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Breaking the Scaling Limits of Analog Computing

Adam Zewe | MIT News Office

MIT researchers have developed a new technique could diminish errors that hamper the performance of super-fast analog optical neural networks.

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Deep Learning with Light

Adam Zewe | MIT News Office

A new novel piece of hardware, called a smart transceiver, uses silicon photonics to accelerate machine-learning computations on smart speakers and other low-power connected devices.

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3 Questions: Blue Hydrogen and the World’s Energy Systems

Turner Jackson | MIT Energy Initiative

Research Scientist Emre Gençer describes natural gas–based hydrogen production with carbon capture and storage, and the role hydrogen will play in decarbonizing our energy systems.

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TinyML and Efficient Deep Learning: Course 6.S965

Fall 2022 | Tuesdays & Thursdays, 3:30 - 5:00pm ET

Speaker: Song Han, MIT

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New Hardware Offers Faster Computation for Artificial Intelligence, with Much Less Energy

Adam Zewe | MIT News Office

Engineers working on “analog deep learning” have found a way to propel protons through solids at unprecedented speeds.

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MIT, Tech Firms Seek to Improve AI’s Energy Efficiency

Emily Bamforth | EDSCOOP

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is leading a group researching energy efficiency in artificial intelligence, anticipating a moment when advanced systems could suck up power at an unsustainable rate.

Making Quantum Circuits More Robust

Adam Zewe | MIT News Office

Researchers have developed a technique for making quantum computing more resilient to noise, which boosts performance.

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Toward a Stronger Defense of Personal Data

Adam Zewe | MIT News Office

MIT Engineers have built a lower-energy chip that can prevent hackers from extracting hidden information from a smart device.

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