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A metabolic master switch underlying human obesity
Helen Knight | MIT News CorrespondentResearchers find pathway that controls metabolism by prompting fat cells to store or burn fat.Illustration of fat cells in the human body. Image:...
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Crash-tolerant data storage
Larry Hardesty | MIT NewsFormally verified working file system could lead to computers guaranteed never to lose your data.Illustration: Christine Daniloff/MITIn a computer operating system, the file...
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Study identifies new cheating method in MOOCs
Abby Abazorius | MIT NewsResearch from MIT and Harvard shows how to exploit and protect MOOC certification.Illustration: Jose-Luis Olivares/MITWhile the proliferation of massive open online courses...
View ArticleWomen's Technology Program at MIT
Friday, September 4, 2015 - 10:30amThe MIT Women's Technology Program (WTP) is a rigorous four-week summer academic and residential experience where female high school students explore engineering...
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Self-driving golf carts
Larry Hardesty | MIT News OfficeAutonomous vehicles share sidewalk space with pedestrians in six-day trial in Singaporean public garden.(Image: The autonomous golf carts (shown here) deployed in the...
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CSAIL joins with Toyota on $25 million research center for autonomous cars
Adam Conner-Simons | CSAILSeeking to reduce traffic casualties, center will focus on robotics and artificial intelligence systems.MIT's Stata Center, which houses the Computer Science and Artificial...
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Alizadeh appointed to TIBCO Career Development Chair
Mohammad Alizadeh has been appointed the TIBCO Career Development Chair.A principal investigator in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL), Alizadeh’s research interests lie in...
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Abraham Bers, professor emeritus of electrical engineering, dies at 85
September 15, 2015Bers, a longtime member of the MIT community, was expert in plasma physics.(Abraham Bers)Abraham (Abe) Bers, ScD ’59, professor emeritus of electrical engineering, died on Friday,...
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Antoniadis receives IEEE Jun-Ichi Nishizawa Medal
Dimitri Antoniadis, the Ray and Maria Stata Professor of Electrical Engineering, has received the 2015 IEEE Jun-Ichi Nishizawa Medal, an award honoring outstanding contributions to material and device...
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Personalized heart models for surgical planning
Larry Hardesty | MIT News OfficeSystem can convert MRI scans into 3D-printed, physical models in a few hours.New system from MIT and Boston Children’s Hospital researchers converts MRI scans into...
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EE Expo
Event Location: Allen/Haus Rooms, 36-462, 36-421; Grier Room, 34-401Card Description: The first ever Undergraduate Electrical Engineering Expo will bring together students, faculty, and industry...
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Freeman named Perkins Professor
William T. Freeman has been appointed the Thomas and Gerd Perkins Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.“Prof. Freeman is a pioneer in using machine learning methods in computer...
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How to make large 2-D sheets
David L. Chandler | MIT News OfficeMIT-led team develops method for scaling up production of thin electronic material.Millie Dresselhaus (left) and Lin Zhou Photo: Jose-Luis Olivares/MITSheets of...
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Learning language by playing games
Larry Hardesty | MIT News OfficeSystem learns to play text-based computer game using only linguistic information.Illustration: Jose-Luis Olivares/MITMIT researchers have designed a computer system that...
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Kolodziejski honored in Committed to Caring campaign
Card Title: Kolodziejski honored in Committed to Caring campaignCard URL: http://odge.mit.edu/community/committed-to-caring-c2c/leslie-kolodziejski/Card Description: EECS Graduate Officer and Professor...
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StartMIT Info Sessions
Card Title: StartMIT Info SessionsCard URL: https://startmit.mit.edu/about/info-sessions/Card Description: Register now for a fall info sessions to learn how to enroll in the workshop, seed fund...
View ArticleFaculty positions beginning September 2016
The Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) seeks candidates for faculty positions starting in September 2016. Appointment will be at the assistant or untenured associate...
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Finding a noninvasive way to measure pressure in the brain
Audrey Resutek | Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science MIT researchers team up with Boston Medical Center and Philips to test a noninvasive way to measure intracranial...
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More-flexible machine learning
October 1, 2015Larry Hardesty | MIT News OfficeGiving machine-learning systems “partial credit” during training improves image classification.Flickr users tagged a photograph similar to this one...
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Predicting change in the Alzheimer’s brain
Larry Hardesty | MIT News OfficeCombining MRI and other data helps machine-learning systems predict effects of neurodegenerative disease.MIT researchers are developing a computer system that uses...
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