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Two EECS professors receive 2017 Sloan Research Fellowships
Mohammad Alizadeh and Virginia Williams were both recognized for “outstanding promise” in computer science. Two EECS faculty members have been awarded Sloan Research Fellowships to support their...
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Engineers harness stomach acid to power tiny sensors
by Anne Trafton, MIT News OfficeResearchers at MIT and Brigham and Women’s Hospital have designed and demonstrated a small voltaic cell that is sustained by the acidic fluids in the stomach. The system...
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Voice control everywhere
by Larry Hardesty | MIT News OfficeThe butt of jokes as little as 10 years ago, automatic speech recognition is now on the verge of becoming people’s chief means of interacting with their principal...
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Researchers devise efficient power converter for internet of things
by Larry Hardesty | MIT News Office Those sensors will have to operate at very low powers, in order to extend battery life for months or make do with energy harvested from the environment. But that...
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Senior Lilly Chin wins “Jeopardy!” College Championship
by Elizabeth Durant | Office of the Dean for Undergraduate EducationLet’s be honest: Even the most disciplined college students don’t pay attention all the time during their classes. The temptations of...
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Stefanie Mueller, David Sontag, and Virginia Williams named to...
Three EECS faculty members, who all joined the Department in January 2017, have been awarded career-development chairs.Stefanie Mueller was named the X-Consortium Career Development Assistant...
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Lisa Su, Advanced Micro Devices president and CEO, to speak at 2017...
Chancellor Cynthia Barnhart announced today that Lisa Su ’90 SM ’91 PhD ’94, president and chief executive officer of Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), will be the guest speaker at MIT’s 2017 Investiture...
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Englund receives prestigious Optical Society award
The Optical Society has named Dirk Englund, a faculty member in the MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, as the recipient of the 2017 Adolph Lomb Medal.The medal, established...
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Dropbox founder drops by to inspire and spark collaboration
Alison F. Takemura | EECSLike MIT’s campus computing environment, Athena, a pre-cloud solution for enabling files and applications to follow the user, Dropbox’s Drew Houston ’05 brings his alma mater...
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Masterworks 2017 - Save the Date! Tuesday, April 18, 2017
Date Posted: Friday, March 10, 2017 - 7:30amAnnouncement Sources: https://www.eecs.mit.edu/academics-admissions/masterworks2017Card Title Color: BlackCard Description: Masterworks is EECS's annual...
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MIT graduate engineering programs earn top marks from U.S. News
MIT NewsMarch 14, 2017U.S. News and World Report has again placed MIT’s graduate program in engineering at the top of its annual rankings, continuing a trend that began in 1990, when the magazine first...
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Daniel Zuo: Creative approaches to connectivity
Thursday, March 16, 2017 - 11:00amDaniel Zuo: Creative approaches to connectivityDaniel Zuo: Creative approaches to connectivityhttp://news.mit.edu/2017/marshall-scholar-daniel-zuo-0316MIT senior and...
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Security for multirobot systems New technique could protect robot teams’...
Thursday, March 16, 2017 - 3:30pmSecurity for multirobot systems New technique could protect robot teams’ communication networks from malicious hackers.Security for multirobot systems New technique...
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John Tsitsiklis appointed director of MIT's Laboratory for Information and...
John Tsitsiklis, an MIT professor of electrical engineering and computer science, has been appointed director of the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS), and associate director of...
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Making better decisions when outcomes are uncertain
Tuesday, March 21, 2017 - 8:15amLaboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS)Making better decisions when outcomes are...
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Testing new networking protocols
Tuesday, March 21, 2017 - 8:15amWireless Networks & Mobile ComputingComputer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL)Testing new networking...
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Toward printable, sensor-laden “skin” for robots
Thursday, March 23, 2017 - 8:15amToward printable, sensor-laden “skin” for robotshttp://news.mit.edu/2017/goldbug-beetle-printable-sensor-laden-skin-robots-0323New 3-D-printed device mimics the goldbug...
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Protecting web users’ privacy
Thursday, March 23, 2017 - 2:00pmComputer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL)Protecting web users’ privacyCard Wide Image: Most website visits these days entail a database query — to...
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“Virtual batteries” could lead to cheaper, cleaner power
Friday, March 24, 2017 - 10:00am“Virtual batteries” could lead to cheaper, cleaner power http://news.mit.edu/2017/virtual-batteries-cheaper-cleaner-power-0324Card Wide Image: Coordinating smart...
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Student perspectives on graduate life at MIT
by Chad Galts | School of EngineeringBeing a graduate student at MIT is … well, it depends whom you ask. With more than 6,000 grad students enrolled in one of 32 doctoral or 27 master’s programs on...
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