Explained: The Discrete Fourier Transform
Science and technology journalists pride themselves on the ability to explain complicated ideas in accessible ways, but there are some technical principles that we encounter so often in our reporting...
View ArticleWillsky to receive IEEE SPS Technical Achievement Award
Director of the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems at MIT (LIDS), Alan S. Willsky has been selected as the recipient of the 2010 IEEE Signal Processing Society Technical Achievement Award...
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The faster-than-fast Fourier transform
The Fourier transform is one of the most fundamental concepts in the information sciences. It’s a method for representing an irregular signal — such as the voltage fluctuations in the wire that...
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Researchers amplify variations in video, making the invisible visible
At this summer's Siggraph — the premier computer-graphics conference — researchers from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) will present new software that amplifies...
View ArticleWhat number is halfway between 1 and 9? Is it 5 — or 3?
Ask adults from the industrialized world what number is halfway between 1 and 9, and most will say 5. But pose the same question to small children, or people living in some traditional societies, and...
View ArticleMaking sense of medical sensors
With the recent launch of MIT’s Institute for Medical Engineering and Science, MIT News examines research with the potential to reshape medicine and health care through new scientific knowledge, novel...
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