CHICAGO, March 24 – The University of Chicago has appointed Michael Franklin, a prominent computer scientist and data science leader, as Deputy Dean for Computational and Mathematical Sciences in its Physical Sciences Division. Franklin will…
Smoothing out sketches’ rough edges
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Artists may soon have at their disposal a new MIT-developed tool that could help them create digital characters, logos, and other graphics more quickly and easily. Many digital artists rely on image vectorization,…
Mitochondria come together to kill cancer cells
Targeting a pathway that controls the movement of mitochondria, the powerhouses of all cells, could reduce cancer invasiveness and resistance to radiotherapy. A team of Hokkaido University scientists studied the molecules involved in mitochondrial movements…
Helping computers fill in the gaps between video…
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Given only a few frames of a video, humans can usually surmise what is happening and will happen on screen. If we see an early frame of stacked cans, a middle frame with…
Why the “solid South” of midcentury U.S. politics…
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- In 1938, an ambitious young Texas congressman named Lyndon Johnson voted for a bill called the Fair Labor Standards Act, which established the minimum wage. Most of Johnson’s Democratic Party colleagues joined him.…