Departments
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
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3 Questions: A Web for everyone
Judy Brewer leads the Web Accessibility Initiative, which developed standards that help make the Web accessible to people with disabilities.
October 19, 2012 -
MIT's CSAIL launches new center to tackle the future of wireless and mobile technologies
Will address major technical challenges facing wireless field, bring together academia and industry
October 11, 2012 -
A novel ultracapacitor
Energy when and where you need it.
October 9, 2012 -
How cancer cells break free from tumors
New MIT study identifies adhesion molecules key to cancer’s spread through the body.
October 9, 2012 -
What number is halfway between 1 and 9? Is it 5 — or 3?
A new information-theoretical model of human sensory perception and memory sheds light on some peculiarities of the nervous system.
October 5, 2012 -
Replicating living structures
Research examines how to control spatial distribution of cells in microenvironments
September 27, 2012 -
Automatic building mapping could help emergency responders
A prototype sensor array that can be worn on the chest automatically maps the wearer’s environment, recognizing movement between floors.
September 24, 2012 -
‘We are all in this great enterprise together’
In his inaugural address, President L. Rafael Reif aims MIT on a course to shape new directions in education.
September 21, 2012 -
MIT’s place in the world
Inaugural symposium addresses the Institute’s global engagement.
September 20, 2012 -
Explained: Femtoseconds and attoseconds
As electronic and optical devices get ever faster, terms for ever-smaller increments of time are coming into wider use.
September 18, 2012 -
Watching electrons move at high speed
New MIT system allows femtosecond-resolution movie of electrons in a topological insulator, a promising new electronic material.
September 18, 2012 -
CSAIL research examines how smartphone apps track users
Decentralized Information Group shows that many applications collect data even when 'idle'
September 17, 2012 -
Fujimoto, Swanson awarded the 2012 António Champalimaud Vision Award
Share honor with colleagues for pioneering work in the development of optical coherence tomography.
September 17, 2012 -
World-class musician Mark Stewart comes to the Glass Lab
In a yearlong residency, the musician and instrument designer will build a glass orchestra with MIT students.
September 14, 2012 -
MIT's Man Vehicle Laboratory turns 50
Celebrating anniversary with daylong symposium on Sept. 14
September 13, 2012 -
Leonard A. Gould, EECS emeritus professor, dies at 85
Joined MIT faculty in 1953; studied control problems and dynamic modeling.
September 13, 2012 -
U.S. News ranks MIT sixth overall among U.S. universities
Institute’s undergraduate engineering program is again ranked No. 1; undergraduate business program is No. 2.
September 12, 2012 -
How to clean up oil spills
MIT researchers devise a surprisingly simple but effective method for magnetically separating oil and water.
September 12, 2012 -
Deciphering the language of transcription factors
A new method identifies the precise binding sites of transcription factors — proteins that regulate the production of other proteins — with 10 times the accuracy of its predecessors.
September 10, 2012 -
15 MIT students named Siebel Scholars
Graduate students in computer science, bioengineering and business honored.
September 10, 2012