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New visions for better transportation
... transportation problems from the ground up. Waiting for a delayed bus, packing ourselves into a subway car, or crawling along in ... was delivered online to a public audience of about 175 people. It was the 12th and final event of the MIT Mobility Forum in the fall ...
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Smarter robot arms
In these time-lapse photos, a robot is guided by two different algorithms as it attempts to grasp a coffee ... consideration if they’re to interact with humans. “People are most comfortable when the robot behaves in the way that a human ... he says. “It definitely would be one of the options that people would look for.” ...
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Q&A: A fresh look at data science
Alfred Spector is a visiting scholar at LIDS through the MIT Department of Electrical Engineering ... or else clearly identify what we are not solving so that people see the limitations of our work. We should be extremely clear so that we ... or lead others to erroneous conclusions. I also remind people that all of us, including scientists and engineers, are human and ...
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Living better with algorithms
... that sent her down the track to an upstream question. At a talk on ethical artificial intelligence, the speaker brought up a variation ... In another line of research , Cen looks at whether people can receive good long-term outcomes when they not only compete for ...
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Study: With masking and distancing in place, NFL stadium openings in 2020 had no impact on local Covid-19 infections
... events would have on Covid-19 case counts, particularly at a time when vaccination against the virus was not widely available. Now, ... case counts start to rise again, we know what to do: mask people, put them outside, and distance them from each other.” The ...
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What is synthetic data - and how can it help you competitively?
... his group's research on synthetic data. “You can take a phone number and break it down. When you resynthesize it, you’re generating ... have to increase productivity, but you don’t want to put people in a situation where they have to make judgment calls about whether or ...
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Bringing human-like reasoning to driverless car navigation
... autonomous vehicle navigation, MIT researchers have created a system that enables driverless cars to check a simple map and use visual data ... directions, but as it sees more and more data about what people do, it will see that some people turn left and some turn right, but ...
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System helps severely motor-impaired individuals type more quickly and accurately
Researchers at MIT and elsewhere are developing a system that enables severely motor-impaired individuals who communicate using ... to develop software that has the potential to really help people. Being able to find those signals and turn them into communication as we ...
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Keeping the balance: How flexible nuclear operation can help add more wind and solar to the grid
... sunniest region, sunlight can shine down for up to 14 hours a day. This makes the location ideal for implementing solar energy — and the ... briefly in the morning, and then peaking in the evening when people come home from work. “Throughout these daily and seasonal changes ...
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Networks of probability
... Devavrat Shah arrived at Stanford University as a graduate student in computer science in 1999, just a few months after a ... as “small by Indian standards — only two million people.” While his father and grandfather had been professors of mechanical ...