by admin | Feb 9, 2017 | Software, The Web
MIT researchers have developed a new approach to training speech-recognition systems that doesn’t depend on transcription. Instead, their system analyzes correspondences between images and spoken descriptions of those images, as captured in a large collection of audio...
by admin | Feb 7, 2017 | Uncategorized
To killer whales, sharks aren’t all that fearsome. They’re more of a snack. A drone pilot recently captured this video of four killer whales — two adults and two juveniles — chowing down on a still-living shark off the coast of California. They appear to be offshore...
by admin | Feb 2, 2017 | Software, The Web, Tips & Tricks
Engineering grad student Keertan Kini is working to strengthen the intersection of policy and technology. “When you’re part of a community, you want to leave it better than you found it,” says Keertan Kini, an MEng student in the Department of Electrical...
by admin | Jan 31, 2017 | Software
One way to handle big data is to shrink it. If you can identify a small subset of your data set that preserves its salient mathematical relationships, you may be able to perform useful analyses on it that would be prohibitively time consuming on the full set. The...
by admin | Jan 26, 2017 | Graphics, Hardware
Examining the brain in real-time Technology is really a marvel. So often, as new advances come out that allow us to do things that were thought impossible in the past, we hear the phrase “The future is now.” Popular Science and XPRIZE are teaming up to...
