Five with MIT ties tapped for Inventors Hall of Fame
MIT professor and four alumni honored for inventing electronic ink, the spanning tree protocol, and Sketchpad, a human-machine graphical communication system.
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Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
John Wyatt, longtime MIT professor and cofounder of Boston Retinal Implant Project, dies at 69
Dedicated researcher was a circuits expert developing a retinal implant to help the blind see.
Welcome the MIT Siebel Scholars for 2016
Graduate students from bioengineering, business, computer science, and energy science join a distinguished intellectual community.
Computer science meets economics
Constantinos Daskalakis adapts techniques from theoretical computer science to game theory.
Energy-friendly chip can perform powerful artificial-intelligence tasks
Advance could enable mobile devices to implement “neural networks” modeled on the human brain.
Toward hack-proof RFID chips
New technology could secure credit cards, key cards, and pallets of goods in warehouses.
A virtual “guide dog” for navigation
Low-power chip processes 3-D camera data, could enable wearable device to guide the visually impaired.
MIT students win first round of SpaceX Hyperloop contest
Design tops more than 100 entries at an international high-speed transportation competition inspired by Elon Musk and sponsored by SpaceX.
Learning to solve
Hallmark program “SuperUROP” lets undergrad engineers dive into a year-long research experience.
Recognizing correct code
Automatic bug-repair system fixes 10 times as many errors as its predecessors.
A jumpstart for entrepreneurs
Intensive course helps students navigate early challenges in starting a company.
Computer science and engineering major helps people while having fun
Senior Sami Alsheikh helps others, solves problems, and has fun doing both.
Mapping regulatory elements
Systematically searching DNA for regulatory elements indicates limits of previous thinking.
New chip fabrication approach
Depositing different materials within a single chip layer could lead to more efficient computers.
Marvin Minsky, “father of artificial intelligence,” dies at 88
Professor emeritus was a co-founder of CSAIL and a founding member of the Media Lab.