MISTI welcomes new faculty directors
Patrick Jaillet is named faculty director of MIT-France; Paulo Lozano is named faculty director of MIT-Mexico.
Laboratory for Information and Decisions Systems (LIDS)
Helping robots handle uncertainty
Algorithm for planning multirobot collaborations makes complex models practical.
Building community for EECS postdocs
Postdoctoral scholars in electrical engineering and computer science gain new perspectives as Postdoc6 comes full cycle.
Recommendation theory
Model for evaluating product-recommendation algorithms suggests that trial and error get it right.
New leadership for sociotechnical systems
Ali Jadbabaie from the University of Pennsylvania named interim director of SSRC
MIT computer scientists can predict the price of Bitcoin
CSAIL/LIDS team's algorithm doubles initial investment in under two months.
The connector
Munther Dahleh’s expertise in mathematical modeling gives him profound insight into people, and MIT.
Collecting just the right data
When you can’t collect all the data you need, a new algorithm tells you which to target.
Collaborative learning — for robots
Algorithm lets independent agents collectively produce a machine-learning model without aggregating data.
From contemporary syntax to human language’s deep origins
New paper amplifies hypothesis that human language builds on birdsong and speech forms of other primates.
Dahleh is appointed to William A. Coolidge Professorship
Coolidge chair was established in 1988 to honor devoted member of MIT Corporation
School of Engineering awards for 2014
Awards given to outstanding faculty, and graduate and undergraduate students