Topic
Electrical Engineering & Computer Science (eecs)
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Jennifer Rupp: Engineering practical ceramics
Assistant professor in EECS is developing materials with novel structures and useful applications, including renewable energy and information storage.
February 9, 2018 -
Automating materials design
With new approach, researchers specify desired properties of a material, and a computer system generates a structure accordingly.
February 2, 2018 -
Decoding human cognition
MIT senior and Marshall Scholar Liang Zhou wants to elucidate the neural basis for our thoughts and intuitions.
February 1, 2018 -
MISTI Global Startup Labs celebrates 18 years
Over 200 MIT students have mentored peers in creating tech startups across the world.
February 1, 2018 -
Changing the color of 3-D printed objects
CSAIL system uses custom ink and ultraviolet light to repeatedly change an object's color.
January 29, 2018 -
Coding, thinking, sharing, building
More than 130 MIT juniors and seniors dig deeply into research in the Advanced Undergraduate Research Program (SuperUROP).
January 26, 2018 -
Startup makes labs smarter
Platform connects individual pieces of lab equipment, compiles data in the cloud for speedier, more accurate research.
January 25, 2018 -
Programmable droplets
Using electric fields to manipulate droplets on a surface could enable high-volume, low-cost biology experiments.
January 19, 2018 -
Donald Rosenfield, a longtime leader of MIT Leaders for Global Operations, dies at 70
An MIT graduate, Rosenfield is remembered for his passion for manufacturing and commitment to his students.
January 18, 2018 -
School of Engineering fourth quarter 2017 awards
Faculty members were recognized for excellence via a diverse array of honors, grants, and prizes over the last quarter.
January 16, 2018 -
Three EECS professors join leadership team
Saman Amarasinghe and Joel Voldman are named associate department heads; Nancy Lynch is associate department head for strategic directions, a new post.
January 12, 2018 -
Jennifer Rupp wins international electrochemistry prize
Assistant professor is honored for her work on energy storage systems and safer, solid-state lithium electrolyte batteries.
December 22, 2017 -
New depth sensors could be sensitive enough for self-driving cars
Computational method improves the resolution of time-of-flight depth sensors 1,000-fold.
December 21, 2017 -
Can computers help us synthesize new materials?
Machine-learning system finds patterns in materials “recipes,” even when training data is lacking.
December 21, 2017 -
Bose Grants for 2017 reward bold and unconventional research visions
Six potentially paradigm-shifting research projects will make strides with funding from Professor Amar G. Bose Research Grants.
December 14, 2017 -
Computer systems predict objects’ responses to physical forces
Results may help explain how humans do the same thing.
December 13, 2017 -
Four from MIT named 2017 Association for Computing Machinery Fellows
Professors Goldwasser, Lozano-Perez, Micali, and Sipser honored for "providing key knowledge" to computing.
December 11, 2017 -
Reading a neural network’s mind
Technique illuminates the inner workings of artificial-intelligence systems that process language.
December 10, 2017 -
School of Engineering welcomes new faculty
Sixteen new professors join seven of the school’s departments.
December 8, 2017 -
Asu Ozdaglar named head of Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
She succeeds Anantha Chandrakasan, who was named dean of engineering, as leader of MIT’s largest academic department.
December 8, 2017