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Integrating optical components into existing chip designs
New technique enables use of more modern transistor technologies. Image: Amir AtabakiLarry Hardesty | MIT News OfficeTwo and a half years ago, a team of researchers led by groups at MIT, the...
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A new way to automatically build road maps from aerial images
Image: Courtesy of the researchers Adam Conner-Simons | CSAILMap apps may have changed our world, but they still haven’t mapped all of it yet. Specifically, mapping roads can be difficult and...
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Two from EECS are among three MIT graduate students to receive Soros Fellowships
L to R: Sitan Chen, Lilly Chin '17, Suchita Nety. Illustration: MIT News OfficeJulia Mongo | Office of Distinguished FellowshipsTwo EECS graduate students, Sitan Chen and Lillian Chin '17, are among...
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Summit explores pioneering approaches for AI and digital technologies for...
Summit speakers included (L to R) Jay Bradner of the Novartis Institute for BioMedical Research; MIT Institute Professor Phillip Sharp; Andrew Plump of Takeda; summit organizers and EECS Professors...
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Using friends to fight online harassment
CSAIL PhD student Amy Zhang led the development of the new Squadbox tool. Photo: Jason Dorfman/MIT CSAIL Adam Conner-Simons and Rachel Gordon | CSAILHarassment has become ubiquitous on social media...
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Vinod Vaikuntanathan wins Edgerton Faculty Award
Professor Vinod Vaikuntanathan. Photo: Courtesy of CSAILEECS Staff Vinod Vaikuntanathan, an associate professor in EECS, has been recognized for excellence with the 2017-2018 Harold E. Edgerton...
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Removing health-care barriers and boundaries
Amar Gupta Eric Smalley | EECS ContributorMIT’s Amar Gupta and his wife Poonam were on a trip to Los Angeles in 2016 when she fell and broke both wrists. She was whisked by ambulance to a reputable...
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Computation counts: Python-based course sees enormous growth
Professor Eric Grimson, Chancellor for Academic Advancement, illustrates the concept of random sampling with a video featuring Professor John Guttag as a blindfolded archer. Photo: Lillie Paquette,...
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The tenured engineers of 2018
Newly tenured faculty are: (clockwise from top left) Dirk Englund, Yury Polyanskiy, and Adam Chlipala (all EECS), Kenneth Kamrin (MechE), Qiqi Wang (AeroAstro), and David Sontag, and Vinod...
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Revealing the results of students' real-world research
2018 SuperUROP Showcase + Masterworks event. Photo: Gretchen ErtlBy Kathryn O’Neill | EECS ContributorWatch video here!Dozens of MIT undergraduate and graduate students unveiled the results of...
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SuperUROP Scholars
Photo: Gretchen Ertl EECS Staff The 2017-2018 SuperUROP Scholars celebrated the completion of their year-long research efforts in mid-May 2018 with a class photo and a closing reception. About 130...
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EECS Celebrates 2018: Recognizing the department's outstanding contributors
EECS StaffStudents, faculty, staff, and special guests came together for EECS Celebrates, the department's annual awards ceremony and reception. The department presented nearly 60 awards during the...
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MIT faculty approves new joint urban science major to launch in fall 2018
Photo: John Phelan School of Architecture and Planning | School of Engineering Urban settlements and technology around the world are co-evolving as flows of population, finance, and politics are...
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An unexpected ambition evolves from one student's MIT experience
EECS Senior Annamarie Bair Photo: Lillie Paquette, School of Engineering Meg Murphy | School of Engineering Senior Annamarie Bair...
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At MIT doctoral hooding ceremony, a call to make the world 'more just, more...
Candis Callison urged new graduates to use their doctoral degrees to make a difference. Photo: Dominick ReuterEditor's Note: Photos from the EECS reception following the MIT hooding ceremony will be...
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Congratulations, EECS doctoral graduates!
EECS reception, June 7, 2018. Photo: Gretchen Ertl EECS awarded hoods to more than 100 doctoral graduates in a ceremony on June 7, 2018.See more coverage and photos from the event on the MIT News...
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Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg tells urges 2018 MIT graduates to be 'clear-eyed...
Addressing the MIT Class of 2018, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg said, “the most difficult problems and the greatest opportunities are not technical, they are human." Photo: Dominick Reuter David...
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MIT President L. Rafael Reif's charge to the Class of 2018
MIT President L. Rafael Reif urged graduates to "invent the future." Photo: Dominick Reuter MIT News Office Following is the prepared text of the charge to the graduates by MIT President L. Rafael Reif...
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MIT announces leadership of its Quest for Intelligence
EECS Professor Antonio Torralba Photo: Lillie Paquette, School of EngineeringMIT NewsAntonio Torralba, a member of the EECS faculty, has...
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Artificial intelligence senses people through walls
Image: Jason Dorfman/MIT CSAILAdam Conner-Simons | Rachel Gordon | CSAIL X-ray vision has long seemed like a far-fetched sci-fi fantasy. But over the last decade a team led by Dina Katabi, the Andrew...
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