Making the new silicon
Gallium nitride electronics could drastically cut energy usage in data centers, consumer devices.
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Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Shoring up Tor
Researchers mount successful attacks against popular anonymity network — and show how to prevent them.
Consortium including MIT awarded $110M national grant to promote photonics manufacturing
Partnership of government, industry, and academia will pursue integration of optical devices with electronics.
Object recognition for robots
Robots’ maps of their environments can make existing object-recognition algorithms more accurate.
Siting wind farms more quickly, cheaply
New model predicts wind speeds more accurately with three months of data than others do with 12.
“A new leadership cadre for science and engineering”
MIT and Total partner to improve technical instruction in African universities.
Cutting cost and power consumption for big data
New network design exploits cheap, power-efficient flash memory without sacrificing speed.
What buyers want
MIT professors’ choice-modeling software predicts customer preferences for retailers.
MIT pole vaulter goes ever higher
Senior Cimran Virdi is vaulting into the NCAA record books as an engineering major at MIT — a school with a history of success in track and field.
Computer program fixes old code faster than expert engineers
What takes coders months, CSAIL’s “Helium” can do in an hour.
Researchers develop basic computing elements for bacteria
Sensors, memory switches, and circuits can be encoded in a common gut bacterium.
Frederic Morgenthaler, professor emeritus of electrical engineering and computer science, dies at 82
Longtime member of the MIT faculty was a dedicated researcher and educator in the field of electromagnetism.
Helping students stick with MOOCs
New techniques could help identify students at risk for dropping out of online courses.
Chisholm, Rivest, and Thompson appointed as new Institute Professors
Biologist, computer scientist, and musician awarded MIT’s highest faculty honor.
Woman in technology
A high-school outreach program first brought Tamara Broderick to MIT in 2002. Now she's back, as an assistant professor in EECS.