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Small aquatic robots that assemble into reconfigurable structures on the water

Most people think of the waterfront as the edge of the city. A team of MIT researchers sees it as a dynamic, Lego-like ...
Network World

MIT sues architect of $300 million computer science building

Architect Frank Gehry’s celebrated design for the Stata Center at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is making headlines again — this time because of a lawsuit by MIT claiming deficient design ...
Popular Science

MIT’s new computer chip design lets you clip on parts like LEGOs

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Wall Street Journal

Forget Humanoids. At MIT, Worms and Turtles Are Inspiring a New Generation of Robots

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—Everyone is obsessed with humanoid robots right now, but the director of MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory thinks tomorrow’s intelligent physical machines ...
EurekAlert!

MIT engineers advance toward a fault-tolerant quantum computer

CAMBRIDGE, MA – In the future, quantum computers could rapidly simulate new materials or help scientists develop faster machine-learning models, opening the door to many new possibilities. But these ...
Computerworld

MIT professor named recipient of ‘Nobel’ of computer science

MIT Professor Barbara Liskov will receive the 2008 A.M. Turing Award, considered the Nobel Prize of computer science. Liskov is being recognized by the Association for Computing Machinery for her ...
The Boston Globe

MIT, Harvard scientists find AI can recognize race from X-rays — and nobody knows how

A doctor can’t tell if somebody is Black, Asian, or white, just by looking at their X-rays. But a computer can, according to a surprising new paper by an international team of scientists, including ...