Building MIT.nano
Monday, November 23, 2015 - 9:45amMIT doesn't shy away from challenges—that includes constructing a building in the heart of campus. Learn what it's taking to build MIT.nano, a 200,000 square foot...
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SuperUROP Research Preview
Card Title: SuperUROP Research PreviewCard URL: https://www.eecs.mit.edu/news-events/calendar/events/superurop-research-previewCard Description: Come join us for a poster session by students enrolled...
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Podcast: MIT is...
MIT Student Life talks with 6-3 sophomore Cynthia F. about why she chose to study computer science, her favorite things about MIT, her UROP at the Media Lab, and a lot more. During this episode you'll...
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Stranks named 2016 TED Fellow
Photo: Sam StranksSam Stranks, a Marie Curie IOF Fellow in the Organic and Nanostructured Electronics Group, has been named a 2016 Ted Fellow, TED announced today. Stranks is an experimental physicist...
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David Forney awarded the IEEE Medal of Honor
December 9, 2015Institute for Data, Systems, and Society | MIT NewsHighest award bestowed by IEEE honors exceptional contributions to the field of data communications.Photo: G. David ForneyG. David...
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Untraceable communication — guaranteed
December 9, 2015Larry Hardesty | MIT NewsNew untraceable text-messaging system comes with statistical guarantees."Tor operates under the assumption that there’s not a global adversary that’s paying...
View ArticleCBS This Morning: Wi-Fi Technology can "see" people through walls
Thursday, December 10, 2015 - 2:15pmCBS This Morning visits Prof. Dina Katabi and her research team, who are developing technology that can detect people through walls.
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Innovation on showcase
Audrey Resutek| Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer ScienceUndergrads present research at the SuperUROP Research Preview. All photos by Gretchen Ertl.Innovation is about solving the right...
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Piotr Indyk Named ACM Fellow
By Adam Conner-Simons, MIT CSAILThe Association for Computer Machinery (ACM) has named CSAIL researcher Piotr Indyk a 2015 Fellow for “contributions to high-dimensional geometric computing,...
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Muriel Medard wins the IEEE 2015 WICE Outstanding Achievement Award
Muriel Medard received the IEEE 2015 WICE Outstanding Achievement Award. The award recognizes members of IEEE ComSoc who have been involved with the Women in Communications Engineering Committee...
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Five faculty named IEEE Fellows
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer ScienceKarl Berggren, Charles Leiserson, Pablo Parrilo, Rajeev Ram and Lizhong Zheng receive highest grade of membership in IEEE.Top row (left to...
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Caroline Uhler is awarded the Doherty Professorship in Ocean Utilization
By MIT Sea Grant College ProgramThe 2015 Doherty Professorship in Ocean Utilization was presented to Professor Caroline Uhler in an award ceremony on November 20, 2015.Professor Uhler is an Assistant...
View ArticleDevavrat Shah and co-authors receive INFORMS Award
Devavrat Shah, along with co-authors Vivek Farias of MIT Sloan and Srikanth Jagabathula of NYU Stern, received the Revenue Management and Pricing section prize at INFORMS, for their paper, “A...
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MTL Students, Alumni, and Faculty win at IEDM 2015
News from MTLTwo prestigious awards were received by MTL students, alumni, and faculty at the plenary session of the 2015 International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM) that took place in Washington, DC...
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Optoelectronic microprocessors built using existing chip manufacturing
Larry Hardesty | MIT NewsHigh-performance prototype means chipmakers could now start building optoelectronic chips.Researchers have produced a working optoelectronic chip that computes electronically...
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3Q: Scott Aaronson on Google’s new quantum-computing paper
Larry Hardesty | MIT NewsGoogle experiments suggest that the D-Wave computer exploits quantum phenomena.Scott Aaronson. Photo: Bryce VickmarkIn 2010, a Canadian company called D-Wave announced that it...
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Smarter driving, using your phone
Rob Matheson | MIT NewsApp that rates drivers’ behavior yields promising safety results on the road.The DriveWell app runs in the background of a smartphone, collecting data on driving behavior....
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Organ-on-a-chip
January 8, 2016Helen Knight | MIT News correspondentIn a step toward personalized drug testing, researchers coax human stem cells to form complex tissues.This image demonstrates tissue patterns that...
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Hands-on, in Theory and Practice
By Joe Pickett, OCW Publication Director Students in 6.01 are introduced to electrical engineering and computer science by building a robot head that tracks light, shown above. Image: Course...
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Local boy makes good
Larry Hardesty | MIT News OfficeMichael Watts took two decades to make the 20-mile trip from suburban Hingham to tenure at MIT.For both his master’s and his doctoral theses, Michael Watts (pictured)...
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