MIT boffins develop new brain chip
Published in PC Hardware
Tuesday, 09 June 2020 11:46

MIT boffins develop new brain chip


Small enough for a mobile phone

MIT boffins have published a new paper that describes a new type of artificial brain synapse that offers performance improvements versus other existing versions, and which can be combined in volumes of tens of thousands on a chip that's smaller physically than a piece of confetti. 

AI developments aren't all real
Published in AI
Wednesday, 03 June 2020 11:05

AI developments aren't all real


Hype machine works well though

AI developments might not be all they are cracked up to be and are just tweaks to existing technology, according to studies compiled by MIT boffins.

MIT tells you how fast your code will run on different chips
Published in PC Hardware


Uses machine learning tool

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) boffins have developed a new machine learning-based tool that will tell you how fast code can run on various chips.

Stallman resigns from MIT
Published in News
Tuesday, 17 September 2019 10:20

Stallman resigns from MIT


Stands down as president from the Free Software Foundation and its board of directors

Free software messiah Richard Stallman has resigned from MIT, and as president and board member of the Free Software Foundation.

Stallman defends himself over Epstein comments
Published in News
Monday, 16 September 2019 10:55

Stallman defends himself over Epstein comments


Not really what I said

Open saucy messiah Richard Stallman has found himself in a bit of a mess after he was quoted as defending Marvin Minsky's association with dead sex-pest Jeffrey Epstein.

MIT creates mass production process for cell-sized robots
Published in IoT


Looking for micro-sized Sara Conners

Boffins at MIT have announced a discovery that could allow mass production of self-powered robots that are the size of cells.

MIT comes up with a new power saving neural chip
Published in PC Hardware


IBM declares it a "a huge step forward"

MIT boffins have emerged from their smoke filled labs with a neural network chip that could reduce the power consumption of devices by 95 percent.

MIT comes up with simple Graphene semiconductor production
Published in PC Hardware


Cut and Paste copycat chips


Boffins at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed a method which uses graphene to help photocopy semiconductor wafers.

MIT boffins speed up wi-fi in crowded areas
Published in Mobiles
Tuesday, 23 August 2016 15:22

MIT boffins speed up wi-fi in crowded areas


Networking for mobs

Boffins at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory say they might have solved the problem wi-fi has broadcasting to crowded areas such as concerts, airports, conference halls and sports stadiums.

MIT creates 64-core chip design
Published in PC Hardware
Tuesday, 05 July 2016 12:05

MIT creates 64-core chip design


Swarming

Boffins at MIT have emerged from their smoke filled labs with a new chip design which fixes some of the problems of parallel processing.