Inventor creates tiny technologies for medicine; awarded $500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize
Sangeeta Bhatia combines clinical and engineering perspectives to tackle complex health challenges.
Department
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
The connector
Munther Dahleh’s expertise in mathematical modeling gives him profound insight into people, and MIT.
A new way to diagnose malaria
Using magnetic fields, technique can detect parasite’s waste products in infected blood cells.
Classroom contest yields publishable results
Students’ designs for cellular-networking protocols help define the limits of protocol performance.
Want a happy worker? Let robots take control.
CSAIL study finds that human subjects prefer when robots give the orders.
East Campus welcomes new housemaster
Rob Miller, computer science professor, to serve in undergraduate residence.
CSAIL researchers among Tech Review’s annual list of top young innovators
Adib and Shah to be honored at EmTech@MIT conference next month
Moving forward
PhD student Niaja Farve combines research, entrepreneurship, outreach, and indefatigable drive.
Visual control of big data
Data-visualization tool identifies sources of aberrant results and recomputes visualizations without them.
CSAIL team puts design in your hands
Fab By Example lets you quickly create thousands of custom designs for furniture, go-carts, and more.
Origami robot folds itself up, crawls away
Prototype made almost entirely of printable parts demonstrates crucial capabilities of reconfigurable robots.
Kellis to lead MIT team in new phase of GTEx project to elucidate basis of disease predisposition
NIH-sponsored work to characterize genetic variation in human tissues with roles in diabetes, heart disease, and cancer.
Model of viral lifecycle could help in finding a cure for hepatitis B
New technique sustains virus in liver cells, allowing study of immune response and drug treatments.
Extracting audio from visual information
Algorithm recovers speech from the vibrations of a potato-chip bag filmed through soundproof glass.
Research team that includes CSAIL's Devadas receives major NSF award
Modular Approach to Cloud Security project aims to build cloud systems with multilayered security