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Three EECS professors join leadership team
Saman Amarasinghe and Joel Voldman are named associate department heads; Nancy Lynch is associate department head for strategic directions, a new post.
January 12, 2018 -
During IAP, MIT community steps out of its comfort zone
For a campus that prizes creative risk-taking, Independent Activities Period is a cultural touchstone.
January 10, 2018 -
Jennifer Rupp wins international electrochemistry prize
Assistant professor is honored for her work on energy storage systems and safer, solid-state lithium electrolyte batteries.
December 22, 2017 -
Can computers help us synthesize new materials?
Machine-learning system finds patterns in materials “recipes,” even when training data is lacking.
December 21, 2017 -
Bose Grants for 2017 reward bold and unconventional research visions
Six potentially paradigm-shifting research projects will make strides with funding from Professor Amar G. Bose Research Grants.
December 14, 2017 -
Computer systems predict objects’ responses to physical forces
Results may help explain how humans do the same thing.
December 13, 2017 -
Four from MIT named 2017 Association for Computing Machinery Fellows
Professors Goldwasser, Lozano-Perez, Micali, and Sipser honored for "providing key knowledge" to computing.
December 11, 2017 -
Reading a neural network’s mind
Technique illuminates the inner workings of artificial-intelligence systems that process language.
December 10, 2017 -
School of Engineering welcomes new faculty
Sixteen new professors join seven of the school’s departments.
December 8, 2017 -
Asu Ozdaglar named head of Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
She succeeds Anantha Chandrakasan, who was named dean of engineering, as leader of MIT’s largest academic department.
December 8, 2017 -
Device makes power conversion more efficient
New design could dramatically cut energy waste in electric vehicles, data centers, and the power grid.
December 6, 2017 -
Try this! Researchers devise better recommendation algorithm
Improved recommendation algorithm should work especially well when ratings data are “sparse.”
December 6, 2017 -
Featured video: Learning lessons from teaching others
Computer science major Melanie Chen serves as teaching assistant, curriculum developer, and mentor to high school students in a unique MIT program.
December 5, 2017 -
Engineers 3-D print a “living tattoo”
New technique 3-D prints programmed cells into living devices for first time.
December 5, 2017 -
Four from MIT awarded 2018 Schwarzman Scholarships
Scholars will engage in a year of postgraduate leadership studies at Beijing’s Tshingua University.
December 4, 2017 -
Three MIT seniors awarded 2018 Marshall Scholarships
Nick Schwartz, Olivia Zhao, and Liang Zhou will pursue graduate studies in the United Kingdom.
December 4, 2017 -
Building the hardware for the next generation of artificial intelligence
Class taught by Vivienne Sze and Joel Emer brings together traditionally separate disciplines for advances in deep learning.
November 30, 2017 -
Vivienne Sze shares Engineering Emmy Award with colleagues
Associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science was part of a group that earned acclaim for work on a new video compression standard.
November 30, 2017 -
Celebrating Millie
Symposium commemorates the life and career of pioneering professor and beloved mentor Mildred Dresselhaus.
November 29, 2017 -
Chasing complexity
Ryan Williams has taken a key step toward solving the biggest problem in theoretical computer science.
November 22, 2017