Determined to make a change
Catherine Curro Caruso | MIT News correspondentEECS senior Ruth Park draws on her background as she strives for educational reform.“I realized I wanted to work on systemic changes in education,” Ruth...
View ArticleDepartment launches new undergraduate curriculum
Updates emphasize flexibility, earlier engagement with core material, and smoother introduction to software.New degree requirements have been approved for undergraduates in the Department of Electrical...
View ArticleBarzilay named Delta Electronics Professor
Regina Barzilay has been appointed the Delta Electronics Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. The appointment recognizes Professor Barzilay’s leadership in the area of human...
View ArticleEECS celebrates 2015-2016 award winners
EECS celebrated its 2015-2016 departmental award recipients in a ceremony at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston on Sunday, May 15. Click below to scroll through photos of the event. All images are...
View ArticleA learn-by-doing approach to coding
Eric Smalley | Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer ScienceNew class lays a strong foundation for learning computer science.Katherine Young (center), a sophomore enrolled in 6.S04...
View ArticleHelping others in daily doses
Catherine Curro Caruso | MIT News correspondentEECS senior Donald Little uses computer science to improve people’s everyday lives.“I think just by talking to each other and helping people, not only do...
View Article“Super Mario Brothers” is hard
Larry Hardesty | MIT NewsAnalysis shows popular video game is among the hardest problems in the “complexity class” PSPACE.Illustration: Christine Daniloff/MITCompleting a game of “Super Mario Brothers”...
View Article2016 Doctoral Hooding
EECS doctoral candidates donned their regalia today in Johnson Athletic Center for the Investiture of Doctoral Hoods, a ceremony where students receive their doctoral hood from MIT's Chancellor Cynthia...
View ArticleEECS Doctoral Hooding Lineup
Thursday, June 2, 2016 - 5:30pmEECS doctoral candidates lined up in Johnson Athletic Center before the Doctoral Hooding Ceremony on June 2, 2016.
View ArticleCongratulations, Class of 2016!
It's Commencement Day at MIT!EECS undergraduates and graduate students joined the department for lunch after receiving their diplomas on Killian Court. Click below to see photos from the reception....
View Article2016 Connector
Card Title: 2016 ConnectorCard URL: https://www.eecs.mit.edu/outreach/2016-connectorCard Description: Whether it's through groundbreaking research or creating the next generation of global innovators,...
View ArticleSupercharging undergraduate research
School of Engineering | MIT NewsNow open to the entire School of Engineering, SuperUROP is creating an interdisciplinary community of scholars.Image credit: Gretchen ErtlThe experiment worked. Four...
View ArticleQ&A: Robert Metcalfe on the “Inoversity”
Terri Park | MIT Innovation InitiativeEthernet co-inventor and 3Com co-founder on how universities can drive innovation.Image credit: Gretchen ErtlEthernet co-inventor and 3Com co-founder Robert...
View ArticleBoning appointed to Lebel Professorship
Duane Boning has been named the Clarence J. LeBel Professor of Electrical Engineering. The chair is named for Clarence Joseph LeBel ‘26, SM ‘27, who co-founded Audio Devices in 1937, and was a pioneer...
View ArticleBroderick doubly awarded at ISBA 2016 World Meeting
MIT Center for StatisticsImage credit: Lillie Paquette, School of EngineeringTamara Broderick has received two awards at the 2016 World Meeting of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA)...
View ArticleRobert Fano, computing pioneer and founder of CSAIL, dies at 98
July 15, 2016Adam Conner-Simons and Rachel Gordon | CSAILProfessor emeritus helped launch field of information theory and developed early time-sharing computers.Robert Fano's work on information theory...
View ArticleScientists program cells to remember and respond to series of stimuli
Anne Trafton | MIT NewsNew approach to biological circuit design enables scientists to track cell histories.“You can build very complex computing systems if you integrate the element of memory together...
View Article$1 million gift to support diversity in STEM education
Audrey Resutek | Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer ScienceGift from Hopper-Dean Foundation will enhance computer science and engineering programs for high school and middle school...
View ArticleMartin Schmidt named Ray and Maria Stata Professor
Photo credit: Tony RinaldoMartin Schmidt, MIT’s Provost and a professor of electrical engineering, has been appointed to the Ray and Maria Stata Professorship of Electrical Engineering and Computer...
View ArticleBerwick gives 2016 STOQ lecture at the Vatican
August 5, 2016Laboratory for Information & Decision SystemsRobert Berwick, professor of computer science and engineering and computational linguistics, delivers lecture on the evolution of human...
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