EECS appoints six new faculty members
Top, L to R: Song Han, Phillip Isola,Tim Kraska. Bottom, L to R: Farnaz Niroui, Arvind Satyanarayan, Julian Shun.By Anne Stuart | EECSMIT’s Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science has...
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L to R: C. Tzamos, E. Tooney, I. Razenshteyn, F. Adib, M. Virza, B. Sherman. Not pictured: S. Huang, M. Ghaffari, F. Long, X. Yu. Photo: Gretchen Ertl Anne Stuart | EECS The faculty and leadership of...
View ArticleVisiting Professor Anita Hill continues the conversation about the past and...
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View ArticleVanu Bose, software pioneer and MIT Corporation member, dies at 52
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View ArticleEECS professor to be recognized for 'pioneering work'
Muriel Médard EECS Staff The IEEE Communications Society has named EECS faculty member Muriel Médard as the winner of the Edwin Howard Armstrong Achievement Award.Médard, the Cecil H. Green Professor...
View ArticleMohammad Alizadeh wins SIGCOMM Rising Star Award
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View ArticleAssociate Professor Vivienne Sze receives Engineering Emmy Award
Photo: Minhua ZhouEECS StaffAn EECS faculty member was part of a group that earned an Emmy Award in recognition of its work on a new video-compression standard.Vivienne Sze, an associate professor of...
View ArticleCelebrating Millie
MIT President L. Rafael Reif welcomes the crowd at a symposium honoring the life and work of the late MIT Institute Professor Mildred “Millie” Dresselhaus. Photo: Maia Weinstock Maia Weinstock |...
View ArticleMaking the voice of others heard through education and journalism
Drew Bent, an EECS-physics double major, regularly volunteers at a Cambridge community center.Photo: Ian MacLellan Fatima Husain | MIT NewsBefore senior Drew Bent began his undergraduate studies at...
View ArticleChasing complexity
Ryan Williams has taken a key step toward solving a big problem in theoretical computer science. Photo: Bryce Vickmark Larry Hardesty | MIT News In his junior year of high school, Ryan Williams...
View ArticleBuilding the hardware for the next generation of artificial intelligence
Vivienne Sze and Joel Emer teach an EECS class that focuses on building specialized hardware for AI. Photo: Lillie Paquette | School of Engineering Meg Murphy | School of Engineering On a recent...
View ArticleSuperUROP Proposal Pitch on Thursday, Dec. 7
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View ArticleMIT community gathers to honor former Institute President Paul Gray
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View ArticleAsu Ozdaglar named head of Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer...
Prof. Asu Ozdaglar Photo: Lillie Paquette | School of EngineeringSchool of EngineeringAsu Ozdaglar, the...
View ArticleFour from MIT named Association for Computing Machinery Fellows
Clockwise from top left: Goldwasser, Lozano-Pérez, Sipser, Micali. Adam Conner-Simons | CSAIL; Julie Keller | School of ScienceFour MIT faculty members were named Association for Computing Machinery...
View ArticleEECS announces six new faculty members
Top row, L to R: Han, Isola, Kraska. Bottom row, L to R: Niroui, Satyanarayan, Shun. School of Engineering The School of Engineering will welcome 16 new faculty members to its departments, institutes,...
View ArticleDevice makes power conversion more efficient
MIT postdoc Yuhao Zhang works on power-conversion research at MTL. Photo: Yuhao Zhang Larry Hardesty | MIT News Power electronics, which do things like modify voltages or convert between direct and...
View ArticleEnvisioning the future of signal processing
Prof. Alan V. Oppenheim Photo: Gretchen ErtlAllison Takemura | EECS We live in a sea of signals. “They’re natural, manmade, medical; speech, music;...
View ArticleBose Grants for 2017 reward bold and unconventional research visions
Photo: John Gillooly MIT Resource Development Since 2014, the Professor Amar G. Bose Research Grant has supported MIT faculty with innovative and potentially paradigm-shifting research ideas, and this...
View ArticleEECS names two associate department heads and creates new strategic...
L to R: EECS Professors Saman Amarasinghe, Joel Voldman, and Nancy Lynch EECS Staff The Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) has announced the appointment of two new...
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