Boston Globe reporter Hiawatha Bray reports on the 50th anniversary of MIT’s Project MAC. “When this started in 1963, the dream was to let multiple people use computers simultaneously,” Daniela Rus explains. “Fifty years later we’re now in a world where we find computing indispensable.”
Newsweek reporter Tom Parrett writes about current advances, and the future of swarm robots, highlighting Professor Daniela Rus’ work with self-assembling robots.
In a video for BBC News, Spencer Kelly reports on how, “A researcher at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has developed an algorithm which he says can predict how popular a photograph will be when it is posted online.”
In this Wired piece, Nicholas Tufnell reports on MIT work to analyze animated GIFS in an attempt to create a new language from the animated symbols.
A new programming language with built-in privacy protocols could help prevent your personal information from being compromised, reports Klint Fliney for Wired. The system, dubbed Jeeves, was developed by MIT PhD student Jean Yang.