Vivienne Sze wins Edgerton Faculty Award
EECS faculty member is recognized for technical innovation, educational excellence, and efforts to advance women and underrepresented minorities in her field.
Department
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
3Q: Structuring the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing
Co-chairs of the Organizational Structure working group discuss their goals and progress.
Four from MIT elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences for 2019
Prestigious honor society announces more than 200 new members.
Giving robots a better feel for object manipulation
Model improves a robot’s ability to mold materials into shapes and interact with liquids and solid objects.
Robots that can sort recycling
CSAIL’s "RoCycle" system uses in-hand sensors to detect if an object is paper, metal or plastic.
A novel data-compression technique for faster computer programs
Researchers free up more bandwidth by compressing “objects” within the memory hierarchy.
Five from MIT win 2019 Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans
Award funds graduate studies for talented immigrants and children of immigrants.
MIT team places first in U.S. Air Force virtual reality competition
Satellite operator's visualization tool could help prevent space collisions.
Driving toward success
Through MIT Professional Education’s Advanced Study Program, Ernie Ho found the tools — and the community — he needed to realize his vision and launch his career.
The power of play
Video game developer NCSOFT joins with MIT.nano to apply the language of gaming to technology research and education.
Machine learning moves popular data elements into a bucket of their own
Counting search queries isn’t easy, but MIT CSAIL’s new LearnedSketch system for “frequency-estimation” aims to help.
Advance boosts efficiency of flash storage in data centers
New architecture promises to cut in half the energy and physical space required to store and manage user data.
Teaching machines to reason about what they see
Researchers combine statistical and symbolic artificial intelligence techniques to speed learning and improve transparency.
Celebrating passionate teachers and enthusiastic learners
At this year's MacVicar Day symposium, faculty and students reflect on the challenges and joys of education in the 21st century.
3 Questions: What is linguistics?
MIT Professor David Pesetsky describes the science of language and how it sheds light on deep properties of the human mind.