchers from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), including two Indian Americans, will participate in the fourth emerging techno... Read more
3D? Feh. MIT has already moved on to 4D printing (video) The bad news: just as much of the world is starting to get excited about the prospects of 3D printing, science is moving on to the world of 4D. The good news: in the future, you might not have to asse... Read more
Inefficient? MIT's new chip software doesn't know the meanin... Would you rather have a power-hungry cellphone that could software-decode hundreds of video codecs, or a hyper-efficient system-on-chip that only processes H.264? These are the tough decisions mobile ... Read more
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