QS ranks MIT the world's top university for 2015-16
Ranked No. 1 for the fourth straight year, the Institute also places first in 11 of 36 disciplines.
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Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Personalized heart models for surgical planning
System can convert MRI scans into 3D-printed, physical models in a few hours.
A day in the sun
MIT Solar Day brings the MIT community together to preview the coming decades of solar energy innovation.
Abraham Bers, professor emeritus of electrical engineering, dies at 85
Bers, a longtime member of the MIT community, was expert in plasma physics.
Learning spoken language
System learns to distinguish words’ phonetic components, without human annotation of training data.
First new cache-coherence mechanism in 30 years
More efficient memory-management scheme could help enable chips with thousands of cores.
MIT joins $171M public-private consortium on manufacturing flexible electronics
Government, industry, and academia partner to bring new generation of electronics to commercial scale.
Silicon photonics meets the foundry
Lionel Kimerling, Rajeev Ram, and other MIT researchers explore practical ways to bring optical interconnection toward and directly onto chips.
CSAIL joins with Toyota on $25 million research center for autonomous cars
Seeking to reduce traffic casualties, center will focus on robotics and artificial intelligence systems.
Wine matching: Tasty uses for algorithms
A pair of Class of 2010 roommates, entrepreneurial buddies while on campus, recently teamed up to launch a wine club based on big data.
Customizing 3-D printing
Design tool lets novices do in minutes what would take experts in computer-aided design hours.
Self-driving golf carts
Autonomous vehicles share sidewalk space with pedestrians in six-day trial in Singaporean public garden.
Observing invisible vibrations
PhD student Justin Chen magnifies minuscule vibrations in structures to detect damage.
Study identifies new cheating method in MOOCs
Research from MIT and Harvard shows how to exploit and protect MOOC certification.
Crash-tolerant data storage
Formally verified working file system could lead to computers guaranteed never to lose your data.