Colorful abstract drawing with blue lightning streaks on the left, gold microcircuits on the right, and a computer chip with a lighting bolt in the middle

System Combines Light and Electrons to Unlock Faster, Greener Computing

Alex Shipps | MIT CSAIL

“Lightning” system connects photons to the electronic components of computers using a novel abstraction, creating the first photonic computing prototype to serve real-time machine-learning inference requests.

Energy Efficient AIHigh Performance Computation

Will Cloud or Edge Computing Dominate over the Next 10 Years?

Wednesday, May 10, 2023 | 12:00 - 1:00pm ET
MIT Building 34, Room 401, Grier Room

Multiple Speakers

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22FDX Silicon-on-Insulator CMOS for Logic and Edge AI applications

Wednesday, April 5 | 12:00pm - 1:00pm ET
MIT Building 36, Room 426, Allen Room
Hybrid

Speaker: Navneet Jain, GlobalFoundries, Inc.

AI HardwareHigh Performance Computation

On left, a complex metallic lab refrigerator has an inset shows a chip. The chip is enlarged on the right and has 4 squares in the middle of the chip. An arrow represents receiving data.

A New Way for Quantum Computing Systems to Keep Their Cool

Adam Zewe | MIT News Office

A wireless technique enables a super-cold quantum computer to send and receive data without generating too much error-causing heat.

High Performance Computation

Against a pink background, a blue and red laser beam shoot down from the top as wavey arrows. They point to a beige atomic nucleus with a gauge needle in the center pointing left, signifying spin direction.

Engineers Discover a New Way to Control Atomic Nuclei as “Qubits”

David L. Chandler | MIT News Office

Using lasers, researchers can directly control a property of nuclei called spin, that can encode quantum information.

High Performance Computation

A yellow-lit closeup zooms in on one tiny, rectangular amplifier on the wafer. It has a chain-like rectangular grid in center that connects to the left and right edges of the wafer.

Scientists Boost Quantum Signals while Reducing Noise

Adam Zewe | MIT News Office

“Squeezing” noise over a broad frequency bandwidth in a quantum system could lead to faster and more accurate quantum measurements.

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Two red lines, one above the other, against a black background. The lines have many peaks and valleys, representing a probability graph.

Automating the Math for Decision-making Under Uncertainty

Rachel Paiste | Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences | MIT CSAIL

A new tool, ADEV, brings the benefits of AI programming to a much broader class of problems.

High Performance Computation

Rendering shows a unique thermometer with various transparent tubes snaking out. Purple energy flows and connects two sides of the thermometer, and the temperature is hot.

New Quantum Computing Architecture Could be Used to Connect Large-scale Devices

Adam Zewe | MIT News Office

Researchers have demonstrated directional photon emission, the first step toward extensible quantum interconnects.

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Chips & Innovation: A New Era

Wednesday, January 18, 2023 | 3:00 - 4:00pm ET,
MIT Building 34-401A, Grier Room A

Speaker: Ahmad Bahai, Texas Instruments

MaterialsHigh Performance Computation

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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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