MIT team wins Clean Energy Prize for solving solar’s shade problem
Unified Solar takes home $225,000 for a circuit that augments the output of partially shaded solar cells.
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Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Smart components that assemble themselves
Skylar Tibbits launches the Self-Assembly Lab at MIT, where researchers are building materials that can coalesce on their own to form structures.
Mastering the biological and engineering worlds
Rahul Sarpeshkar bridges biology and engineering to advance research and applications in biotechnology, medicine, and supercomputing.
Start6: In good company
New IAP program offers a bridge between alumni entrepreneurs and Course 6 students.
The complexonaut
Scott Aaronson travels the far reaches of computational complexity, shaping conventional and quantum computing.
Orienteering for robots
Algorithm for determining orientation of objects could aid robots in navigation, scene understanding.
MIT program fosters inclusive learning community for high school students
SEED Academy students benefit from instructors' training in handling negative stereotypes and diversity issues.
How to beat others to the mathematical punch
New MITx MOOC brings the street fighting approach to solving math problems.
Democratizing data visualization
Study examines use of ‘Exhibit’ tools in creating interactive data visualizations.
Cimran Virdi vaults to become national women’s indoor track and field champion
Virdi is the first MIT women's indoor track and field athlete to win an individual event at NCAAs.
Parallel programming may not be so daunting
“Lock-free” parallel algorithms may match performance of more complex “wait-free” algorithms.