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NOVEMBER 12, 2023
Back in 2005, before smartphones were generally available, MIT Professor Hari Balakrishnan was so fed up with commuting delays in Boston that he built a mobile system to monitor road conditions. Their research won several awards, and the system was covered by The Boston Globe. In the final year of his Ph.D.,
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FEBRUARY 3, 2020
A model developed by Researchers at MIT and Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI) have developed a model that uses satellite imagery to tag road features in digital maps to help improve GPS navigation. Each tile is a separate graph node, connected by lines along the road. The CNN takes as input raw satellite images of target roads.
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JUNE 6, 2013
Driving in chaotic urban traffic can be as nearly as stressful as jumping out of an airplane, according to new findings from an Audi and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) study. For Audi, the research helps validate how driver assistance and connectivity technologies can help ease the stress of daily driving.
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FEBRUARY 23, 2024
Robot built by Boston Dynamics for the DARPA Robotics Challenge in 2013. NRL did some interesting stuff with Nexi robots from MIT and made their own videos. MIT CSAIL ] Large industrial asset operators increasingly use robotics to automate hazardous work at their facilities. MIT ] Lex Fridman interviews Marc Raibert. [
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OCTOBER 21, 2022
Kickstarter ] Researchers created a method for magnetically programming materials to make cubes that are very picky about who they connect with, enabling more scalable self-assembly. MIT CSAIL ] Thanks, Rachel! Boston Dynamics ] Awawa, awawa. [ Dronisos ] There’s a new Mini Pupper on Kickstarter, now with ROS 2!
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JANUARY 27, 2022
The MIT electrical engineering and computer science professor’s positive thinking has led to new ways to improve tried-and-true techniques in the field of information theory. She liked working on creative projects and mathematics, so she decided to study math and literature at MIT. She returned to MIT as a faculty member in 2000.
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JULY 22, 2023
She has first-hand experience in education: She taught math and physics in Boston-area high schools. She also served in executive positions in Boston public schools , New York City public schools , and Success Academy charter schools, also in New York City.
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