The fellowship provides tenured, mid-career faculty in the Department of Electrical Engineer and Computer Science with resources for up to three years to pursue new research and development paths.
Associate provost will oversee Technology Licensing Office and Office of Corporate Relations; retains duties around space planning.
Siblings Andrew and Jennifer Barry have not only managed to maintain a close friendship into their adult years, but are also both studying robotics at CSAIL
Nanofibers have a dizzying range of possible applications, but they’ve been prohibitively expensive to make. MIT researchers hope to change that.
EECS places renewed emphasis on interdisciplinary research, partnerships with alumni and industry, and experiential learning.
A new approach to processing ‘big data’ creates succinct representations of huge data sets, so that existing algorithms can handle them efficiently.
Yeast cells that share food have a survival edge over their freeloading neighbors — particularly when there is bacterial competition.
For the first time, researchers power an implantable electronic device using an electrical potential — a natural battery — deep in the inner ear.
A new algorithm predicts which Twitter topics will trend hours in advance and offers a new technique for analyzing data that fluctuate over time.
A new approach to algorithmically distinguishing words with multiple possible meanings could help find useful data in electronic medical records.
