Ingestible robots, glasses-free 3-D, and computers that explain themselves
A look at 16 of the coolest things that happened at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in 2016.
Helping policy and technology work together
Engineering grad student Keertan Kini is working to strengthen the intersection of policy and technology.
Foiling cyberattackers with rerandomization
A unique moving target technique combats information leakage attacks.
Information Protection @ MIT: Your source for securing data
Website provides access to policies, resources, and guides for safeguarding sensitive data at the Institute.
Cambridge Cyber Summit convenes industry, academia, and government
Hosted by CSAIL, event featured discussions on cybersecurity with tech leaders and officials from the NSA and FBI.
Students unlock the secrets of cryptography
LLCipher workshop hosted by the Lincoln Laboratory teaches the mathematics behind cryptography.
Judging a book through its cover
New computational imaging method identifies letters printed on first nine pages of a stack of paper.
How to stay anonymous online
Network can protect users’ anonymity if all but one of its servers are compromised.
MIT Forum and Infosys Risk Group release preliminary global risk survey findings
Survey indicates 92.54 percent of companies think the nature of risk is changing due to complexity in the digital economy.
![“[T]oday, if you want to write a program, you go and bring in these huge frameworks and these huge pieces of functionality that you then glue together, and you write a little code to get them to interact with each other. If you don’t understand what that big framework is doing, you’re not even going to know where your program is going to start executing,” says Armando Solar-Lezama.](/sites/default/files/styles/term_page__news_article/public/images/201605/MIT-Symbolic-Execution.jpg?itok=A5FxILHQ)
Automatic bug finder
System could make complex analysis practical for programs that import huge swaths of code.
![“[W]hen you send location data as a secondary piece of information, it is extremely simple for people with very little technical knowledge to find out where you work or live,” Ilaria Liccardi says.](/sites/default/files/styles/term_page__news_article/public/images/201605/MIT-No-Privacy.jpg?itok=Tkm7jhKw)
We know where you live
From location data alone, even low-tech snoopers can identify Twitter users’ homes, workplaces.
MIT Energy Initiative awards nine seed fund grants for early-stage energy research
Winning teams will use grants to advance research in areas including fuel cells, solar-powered desalination, and impacts of electric vehicle charging on the power grid.
System predicts 85 percent of cyber-attacks using input from human experts
Virtual artificial intelligence analyst developed by the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab and PatternEx reduces false positives by factor of 5.
Two MIT faculty win 2016 NSF CAREER Awards
James Swan and Konstantin Turitsyn are among 160 young scientists and engineers poised to explore new frontiers and inspire a future generation of scholars.