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James Fujimoto Awarded the Honorary Doctorate Degree at Nicolaus Copernicus...
On February 19th, the birthday of Nicolaus Copernicus, Professor James G. Fujimoto was awarded the Honorary Doctorate Degree at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Poland. Professor Fujimoto was...
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Philanthropist Erna Viterbi dies at 81
Erna Viterbi, a warm and gracious philanthropist who with her husband, Qualcomm co-founder Andrew ’56, SM ’57, gave generously to MIT and a variety of other institutions, died Feb. 17 in San Diego.“In...
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MIT News features EECS senior who creates efficiency boosting apps and startups
February 27, 2015THe MIT News Office has featured EECS senior Sheldon Trotman for his innovations directed to solving inefficiencies.Read more in the February 26, 2015 MIT News Office article by Julia...
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CSAIL Robot Garden is a welcome sight - lighting up young minds on programming
HOW AN LED-FILLED “ROBOT GARDEN” CAN MAKE CODING MORE ACCESSIBLERead more in the February 26, 2015 CSAIL feature by Adam Conner-Simon, CSAIL Communications, also posted below and appearing in the MIT...
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Advantages of entanglement for quantum sensors outlive its existence
Members of the Optical and Quantum Communications Group in the Research Lab of Electronics (RLE) including Prof. Jeffrey Shapiro with senior research scientist Franco Wong and postdoc Zheshen Zhang...
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MIT launches three cybersecurity initiatives - Security by Default
MIT announced a major thrust toward addressing cybersecurity with the launch of three new initiatives including one focused on technology research to be based in the Computer Science and Artificial...
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Faculty Promotions Announced in EECS
Five faculty are promoted to full professor; three faculty are promoted to associate professorMIT Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department Head Anantha Chandrakasan and Associate...
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Robots for preschool learning about programming
March 12, 2015 EECS alumna Cynthia Breazeal, SM '93, ScD '00, associate professor of media arts and sciences at MIT, and members of her group in the Media Lab, the Personal Robotics Group, has...
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Fujimoto is recipient of the OSA Frederic Ives Medal
The Optical Society (OSA) announced on March 1, 2015, the selection of Professor James G. Fujimoto as the recipient of the Frederic Ives Medal / Quinn Prize. He is recognized for pioneering the field...
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Postdocs in EECS gain new perspectives as Postdoc6 comes full cycle
“So you are in! [as a postdoctoral associate in EECS at MIT] What is important about your research that matters in applying for a job? Is there funding? Is your [research] area one that has traction in...
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Hu is selected for OSA 2015 Nick Holonyak Jr. Award
March 20, 2015 Recognized for pioneering contributions to high-performance THz quantum-cascade lasersQing Hu, the MIT Distinguished Professor in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and...
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Rinard teams to develop debugging system (DIODE) to guard memory allocation...
Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) principal investigator and EECS Prof. Martin Rinard with members of his research group, the Center for Resilient Software, including...
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EECS students/graduates team to develop satellite image analysis methods to...
Former and current EECS graduate students have created new methods to automate identification of potential areas for development in rural villages in both India and sub-Saharan Africa. The group won a...
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Stonebraker wins ACM 2014 A.M. Turing Award in field of database management...
by Adam Conner-Simons, CSAILMichael Stonebraker, a researcher at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) who has revolutionized the field of database management systems...
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Solar Photovoltaic Power - Study provides analyses of potential applications
In a broad new assessment of the status and prospects of solar photovoltaic technology, MIT researchers including Vladimir Bulović, Associate Dean for Innovation and the Fariborz Maseeh (1990)...
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Towards better CS MOOC coding evaluations - OverCode designed by Miller group
Students and graduates of Prof. Rob Miller's group, the User Interface Design Group have designed a system for visualizing and exploring thousands of solutions to a programming problem, ultimately...
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EECS one of four MIT departments to participate in new Sloan sponsored...
MIT is one of three schools to receive an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation grant to create a “University Center of Exemplary Mentoring” (UCEM) that will focus on the recruitment, retention, and academic...
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Lierserson named SIAM Fellow
The Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics has named CSAIL principal investigator Charles E. Leiserson as one of its 2015 Fellows for his “enduring influence on parallel computing systems and...
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Englund group members develop ultrasensitive magnetic-field detector
April 6, 2015 Members of the Quantum Photonics Lab including its director Professor Dirk Englund and EECS graduate student Hannah Clevenson have developed a new, ultrasensitive magnetic-field detector...
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Dahleh heads new MIT Institute for Data, Systems, and Society
Munther Dahleh, the William A. Coolidge Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, will head a new Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS) to be launched on...
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