Year: 2016
Roxana Geambasu at MIT discusses her work building transparency tools that expose how online data is used in targeting ads.
Unconventional sheet camera bends to any surface while producing high-quality images
Team led by Shree Nayar has developed a camera that can wrap around almost any object to capture unusual fields of view.
eLife publishes article describing Ubiquitous Genomics, a class that gives students hands-on experience using mobile DNA sequencers
Why are SIM cards still a thing?
Birdsnap app identifies bird species from uploaded images
This iPhone app uses computer vision and machine learning techniques to create an electronic field guide of 500 common North American bird species.
Paper coauthored by Fang-hsiang Su voted People’s Choice for Best Position Paper at WICS
It describes a method that looks beyond similar inputs and outputs when determining whether two code fragments are behavioral clones.
Computer Scientists Want to Make Robots Forget Their Bad Data
Method to break image CAPTCHAs leverages deep learning
The method is effective and automated and works to verify users, when possible, without requiring them to solve a tedious challenge
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