Converging on cancer at the nanoscale
Marking its first anniversary, the Koch Institute’s Marble Center for Cancer Nanomedicine goes full steam ahead.
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Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Using chip memory more efficiently
System for generating ad hoc “cache hierarchies” increases processing speed while reducing energy consumption.
New 3-D chip combines computing and data storage
Advance points toward new generation of computers for coming superstorm of data.
Summer interns' lab work underway
Summer Scholars in materials science and engineering are tackling projects ranging from magnetic thin films to catalysts for energy.
Practical parallelism
System enables large speedups — as much as 88-fold — on common parallel-computing algorithms.
Peering into neural networks
New technique helps elucidate the inner workings of neural networks trained on visual data.
Scientists produce dialysis membrane made from graphene
Material can filter nanometer-sized molecules at 10 to 100 times the rate of commercial membranes.
Computer system predicts products of chemical reactions
Machine learning approach could aid the design of industrial processes for drug manufacturing.
Anantha Chandrakasan named dean of School of Engineering
Head of Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science will succeed Ian Waitz.
A deep dive into research
SuperUROP gives undergraduates the chance to immerse themselves in a year-long research project with supportive mentors to guide the way.
Origami anything
New algorithm generates practical paper-folding patterns to produce any 3-D structure.
School of Engineering awards for 2017
Awards given to outstanding faculty, undergraduates, and graduate students.
New technique makes brain scans better
Boosting quality of patient MRIs could enable large-scale studies of stroke outcome.
Pew recognizes four MIT researchers for innovation in biomedical science
Biophysicist Ibrahim Cissé and cell biologist Gene-Wei Li honored as Pew Scholars; postdocs Ana Fiszbein and María Inda are named Pew Latin American Fellows.
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