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Three MIT faculty elected 2020 ACM Fellows
From left to right: Anantha Chandrakasan, Alan Edelman, Samuel Madden.Zach Goodale | School of Engineering Three MIT faculty members have been elected as fellows of the Association for Computing...
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Transforming quantum computing’s promise into practice
January 19, 2021MIT electrical engineer William D. Oliver develops the fundamental technology to enable reliable quantum computers at scale. Image credit: Adam Glanzman.Daniel Ackerman | MIT News...
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Byte-sized learning: EECS’s tempting offerings for IAP
Jane Halpern | Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer ScienceFor fifty years, MIT students have taken advantage of IAP, a special mini-term, only four weeks long, tucked between the end of the...
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3 Questions: Thomas Malone and Daniela Rus on how AI will change work
January 28, 2021Thomas Malone (left) is director of the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence and the Patrick J. McGovern Professor of Management. Daniela Rus is director of the Computer Science and...
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An intro to the fast-paced world of artificial intelligence
January 28, 2021Undergraduates participating in MIT Quest for Intelligence-sponsored research projects this fall included (clockwise from top left) Sean Mann, Julia Gaubatz, Subhash Kantamneni, and...
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Designing customized “brains” for robots
MIT researchers have developed an automated way to design customized hardware, or “brains,” that speeds up a robot’s operation. Image: Jose-Luis Olivares, MITDaniel Ackerman | MIT News...
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Could lab-grown plant tissue ease the environmental toll of logging and...
January 28, 2021MIT researchers have proposed a method to grow plant-based materials, like wood and fiber, and have demonstrated the concept by growing a culture of wood-like cells from zinnia leaves,...
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Physicists discover important new property for graphene
Artist’s representation of the nanoscopic structure of the new ferroelectric material developed by MIT researchers and colleagues. Blue and gold dots represent the boron and nitride atoms in two...
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EECS announces new hires for 2021
Top row, L to R: Ashia Wilson, Jelena Notaros, Marzyeh GhassemiMiddle row, L to R: Anand Natarajan, Sixian You, Robert YangBottom row, L to R: Sam Hopkins, Yoon Kim, Dylan Hadfield-Menell2021 sees the...
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Stefanie Mueller Changes Everything: a hands-on class responds to COVID.
Professor Stefanie Mueller stands in front of a range of hand tools used to create working prototypes for class 6.810, “Engineering Interactive Technologies.” Photograph by Juliana Sohn.Jane Halpern |...
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A new tool to investigate bacteria behind hospital infections
February 9, 2021SMART postdoc Irina Afonina (seated) and NTU PhD student Jerome Chua use CRISPRi technology to understand biofilm formation in Enterococcus faecalis. Photo courtesy of the Singapore-MIT...
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Fabricating fully functional drones
The MIT CSAIL team's LaserFactory system can manufacture functional, custom-made devices and robots, without human intervention, potentially enabling rapid prototyping of items like wearables, robots,...
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Epigenomic map reveals circuitry of 30,000 human disease regions
In a new study, a team of researchers from MIT has published the most comprehensive map yet of noncoding DNA, which makes up more than 98 percent of the human genome. Image: iStockphoto images edited...
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“I know what you bought at Chipotle”
MIT researchers from the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems have developed an algorithm that can break down anonymized bill totals into individual item costs, creating an overview of how...
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Faster tracking of treatment responses
February 9, 2021Glympse Bio is a startup that spun out of the lab of EECS Professor Sangeeta Bhatia, pictured. Photo: Bryce VickmarkZach Winn | MIT News OfficeIn the fight against severe diseases like...
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MIT convenes influential industry leaders in the fight against climate change
MIT today announced the MIT Climate and Sustainability Consortium, which convenes influential industry leaders from a broad range of industries with the aim of vastly accelerating shared solutions to...
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Shafi Goldwasser named 2021 Laureate for North America in the 2021...
February 11, 2021Shafi Goldwasser, RSA Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at MIT. Photo credit and copyright Fondation L’Oréal.Jane Halpern | Electrical Engineering and Computer ScienceShafi...
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Virtual Commencement 2021 scheduled for June 4th
Photo by Seyi Ariyo on UnsplashMIT's Commencement will occur on June 4, 2021 and will take place online: details, including how and when to view the program, will populate the Class of 2021 page...
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Eight from MIT named 2021 Sloan Research Fellows
Eight early-career MIT professors earned Sloan Research Fellowships. Top row, left to right: Fadel Adib, Joey Davis, Steven Flavell, Heather Kulik. Bottom row, left to right: Luquiao Liu, Karthish...
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Researchers develop speedier network analysis for a range of computer hardware
February 22, 2021MIT researchers developed software to more efficiently run graph applications on a range of computing hardware, including both CPUs and GPUs. Image: Istockphoto images edited by MIT...
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