Wave of the Future: Manage Your Smart Home with a Single Gesture
Our homes will get a lot smarter in the coming years, allowing us to use a smartphone to manage an integrated system of appliances and other electronics from any room—a …
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“Inactive” pill ingredients could raise the dose of your medication
The average medication contains a mix of eight “inactive” ingredients added to pills to make them taste better, last longer, and stabilize the active ingredients within. Some of those additives are now …
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Teaching machines to reason about what they see
A child who has never seen a pink elephant can still describe one — unlike a computer. “The computer learns from data,” says Jiajun Wu, a PhD student at MIT. “The …
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9 Bizarre and Surprising Insights from Data Science
Data is the world’s most potent, flourishing unnatural resource. Accumulated in large part as the byproduct of routine tasks, it is the unsalted, flavorless residue deposited en masse as organizations …
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Publishers Withdraw More than 120 Gibberish Science and Engineering Papers
The publishers Springer and IEEE are removing more than 120 papers from their subscription services after a French researcher discovered that the works were computer-generated nonsense. Over the past two …
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Europe’s Next Big-Budget Science Projects: 6 Teams Proceed to Final Round
The European Commission has selected six research projects—in areas from health and energy to artificial intelligence and cultural heritage—to compete to become one of its next billion-euro ‘flagship’ science initiatives, Nature has learned. …
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3Q: Anantha Chandrakasan on new MIT–IBM Watson AI Lab
MIT and IBM jointly announced today a 10-year agreement to create the MIT–IBM Watson AI Lab, a new collaboration for research on the frontiers of artificial intelligence. Anantha Chandrakasan, the …
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MIT-created programming language Julia 1.0 debuts
After years of tinkering, the dynamic programming language Julia 1.0 was officially released to the public during JuliaCon, an annual conference of Julia users held recently in London. The release of Julia …
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Can Artificial Intelligence Predict Earthquakes?
Predicting earthquakes is the holy grail of seismology. After all, quakes are deadly precisely because they’re erratic—striking without warning, triggering fires and tsunamis, and sometimes killing hundreds of thousands of …
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“Spear-Phishing” Roiled the Presidential Campaign—Here’s How to Protect Yourself
The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. Never in American political history have hacked and stolen emails played such a central …
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