Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

MIT graduate students Elena Glassman and Jeremy Scott

Reviewing online homework at scale

System clusters similar student programs together, so instructors can identify broad trends.

March 30, 2015

Illustration shows the MIT team’s proposed scheme for comparing different photovoltaic materials, based on the complexity of their basic molecular structure. The complexity increases from the simplest material, pure silicon (single atom, lower left), to the most complex material currently being studied for potential solar cells, quantum dots (molecular structure at top right). Materials shown in...

Analysis sees many promising pathways for solar photovoltaic power

New study identifies the promise and challenges facing large-scale deployment of solar photovoltaics.

March 26, 2015

Munther Dahleh and Rose Faghih at a Postdoc6 workshop

Building community for EECS postdocs

Postdoctoral scholars in electrical engineering and computer science gain new perspectives as Postdoc6 comes full cycle.

March 25, 2015

Michael Stonebraker wins $1 million Turing Award

CSAIL researcher invented core database concepts, turned many into companies.

March 25, 2015

Integer overflows occur when a computer tries to store too large a number in the memory space reserved for it. The leading digits are discarded — much as they are when a car odometer turns over.

Better debugger

System to automatically find a common type of programming bug significantly outperforms its predecessors.

March 24, 2015

Hu selected for 2015 Holonyak, Jr. Award

Optical Society honors pioneering work on high-performance terahertz quantum-cascade lasers.

March 23, 2015

Satellite imagery can aid development projects

New image-analysis methods can automate identification of cost-effective sites for grants or microgrids.

March 23, 2015

Fujimoto receives the OSA Frederic Ives Medal

MIT professor honored for pioneering the field of optical coherence tomography and leading medical and commercial applications.

March 20, 2015

Elfar Adalsteinsson, Luca Daniel, Polina Golland, Jing Kong, Antonio Torralba, Adam Chlipala, Yury Polyanskiy, and Vinod Vaikuntanathan.

Faculty promotions announced in EECS

Five faculty are promoted to full professor; three faculty promoted to associate professor.

March 19, 2015

In the researchers' new system, a returning beam of light is mixed with a locally stored beam, and the correlation of their phase, or period of oscillation, helps remove noise caused by interactions with the environment.

Quantum sensor’s advantages survive entanglement breakdown

Preserving the fragile quantum property known as entanglement isn’t necessary to reap benefits.

March 9, 2015

Squitching behavior

MIT graduate student Farnaz Niroui demonstrates squeezable nano electromechanical switches with quantum tunneling function.

March 4, 2015

Fighting inefficiencies

Senior Sheldon Trotman designs computer programs to streamline human behavior.

February 27, 2015

Faculty highlight: Vladimir Bulovic

MIT's associate dean for innovation is inventing at the nanoscale.

February 26, 2015

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.

February 24, 2015

Better machine learning

Kalyan Veeramachaneni tackles some of the biggest bottlenecks holding back the data science industry.