MIT participates in #ShutDownSTEM, #ShutDownAcademia, #Strike4BlackLives
By Kerri LuMIT departments, labs, and centers participated in the #ShutDownSTEM, #ShutDownAcademia, and #Strike4BlackLives movements#ShutDownSTEM, #ShutDownAcademia, and #Strike4BlackLives urged...
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COVID-19 Information
Please visit web.mit.edu/covid19/ for the latest MIT updates. Note: This EECS page, created in tandem with MIT's coronavirus response, is updated as new information becomes available. Most recent...
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Remote learning 6.070: Electronics Project Lab
June 18, 2020COURTESY PHOTOBy Alice DragoonJim Bales, PhD ’91, is a firm believer that electronics can be fun. So while most introductory electronics courses focus on analysis, Bales, the associate...
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Roundup: EECS faculty awards and honors, 2019-2020
Muriel Médard, Cecil H. Green Professor, received an honorary doctorate from the Technological University of Munich (TUM) and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering. Photo: Uli...
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Improving global health equity by helping clinics do more with less
The startup macro-eyes is bringing new techniques in machine learning and artificial intelligence to global health problems like vaccine delivery and patient scheduling with its Connected Health AI...
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Yury Polyanskiy wins the 2020 James L. Massey Award
June 29, 2020Professor Yury PolyanskiyIt is our great pleasure to share that LIDS professor Yury Polyanskiy received the IEEE Information Theory Society’s 2020 James L. Massey Award. The award...
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Scaling up the quantum chip
This graphic depicts a stylized rendering of the quantum photonic chip and its assembly process. The bottom half of the image shows a functioning quantum micro-chiplet (QMC), which emits single-photon...
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Empowering kids to address Covid-19 through coding
A new challenge launched by MIT App Inventor — a web-based, visual-programming environment that allows children to develop applications for smartphones and tablets — encourages kids and adults to build...
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Q&A: Meet MIT Alumni Association President Charlene Kabcenell ’79
Charlene (Nohara) Kabcenell ’79 is president of the MIT Alumni Association. "The Covid-19 crisis has reminded us all of the importance of relationships and staying connected, both to MIT and to each...
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10 big data blunders businesses should avoid
by Sarah Brown | MIT Sloan School of ManagementBig data is a promising investment for firms, but embracing data can also bring confusion and potential minefields — everything from where companies...
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Racing into the future of autonomous driving
MIT Driverless and TU Delft pose with their race car, DUT19, at Formula Student Germany 2019. The joint team placed third overall.Photo: Delft DriverlessZain Humayun | Edgerton CenterOn a cloudy day...
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Q&A: Meet MIT Alumni Association President Charlene Kabcenell '79
Charlene (Nohara) Kabcenell ’79 is president of the MIT Alumni Association. "The Covid-19 crisis has reminded us all of the importance of relationships and staying connected, both to MIT and to each...
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Faculty receive funding to develop artificial intelligence techniques to...
July 18, 2020Out of a total of 200 research proposals, 26 projects were selected and awarded $5.4 million to continue AI research to mitigate the impact of Covid-19 in the areas of medicine, urban...
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MIT Schwarzman College of Computing announces first named professorships
July 20, 2020Frédo Durand (left) and Sam Madden are the recipients of the first two named professorships in the Schwarzman College of Computing.MIT Schwarzman College of ComputingThe MIT Stephen A....
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Exhaled biomarkers can reveal lung disease
July 21, 2020MIT engineers have designed nanoparticle sensors that can diagnose lung diseases. If a disease-associated protein is present in the lungs, the protein cleaves a gaseous molecule from the...
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Integrated lightwave electronics
July 24, 2020Pseudo-color scanning electron micrograph of the integrated lightwave electronic circuit. Incident ultrafast light waves induce photocurrents in the circuit that encode information about...
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A Microcosm of Research
MIT UNDERGRADUATES ARE USING COMPUTING to tackle critical research questions, delving into fields as diverse as robotics, health care, and transportation through the Advanced Undergraduate Research...
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A Fast Track for Machine Learning
July 24, 2020Photo: Sarah BastilleMACHINE-LEARNING SYSTEMS USE DATA TO UNDERSTAND PATTERNS and make predictions. When the system is predicting which photos are of cats, you may not care how certain it...
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EECS Celebrates: Honoring the department's outstanding contributors
2020 EECS Celebrates: Honoring the department's outstanding contributors Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2020 EECS Celebrates event and reception could not take place on campus this year. Instead,...
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The tenured engineers of 2020
July 27, 2020Top row, left to right: Thomas Heldt and William Oliver. Bottom row, left to right: , Vivienne Sze, and Caroline Uhler. School of EngineeringThe School of Engineering has announced that...
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