Helping students stick with MOOCs
New techniques could help identify students at risk for dropping out of online courses.
Department
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
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.
Automatic bug repair
System fixes bugs by importing functionality from other programs — without access to source code.
MISTI welcomes new faculty directors
Patrick Jaillet is named faculty director of MIT-France; Paulo Lozano is named faculty director of MIT-Mexico.
Tackling challenges at the intersection of engineering and sports
Sports companies connect with engineering students and faculty at the second annual STE@M Day.
Toward tiny, solar-powered sensors
New ultralow-power circuit improves efficiency of energy harvesting to more than 80 percent.
School of Engineering awards for 2015
Awards were given to outstanding faculty, and graduate, and undergraduate students.
Amplifying small motions in large motions
Video-processing algorithm magnifies motions indiscernible to naked eye, even in moving objects.
Centimeter-long origami robot
Controlled by magnetic fields, tiny robot climbs inclines, swims, and carries loads twice its weight.
Robotics competition generated groundbreaking research
MIT team based robotic control algorithms on cutting-edge theory.
Longstanding problem put to rest
Proof that a 40-year-old algorithm is the best possible will come as a relief to computer scientists.
MIT team places sixth at international DARPA Robotics Challenge
CSAIL team just misses winning the grand prize after programming a 400-lb humanoid robot to lift beams, climb stairs, and drive a car.
Metcalfe to serve as visiting innovation fellow for 2015-16 academic year
Ethernet co-inventor and 3Com founder will shape Start6, EECS’s innovation and entrepreneurship workshop.