Tag: MIT

Debut of AI Ethics Partnership, AI-Inspired Symphony, and More – This Week in Artificial Intelligence 09-30-16

Big DataSeptember 29, 2016

1 – Oculus Investor Greg Castle Unveils $12 million Fund for VR, Self-Driving Cars, and MoreAnorak Ventures’ Greg Castle, who got in early on...

MIT’s New Language for Big “Sparse” Data, Uber’s Self-Driving Debut, and More – This Week in Artificial Intelligence 09-16-16

Big DataSeptember 15, 2016

1 – 10 Later-stage Startups Join the Seattle Machine Learning and Data Science AcceleratorMicrosoft has launched its fourth Machine Learning Accelerator with 10 late-stage startups...

For first time, researchers see individual atoms keep away from each other or bunch up as pairs

QuantumSeptember 15, 2016

If you bottle up a gas and try to image its atoms using today’s most powerful microscopes, you will see...

Social and Soft Robotics, Super-Human Speech Recognition, More – This Week in Artificial Intelligence 08-26-16

Big DataAugust 25, 2016

1 – People Favour Expressive, Communicative Robots Over Efficient and Effective OnesA recently published study out of the University of Bristol and University College...

Toward practical quantum computers

QuantumAugust 8, 2016

Quantum computers are largely hypothetical devices that could perform some calculations much more rapidly than conventional computers can. Instead of...

Researchers find unexpected magnetic effect

QuantumMay 9, 2016

A new and unexpected magnetic effect has taken researchers by surprise, and could open up a new pathway to advanced...

Research highlight: Jagadeesh Moodera

QuantumApril 29, 2016

MIT Physics Department Senior Research Scientist Jagadeesh S. Moodera was one of the pioneers in the field of spin-polarized magnetic...

Stabilizing quantum bits

QuantumApril 6, 2016

Quantum computers are largely hypothetical devices that could perform some calculations much more rapidly than conventional computers can. They exploit...