Departments
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
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Scott Aaronson wins NSF’s Alan T. Waterman Award
National Science Foundation’s most prestigious award will help fuel CSAIL researcher’s work.
March 8, 2012 -
Transistors promise more powerful logic, more logical power
Research could affect U.S. manufacturing indirectly, by helping introduce products difficult to build elsewhere, and directly, by reducing production costs.
March 7, 2012 -
First course offered by MITx begins
More than 90,000 people have registered for 6.002x: Circuits and Electronics
March 5, 2012 -
Liskov named to National Inventors Hall of Fame
March 1, 2012 -
Measuring blood flow to monitor sickle cell disease
New technology may help doctors predict when patients are at risk for serious complications.
March 1, 2012 -
Introduction to Electrical Engineering and Computer Science now available in OCW Scholar format
6.01SC is the fourth of seven courses OCW will publish this spring specifically to meet the needs of independent learners.
February 27, 2012 -
New system allows robots to continuously map their environment
Algorithm to build 3-D maps requires a low-cost camera, no human input.
February 16, 2012 -
Microchips’ optical future
To keep energy consumption under control, future chips may need to move data using light instead of electricity — and the technical expertise to build them may reside in the United States.
February 15, 2012 -
MITx prototype course opens for enrollment
Online-learning initiative’s first offering, ‘6.002x: Circuits and Electronics,’ accepting registrants now.
February 13, 2012 -
Dennis Selected for ACM SIGOPS Hall of Fame
February 10, 2012 -
The blind codemaker
New error-correcting codes guarantee the fastest possible rate of data transmission, even over fluctuating wireless links.
February 10, 2012 -
Minimizing background noise in stem cell culture
January 21, 2012 -
The faster-than-fast Fourier transform
For a large range of practically useful cases, MIT researchers find a way to increase the speed of one of the most important algorithms in the information sciences.
January 18, 2012 -
The quantifier
By helping biologists turn their hunches into rigorous mathematical models, Polina Golland builds software that interprets medical images.
January 12, 2012 -
Self-aware computing project named a 'world changing' idea by Scientific American
Project Angstrom selected by magazine's editors; featured in December issue
December 20, 2011 -
Research update: Sharpening the lines
New advance could lead to even smaller features in the constant quest for more compact, faster microchips.
December 14, 2011 -
Trillion-frame-per-second video
By using optical equipment in a totally unexpected way, MIT researchers have created an imaging system that makes light look slow.
December 13, 2011 -
Putting the ‘art’ in artificial intelligence
CSAIL associate professor develops AI systems that can interpret images.
December 12, 2011 -
Kellis wins Niki Award
CSAIL principal investigator honored for contributions to science and technology.
December 9, 2011 -
David Staelin, longtime professor in EECS and RLE, dies at 73
Researcher led a career distinguished by abundant accomplishments, widespread impact in his 55 years at MIT.
November 15, 2011