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Silvio Micali succeeds Bill Freeman as Associate Head in EECS
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department (EECS) Head Anantha Chandrakasan announced the appointment of Professor Silvio Micali as Associate Department Head (ADH) of EECS effective January...
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del Alamo, Ram are recipients of Bose Research Grants - for high risk yet...
Two EECS Department faculty Jesus del Alamo and Rajeev Ram are recipients of Bose Grants — out of five MIT professors selected for research projects that are high-risk yet potentially having...
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Future MIT entrepreneurs get boost through Start6
Three-week credit class opens opportunities for MIT studentsKathryn O'NeillMIT’s next generation of entrepreneurs is getting a leg up on the competition thanks to Start6, an innovative class offered...
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Madrid-MIT M+Vision Team wins 2015 Singapore Challenge
Luca Giancardo, PhD and the neuroQWERTY team were awarded $100,000 for the best proposal to help elderly to “Age in Place” with their technology neuroQWERTY algorithm detects motor impairment through...
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Englund teams to enhance duration of quantum states toward practical quantum...
Dirk Englund and his team in the Quantum Photonics Laboratory have collaborated with colleagues at Brookhaven National Laboratory and an outside company to create a new technique to extend...
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Daniel Kang, EECS senior wins Churchill Scholarship, 12th MIT student to win...
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science senior Daniel Kang has won the Churchill Scholarship. He is the 12th MIT student since the scholarship was established in 1963 to win this honor for which he...
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Shavit teams to dodge multicore logjams
In building multicore chips, a common inefficiency arises with the addition of more than eight cores. EECS professor Nir Shavit, principal investigator in the Computer Science and Artificial...
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MIT School of Engineering announces 12 new faculty including six in EECS
The MIT School of Engineering welcomes twelve new faculty, including six, who join the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. [photo above: Twelve new faculty members join the...
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Eight from MIT elected to National Academy of Engineering including five EECS...
Five members of the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department of a total of eight MIT faculty have been elected to the National Academy of Engineering including Hari Balakrishnan, Sangeeta...
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Looking at Voting and Elections from two perspectives - MIT style
A new joint class, Elections and Voting Technology (6.S897 and 17.S952) had students from Political Science and EECS examining both the technical and political complexities of elections. The class was...
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Bhatia teams in work towards eradication of malaria
February 5, 2015 In 2008, the World Health Organization announced a global effort to eradicate malaria, which kills about 800,000 people every year. As part of that goal, scientists are trying to...
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Can you learn to be an entrepreneur in two weeks? MIT Start6 program says yes!
Start6 classes are over, but it is still well remembered by all involved and present — including Dennis Keohane, tech writer for the Boston Globe's Beta Boston. Keohane took in most of the classes for...
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Miller team creates Crowdy, for crowdsourced video annotation to increase...
February 12, 2015 Professor Rob Miller and members of the User Interface Design Group at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) have devised a system that uses...
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Madigan, Bulovic create Kateeva to mass produce OLED displays
Kateeva, a company co-founded by EECS graduate Conor Madigan SM ’02 PhD ’06, now CEO and Vladimir Bulovic, the Fariborz Maseeh Professor of Emerging Technology in EECS and co-founder and now...
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Jack Ruina dies at 91
Emeritus professor of electrical engineering and computer science was a former MIT vice president for special labs and first director of MIT's Security Studies Program.Jack Ruina, professor of...
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Faster smarter chips? Sanchez teams to distribute computations for speed,...
In the quest for improving the speed and efficiency of multicore chips, EECS Assistant Professor Daniel Sanchez and graduate students Nathan Beckmann and Po-An Tsai designed a system that moves data...
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Kellis teams with Broad, Picower and other colleagues to track epigenomics of...
Our susceptibility to disease depends both on the genes that we inherit from our parents and on our lifetime experiences. These two components — nature and nurture — seem to affect very different...
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Kellis leads NIH Roadmap Epigenomics Consortium to map Human Epigenome
Mapping the human genome, accomplished a decade ago, was heralded for laying the foundation for understanding genetic variation and links to a wide range of diseases. But genes can be switched on and...
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Fink teams to create valuable fibers out of everyday materials
February 21, 2015 Yoel Fink, Director of MIT's Research Laboratory of Electronics and professor of materials science and electrical engineering and computer sicence has teamed to develop...
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Radio chip for Internet of things. Chandrakasan group extends battery life by...
This week, at the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers’ (IEEE's) International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), the group of Anantha Chandrakasan, EECS Department Head and the...
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