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Computers that Power Self-driving Cars Could be a Huge Driver of Global Carbon Emissions

Adam Zewe | MIT News Office

Study shows that if autonomous vehicles are widely adopted, hardware efficiency will need to advance rapidly to keep computing-related emissions in check.

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Putting a New Spin on Computer Hardware

Adam Zewe | MIT News Office

Luqiao Liu utilizes a quantum property known as electron spin to build low-power, high-performance computer memories and programmable computer chips.

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Computing With Chemicals Makes Faster, Leaner AI

Dina Genkina | IEEE Spectrum

Battery-inspired artificial synapses are gaining ground, and analog electrochemical memory (ECRAM) arrays provide a prototype for artificial synapses in AI training.

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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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