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SuperUROP class of 2015 graduates with high accomplishment and promise
MIT Chancellor Barnhart thanks Course 6’s SuperUROP students for their research and innovation contributions; praises SuperUROP’s quintessential MITness As the 2015 SuperUROP graduates flowed into the...
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Properties of physical objects seen through Visual Microphone technology
A computer vision enabled technology developed by a team of EECS faculty Bill Freeman and Frédo Durand and their students is enabling a new way to identify structural defects in objects. The group...
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EECS celebrates its 2015 award winners
EECS Celelbrates, the annual awards event to celebrate and recognize the outstanding accomplishments of the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) Department faculty, students and staff was...
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Division of robotic labor: Rus team develops algorithm enabling robots to...
EECS graduate students Andrew Spielberg and Stuart Baker and postdoc Mehmet Dogar with EECS Professor and Director of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) Daniela Rus have...
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Bhatia teams to engineer probiotics to detect tumors in the liver
May 28, 2015 Sangeeta Bhatia, member of the EECS faculty, of MIT’s Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research and the Institute for Medical Engineering and Science and has teamed with researchers...
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Two EECS juniors win Goldwater Scholarship: Gopinathan and Guo are two the...
Two EECS juniors, Kaustav Gopinathan and Margaret Guo, have been selected as Goldwater Scholars for 2015-16. Four MIT students, honored Goldwater Scholars for their academic achievements, were...
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Graphene layer to improve power plant efficiency: work of Kong and Wang
May 30, 2015 Jing Kong, professor of electrical engineering in the EECS Department at MIT and principal investigator with the Microsystems Technology Laboratories and the Research Lab of Electronics...
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Perspective on ATHack 2015 - Winning can be just the start
It has been nearly four months since 70 MIT undergraduate and graduate students worked in teams for a single day at the Assistive Technologies Hackathon (ATHack 2015) to create a prototype to improve...
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Empowering people to build their own microgrids - Ram, Perreault team to...
Enabling neighbors in remote areas of the world that lack electricity to inexpensively buy power from a local solar panel owner, essentially creating their own microgrid, may sound utopian, but it is...
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Nanofibers unleashed: new technique for production of versatile fibers
Luis Fernando Velasquez-Garcia, principal research scientist in MIT's Microsystems Technology Laboratories (MTL) has led work to develop a new efficient and productive way to manufacture nanofibers...
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2015 EECS PhD Hooding Celebration
We are very proud to congratulate the 101 EECS Students who were recognized Thursday, June 4th during the MIT Investiture of Doctoral Hoods ceremony. An EECS Hooding Celebration was held following...
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Metcalfe to serve as visiting innovation fellow for 2015-16 academic year
Ethernet inventor and 3Com founder Robert Metcalfe’68 will become a visiting innovation fellow at MIT for one week a month during the 2015-16 academic year, engaging in entrepreneurship activities at...
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MIT DARPA Robotics Challenge Team places 6th just missing grand prize
The MIT DARPA Robotics Challenge Team led by Professor Rus Tedrake reached new heights in the June 5-6 international DARPA Robotics Challenge in Pomona California, as they nimbly programmed their...
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40 year old algorithm is shown to be as good as it gets
If a widely held assumption about computational complexity is correct, the problem of measuring the difference between two genomes — or texts, or speech samples, or anything else that can be...
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Team MIT reports on real wins from DARPA Robotics Challenge
DARPA Robotics Challenge MIT Team leader Russ Tedrake reports on the real win in the team's sixth placement in last week's competition. The team not only won the overall best-paper award at the 2014...
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Rus team develops mini printable origami bots that can swim, climb and carry...
At the recent International Conference on Robotics and Automation, MIT researchers led by Daniela Rus, the Andrew and Erna Viterbi Professor in MIT’s Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer...
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Terman appointed EECS Undergraduate Officer
EECS Department Head Anantha Chandrakasan announced today the appointment of Christopher J. Terman as the new EECS Undergraduate Officer. Terman succeeds Albert Meyer, the Hitachi America Professor of...
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Amplifying small motions in large motions
June 16, 2015Larry Hardesty | MIT News OfficeVideo-processing algorithm magnifies motions indiscernible to naked eye, even in moving objects. (Image: A key to the new motion-magnification algorithm is...
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Toward tiny, solar-powered sensors
June 22, 2015Larry Hardesty | MIT News OfficeNew ultralow-power circuit improves efficiency of energy harvesting to more than 80 percent.(Image: The MIT researchers' prototype for a chip measuring 3...
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Tamara Broderick: Woman in technology
June 29, 2015A high-school outreach program first brought Tamara Broderick to MIT in 2002. Now she's back, as an assistant professor in EECS.(Image: Tamara Broderick. Image credit: Lillie...
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