Boning to serve as director of the MIT Masdar Program
Professor, associate head of EECS succeeds Moavenzadeh as head of the program.
Turning reviews into ratings
A new system automatically combs through online reviews to provide recommendations according to unusual criteria.
Collective memory
An MIT project provides a way to preserve information in constantly changing networks, without resorting to a shared server.
EECS PhD candidate honored by Marconi Society
Work on fundamental limits of wideband cooperative localization earns Yuan Shen the Young Scholar award.
How wise are crowds?
By melding economics and engineering, researchers show that as social networks get larger, they usually get better at sorting fact from fiction.
Remembering Art Smith
'Stabilizing force' was a counselor, advocate, friend and champion for students.
7 win presidential early career honors
MIT has greatest number of recipients from a single institution.
Four MIT students win 2010 MIT-CIMIT Fellowships
Receive multi-year support to work on traditionally underfunded areas in health care.
Social Studies
In MIT's Human Dynamics Lab, Sandy Pentland PhD '82 uses cell phones and wearable sensors to research nonverbal signals, information flow, and the value of face-to-face conversation.
Nerve-cell regeneration quest is fast tracked
Microchip technology rapidly identifies compounds for regrowing nerves, in live animals.
Construction begins on high-performance computing center
President Hockfield joins Gov. Patrick and others at groundbreaking ceremony.
Four engineering students named Intel PhD fellowship recipients
Materials science, EECS graduate students among 27 honored
5 from MIT win NIH awards
The grants are designed to promote risky, innovative research with the potential to transform a field of study.