Streamlining mobile image processing
Technique for mobile image processing in the cloud cuts bandwidth use by more than 98 percent.
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Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Chandrakasan appointed to Vannevar Bush Professorship
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science head Anantha Chandrakasan appointed to Institute-wide professorship.
Amplifying — or removing — visual variation
Algorithms could offer new tools for graphics software or reveal structural defects.
How to make better visualizations
Eye-tracking research reveals which types of visuals actually get the message across.
System automatically converts 2-D video to 3-D
Exploiting video game software yields broadcast-quality 3-D video of soccer games in real time.
Real-time epidemiology from urban wastewater
MIT and Kuwait researchers have been awarded $4 million to fund Underworlds, a study of real-time epidemiology using biomarkers in urban sewage.
An app for safer roads
Censio’s data analytics on driving behavior helps users improve safety and lower insurance rates.
William Siebert, professor emeritus of electrical engineering and computer science, dies at 89
Siebert, an expert in long-range radar, helped shape EECS undergraduate curriculum.
How wireless “X-ray vision” could power virtual reality, smart homes, and Hollywood
By seeing silhouettes through a wall, CSAIL device could help with motion capture, fall prevention and even your heating bill.
A basis for all cryptography
A tool that would provide a secure foundation for any cryptographic system may be close at hand.
Faster optimization
New general-purpose optimization algorithm promises order-of-magnitude speedups on some problems.
Automating big-data analysis
System that replaces human intuition with algorithms outperforms 615 of 906 human teams.
Interplanetary architecture
Faculty and students grapple with 3-D printing a habitable structure on Mars.
SuperUROP undergrad research program goes engineering-wide
Yearlong “Super” Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program expands beyond electrical engineering and computer science.