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CSAIL News: Big Data Initiative works with Boston to enlist students to...
CSAIL's Big Data Initiative recently worked with city officials in Boston to highlight transportation issues by enlisting students in a competition. Read about this in the March 5, 2014...
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Celebrating the World Wide Web at 25!
Today, March 12, 2014, marks the 25th anniversary of Tim Berners-Lee's proposal for managing general information about accelerators and experiments at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear...
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Soft robots are in! Distributed Robotics Lab creates robotic fish
Soft robots are in! Among the advantages for developing soft robots, that are soft inside and out, is the fact that high priority to plan for damaging collisions is no longer a requirement, notes Prof....
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Lozano-Perez is selected as MacVicar Fellow
Today, the MacVicar Faculty Fellows Program announced five new MacVicar Fellows -- selected as exceptional undergraduate teachers, educational innovators, and mentors. Tomás Lozano-Pérez, the School of...
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Singling out sounds - depends on our inner ear's nanopores
Dennis Freeman, professor of electrical engineering and a team of researchers in MIT's Research Laboratory of Electronics have reported findings in the Biophysical Journal that our selective ability to...
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Shavit teams to demonstrate muticore programming that uses lock-free...
In a paper to be presented at the Association for Computing Machinery’s Annual Symposium on the Theory of Computing in May, Nir Shavit, professor in MIT’s Department of Electrical Engineering and...
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Lu teams to create new living materials that emit light, or conduct electricity
Imagine a solar wall that lights up, that could detect change in its environment and respond. Then imagine that this wall is really composed of living cells — a hybrid of bacterial biofilms...
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Exhibit - versatile, valuable data visualizations since 2007
Since its creation in 2007, the set of Web development tools called "Exhibit" developed by professor of computer science and engineering David Karger and members of the Haystack Group in MIT's Computer...
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One robot per child? Rus and team win top awards at IEEE Ultra-affordable...
Prof. Daniela Rus, Director of MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) and head of the Distributed Robotics Lab (DRL) envisions new ways for design and manufacture of robots —...
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Medard is selected for Cecil H. Green Professorship
Muriel Médard has been appointed as the Cecil H. Green Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. In announcing this appointment, Department Head Anantha Chandrakasan shared the...
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Katabi is selected as the (second) Andrew (1956) and Erna Viterbi Professor...
Dina Katabi has been selected for the Andrew (1956) and Erna Viterbi Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT. In announcing this appointment, Department Head Anantha Chandraksan...
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The Complexonaut: Scott Aaronson is featured by MIT News
Imagine being curious enough as an 11 year old — on seeing your babysitter's mysterious calculus textbook symbols — to jump grades in order to leap several years ahead in math? Scott Aaronson,...
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Madden talks about tackling big, fast, weird data
As the director of MIT’s BigData@CSAIL industry initiative, and the co-director of the more research-focused Intel Science and Technology Center (ISTC) for Big Data, EECS professor and CSAIL principal...
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In good company: Start6 students meet Course6 alumni in SF Tour
A new bridge between alumni entrepreneurs and Course VI studentsby Danielle Festino and Chad GaltsEver since Course VI started graduating students more than 100 years ago, alumni from Electrical...
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Seeing is believing: Baldo, Bulovic team to view excitons in action
Until now the theoretical and much studied quasiparticle known as the exciton — responsible for the transfer of energy within devices such as solar cells, LEDs, and semiconductor circuits — has never...
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Blumofe and Leiserson selected by ACM for 2013 Kanellakis Theory and Practice...
April 16, 2014Robert D. Blumofe and Charles E. Leiserson were announced today as the winners of the 2013 Association for Computing Machinery’s (ACM) Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award for...
View ArticleMedard wins best paper award at ISPLC 2014
Muriel Médard, professor of electrical engineering and computer science in the MIT EECS Department and principal investigator in the Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE) at MIT, has been awarded,...
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Sarpeshkar—the amphibian researcher—bridges circuits in living cells and in...
Rahul Sarpeshkar, professor in the MIT Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department and head of the Analog Circuits and Biological Systems Group in MIT's Research Laboratory of Electronics...
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MIT brings the nano age to life
April 29, 2014As MIT launches into the construction of a new nano center in the heart of its campus (becoming the new building 12), the plans for this exciting new center and the people who will lead...
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Shade Happens: MIT Clean Energy Prize goes to Unified Solar
An MIT team whose integrated chip restores lost power to partially shaded solar panels — achieving double the energy capture improvement of similar technologies — won big on Monday night...
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