Hu selected for 2015 Holonyak, Jr. Award
Optical Society honors pioneering work on high-performance terahertz quantum-cascade lasers.
Department
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Satellite imagery can aid development projects
New image-analysis methods can automate identification of cost-effective sites for grants or microgrids.
Fujimoto receives the OSA Frederic Ives Medal
MIT professor honored for pioneering the field of optical coherence tomography and leading medical and commercial applications.
Faculty promotions announced in EECS
Five faculty are promoted to full professor; three faculty promoted to associate professor.
Quantum sensor’s advantages survive entanglement breakdown
Preserving the fragile quantum property known as entanglement isn’t necessary to reap benefits.
Squitching behavior
MIT graduate student Farnaz Niroui demonstrates squeezable nano electromechanical switches with quantum tunneling function.
Fighting inefficiencies
Senior Sheldon Trotman designs computer programs to streamline human behavior.
Faculty highlight: Vladimir Bulovic
MIT's associate dean for innovation is inventing at the nanoscale.
Sabrina Drammis named to Capital One Academic All-America Women's Basketball First Team
Computer science major ranks third in the country in defensive rebounds per game and fifth in double-doubles.
Better machine learning
Kalyan Veeramachaneni tackles some of the biggest bottlenecks holding back the data science industry.
Radio chip for the “Internet of things”
Circuit that reduces power leakage when transmitters are idle could greatly extend battery life.
Can an LED-filled “robot garden” make coding more accessible?
CSAIL’s 100-plus blooming, crawling, swimming bots teach basic programming concepts.
Researchers generate a reference map of the human epigenome
Better understanding of epigenetic modifications could elucidate their role in human traits, diseases.
Epigenomics of Alzheimer’s disease progression
Study of epigenomic modifications reveals immune basis of Alzheimer's disease.