Departments
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
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Dresselhaus, Graybiel, Luu receive 2012 Kavli Prizes
Biennial prizes in astrophysics, nanoscience and neuroscience include a $1 million cash award in each field.
May 31, 2012 -
MIT, Intel unveil new initiatives addressing ‘big data’
An Intel research center based at MIT will be the cornerstone of a new research project dubbed ‘bigdata@CSAIL.’
May 31, 2012 -
Daskalakis wins Microsoft Faculty Fellowship
May 23, 2012 -
Daniela Rus named CSAIL director
EECS professor to become new leader of MIT’s largest interdepartmental laboratory.
May 22, 2012 -
New mathematical framework formalizes oddball programming techniques
Loop perforation — speeding up programs by skipping instructions — is just one method that gets rigorous mathematical treatment in a new paper.
May 22, 2012 -
The elusive capacity of networks
Calculating the total capacity of a data network is a notoriously difficult problem, but information theorists are beginning to make some headway.
May 15, 2012 -
In search of new ways of producing nano-materials
Kong’s research focuses on how to make and control novel forms of thin-film carbon.
May 9, 2012 -
Excel programming for nonprogrammers
A new system allows Excel users to create customized functions for their spreadsheets simply by offering a few examples of how data should be manipulated.
May 8, 2012 -
Faster fourier transform named one of world’s most important emerging technologies
May 7, 2012 -
Four MIT professors elected to National Academy of Sciences
Liskov, Suresh, Townsend and Young bring to 78 the number of Institute faculty who are NAS members.
May 3, 2012 -
MIT and Harvard announce edX
Joint partnership builds on <i>MITx</i> and Harvard distance learning; aims to benefit campus-based education and beyond.
May 2, 2012 -
Five from MIT named Fulbright scholars
Two current students and three recent graduates will study abroad for the 2012-13 academic year.
May 1, 2012 -
Thwarting the cleverest attackers
Savvy hackers can steal a computer’s secrets by timing its data storage transactions or measuring its power use. New research shows how to stop them.
May 1, 2012 -
Abelson honored as outstanding educator
Wins ACM's Karl V. Karlstom Award
April 30, 2012 -
Algorithmic incentives
A new twist on pioneering work done by MIT cryptographers almost 30 years ago could lead to better ways of structuring contracts.
April 25, 2012 -
The robot revolution is just beginning
Rodney Brooks outlines his vision of the future to student entrepreneurs.
April 24, 2012 -
Lynch named Athena Lecturer
Professor honored for advances in distributed systems that enable dependable Internet and wireless network applications.
April 18, 2012 -
Getting to the root of genetics
Manolis Kellis uses computational techniques to decipher human disease.
April 17, 2012 -
Sensing when the brain is under pressure
New monitoring strategy forgoes surgery, could help doctors treat patients with head injuries.
April 11, 2012 -
Del Alamo is awarded 2012 Intel Outstanding Researcher Award in Emerging Research Devices
April 10, 2012