Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

MIT sophomore Melanie Chen serves as teaching assistant, curriculum developer, and mentor to high school students in the unique Cog*Works program.

Featured video: Learning lessons from teaching others

Computer science major Melanie Chen serves as teaching assistant, curriculum developer, and mentor to high school students in a unique MIT program.

December 5, 2017

MIT engineers have devised a 3-D printing technique that uses a new kind of ink made from genetically programmed living cells.

Engineers 3-D print a “living tattoo”

New technique 3-D prints programmed cells into living devices for first time.

December 5, 2017

Schwarzman Scholars from top left, clockwise: Katheryn Scott, Han Wu, Joshua Woodard, Henry Aspegren.

Four from MIT awarded 2018 Schwarzman Scholarships

Scholars will engage in a year of postgraduate leadership studies at Beijing’s Tshingua University.

December 4, 2017

Marshall Scholars from left to right: Olivia Zhao, Nick Schwartz, Liang Zhou

Three MIT seniors awarded 2018 Marshall Scholarships

Nick Schwartz, Olivia Zhao, and Liang Zhou will pursue graduate studies in the United Kingdom.

December 4, 2017

Vivienne Sze and Joel Emer teach Hardware Architecture for Deep Learning, a class in MIT’s Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science that focuses on building specialized hardware for AI.

Building the hardware for the next generation of artificial intelligence

Class taught by Vivienne Sze and Joel Emer brings together traditionally separate disciplines for advances in deep learning.

November 30, 2017

Vivienne Sze, who was part of a team that developed a new video-compression standard, holds an Engineering Emmy Award recognizing the group's work.

Vivienne Sze shares Engineering Emmy Award with colleagues

Associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science was part of a group that earned acclaim for work on a new video compression standard.

November 30, 2017

MIT President L. Rafael Reif welcomes family, colleagues, friends, former students, and other associates of the late MIT Institute Professor Mildred “Millie” Dresselhaus to a symposium celebrating her life and career.

Celebrating Millie

Symposium commemorates the life and career of pioneering professor and beloved mentor Mildred Dresselhaus.

November 29, 2017

Ryan Williams, who joined the MIT electrical engineering and computer science faculty with tenure this year, hasn’t solved the problem of P vs. NP — nobody has — but he’s made one of the most important recent contributions toward its solution.

Chasing complexity

Ryan Williams has taken a key step toward solving the biggest problem in theoretical computer science.

November 22, 2017

Left to right: MEET facilitators Ted Golfinopoulos, a PSFC research scientist, and graduate students Adam Kuang and Alex Tinguely spent time in Israel as part of program that provides a safe place for Israeli and Palestinian high school students to become colleagues in the study of science, technology, and entrepreneurship.

Bridging the divide with technology

Three from the Plasma Science and Fusion Center spend time with the Middle East Entrepreneurs of Tomorrow.

November 14, 2017

Anita Hill, a Martin Luther King Jr. Visiting Professor at MIT, is moderating a series of discussions marking the 45th anniversary of Title IX.

Visiting Professor Anita Hill leads conversations about Title IX

Attorney, author, and civil-rights advocate moderates The Gender/Race Imperative, a series of talks at MIT about equality in education.

November 13, 2017

MIT Professor Daniela Rus (right), director of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, speaks with Alphabet chairman Eric Schmidt.

Summit discusses impact of machines on jobs, productivity, and the global economy

Two-day “AI and the Future of Work” summit at MIT focused on the artificial intelligence revolution and the workplace.

November 7, 2017

Faculty, staff, and graduate students gathered for a luncheon honoring MIT’s 2018 Siebel Scholars.

Sixteen MIT grad students are named to the Siebel Scholars class of 2018

MIT students from bioengineering, business, computer science, and energy science fields receive the prestigious awards.

November 1, 2017

MIT undergraduate Henoch Argaw (1998-2017)

Remembering and honoring the life of undergraduate Henoch Argaw

A motivated self-learner, Argaw found joy by teaching and mentoring others.

October 31, 2017

A new MIT computer system speeds computations involving “sparse tensors,” multidimensional data arrays that consist mostly of zeroes.

Faster big-data analysis

System for performing “tensor algebra” offers 100-fold speedups over previous software packages.

October 30, 2017

“I think that the concept of massive and open data science can be really leveraged for areas where there’s a strong social impact but not necessarily a single profit-making or government organization that is coordinating responses,” MIT graduate student Micah Smith says about FeatureHub.

Crowdsourcing big-data analysis

Web-based system automatically evaluates proposals from far-flung data scientists.