Information technology
Better memory with faster lasers
08 Jul 2015
Automatic bug repair
By By Larry Hardesty | MIT News Office | 04 Jul 2015
An MIT-designed system fixes bugs by importing functionality from other programs — without access to source code
Encryption for everyone
27 Jun 2015
Toward tiny, solar-powered sensors
By By Larry Hardesty | MIT News Office | 24 Jun 2015
A new ultralow-power circuit doubles the efficiency of energy harvesting to more than 80 per cent, whereas previous ultralow-power converters that used the same approach had efficiencies of only 40 or 50 per cent
Engineers find a simple, yet clever, way to boost chip speeds
23 Jun 2015
Inside each chip are millions of tiny wires to transport data; wrapping them in a protective layer of graphene could boost speeds by 30 per cent
Engineers develop computer that operates on water droplets
10 Jun 2015
Researchers have developed a synchronous computer that operates using the unique physics of moving water droplets with the goal to design a new class of computers that can precisely control and manipulate physical matter
Breakthrough heralds super-efficient light-based computers
30 May 2015
Light can transmit more data while consuming far less power than electricity, and an engineering feat brings optical data transport closer to replacing wires
To handle big data, shrink it
21 May 2015
A new algorithm reduces size of data sets while preserving their mathematical properties by finding the smallest possible approximation of the original matrix that guarantees reliable computations
Smarter computer brains that are more like our own
13 May 2015
For the first time, a circuit of about 100 artificial synapses was proved to perform a simple version of a typical human task: image classification
App makes short work of getting user of bed
11 May 2015
“Fingerprinting” chips to fight counterfeiting
05 May 2015
Researchers create random variations in silicon chips as authentication identifiers for consumer products
Packing more laser beams, data, into fibre optic strands
30 Apr 2015
As digital traffic soars, researchers strive to send multiple laser beams, each with it’s own data stream, through fibre optic strands that can only handle a single beam today
Cloud security reaches silicon
By By Larry Hardesty | MIT News Office | 23 Apr 2015
From the pattern in which your computer accesses its memory banks, adversaries can infer a shocking amount about what’s stored there
Engineers working to pack more laser beams, and data, into fibre optic strands
30 Mar 2015
As digital traffic soars, researchers strive to send multiple laser beams, each with it’s own data stream, through fibre-optic strands that can only handle a single beam today
Engineers develop methods to speed up simulatiods in computational grand challenge problems
27 Mar 2015
Chip implants replace ID cards at Swedish firm
02 Feb 2015
Workers inside a new Swedish office block area are getting computer chips implanted under their skin instead of using ID cards
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