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MIT 6.S898: Deep Learning (Fall 2022)
MIT's 6.S898 Deep Learning course taught by Phillip Isola, covering the full modern deep learning stack from fundamentals through generative models and transformers. One of the cleaner academic deep learning curricula, with public materials.
MIT 6.033: Computer System Engineering
MIT 6.033 Computer System Engineering covers the design of large, complex software systems — reliability, fault tolerance, operating systems, networking, and distributed systems. One of MIT's most comprehensive systems courses, available free via OpenCourseWare.
BayesDB
BayesDB from MIT CSAIL's probabilistic computing group — a database system that lets you query statistical relationships using a SQL-like language (BQL) without specifying a model. Automatically infers the right probabilistic model from data.
MIT Can Predict How Many Retweets You'll Get
Wired's coverage of MIT research predicting retweet counts from tweet content and network features. An early demonstration that social network propagation could be modeled predictively, with implications for understanding how information spreads.
MIT Team Builds Most Complex Synthetic Biology Circuit
Christopher Voigt's MIT team built the most complex synthetic genetic circuit to date — integrating four molecular sensors that can simultaneously monitor glucose, pH, temperature, and solute concentration. The breakthrough was eliminating crosstalk between biological components that had previously limited circuit complexity.
MIT 6.046: Introduction to Algorithms — Demaine Lecture 2
Erik Demaine's second lecture from MIT 6.046 (Introduction to Algorithms, Fall 2005) on videolectures.net. Demaine is one of the most celebrated algorithm teachers at MIT, and 6.046 covers divide-and-conquer, dynamic programming, and fundamental complexity results.
MIT Builds a Needle-Free Drug Injector
MIT's needle-free drug injector uses a Lorentz-force actuator to fire a microscopic jet of liquid at high velocity through skin, delivering medication without a needle. A practical application of physics that eliminates needle phobia and reduces sharps waste.
ZeroN: Magnetic Levitation That Remembers
ZeroN is an MIT Media Lab system that levitates a metal ball in mid-air using electromagnetic control, then records and plays back its movements in 3D space. A tangible interface where a physical object becomes a programmable point in space — bridging physical and digital interaction.
Self-Sculpting Sand: MIT's Programmable Matter
MIT researchers built 'smart sand' — 10mm programmable cubes with microprocessors and magnets that communicate with neighbors and self-assemble into 3D shapes from a physical template, then discard unnecessary grains. An early physical demonstration of programmable matter.