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Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
MIT Global Founders’ Skills Accelerator announces 2013 student teams
Startup accelerator includes eight MIT student teams as well as teams from six international universities.
Cells as living calculators
Using analog computation circuits, MIT engineers design cells that can compute logarithms, divide and take square roots.
Making frequency-hopping radios practical
New hardware could lead to wireless devices that identify and exploit unused transmission frequencies, using radio spectrum much more efficiently.
First ‘SuperUROPs’ cap off inaugural year
EECS program immerses undergraduates in advanced research projects.
MIT conference showcases undergraduate research
EECScon 2013 marks MIT’s first research conference geared toward engineering undergraduates
Wireless researchers host ‘Game-Jam’
Event will bring together game developers, graphic designers and audio professionals to design mobile games that will help wireless researchers gather information on network data.
CSAIL graduate honored with ACM award
Shyamnath Gollakota recognized for work with wireless interference
Saurabh Amin to be chief scientist on multi-institutional NSF grant
Project aims to improve security and operations of civil and environmental engineering structures and systems
New research could let vehicles, robots collaborate with humans
Researchers are developing systems that can analyze people’s needs to determine the best way to achieve their goals.
Valuing versatility
In an age of specialization, a little versatility could improve operations management, cloud computing, and possibly even the provision of health care.
Learning software development — by developing software
In a new course, students participate in large, ongoing, open-source-software development projects, mentored by industry professionals.
Special deal on photon-to-electron conversion: Two for one!
New technique developed at MIT could enable a major boost in solar-cell efficiency.
Power to the people
From afar, MIT grad student Chidube Ezeozue devotes energy to his fellow Nigerians.
Hop, skip or jump? Study says no to all of the above
MIT engineers find that in the earliest stages of arthritis, high-impact exercise may worsen cartilage damage.