Amy Greene and Shibani Santurka receive Google PhD Fellowships
Amy Greene (left) and Shibani Santurka EECS StaffTwo PhD students in EECS have been awarded Google PhD Fellowships for 2019.Amy Greene received the 2019 Google Fellowship in Quantum Computing. Shibani...
View ArticleEECS faculty member wins ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award
Professor Constantinos Daskalakis EECS and CSAIL StaffEECS Professor Constantinos (“Costis”) Daskalakis has won the 2018 Grace Murray Hopper Award from the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)....
View ArticleEECS Celebrates: Honoring the department's outstanding contributors
Professor Ronitt Rubinfeld was among the 2019 award recipients. Photo: Gretchen Ertl EECS StaffEditor's Note: A slideshow and link to downloadable photos will be available soon. Students, faculty,...
View ArticleFour EECS students receive Fulbright Fellowships
Top row: Abby Bertics (second from left), Samira Okudo (far right). Bottom row: Miranda McClellan, Anna Bair (third and fourth from left). Office of Distinguished Fellowships | EECS StaffFour EECS...
View ArticleCSAIL unseals time capsule with internet and computing artifacts
Researchers found plenty of tech-history relics inside the 20-year-old capsule. Adam Conner-Simons | CSAILMIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) recently unsealed a...
View ArticleEECS students win prestigious awards for music and art
Getting There. Painting by Emily Toomey. Council for the Arts at MIT | EECS StaffThree EECS students are among several who have received prestigious arts award from the Council for the Arts at MIT...
View ArticleEECS Masterworks 2019: Celebrating Thesis Research
Photo: Gretchen Ertl EECS StaffMasterworks is the annual EECS celebration of thesis research leading to the master of science (SM) and master of engineering (MEng) degrees. This year's poster session...
View ArticleProfessor Hal Abelson on empowering kids through mobile technology
Dharavi Tech Girls learn to create apps to help people in their community. Image: Nawneet Ranjan of Dharavi Tech Girls Abby Abazorius | MIT NewsHal Abelson, the Class of 1922 Professor in EECS, has...
View ArticleTwo from EECS win 2019 Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans
Clockwise from top left: Jonathan Zong (EECS), Indira Puri, Grace Zhang, Helen Zhou (EECS alumna), and Joseph Maalouf. Image courtesy of the Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships.Office of Distinguished...
View ArticleThe best of the best: SuperUROP 2018-2019 award winners
SuperUROP Showcase, April 25, 2019. Photo: Gretchen Ertl EECS StaffSeveral students have won awards for work done during the 2018-2019 Advanced Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program, better...
View ArticleQ&A: Phillip Isola on the art and science of generative mode
Kim Martineau | MIT Quest for IntelligenceEDITOR'S NOTE: If you’ve ever wondered what a loaf of bread would look like as a cat, edges2cats is for you. The program that turns sketches into images of...
View ArticleCSAIL's first-ever TEDxMIT event features EECS faculty members
CSAIL Director and EECS Professor Daniela Rus. Photo: Jason Dorfman/CSAIL Adam Conner-Simons | Rachel Gordon | CSAILMIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) was the scene...
View ArticleEECS PhD student and entrepreneur named to "Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia" list
Nelson X. Wang, EECS PhD student EECS StaffIt's been memorable couple of months for EECS graduate student Nelson Xuntuo Wang.First, Forbes named Wang to its fourth annual “30 Under 30 in Asia” list of...
View ArticleSuperUROP scholars share the results of their real-world research
Slideshow: SuperUROP Showcase and year-end reception. All photos: Gretchen Ertl By Stephanie Schorow | EECS ContributorA walk through the spring poster sessions of the 2018-2019 Advanced Undergraduate...
View ArticleThe tenured engineers of 2019
(L to R) EECS Professors Mądry, Williams, and Sanchez School of EngineeringMIT has granted tenure to 17 School of Engineering faculty members, including three from EECS: Aleksander Mądry, Daniel...
View ArticleCongratulations, 2019 EECS doctoral graduates!
Photo: Gretchen Ertl The EECS community gathered on June 6, 2019, to celebrate its newest group of doctoral graduates.The department awarded 77 doctorates during the 2018-2019 academic year. Many...
View ArticleAt MIT doctoral ceremony, a strong call to provide opportunity for all
Biochemist and guest speaker Squire Booker '94. Photo: Dominick Reuter Editor's Note: For additional content from the 2019 doctoral ceremony, including a video of this address,visit the MIT News...
View ArticleMIT class of 2019 witnesses $500 million climate pledge
Michael Bloomberg announced the Beyond Carbon initiative at MIT's 2019 Commencement. Photo: Dominick ReuterEditor's Note: For additional content from the 2019 Commencement ceremony, including a video...
View ArticleMIT President L. Rafael Reif challenges the Class of 2019
MIT President L. Rafael Reif addresses the Class of 2019. Photo: Dominick ReuterEditor's Note: Following is the prepared text of the charge to the graduates by MIT President L. Rafael Reif for the...
View ArticleMIT Commencement 2019
MIT's 2019 Commencement. Photo: Dominick Reuter This week, 1,086 undergraduates and 1,905 graduate students received their MIT diplomas under sunny skies on Killian Court. The doctoral ceremony took...
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