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A system designed by researchers at MIT and elsewhere enables interconnected smart devices to cooperatively pinpoint their positions in noisy environments where GPS usually fails, which is useful for emerging “localization-of-things” applications.

System helps smart devices find their position

Connected devices can now share position information, even in noisy, GPS-denied areas.

October 2, 2019

A novel system by MIT researchers automatically “learns” how to allocate data-processing operations across thousands of servers.

Artificial intelligence could help data centers run far more efficiently

MIT system “learns” how to optimally allocate workloads across thousands of servers to cut costs, save energy.

August 21, 2019

MIT researchers have developed a “risk-aware” model that could improve the performance of cloud-computing networks across the U.S.

Using Wall Street secrets to reduce the cost of cloud infrastructure

“Risk-aware” traffic engineering could help service providers such as Microsoft, Amazon, and Google better utilize network infrastructure.

August 18, 2019

“I hope to save a lot of people a lot of time doing boring, repetitive work by automating programming work as well as decreasing the cost of building secure, reliable systems,” says Associate Professor Adam Chlipala.

Making it easier to program and protect the web

Professor Adam Chlipala builds tools to help programmers more quickly generate optimized, secure code.

July 20, 2019

MIT grad student Steven Gonzalez is showing that the cloud is neither distant nor ephemeral: It’s a massive system, ubiquitous in daily life, that contains huge amounts of energy, has the potential for environmental disaster, and is operated by an insular community of expert technicians.

Communities in the cloud

PhD student Steven Gonzalez studies cloud computing with the eye of an anthropologist.

June 5, 2019

CSAIL PhD student Soya Park is lead author on the YouPS project.

Better email automation

CSAIL team studies what email users want for better automating email — and proposes "YouPS" filtering tool.

April 29, 2019

MIT Professor Tim Berners-Lee is being honored for work on a new startup, inrupt, aimed at "re-decentralizing the web."

Tim Berners-Lee named FT “Boldness in Business” Person of the Year

CSAIL researcher and web inventor recognized for his startup inrupt, which aims to give users more control over their data.

March 18, 2019

Vijay Gadepally stands in Lincoln Laboratory's in-house supercomputing center. Gadepally is part of a team that leveraged supercomputing to address cybersecurity issues.

Supercomputers can spot cyber threats

Lincoln Laboratory researchers have developed a technique to compress hours of internet traffic into a bundle that can be analyzed for suspicious behavior.

February 26, 2019

Whirlwind I, the first digital computer capable of real-time computation

Twenty-five ways in which MIT has transformed computing

From digital circuits to ingestible robots, the Institute has helped spearhead key innovations in the technology revolution.

February 25, 2019

A new system by MIT researchers improves the efficiency of high-speed operations in data centers by better assigning time-sensitive data processing across CPU cores and ensuring hardware runs productively.

Achieving greater efficiency for fast data center operations

System better allocates time-sensitive data processing across cores to maintain quick user-response times.

February 21, 2019

Often, multiple Wikipedia editors will disagree on certain changes to articles or policies.

Why some Wikipedia disputes go unresolved

Study identifies reasons for unsettled editing disagreements and offers predictive tools that could improve deliberation.

November 6, 2018

MIT neuroscientists explain why some people hear "Yanny" and others hear "Laurel" in the audio clip that has taken the world by storm.

Featured video: The neuroscience behind "Yanny" vs. "Laurel"

MIT grad students explain why some people hear "Yanny" and others hear "Laurel" in the audio clip that's taken the world by storm.

May 17, 2018

CSAIL PhD student Amy Zhang led the development of the new Squadbox tool.

Using friends to fight online harassment

CSAIL’s “Squadbox” uses “friendsourcing” to better support targets of cyberbullying.

April 5, 2018

MIT Professor Tom Leighton has won the 2018 Marconi Prize for his fundamental contributions to technology and the establishment of the content delivery network (CDN) industry.

Professor Tom Leighton wins 2018 Marconi Prize

Akamai co-founder honored for pioneering content delivery network services industry.

March 22, 2018

“The concept of my startup is, ‘Let’s use hacker tools to defeat hackers,’” PhD student Gregory Falco says. “If you don’t know how to break it, you don’t know how to fix it.”

Gregory Falco: Protecting urban infrastructure against cyberterrorism

PhD student works at the intersection of urban planning and computer science.

September 5, 2017

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