MISTI Global Seed Funds: 2012-13 call for proposals
MIT International Science and Technology Initiatives (MISTI) offers global seed funds to help MIT faculty and researchers launch early stage international projects and collaboration. Applicants are...
View ArticleDiscover EECS at MIT - DEECS
Prefreshmen, Discover Electrical Engineering and Computer Science @ MIT Since 1996, incoming MIT Freshmen have been given special opportunities to get involved with the MIT community via what are now...
View ArticleGraphene, move over - meet Molybdenum Disulfide
As the wonders of graphene have become a part of the new electronics fabric of tomorrow's devices, the possibilities for use of other 2-D materials - like graphene just one atom thick - are being...
View ArticleTechnology Review's 2012 TR35 includes two EECS graduates: Drew Houston and...
Since 1999, Technology Review, has selected top innovators under age 35 based on the impact of their creations. Included in this year's crop of stellar innovators are two EECS graduates: Drew Houston,...
View ArticleCrowdsourcing made easier - Qurk spares worry including costs
CSAIL/EECS researchers including EECS graduate students Adam Marcus and Eugene Wu and EECS professors Sam Madden, Rob Miller and David Karger, have developed a way for users of crowdsourcing database...
View ArticleTedrake the "Connoisseur of Chaos" is featured for his approach to complex...
The MIT News Office has featured Russ Tedrake, the X Consortium Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT. From his beginnings -- not in...
View ArticleCheung, Madden team to develop Pyxis to streamline database access patterns
Members of the MIT Database Group including Sam Madden, an associate professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT and co-leader of the 'bigdata@CSAIL' initiative,...
View ArticleGolland, Venkataraman develop algorithm to map brain disease
Polina Golland, associate professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT (EECS) and principal investigator in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab...
View ArticleKellis and group play major role in study revealing biochemical functionality...
Manolis Kellis, an associate professor of computer science at MIT and an associate member of the Broad Institute, is one of the lead computational scientists and authors of a paper that describes the...
View ArticleWeinstein Receives Intel Early Career Honor
EECS professor and MTL core faculty member Dana Weinstein is the recipient of an Intel Early Career Faculty Honor from the Intel Corporation. The announcement was made official this week. The Intel...
View ArticleGifford and group work toward revealing roles of genetic transcription factors
David Gifford, EECS professor and director of the Computational Genomics Group in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL), working with members of his group, has developed a new...
View ArticleInauguration of MIT President L. Rafael Reif - Event Information
Next week marks the inauguration of MIT President L. Rafael Reif — on Friday, Sept. 21, 2012 — bringing the whole MIT community together. There will be a number of associated events from Sept. 19...
View ArticleZahn creates oil spill cleanup-recovery from water using ferrous nanoparticles
EECS professor Markus Zahn has teamed with EECS postdoc Shahriar Khushrushahi, and MIT Chemical Engineering professor T. Alan Hatton to develop a new technique for separating oil from water using...
View ArticleLeonard A. Gould: 1927 - 2012
Leonard A. Gould, professor of electrical engineering, emeritus in the MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science died on Saturday, Sept. 8, 2012 at the age of 85. Professor Gould...
View Articledel Alamo receives Semiconductor Research Corporation 2012 Technical...
Jesus del Alamo, Donner Professor, MacVicar Faculty Fellow and Professor of Electrical Engineering in the EECS Department at MIT received the Semiconductor Research Corporation 2012 Technical...
View ArticleFujimoto among recipients of 2012 Antonio Champalimaud Vision Award
As reported by the Champalimaud Foundation, the 2012 António Champalimaud Vision Award has been given for the development of two novel approaches to visualising the living human retina in health and...
View ArticleTracking what smart phone apps are tracking about you. Abelson, Shih and...
September 18, 2012How much does your smartphone know about you — even when it's turned off? Under the guidance of CSAIL Principal Investigator Hal Abelson, the Class of 1922 Professor in the Department...
View ArticleIn Tribute to Rafael Reif
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View ArticleAutomapping sensors designed to map wearer's environment
An MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) team has collaborated to produce a portable, wearable sensor system that automatically relays data about location and, through a...
View ArticleReplicating living structures to understand living tissues
3D microenvironmental structures for allowing replication of the intricate organization of living cell types have been developed and reported by Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department...
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