Fink awarded Collier Medal
March 15, 2016On Tuesday, March 8 Professor Yoel Fink, Director of the Research Laboratory of Electronics, received the Collier Medal, which honors the memory of Officer Sean Collier. This award is...
View ArticleU.S. News gives top rankings to EECS graduate programs
Date Posted: Wednesday, March 16, 2016 - 11:15amNews Image: Card Title: U.S. News gives top rankings to EECS graduate programsCard URL:...
View ArticleIDSS conversations: Guy Bresler
Jennifer Donovan | Institute for Data, Systems, and SocietyAssistant professor of electrical engineering and computer science discusses his work focusing on learning graphical models from data.Guy...
View ArticleSecure, user-controlled data
Larry Hardesty | MIT News OfficeCryptographic system would allow users to decide which applications access which aspects of their data.“This a rethinking of the Web infrastructure,” Frank Wang says....
View ArticleSmartphone-based Laser Distance Sensor
Friday, March 25, 2016 - 9:45amMIT researchers built an infrared depth-sensing system from a smartphone with a $10 laser attached to it that works outdoors, as well as in.Labs: Computer Science and...
View ArticlePhone-based laser rangefinder works outdoors
March 25, 2016Larry Hardesty | MIT News OfficeDepth sensor built from off-the-shelf parts filters out ambient infrared light.The researchers prototyped the sensor using the camera in an ordinary...
View ArticleReflection-removing camera
Larry Hardesty | MIT News OfficeDevice uses depth sensor and signal processing to capture clear images through windows.Members of the MIT Media Lab’s Camera Culture Group devised a new approach to...
View ArticleWireless tech means safer drones, smarter homes and password-free WiFi
Adam Conner-Simons | MIT News OfficeSystem from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab enables single WiFi access point that can locate users within tens of centimeters.For a demo at a...
View ArticleScience on Saturday: Circuits and Computers
EECS faculty, students, and staff showed off their electric superpowers on Saturday at Science on Saturday: Circuits and Computers edition, an event hosted by the MIT Museum and the Department of...
View ArticleTsitsiklis wins 2016 ACM SIGMETRICS Achievement Award
Date Posted: Tuesday, April 5, 2016 - 10:00amNews Image: Labs: Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS)Card Title: Tsitsiklis Wins 2016 ACM SIGMETRICS Achievement AwardCard URL:...
View ArticleAn ace on the court and in the lab
April 8, 2016Mijal Tenenbaum | Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer ScienceSenior Ava Soleimany talks about being captain of the women’s tennis team, leadership, and her research in...
View ArticlePatching up Web applications
Larry Hardesty| MIT News OfficeNew debugging method found 23 undetected security flaws in 50 popular Web applications.In tests on 50 popular Web applications written using Ruby on Rails, a new...
View ArticleSystem predicts 85 percent of cyber-attacks using input from human experts
Adam Conner-Simons | CSAILVirtual artificial intelligence analyst developed by the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab and PatternEx reduces false positives by factor of 5.AI2 combs...
View ArticlePodcast: MIT is..
MIT Student Life talks with 6-3 senior Katrine Tjolsen about why she chose to study computer science, studying theoretical computer science, her passion for social change, time management, and the...
View ArticleIn the Media: These 5 people had the smarts to launch careers in booming fields
Date Posted: Thursday, April 21, 2016 - 5:00pmNews Image: Card Title: In the Media: These 5 people had the smarts to launch careers in booming fieldsCard URL:...
View ArticleNancy Lynch one of four MIT professors elected to National Academy of Sciences
MIT News OfficeLynch honored for research achievements.Four MIT faculty members have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) in recognition of their “distinguished and continuing...
View ArticleThis Mongolian teenager aced a Mooc. Now he wants to widen their impact
Date Posted: Wednesday, May 4, 2016 - 4:15pmNews Image: Card Title: In the Media: This Mongolian teenager aced a MOOC. Now he wants to widen their impactCard URL: http://bit.ly/1VKpjVvCard Description:...
View ArticleNASA's Valkyrie Humanoid Upgraded, Delivered to Robotics Labs in U.S. and Europe
Date Posted: Tuesday, May 10, 2016 - 11:30amNews Image: Card Title: In the Media: NASA's Valkyrie Humanoid Upgraded, Delivered to Robotics Labs in U.S. and EuropeCard URL: http://bit.ly/1Xjm6MeCard...
View ArticleSolar-Lezama receives tenure
MIT News OfficeArmando Solar-Lezama one of seven appointments made in the School of Engineering.The School of Engineering has announced that seven members of its faculty have been granted tenure by...
View ArticleHeldt appointed Keck CD Chair
Karen Shaner | IMESThomas Heldt appointed W.M. Keck Career Development Assistant ProfessorThomas Heldt has been named the W.M. Keck Career Development Assistant Professor. Thomas is currently the...
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