Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

J-WAFS' 2015 grantees present their ongoing research at the poster session of the J-WAFS Food and Water Conference, held April 27-28 at MIT.

J-WAFS awards $1.3 million in second round of seed grant funding

Principal investigators will receive grants of up to $100,000 per year for up to two years for innovative research on food and water challenges.

May 18, 2016

Thomas Heldt appointed W. M. Keck Career Development Professor

May 17, 2016

“[W]hen you send location data as a secondary piece of information, it is extremely simple for people with very little technical knowledge to find out where you work or live,” Ilaria Liccardi says.

We know where you live

From location data alone, even low-tech snoopers can identify Twitter users’ homes, workplaces.

May 17, 2016

Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science launches new undergraduate curriculum

Updated degree requirements emphasize flexibility, earlier engagement with core material, and smoother introduction to software

May 16, 2016

A new cell-sorting device consists of a microfluidic channel that vibrates at a very high frequency. As cells flow through the channel, they are pushed to a certain position depending on how they interact with the acoustic forces generated by the vibration. Pictured is an example of the device.

New approach to sorting cells

Microfluidic device distinguishes cells based on how they respond to acoustic vibrations.

May 16, 2016

“It’s really exciting to see our small origami robots doing something with potential important applications to healthcare,” Daniela Rus says. Pictured, an example of a capsule and the unfolded origami device.

Ingestible origami robot

Robot unfolds from ingestible capsule, removes button battery stuck to wall of simulated stomach.

May 12, 2016

“I realized I wanted to work on systemic changes in education,” Ruth Park says. “Currently education is supposed to be the one leveling ground between people of different economic statuses, and it's not doing that.

Determined to make a change

Senior Ruth Park draws on her background as she strives for educational reform.

May 12, 2016

Top row (l-r): Mark Bathe, Sangbae Kim, and Paola Cappellaro. Second row (l-r): Armando Solar-Lezama, Steven Barrett, Jesse Kroll, and Youssef Marzouk.

The tenured engineers of 2016

Seven appointments are made in the School of Engineering.

May 10, 2016

“This approach overcomes a major hurdle in the human genetics field and addresses an important question surrounding the hidden heritability of many complex traits,” Laurie Boyer says.

New approach to genetic analysis yields markers linked to complex diseases

Study identifies new gene variants that may be targets for treating arrhythmia.

May 10, 2016

“The kinds of technologies that people are building today are much more connected to how people interact in social aspects of our culture. Technology and humanity are now deeply interlinked," says Eran Egozy, engineer, musician, new media pioneer, and MIT professor of the practice in music technology.

Sharing a passion for music and interactive technology

Harmonix co-founder Eran Egozy returns to MIT as professor of the practice in music technology.

May 4, 2016

Clockwise from top left: Arup Chakraborty, Nancy Lynch, David Sabatini, and Hidde Ploegh

National Academy of Sciences elects four MIT professors

Chakraborty, Lynch, Ploegh, and Sabatini honored for research achievements.

May 3, 2016

Five with MIT ties are among 30 winners nationwide of the 2016 Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans. Clockwise from top left: Eran Hodis, Lindsey Osimiri ’14, Vishwajith Sridharan, Abubakar Abid ’15, and Suan Lian Tuang ’14.

Five from MIT win 2016 Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans

Awards fund graduate studies for immigrants and children of immigrants.

April 27, 2016

MIT researchers will present a new, decentralized planning algorithm for teams of robots that factors in not only stationary obstacles, but moving obstacles, as well. The algorithm still comes with strong mathematical guarantees that the robots will avoid collisions.

Robotic consensus

Control algorithm for teams of robots factors in moving obstacles.

April 21, 2016

The goal of MIT's "Duckiebot" class was to create a fleet of 50 self-driving taxis that can navigate the roads of a model city with just a single on-board camera and no pre-programmed maps.

Self-driving cars, meet rubber duckies

“Duckietown” class at Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab teaches autonomy, aims to become global research platform.

April 20, 2016

AI<sup>2</sup> combs through data and detects suspicious activity using unsupervised machine-learning. It then presents this activity to human analysts, who confirm which events are actual attacks, and incorporate that feedback into its models for the next set of data.

System predicts 85 percent of cyber-attacks using input from human experts

Virtual artificial intelligence analyst developed by the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab and PatternEx reduces false positives by factor of 5.

April 18, 2016

MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology - On Campus and Around the world

Browse By

Topics

Departments

Centers, Labs, & Programs

Schools

Department