The 2015 Connector is out! Annual news from the MIT EECS Department
Read the latest MIT EECS Connector (Spring 2015) online. Choose from several possible versions (single pages or spreads) or in slightly animated version on ISSUU.The 2015 Connector features news...
View ArticleHow three MIT students fooled the world of scientific journals - ten years hence
April 14, 2015Read about how Dan Aguayo ’01 MEng ’02, Max Krohn PhD ’08, and Jeremy Stribling MS ’05 PhD ’09 revealed holes in the world of scientific publications and conferences ten years ago and how...
View ArticleDaniel Sanchez is recipient of NSF 2015 Faculty Early Career Development Award
Daniel Sanchez, the TIBCO Career Development Professor in MIT’s Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department and principal investigator in the MIT Computer Science and Artificial...
View ArticleAllen Lin, EECS alumnus is one of 5 MIT students receiving Soros Fellowship...
MIT Electrical Engineering and Computer Science alumnus Allen Lin ’11, MEng ’11 is one of five MIT students featured by MIT News as recipients of the 2015 Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New...
View ArticleDevadas and team design scheme and implement chip fabrication to thwart...
Srini Devadas, the Edwin Sibley Webster Professor in MIT's Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department and members of his group, the Computation Structures Group, have designed a process...
View ArticleDurand, William Freeman team to apply computer vision technique for tracking...
April 23, 2015 EECS faculty members Fredo Durand and William Freeman have teamed with Oral Buyukozturk, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at MIT, to develop an alternative technique...
View ArticleBhatia selected for Heinz Award for her work in tissue engineering, disease...
April 24, 2015Sangeeta Bhatia has been named the recipient of the 2015 Heinz Award for Technology, the Economy, and Employment in recognition of her work in tissue engineering, disease detection and...
View ArticleMatei Zaharia receives ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award
Reported today by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), Matei Zaharia, Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and member of the Computer Science...
View ArticleEmail overload: Karger/Zhang devise new system reinventing the mailing list
Is it still an either-or choice to receive (or not) all those mailing list emails? EECS graduate student Amy Zhang working with EECS Prof. David Karger in the Computer Science and Artificial...
View ArticleMIT Spinoff Verayo developed by Srini Devadas gains increased use in...
MIT spinout Verayo created by Srini Devadas, the Edwin Sibley Webster Professor in the EECS Department and member of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) is featured for its...
View ArticleStart6 students expand their innovation horizons while making connections in...
Friday, May 1, 2015 - 9:45am Silicon Valley and SF Startups, Alumni and VCs complement and enhance the Start6 learning experienceSince the 2015 Start6 IAP class for innovators and entrepreneurs ended...
View ArticleDaskalakis, Matusik and Watts are promoted to Associate Professor
EECS Department Head Anantha P. Chandrakasan and Associate Department Heads Silvio Micali and David J. Perreault announced today the promotions of Professors Constantinos Daskalakis, Wojciech Matusik,...
View ArticleTorralba, Oliva build scene recognition system with implications for object...
While they developed the most accurate scene recognition system, Profs. Antonio Torralba and Aude Oliva have shown how object recognition along with scene recognition could be mutually reinforcing....
View ArticleDurand, Freeman and Shih develop algorithm for reflection-less photos
New algorithm exploits multiple reflections in individual images to distinguish reflection from transmission.Members of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab's (CSAIL's) Computer...
View ArticleBroderick and Jegelka are named for Career Development Chairs in EECS
EECS Department Head Anantha Chandrakasan and Associate Heads Silvio Micali and David Perreault have announced the appointments of Tamara Broderick as the ITT Career Development Assistant Professor...
View ArticleEECS senior creates InstaAid, an iPad application used now by Boston Home...
May 18, 2015 As part of the fall 2014 Assistive Technologies (6.811) class (Principles and Practices in Assistive Technologies, or PPAT), a group of EECS students teamed to develop a new way for...
View ArticleMaking the most of micro-moments - Cai, Miller develop WaitChatter
EECS doctoral student Carrie Cai teaming with EECS Prof. Rob Miller and CSAIL senior research scientist Jim Glass has devised a Google Chat extension to help users make the most of idle wait time...
View ArticleThe world needs more electrical engineers!
Course 6-1 (Electrical Engineering) students organize to build communityThe members of Voltage, a new group in MIT’s Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department, want to interest more...
View ArticleBoning, Bulovic instrumental through Masdar Institute in focus on new...
EECS faculty members including Duane Boning, Director of the Cambridge-based MIT and Masdar Institute Cooperative Program, and Vladimir Bulovic, Associate Dean for Innovation at MIT's School of...
View ArticleHow do you shrink data when it is big?
How do you shrink data when it is (too) big? MIT's Richard Peng, a postdoc in applied mathematics, and Michael Cohen, a graduate student in electrical engineering and computer science have developed...
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