#A.I. MIT researchers have designed a congestion-control scheme for wireless networks that could help reduce lag times and increase quality in video streaming, video chat, mobile gaming, and other web services. To keep web services running smoothly...
Friday, April 10, 2020
Friday, March 13, 2020
3Q: Collaborating with users to develop accessible designs #AI
#A.I. Academic researchers and others have long struggled with making data visualizations accessible to people who are blind. One technological approach has been 3D printing tactile representations of data, in the form of raised bar graphs and line...
Sunday, March 8, 2020
“Doing machine learning the right way” #AI
#A.I. The work of MIT computer scientist Aleksander Madry is fueled by one core mission: “doing machine learning the right way.” Madry’s research centers largely on making machine learning — a type of artificial intelligence — more accurate, effici...
Friday, March 6, 2020
Showing robots how to do your chores #AI
#A.I. Training interactive robots may one day be an easy job for everyone, even those without programming expertise. Roboticists are developing automated robots that can learn new tasks solely by observing humans. At home, you might someday show a ...
Wednesday, March 4, 2020
Integrating electronics onto physical prototypes #AI
#A.I. MIT researchers have invented a way to integrate “breadboards” — flat platforms widely used for electronics prototyping — directly onto physical products. The aim is to provide a faster, easier way to test circuit functions and user interacti...
Wednesday, February 26, 2020
Protecting sensitive metadata so it can’t be used for surveillance #AI
#A.I. MIT researchers have designed a scalable system that secures the metadata — such as who’s corresponding and when — of millions of users in communications networks, to help protect the information against possible state-level surveillance. Dat...