Racing into the future of autonomous driving
After a third-place finish at last year's Formula Student Germany, MIT Driverless team aims to compete in the $1.5 million Indy Autonomous Challenge.
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Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Letting robots manipulate cables
Robotic gripper with soft sensitive fingers developed at MIT can handle cables with unprecedented dexterity.
Q&A: Meet MIT Alumni Association President Charlene Kabcenell ’79
A life member of the MIT Corporation, Kabcenell recently began her one-year term as president of the MIT Alumni Association.
Empowering kids to address Covid-19 through coding
MIT App Inventor Challenge allows children to create apps that tackle the coronavirus pandemic.
At home with fusion research
Hundreds of miles from campus, Sreya Vangara recalibrates her approach to laboratory research and other MIT commitments.
Scaling up the quantum chip
MIT engineers develop a hybrid process that connects photonics with “artificial atoms,” to produce the largest quantum chip of its type.
MIT Energy Initiative awards eight seed fund grants for early-stage MIT energy research
Annual MITEI awards support research on battery storage, smart grids, and carbon emissions reduction.
Identifying a melody by studying a musician’s body language
Music gesture artificial intelligence tool developed at the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab uses body movements to isolate the sounds of individual instruments.
Engineers design a device that operates like a brain synapse
Ion-based technology may enable energy-efficient simulations of the brain’s learning process, for neural network AI systems.
MIT-Takeda program launches
Research projects will harness the power of artificial intelligence to positively impact human health.
What jumps out in a photo changes the longer we look
Researchers capture our shifting gaze in a model that suggests how to prioritize visual information based on viewing duration.
Startup with MIT roots develops lightweight solar panels
“The inventions and technical advancements of Swift Solar have the opportunity to revolutionize the format of solar photovoltaic technology.”
QS ranks MIT the world’s No. 1 university for 2020-21
Ranked at the top for the ninth straight year, the Institute also places first in 12 subject areas.
Learning the ropes and throwing lifelines
PhD student Geeticka Chauhan draws on her experiences as an international student to strengthen the bonds of her MIT community.
Professor Emeritus Michael Athans, pioneer in control theory, dies at 83
Longtime professor of electrical engineering was also a transformative director of the MIT Laboratory for Information and Decisions Systems.