John Charles named vice president for information systems and technology
New head of IS&T brings more than 20 years of experience as an IT leader at public and private institutions.
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Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
SMART Driverless golf cart provides a glimpse into a future of autonomous vehicles
Fleet of self-driving cars could solve the “first-and last-mile" problem.
Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli visits MIT in support of assistive technology and global poverty reduction
Daylong visit highlights work by MIT researchers and others at CSAIL and J-PAL.
Where the ‘beaver works’
A collaborative space at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, called the Beaver Works Center, will create new opportunities in project-based learning.
Explained: Matrices
Concepts familiar from grade-school algebra have broad ramifications in computer science.
Andrea Bocelli and MIT showcase research advancements this Friday
Andrea Bocelli will attend workshops at MIT featuring research on vision impairment and social impact programs funded by the Andrea Bocelli Foundation and conducted at MIT.
Four MIT seniors win Marshall Scholarships
Kate Koch, Colleen Loynachan, Kirin Sinha, and Grace Young will study for two years in the UK.
3-D images, with only one photon per pixel
New scheme could enable laser rangefinders to infer depth from a hundredth as much light — and to produce images from only one nine-hundredth the light.
David Perreault is appointed EECS associate department head
Munther Dahleh is appointed as acting director of ESD and new organization with focus on socio-technical systems, information and decision systems and statistics.
Dahleh appointed to new roles
Leading ESD and planning for a potential MIT-wide effort in the areas of socio-technical systems, information and decision systems, and statistics.
Finding ‘rising stars’ in EECS
MIT-hosted conference encourages the top women studying electrical engineering and computer science nationwide to become professors.
Machine learning branches out
An algorithm that extends an artificial-intelligence technique to new tasks could aid in analysis of flight delays and social networks.
MIT Big Data Initiative launches transportation challenge, privacy working group
New efforts aimed at improving the use and management of big data
MIT students help middle-school girls SHINE in dance and math
Senior Kirin Sinha has founded an after-school program to connect seventh-grade girls with MIT female student-mentors.
Eliminating unexplained traffic jams
If integrated into adaptive cruise-control systems, a new algorithm could mitigate the type of freeway backup that seems to occur for no reason.