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Automatic bug repair
June 29, 2015Larry Hardesty | MIT News OfficeSystem fixes bugs by importing functionality from other programs — without access to source code.(Illustration: Jose-Luis Olivares/MIT)At the Association...
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Rivest appointed Institute Professor
Peter Dizikes | MIT News OfficeEECS Prof. Ron Rivest one of three awarded MIT's highest faculty honor.(Photo: Ron Rivest)A marine biologist who studies tiny ocean organisms, a computer scientist who...
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Zaharia named Ross Career Development Chair
Matei Zaharia, assistant professor of electrical engineering and computer science, has been selected as the Douglas T. Ross (1954) Career Development Professor of Software Technology, effective July...
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Palacios is new director of VI-A Master of Engineering Thesis Program
Tomás Palacios, assistant professor of electrical engineering and computer science, will become the new director of the VI-A Master of Engineering Thesis Program, effective July 1st. Palacios succeeds...
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Frederic Morgenthaler, professor emeritus of electrical engineering and...
Longtime member of the MIT faculty was a dedicated researcher, educator in the field of electromagnetism.(Frederic Morgenthaler, photo courtesy of Morgenthaler family.)Frederic Richard “Rick”...
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Helping students stick with MOOCs
July 1, 2015Larry Hardesty | MIT News OfficeNew techniques could help identify students at risk for dropping out of online courses.MOOCs — massive open online courses — grant huge numbers of people...
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Associate Department Head Micali honored as part of 'Great Immigrants'...
July 7, 2015Italian-American computer scientist recognized by the Carnegie Corporation for pioneering research in cryptography and information security.(Photo: Silvio Micali)Silvio Micali, the Ford...
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CSAIL report: Giving government special access to data poses major security...
Adam Conner-Simons | CSAILWhether “backdoor” or “front-door,” government access imperils your data, report authors say.(Illustration: iStock)In recent months, government officials in the United States,...
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Researchers develop basic computing elements for bacteria
Helen Knight | MIT News correspondentSensors, memory switches, and circuits can be encoded in a common gut bacterium.(Illustration depicts Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron (white) living on mammalian cells...
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Cutting cost and power consumption for big data
Larry Hardesty | MIT NewsNew network design exploits cheap, power-efficient flash memory without sacrificing speed.(Image: iStock)Random-access memory, or RAM, is where computers like to store the data...
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Computer program fixes old code faster than expert engineers
Adam Conner-Simons | CSAILWhat takes coders months, CSAIL’s “Helium” can do in an hour.(The Helium program could help solve “a billion-dollar problem” in computing: companies having to devote time and...
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What buyers want
Rob Matheson | MIT NewsMIT professors’ choice-modeling software predicts customer preferences for retailers.(Image: iStock)U.S. retail chains often rely on intuition in choosing which products, from a...
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MIT and Total partner to improve technical instruction in African universities
Jessica Fujimori | MISTIEmpowering the Teachers program targets emerging academics to improve skills in curriculum design, instruction, leadership, and research. (Spring 2014 MIT-Empowering the...
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Siting wind farms more quickly, cheaply
Larry Hardesty | MIT NewsNew model predicts wind speeds more accurately with three months of data than others do with 12.(Image: Jose-Luis Olivares)When a power company wants to build a new wind farm,...
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Object recognition for robots
Larry Hardesty | MIT News OfficeRobots’ maps of their environments can make existing object-recognition algorithms more accurate. (Image: The proposed SLAM-aware object recognition system is able to...
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Consortium including MIT awarded $110M national grant to promote photonics...
David L. Chandler | MIT NewsPartnership of government, industry, and academia will pursue integration of optical devices with electronics.(Associate Professor Michael R. Watts (left) and Professor...
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Shoring up Tor
Larry Hardesty | MIT NewsResearchers mount successful attacks against popular anonymity network — and show how to prevent them.(Image: iStock)With 2.5 million daily users, the Tor network is the...
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Making the new silicon
Rob Matheson | MIT NewsGallium nitride electronics could drastically cut energy usage in data centers, consumer devices.(Image: Shown here is a prototype laptop power adapter made by Cambridge...
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Taibo Li receives Henry Ford II Scholar Award
6-2 alum Taibo Li ’15 has received the Henry Ford II Scholar Award from MIT’s School of Engineering. Established by a grant from the Ford Motor Company in 1977, the award goes to an undergraduate who,...
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Signals, Systems and Inference
New textbook based on 6.011 brings classic MIT undergraduate course to a wider audience.Two EECS faculty members in charge of a longstanding MIT electrical engineering class have written a new...
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