The 2014 MIT EECS Connector is out!
Read about some of the amazing contributions to education, research, innovation and entrepreneurship made by members of the MIT EECS community. Go directly to the 2014 MIT EECS Connector on the...
View ArticleBarzilay teams to use semantic parsing for solving word problems, eventually...
Researchers in MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory — including EECS professor Regina Barzilay and phd student Nate Kushman— working with colleagues at the...
View ArticleLeeb meets with assistant secretary of Defense
Prof. Steven B. Leeb met with Sharon Burke, assistant secretary of Defense for Operational Energy Plans and Programs, about the non-intrusive load monitor developed at MIT, during Burke's visit to the...
View ArticleWornell teams to improve terahertz, high resolution imaging systems
Gregory Wornell, the Sumitomo Electric Industries Professor in the MIT EECS Dept., working with colleagues has devised a new theory to reduce the number of sensors needed for...
View ArticleZeldovich, a star in computer systems, is promoted
Department Head Anantha Chandrakasan announced to members of the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department faculty the promotion of Nickolai Zeldovich to Associate Professor with Tenure...
View ArticleGetting more electricity out of solar cells: a breakthrough in singlet...
Marc Baldo, MIT professor of electrical engineering has teamed with MIT’s Troy Van Voorhis, professor of chemistry and other researchers to understand the theory behind singlet excitonic fission -- a...
View ArticleSynthetic biology: How best to build a cell - Ron Weiss weighs in
Ron Weiss, associate professor in the MIT Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and the Biological Engineering Departments, has weighed in for an article in the May 7, 2014 issue of Nature...
View ArticleGifford reveals new nonchromosomal way to study genetic influence
Researchers from MIT and the Whitehead Institute, including EECS professor and Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab member David Gifford, have revealed a new way that genotype, the...
View ArticleGolland awarded ECEDHA 2014 Diversity Award
The Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Heads Association (ECEDHA) has awarded the 2014 Diversity Award to Professor Polina Golland for her leadership role in creating the new...
View ArticleParsing what's in an action - a new algorithm to find sub-actions of interest
May 14, 2014 Postdoctoral associate in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) Hamed Pirsiavash has developed a new algorithm that offers significant improvements in...
View ArticleHodges-Pabon named a YMCA Achiever from MIT
Debroah Hodges-Pabon, personnel and operations administrator in the Microsystems Technology Laboratories, has been selected as the 2013-14 YMCA Achiever from MIT. Hodges-Pabon is recognized for her...
View ArticleDahleh appointed leader in LIDS
Former associate department head and currently acting director of the Engineering Systems Division Munther Dahleh, professor of electrical engineering and computer science, has been appointed the...
View ArticleEECScon 2014 and Masterworks 2014 raise awareness of high-level student research
EECScon 2014 and Masterworks 2014 raise awareness of high-level student research Two consecutive venues provide industry, faculty and student guests with full range and depth of researchWhether it is...
View ArticleCustom camouflage? Use algorithms with disguise functionality
May 26, 2014Unlike addressing the problem of object detection, a major area of research in computer vision, Prof. Bill Freeman, principal investigator in the Computer Science and Artificial...
View ArticleSpruce up your selfie: subtle use of algorithm can transform cell phone images
MIT researchers — including EECS graduate student YiChang Shih and his joint thesis advisors EECS professors Frédo Durand and Bill Freeman — all members of the MIT CSAIL Computer Graphics Group, and...
View ArticleSuperUROP: Advanced research gives EECS undergraduates the big picture
SuperUROP connects student creativity with tough challengesby Lauren J. Clarkphotos by Neal HambergWhat do you do when you’ve just completed your first deep dive into advanced electrical engineering...
View ArticleDahleh is appointed to William A. Coolidge Professorship
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) Department Head Anantha Chandrakasan announced today the appointment of Professor Munther A. Dahleh to the William A. Coolidge Professorship at...
View ArticleBake-a-Bot: Rus lab develops robots that assemble in the oven
Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence (CSAIL) Lab director Daniela Rus and members of her research group the Distributed Robotics Lab have collaborated with CSAIL professor Erik Demaine and...
View ArticleLIDS researcher pairs new sensor and algorithm for faster data intake and...
Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS) research scientist Andrea Censi has paired a neuromorphic sensor with lightening speed camera data intake with a new algorithm to give robots a...
View ArticleComputing the Future: CSAIL celebrates 50 years of CS and AI
MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) held a two day conference celebrating 50 years of computer science looking forward to the future with solutions for today's obstacles and...
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