Kellis receives NIH grant for work to elucidate genetic basis of disease...
The National Institutes of Health has awarded eight grants as part of a new phase of the Genotype-Tissue Expression (GTEx) project to study the role that genomic variation plays in modulating gene...
View ArticleDevadas is part of major NSF award project to build cloud systems with...
A research group that includes Electrical Engineering and Computer Science professor Srini Devadas of MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) has received a National Science...
View ArticleSeeing sound - Visual Microphone captures and transcribes sound from minute...
August 4, 2014 Researchers at MIT -- including EECS graduate student Abe Davis and EECS faculty members Frédo Durand and Bill Freeman, and members of the Computer Graphics Group in MIT's Computer...
View ArticleTowards a cure for Hepatitis - Bhatia develops new model for HBV study
Sangeeta Bhatia, the John and Dorothy Wilson Professor of Health Sciences and Technology and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science has developed a new technique for studying the lifecycle of the...
View ArticleSequential, self assembling robot comes to life — in a thoughtful way
Daniella Rus, Director of the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) and CSAIL colleague Erik Demaine with researchers from Harvard have designed foldable robots with embedded...
View ArticleFab by Example - CSAIL team puts design into your hands
August 12, 2014A team led by Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) researchers including EECS associate professor Wojciech Matusik and doctoral candidate Adriana Schulz, the project...
View ArticleEfficiency in power conversion - small but huge
David Perreault is professor of electrical engineering, associate EECS Department head and head of the Power Electronics Research Group and he and his group have been and are focused on efficiency —...
View ArticleVisual control of big data - Wu and Madden overcome viusalization aberrations
Getting to the source of data-visualization aberrations is a big problem in big data. EECS doctoral student Eugene Wu with Sam Madden, professor of computer science and engineering in the Computer...
View ArticleClassroom-sourcing: Students take on contest challenge to define limits of...
Two graduate students working with Hari Balkrishnan, the Fujitsu Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, proposed in 2012 a classroom contest challenge in a graduate-level networking course to...
View ArticleProfessor Ruonan Han joins EECS
Professor Ruonan Han joined the EECS department at MIT as an assistant professor in July 2014. He received his B.Sc. degree in microelectronics from Fudan University in 2007 and his M.Sc. degree in...
View ArticleHan teams to develop magnetic field technology to diagnose malaria
A research team from the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART) including Jongyoon Han, professor of electrical engineering and computer science at MIT, has developed a new way to...
View ArticleStart6 - will you be there?
Start6 is coming in IAP. Sign up soon (by Nov. 17) at start6.eecs.mit.edu and stay tuned for more details. Start6 on Facbook: http://www.facebook.com/eecsStart6Date Posted: Tuesday, September 2, 2014...
View Articlethe Connector - Munther Dahleh
“If you want to understand bank runs in financial systems, or congestion in the air transportation system, you have to understand the interaction between social and institutional behavior, and physical...
View ArticleBhatia is 2014 winner of Lemelson-MIT Prize
September 9, 2014Cited for her work as doctor, engineer and scientist to design nano and micro technologies that pioneer new ways to understand and fight disease, Sangeeta N. Bhatia, the John J. (1929)...
View ArticleAntoniadis receives 2014 SRC Aristotle Award
Dimitri Antoniadis was presented the 2014 Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) Aristotle Award at the annual SRC TECHCON conference on Sept. 8 in Austin, Texas. He Is cited by the SRC for...
View ArticleStart6 - Info Sessions are coming soon
Start6 is coming in IAP. Sign up soon (by Nov 17) and come to an Info Session.Oct. 2 at noon in 36-428 (Haus Room). Food will be provided!Date Posted: Monday, September 15, 2014 - 3:15pmAnnouncement...
View ArticleEnglund spotlighted by Brookhaven National Lab
September 15, 2014Dirk Englund, assistant professor in the MIT Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at MIT and head of the Quantum Photonics Group, collaborates with the experts and...
View ArticlePeh teams to develop wireless system to avoid traffic congestion, winning...
Li-Shiuan Peh, professor of electrical engineering and computer science in the EECS Department at MIT has teamed to develop a new system that directs drivers using GPS to avoid traffic congestion. The...
View ArticleRus develops snake-like soft robot to go through pipes, operator-free
At this week’s IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, CSAIL researchers led by Daniela Rus, CSAIL Director and head of the Distributed Robotics Lab will present their work...
View ArticleDresselhaus teams to identify promising light source for optoelectronic chips
Institute professor Mildred Dresselhaus has teamed with fellow researchers in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department (EECS) and from MIT's Physics Department and Research Laboratory...
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