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Wireless@MIT talks with FCC head Julius Genachowski about spectrum policy
March 11, 2013In a "fireside" chat forum, Wireless@MIT co-directors and professors in the MIT Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department, Dina Katabi and Hari Balakrishnan discussed...
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DBSeer: a new system to address cloud computing inefficiencies
Researchers working with EECS faculty member and CSAIL principal investigator Samuel Madden, are developing a new system called DBSeer to address the realities of cloud computing -- particularly...
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Goldwasser and Micali win Turing Award - Team honored for revolutionizing the...
             MIT professors Shafi Goldwasser and Silvio Micali have won the Association for Computing Machinery’s (ACM) A.M. Turing Award for their pioneering work in the fields of cryptography and...
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Rob Miller is selected as 2013 MacVicar Faculty Fellow
Professor Rob Miller is one of four MIT faculty selected as 2013 MacVicar Faculty Fellow for outstanding undergraduate teaching, mentoring and educational innovation. The other MIT faculty are Linda...
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Berners-Lee wins first Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering
March 18, 2013Honored for inventing the World Wide WebThe Royal Academy of Engineering has announced that Tim Berners-Lee, the 3COM Founders Professor of Engineering at MIT, has been named one of the...
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LIDS researchers apply principles of control theory to measure software...
March 19, 2013Researchers in the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS) working with a colleague at Georgia Tech have shown in a paper titled "Optimization of Lyapunov Invariants in...
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Robot mobility hits the pavement - with new found stability
Professor Russ Tedrake and members of his research group, the Robot Locomotion Group, have tackled a difficult problem in robotics: how to mathematically allow for all instances of robot limbs touching...
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Szolovits honored with Collen Award of Excellence in biomedical informatics
 Professor Peter Szolovits has been named the recipient of the 2013 Morris F. Collen Award of Excellence. The award is presented annually by the American College of Medical Informatics (ACMI) in honor...
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Getting beyond the thick and the thin: new solar cell design mixes quantum...
Building an effective Photovoltaic cell (PV) that both collects enough solar energy and carries the charge efficiently has held back the use of quantum dots despite their relative ease of production....
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Building tomorrow's more capable robots - with small steps first
Building tomorrow's robots that can handle changing environments and unknowns will require designing a system that constantly calculates these uncertainties. EECS professors and principal investigators...
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Tim Lu receives the 2013 ONR Young Investigator Prize
Work to focus on biologically inspired underwater adhesives using synthetic biologyProfessor Timothy K. Lu, assistant professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and the...
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Dresselhaus and Kavli Prize winners are honored by Obama at the White House
President Barack Obama met Thursday, March 28, in the Oval Office with the six U.S. recipients of the 2012 Kavli Prizes — including MIT’s Mildred S. Dresselhaus, Ann M. Graybiel and Jane X. Luu. Obama...
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Stultz's computational modeling of Parkinson's protein may lead to new drug...
Collin Stultz, faculty member of both the Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology and MIT’s Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science has lead a recent study of one of the proteins...
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Dennis Freeman's Micromechanics Group discovers new mechanism in hearing
A new mechanism that could help explain the remarkable sensitivity and exquisite frequency selectivity of our sense of hearing has been discovered by Dennis Freeman, Professor of Electrical Engineering...
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Indyk, Katabi selected for top ACM Awards
Recognized for their contributions to Computer ScienceThe Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has announced that it is honoring Professor Piotr Indyk and Professor Dina Katabi for their...
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EECScon 2013 - MIT's first ever EECS Undergraduate Research Conference
Announcing EECScon 2013!As MIT's first ever undergrauate EECS research conference, EECScon 2013 will provide Course 6 undergraduate UROP and SuperUROP students the opportunity to present their...
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Doubling the singlet photon-to-electron solar power potential
MIT professors Marc Baldo (EECS) and Troy Van Voorhis (Chemistry) and MIT graduate students including EECS graduate student Daniel Congreve, Materials Science graduate student Nicholas Thompson,...
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Amarasinghe honored by 2013 IEEE/ACM CGO for most influential paper
Professor Saman Amarasinghe was named the winner of the Most Influential Paper Award at the 2013 IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization (GCO). Amarasinghe was honored for...
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Medard teams to develop algorithm for smarter storage in data centers
EECS professor Muriel Medard, principal investigator in the Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE) has developed a new technique to cut down on wasteful storage practices, especially of video...
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MIT to honor Patrol Officer Sean Collier, Wed, April 24 noon memorial; new...
This Wednesday at noon, MIT will host a memorial service honoring the late Sean Collier, President L. Rafael Reif announced this morning in an email to the MIT community. The event will be open to the...
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