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PhD student Faraz Faruqi, lead author of a new paper on the project, says that TactStyle could have far-reaching applications extending from home decor and personal accessories to tactile learning tools (Credits: Mike Grimmett/MIT CSAIL).
CSAIL article

Essential for many industries ranging from Hollywood computer-generated imagery to product design, 3D modeling tools often use text or image prompts to dictate different aspects of visual appearance, like color and form. As much as this makes sense as a first point of contact, these systems are still limited in their realism due to their neglect of something central to the human experience: touch.

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Neural network (Credit: Wikimedia Commons).
CSAIL article

How do neural networks work? It’s a question that can confuse novices and experts alike. A team from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) says that understanding these representations, as well as how they inform the ways that neural networks learn from data, is crucial for improving the interpretability, efficiency, and generalizability of deep learning models.

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“I have such a soft spot for OpenCourseWare — it shaped my career,” says Ana Trišović, a research scientist at MIT CSAIL’s FutureTech lab (Credits: Courtesy of Ana Trišović).
CSAIL article

As a college student in Serbia with a passion for math and physics, Ana Trišović found herself drawn to computer science and its practical, problem-solving approaches. It was then that she discovered MIT OpenCourseWare, part of MIT Open Learning, and decided to study a course on Data Analytics with Python in 2012 — something her school didn’t offer.