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MIT researchers discovered a new way to estimate the amount of information contained in a piece of data using probabilistic programming and probabilistic inference. The breakthrough entropy estimators open up new applications in medicine, scientific discovery, cognitive science, and artificial intelligence.
Jonathan Zong, an MIT PhD candidate, thinks consent can be baked into the design of software that gathers data for online research. He created “Bartleby,” a system for debriefing participants and eliciting their views about social media research that involved them.
MIT researchers developed a robotic gripper using novel “GelSight Fin Ray” fingers that are supple enough to manipulate objects. This gripper has touch sensors that can meet or exceed the sensitivity of human skin.
Privid is a new system that provides better privacy in video footage from surveillance cameras. The system, developed out of MIT CSAIL, lets analysts submit video data queries, and adds a bit of noise to the end result to ensure an individual can’t be identified.
ElectroVoxels are self-reconfiguring robot blocks, developed at MIT using embedded electromagnets to test applications for space exploration.