Drew Houston speaks with Start6 students
Event Image: Event Speaker: Drew HoustonEvent Location: 34-101Card Description: Please join Anantha Chandrakasan, EECS Department Head for a "fireside chat" with Drew Houston, who will talk about...
View ArticleStorage system for ‘big data’ dramatically speeds access to information
Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) and EECS graduate students Sang-Woo Jun and Ming Liu, working with Arvind, the Charles W. and Jennifer C. Johnson Professor of Electrical...
View ArticleLu selected for NSF CAREER Award towards synthetic gene circuits
in MIT's Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE), has been selected for a CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation in support of work Timothy K. Lu, Assistant Professor leading the Synthetic...
View ArticleMartin Schmidt, former MTL Director and Associate Provost becomes MIT Provost
MIT President L. Rafael Reif announced to the MIT community the permanent appointments of two longtime members of the MIT community to provost and chancellor. Martin A. Schmidt, a faculty member of the...
View ArticleDevadas selected for IEEE Computer Society's 2014 Technical Achievement Award
February 5, 2014Srini Devadas has been selected to receive the IEEE Computer Society’s 2014 Technical Achievement Award “For pioneering work in secure hardware, including the invention of Physical...
View Article6.041 on MITx builds systematic approach to understanding the uncertain - for...
6.041, Introduction to Probability has been offered in the EECS Department for decades. This term (ST2014) Professors John Tsitsiklis and Patrick Jaillet will teach the subject in a much wider...
View ArticleAll in the ear - Chandrakasan teams to create wirelessly charged cochlear...
Researchers at MIT’s Microsystems Technology Laboratory (MTL) including Anantha Chandrakasan, the Joseph F. and Nancy P. Keithley Professor of Electrical Engineering, recent EECS PhD graduate Marcus...
View ArticleKellis, Stultz, Weiss and Lu receive faculty promotions
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department Head Anantha Chandrakasan and Associate Department Heads David Perreault and Bill Freeman announced the promotions of Professors Manolis Kellis,...
View ArticleRobotic collaboration - where uncertainty is overcome by managing multiagent...
Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab's Leslie Kaelbling, the Panasonic Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in collaboration with members of her research group the...
View ArticleMarvin Minsky is selected for Dan David Foundation Prize
Each year, the Dan David Foundation, headquartered at Tel Aviv University, selects a laureate — for each of three time dimensions past, present and future — who represents the culmination of innovative...
View ArticleIn celebration of Butler Lampson, a father of the modern PC
Last week, computer science luminaries - including seven Turing Award winners and Eric Schmidt, Google’s former CEO and current executive chairman - either attended or contributed appreciations in...
View ArticleDevadas: Smart caching for chips of today and tomorrow
Prof. Srini Devadas has developed new ways to manage caches for today's and tomorrow's massively multicore chips while improving performance efficiency. Devadas, EECS PhD student George Kurian and Omer...
View ArticleUSAGE 2013-14 Undergraduate Student Advisory Group in EECS
The 2013-2014 Undergraduate Student Advisory Group in EECS (USAGE) is well into its third year. The group features over 30 undergraduate and graduate students who have committed to serving on...
View ArticleVivienne Sze recipient of 2013 RLE Jonathan Allen Junior Faculty Award
Award named in honor of Prof. Jonathan Allen, sixth director of the Research Laboratory of Electronics, for his dedication to mentoring and developing junior faculty members.Professor Yoel Fink,...
View ArticleSolar-Lezama teams to create improved Sketch code correction system - to be...
Armando Solar-Lezama, associate professor in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at MIT and principal investigator in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab has...
View ArticleBhatia develops new paper diagnostic that detects cancer by identifying...
Sangeeta Bhatia, the John and Dorothy Wilson Professor of Health Sciences and Technology and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, has teamed with current and former postdocs and a...
View ArticleDrew Houston and Bob Langer encourage Start6 students at completion of IAP...
Written by Patricia SampsonPhotos by Rahul RitheStart6, the new EECS IAP workshop for immersion in innovation and entrepreneurship, wrapped up its third week with sendoffs from two icons in the world...
View ArticleLeiserson is selected for IEEE Computer Society's Taylor L. Booth Education...
Charles E. Leiserson has been named recipient of the IEEE Computer Society's 2014 Taylor L. Booth Award for his contributions to computer science education.Noted for coauthoring the textbook...
View ArticleEngineering Design Studio brings mind and hand to EECS
Students build their own electronics with help from Cypress SemiconductorLauren J. ClarkElectrical engineering and computer science students at MIT are accustomed to designing the circuitry or control...
View ArticleBig Data's big day at MIT
What is the role of big data? How should individual rights be protected in the face of big data? Big Data's challenges were presented and discussed by speakers including John Podesta, White House...
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