Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

“Data has traditionally been used by anyone from corporations to the government,” Mor Naaman says. “But the goal of this system is to make the data more useful for the individuals themselves, to give them more control, and to make it more useful to communities.”

Browsing in public

System lets Web users share aspects of their browsing history with friends, researchers.

March 7, 2016

Researchers have designed and built a quantum computer from five atoms in an ion trap. The computer uses laser pulses to carry out Shor’s algorithm on each atom, to correctly factor the number 15.

The beginning of the end for encryption schemes?

New quantum computer, based on five atoms, factors numbers in a scalable way.

March 3, 2016

“Why Only Us: Language and Evolution” (MIT Press), by Robert C. Berwick (top left) and Noam Chomsky (bottom left)

Code of the humans

New book by Noam Chomsky and Robert Berwick explores how people acquired unique language skills.

March 1, 2016

A Pimp my Carroça cart displays the text: “Let’s recycle today so that we live well tomorrow.”

Solving global problems with MIT in Brazil

MIT student travels to São Paulo to assist non-profit in recognizing and organizing waste collectors.

February 26, 2016

The MIT team has achieved the thinnest and lightest complete solar cells ever made, they say. To demonstrate just how thin and lightweight the cells are, the researchers draped a working cell on top of a soap bubble, without popping the bubble.

Solar cells as light as a soap bubble

Ultrathin, flexible photovoltaic cells from MIT research could find many new uses.

February 25, 2016

MIT junior Emily Benz instructs a group of SHINE participants.

Through dance, program turns "I can't" into "I can"

Student-run program, SHINE for Girls, teaches middle schoolers mathematics through dance.

February 24, 2016

MIT's Killian Court, with Great Dome in the background

Eleven MIT researchers win Sloan Research Fellowships

Faculty from eight MIT science and engineering departments among 126 selected from across the U.S. and Canada.

February 23, 2016

Communication system could make it easier to design systems that enable humans and robots to work together in emergency-response teams.

Enabling human-robot rescue teams

System could help prevent robots from overwhelming human teammates with information.

February 17, 2016

“The problem with planning contingencies is that there are so many things that can go wrong, if you generated plans for all possible contingencies, you’d go nuts,” Brian Williams says.

Automatic contingency planning

Algorithm lets planning systems generate backup plans efficiently.

February 15, 2016

Three from MIT elected to the National Academy of Engineering

Contributions of new members include the design of parallel computing systems, the development of 3-D printing, and the discovery of near-Earth asteroids.

February 9, 2016

Clockwise from top left: Tomás Palacios, Devavrat Shah, Dirk Englund, and Russ Tedrake

EECS announces four faculty promotions

Palacios, Shah, Tedrake promoted to full professor; Englund promoted to associate professor without tenure.

February 8, 2016

Five of the 16 individuals in the 2016 class of National Inventors Hall of Fame inductees hail from MIT. They include Associate Professor Joseph Jacobson (top left), Jonathan (JD) Albert '97 (top right), Radia Perlman '73, SM '76, PhD '88 (center), Barrett Comiskey '97 (bottom left), and Ivan Sutherland PhD '63 (bottom right).

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.

February 5, 2016

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.

February 5, 2016

Welcome the MIT Siebel Scholars for 2016

Graduate students from bioengineering, business, computer science, and energy science join a distinguished intellectual community.

February 4, 2016

Much of Daskalakis’ work concentrates on the application of computer science techniques to game theory, a discipline that attempts to get a quantitative handle on human strategic reasoning.

Computer science meets economics

Constantinos Daskalakis adapts techniques from theoretical computer science to game theory.