Three from EECS win BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Awards
L to R: Silvio Micali, Shafi Goldwasser, Ronald Rivest Rachel Gordon | Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory EECS Professors Silvio Micali, Shafi Goldwasser, and Ronald Rivest have...
View ArticleMIT EECS leader Asu Ozdaglar emphasizes talent and innovation
Photo: Lillie Paquette | School of Engineering Editor's Note: The following article ran in the January 2018 issue of The Source, the monthly newsletter of the Electrical and Computer Engineering...
View ArticleTamara Broderick receives prestigious Army Research Office award
Professor Tamara Broderick Tamara Broderick, ITT Career Development Assistant Professor in EECS, has received a Young Investigator Program (YIP) research award from the U.S. Army Research Office...
View ArticleSuperUROP: Coding, thinking, sharing, building
SuperUROP Proposal Pitch poster session. Photo: Gretchen ErtlAlison F. Takemura | EECSSharon Kipruto knew giving birth was a precarious endeavor. In her home country of Kenya, the maternal death rate...
View ArticleRonald Rivest named to National Inventors Hall of Fame
MIT Institute Professor Ronald Rivest has been named to the National Inventors Hall of Fame (NIHF).Rivest, a long-time faculty member in EECS, was recognized for co-inventing the RSA public-key...
View ArticleIntroducing the MIT Intelligence Quest (MIT IQ)
Image: Courtesy of MIT IQ Peter Dizikes | MIT News OfficeMIT today announced the launch of the MIT Intelligence Quest, an initiative to discover the foundations of human intelligence and drive the...
View ArticleChanging the color of 3-D printed objects
EECS faculty member Stefanie Mueller led the development of the new ColorMod system. Photo: Jason Dorfman, CSAIL Rachel Gordon | CSAILThe field of 3-D printing has come a long way since the first...
View ArticleMISTI Global Startup Labs celebrates 18 years
GSL-Peru students April Baker of MIT Sloan (left) and Dalitso Banda of EECS speak at UTEC. Photo: UTEC Ventures Caroline Knox | MIT International Science and Technology InitiativesEntering its 18th...
View ArticleDecoding human cognition
EECS senior and Marshall Scholar Liang Zhou. Photo: Ian MacLellan Fatima Husain | MIT News CorrespondentHalfway through his sophomore year, Liang Zhou made a decision that changed the course of his...
View ArticleEECS alumnus explains how TetraScience makes labs smarter
Image: Courtesy of TetraScienceRob Matheson | MIT News OfficeAlthough Internet-connected “smart” devices have in recent years penetrated numerous industries and private homes, the technological...
View ArticleDaniela Rus to be honored by IEEE Robotics & Automation Society
Professor and CSAIL Director Daniela Rus EECS StaffEECS faculty member Daniela Rus has been selected to receive a Pioneer in Robotics and Automation Award from the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society...
View ArticleAutomating materials design
New software identified five different families of microstructures, each defined by a shared “skeleton” (blue), that optimally traded off three mechanical properties. Images: Courtesy of the...
View ArticleSuvrit Sra becomes assistant professor in EECS
Suvrit Sra Image: Misha Sra Suvrit Sra has joined EECS as an assistant professor and a core faculty member of Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS). The appointment took effect in...
View ArticleProgramming drones to fly even in the face of uncertainty
Researchers trail a drone on a test flight outdoors. Photo: Jonathan How/MITAdam Conner-Simons | CSAIL Companies like Amazon have big...
View ArticleNeural networks everywhere
EECS researchers have developed a new chip that make it practical to run neural networks on many devices. Image: Chelsea Turner/MIT Larry Hardesty | MIT News Office Most recent advances in...
View ArticleTwo EECS faculty members receive 2018 Sloan Research Fellowships
EECS faculty members Tamara Broderickand Stefanie Jegelkaare among eight MIT researchers to receive 2018 Sloan Research Fellowships.All are among the 126 American and Canadian researchers who to...
View ArticleDevavrat Shah, Nickolai Zeldovich receive Faculty Research Innovation...
L to R: Professors Devavrat Shah and Nickolai Zeldovich EECS Staff EECS has awarded Faculty Research Innovation Fellowships (FRIFs) to Professors Devavrat Shah and Nickolai Zeldovich, says Asu...
View ArticleStefanie Mueller receives ACM SIGCHI Outstanding Dissertation Award
Stefanie Mueller Photo: CSAILEECS Staff EECS faculty member Stefanie Mueller has received the Outstanding Dissertation Award from the...
View ArticleSave the date: April 26, 2018
Please plan to join us for Masterworks 2018, EECS's annual celebration of thesis research leading to the degrees of Master of Science (SM) and Master of Engineering (MEng).The event will be held on...
View ArticlePrivate browsing gets more private
Larry Hardesty | MIT News Today, most web browsers have private-browsing modes, in which they temporarily desist from recording the user’s browsing history.But data accessed during private browsing...
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