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SuperUROP undergrad research program goes engineering-wide
Kathryn M. O’Neill | MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer ScienceYearlong “Super” Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program expands beyond Course 6.Ian Waitz addressed the 2015-2016...
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Automating big-data analysis
October 16, 2015Larry Hardesty | MIT News OfficeSystem that replaces human intuition with algorithms outperforms 615 of 906 human teams.Image: MIT NewsBig-data analysis consists of searching for buried...
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Machine-learning expert Jegelka wins major German award
October 17, 2015Adam Conner-Simons | MIT CSAILStefanie Jegelka wins “Deutscher Mustererkennungspreis” prize. Image: Stephanie JegelkaThis week CSAIL principal investigator Stefanie Jegelka received a...
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Tuesday, October 20, 2015 - 2:30pmMeet Vinod Vaikuntanathan, who is developing fully homomorphic encryption. This form of cryptography promises to make cloud computing perfectly secure. Learn more at...
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Signal Intelligence
Larry Hardesty | MIT News MagazineMacArthur Fellow Dina Katabi, SM ’98, PhD ’03, exploits physical properties of radio waves to make computation more efficient.Dina Katabi. Photo credit: MIT News...
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Faster optimization
October 23, 2015Larry Hardesty | MIT NewsNew general-purpose optimization algorithm promises order-of-magnitude speedups on some problems.Cutting plane methods converge on the optimal values of a...
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Chandrakasan appointed to Vannevar Bush Professorship
Anantha P. Chandrakasan has been appointed to the Vannevar Bush Professorship, effective November 1, 2015, Dean of Engineering Ian A. Waitz announced today. The Vannevar Bush Professorship is an...
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Bresler appointed to Tenenbaum Career Development Chair
Guy Bresler has been named the Bonnie and Marty (1964) Tenenbaum Career Development Professor.Bresler’s research focuses on the foundations of high-dimensional statistical inference, specifically on...
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A basis for all cryptography
Larry Hardesty | MIT NewsA tool that would provide a secure foundation for any cryptographic system may be close at hand.“Indistinguishability obfuscation” is a powerful concept that would yield...
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How wireless X-ray vision could power virtual reality, smart homes, and...
October 28, 2015Adam Conner-Simons | CSAILBy seeing silhouettes through a wall, CSAIL device could help with motion capture, fall prevention and even your heating bill.By testing different human...
View ArticleA Soft Robot Cube Capable of Controllable Jumping
Friday, October 30, 2015 - 10:15amCSAIL researchers develop a soft autonomous robot that uses its "tongues" to jump across rocky terrain.Learn more
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Logic Analysis Tool Team wins Paul F. Forman Team Engineering Excellence Award
October 30, 2015Berggren, Sunter, and Najafi part of team recognized by The Optical Society (OSA)Photo: The Logic Analysis Tool TeamThree MIT researchers are part of a team that has won the 2015 Paul...
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William M. Siebert, professor emeritus of electrical engineering and computer...
Siebert, an expert in long-range radar, helped shape EECS curriculum.Left to right: James D. Bruce, Louis D. Smullin, Robert M. Fano, and William M. SiebertProf. William M. Siebert ’46, ScD ’52, passed...
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An app for safer roads
Rob Matheson | MIT NewsCensio’s data analytics on driving behavior helps users improve safety and lower insurance rates.Image: Christine Daniloff/MIT (app screenshots courtesy of Censio)Are you a safe...
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Ozdaglar appointed to Keithley Professorship
Asuman Ozdaglar, professor of electrical engineering and computer science, has been appointed to the Joseph F. and Nancy P. Keithley Professorship in Electrical Engineering. The Keithley Chair was...
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Three EECS faculty selected as Faculty Research Innovation Fellowships (FRIFs)
Left to right: Polina Golland, Jongyoon Han, and Manolis KellisThree 2015–2016 Faculty Research Innovation Fellowships (FRIFs) have been awarded to EECS faculty members. The FRIF was established in...
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edX Learner Stories: Carrie McLarnon
Carrie McLarnon | edX Learner StoriesImage: Carrie McLarnon, courtesy of edXAn edX course I took in February 2013 has changed my entire life! I graduated from Queen’s University Belfast with a...
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Fall 2015 Thesis Awards
Photo: Fall 2015 thesis award winners and their supervisors.The Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science is proud to present the following awards for SM and PhD theses for Fall 2015....
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It takes a network
All photos by Gretchen Ertl. Rising Stars workshop helps women electrical engineers and computer scientists build a professional network, find jobs in academia. Success in higher education, especially...
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Four MIT Faculty elected AAAS Fellows
Top (l to r): Karl Berggren, Edmund Bertschinger; Bottom (l to r): Gerald R. Fink and Victor Zue. Images courtesy of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Department of...
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