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Wearable system helps visually impaired users navigate

CSAIL MIT 02 Jun 2017

Computer scientists have been working for decades on automatic navigation systems to aid the visually impaired, but it’s been difficult to come up with anything as reliable and easy to use as the wh...

Ingestible robots, glasses-free 3-D, and computers that explain themselves

CSAIL MIT 19 Dec 2016

Machines that predict the future, robots that patch wounds and wireless emotion-detectors are just a few of the exciting projects that came out of MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence ...

Learning words from pictures

MIT News 16 Dec 2016

Speech recognition systems, such as those that convert speech to text on cellphones, are generally the result of machine learning. A computer pores through thousands or even millions of audio files an...

MIT robot helps nurses schedule tasks on labor floor

CSAIL MIT 11 Jul 2016

Robot from Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab suggests where to move patients and who should do C-sections....

Talking Machines: Treating cancer clusters, with Quaid Morris

Talking Machines 09 Oct 2015

In episode twenty one we talk with Quaid Morris of the University of Toronto, who is using machine learning to find a better way to treat cancers. ...

Facebook – Our ffriendly automated identity bender

Jason Millar 11 Jul 2014

I like Star Wars. I like technology. I like philosophy. I like teaching. I like the occasional meme. I like robots. I like a lot of things. But if I were to give an accurate account of the things t...

Appearance manipulation system changes the look of printed materials and objects

DigInfo TV 04 Sep 2013

Researchers at Wakayama University are developing a system that manipulates the color, tone and contrast of printed materials, and could be used as an aid for users with vision impairments such as low...