Four from MIT awarded 2018 Schwarzman Scholarships
Scholars will engage in a year of postgraduate leadership studies at Beijing’s Tshingua University.
Department
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Three MIT seniors awarded 2018 Marshall Scholarships
Nick Schwartz, Olivia Zhao, and Liang Zhou will pursue graduate studies in the United Kingdom.
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.
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.
Celebrating Millie
Symposium commemorates the life and career of pioneering professor and beloved mentor Mildred Dresselhaus.
Chasing complexity
Ryan Williams has taken a key step toward solving the biggest problem in theoretical computer science.
Bridging the divide with technology
Three from the Plasma Science and Fusion Center spend time with the Middle East Entrepreneurs of Tomorrow.
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.
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.
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.
Remembering and honoring the life of undergraduate Henoch Argaw
A motivated self-learner, Argaw found joy by teaching and mentoring others.
Faster big-data analysis
System for performing “tensor algebra” offers 100-fold speedups over previous software packages.
Crowdsourcing big-data analysis
Web-based system automatically evaluates proposals from far-flung data scientists.
Material could bring optical communication onto silicon chips
Ultrathin films of a semiconductor that emits and detects light can be stacked on top of silicon wafers.
