Computer Science: Research Guide

New tool highlights what generative models leave out when reconstructing a scene.

Robotic boats could more rapidly locate the most valuable sampling spots in uncharted waters.

Math and computer science major tweaks soccer accelerometer’s algorithms and expands his worldview via MIT-France.

Model alerts driverless cars when it’s safest to merge into traffic at intersections with obstructed views.

An artificial intelligence model developed at MIT shows in striking detail what makes some images stick in our minds.

Whether racing cross country or teaching coding in rural schools, senior Billy Woltz relishes experimentation and creative thinking.

Developed at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, robots can self-assemble to form various structures with applications including inspection.

A low-cost analog circuit based on synchronizing oscillators could scale up quickly and cheaply to beat out digital computers.

By sensing tiny changes in shadows, a new system identifies approaching objects that may cause a collision.

Modeling web traffic could aid cybersecurity, computing infrastructure design, Internet policy, and more.

Drones can fly at high speeds to a destination while keeping safe “backup” plans if things go awry.

Research aims to make it easier for self-driving cars, robotics, and other applications to understand the 3D world.

Systems “learn” from novel dataset that captures how pushed objects move, to improve their physical interactions with new objects.

Senior Kristy Carpenter aims to leverage artificial intelligence and other computational tools to develop new, more affordable drugs.

Edelman's Julia programming language was recognized for solving large computational problems for high-performance computers.

New research reveals biases in fake news datasets and improves the use of automatic detectors.

Model could recreate video from motion-blurred images and “corner cameras,” may someday retrieve 3D data from 2D medical images.

MIT and IBM researchers offer a new method to train and run deep learning models more efficiently.

MIT senior's longstanding passion for Mandarin leads to a hands-on taste of the complexities of functioning in a Chinese business context.

Model from the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory identifies “serial hijackers” of internet IP addresses.

New method from MIT’s research enterprise in Singapore paves the way for improved optoelectronic and 5G devices.

New technique stretches out MRI scans of placentas so they can be more accurately analyzed, and shows the potential of MRI for pregnancy monitoring.

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

Five software and hardware projects will launch the MIT.nano Immersion Lab Gaming Program.

TX-GAIA is tailor-made for crunching through deep neural network operations.

Algorithm enables one audio signal to glide into another, recreating the “portamento” effect of some musical instruments.

RFID-based devices work in indoor and outdoor lighting conditions, and communicate at greater distances.

Researchers integrate diamond-based sensing components onto a chip to enable low-cost, high-performance quantum hardware.

Study offers models for preserving the privacy of citizens while using their data to improve government services.

How the humanities, arts, and social science fields can help shape the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing — and benefit from advanced computing.