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“Giant atoms” enable quantum processing and communication in one
July 30, 2020Two superconducting qubits acting as giant artificial atoms. These “atoms” are protected from decoherence yet still interact with each other through the waveguide.Courtesy of the...
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Algorithm finds hidden connections between paintings at the Met
July 30, 2020A machine learning system developed at MIT was inspired by an exhibit in Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum that featured the unlikely but similar pairing of Francisco de Zurbarán’s "The Martyrdom of...
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New design principle could prevent catheter failure in brain shunts
July 31, 2020This is a time-lapse microscopic image of particle-based flow visualization inside a ventricular catheter. The image shows the confluence of three flows: the upstream flow coming from the...
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An automated health care system that understands when to step in
August 3, 2020The system either queries the expert to diagnose the patient based on their X-ray and medical records, or looks at the X-ray to make the diagnosis itself.Image courtesy of MIT CSAIL.Adam...
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Can a quantum strategy help bring down the house?
August 4, 2020Can a quantum strategy help bring down the house? MIT study finds quantum entanglement gives slight advantage in playing against the house.Image: Christine Daniloff, MITJennifer Chu | MIT...
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Data systems that learn to be better
August 11, 2020One of the biggest challenges in computing is handling a staggering onslaught of information while still being able to efficiently store and process it.Adam Conner-Simons | MIT CSAILBig...
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MIT researchers lead high school educational initiative on quantum computing
August 11, 2020Students from the week-long Qubit by Qubit summer camp on quantum computingPhoto courtesy of The Coding SchoolResearch Laboratory of ElectronicsQuantum computing has the potential to...
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Shrinking deep learning's carbon footprint
August 11, 2020Deep learning has driven much of the recent progress in artificial intelligence, but as demand for computation and energy to train ever-larger models increases, many are raising concerns...
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Remembering Murray Eden, 1920-2020
September 1, 2020 Murray Eden, Emeritus Professor in Electrical Engineering at MIT, passed away on August 9, 2020, in Tucson, AZ. He was one week shy of his 100th birthday. Eden was associated with MIT...
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EECS Welcomes Five New Faculty Members in Fiscal Year 2020
Top row, L to R: Oliver, Corrigan-Gibbs, Chen. Bottom row, L to R: Yan, Ragan-Kelley 2020 has seen the addition of many new faculty members, including five recent hires within EECS. Learn more about...
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Asu Ozdaglar and Joel Voldman appointed to new chairs within EECS
L to R, Joel Voldman and Asu Ozdaglar July saw two new chair appointments within the department’s leadership. Please join us in congratulating Asu Ozdaglar and Joel Voldman on their accomplishments,...
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Three new career development chairs appointed within EECS
L to R: Chen, Yan, Ragan-KelleyThis summer has seen three new career development chairs appointed within the EECS faculty. We congratulate Kevin Chen, Jonathan Ragan-Kelley, and Mengjia Yan on their...
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Roundup: EECS faculty & lecturers awards and honors, 2020-2021
L to R: Nancy Lynch, Shafi GoldwasserEECS professors are frequently recognized for excellence in teaching, research, service, and other areas. Following is an ongoing list of awards, prizes, medals,...
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A legacy of curiosity in the name of Hugh Hampton Young
September 21, 2020Hugh Hampton Young Fellows for 2020: (top row, l-r) Juncal Arbelaiz, Sarah Cen, Emily Hanhauser, and Stewart Isaacs; (bottom row, l-r) Kristy Johnson, Tse Yang Lim, Erin Rousseau, and...
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Helping robots avoid collisions
September 22, 2020The startup Realtime Robotics is helping robots solve the motion planning problem by giving them collision avoidance capabilities. Here, a robot avoids a researcher’s waving hand....
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Regina Barzilay wins $1m Association for the Advancement of Artificial...
Professor Regina Barzilay of MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL)By Adam Conner-Simons, CSAILFor more than 100 years Nobel Prizes have been given out annually to...
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Provably exact artificial intelligence for nuclear and particle physics
September 28, 2020 Artist’s impression of the machine learning architecture that explicitly encodes gauge symmetry for a 2D lattice field theory.Credits:Image courtesy of the MIT-DeepMind...
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Closing the GAAP: a new mentorship program encourages underrepresented...
Photo credit: Unsplash and the WOCinTech stock OSS Creative Commons photo collectionMany departmental diversity initiatives “start small”, but in MIT’s Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer...
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A Circuit Board With A View: oscilloscopes from Keysight Technologies enable...
A recent donation from Keysight Technologies includes 120 new oscilloscopes, in two cutting-edge models. When the in-person labs of MIT once again fill, the students of EECS will have a fascinating...
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Generating photons for communication in a quantum computing system
October 8, 2020Entangled pairs of photons are generated by and propagate away from qubits placed along a waveguide.Credits:Image credit: Sampson WilcoxMichaela Jarvis I Research Laboratory of...
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