Researchers at MIT have released a video and audio search tool that solves one of the most challenging problems in the field: how to break up a lengthy academic lecture into manageable chunks, ...

While it is becoming increasingly common (and easy) for lectures to be placed online as videos or podcasts, such media can often be very limited in their utility. For example, I missed a lecture last ...

From a young age, Doğa Kürkçüoğlu heard his father, a math teacher, say that learning should be about understanding and real-world applications rather than memorization. But it wasn't until he began ...

Many of the students in Rebekka L. Stone’s biology classes hope to become the first in their families to graduate from high school. Some are struggling to master basic English, much less the more ...

Abstract: This paper presents our attempt to create English automatic speech recognition (ASR) and English to Japanese statistical machine translation system (SMT). We used MIT OpenCourseWare lectures ...

Review: Beta ISA In the previous lecture, we developed the instruction set architecture for the Beta, the computer system weʼll be building throughout this part of the course. The Beta incorporates ...