Four MIT seniors win Marshall Scholarships
Kate Koch, Colleen Loynachan, Kirin Sinha, and Grace Young will study for two years in the UK.
Department
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
3-D images, with only one photon per pixel
New scheme could enable laser rangefinders to infer depth from a hundredth as much light — and to produce images from only one nine-hundredth the light.
David Perreault is appointed EECS associate department head
Munther Dahleh is appointed as acting director of ESD and new organization with focus on socio-technical systems, information and decision systems and statistics.
Dahleh appointed to new roles
Leading ESD and planning for a potential MIT-wide effort in the areas of socio-technical systems, information and decision systems, and statistics.
Finding ‘rising stars’ in EECS
MIT-hosted conference encourages the top women studying electrical engineering and computer science nationwide to become professors.
Machine learning branches out
An algorithm that extends an artificial-intelligence technique to new tasks could aid in analysis of flight delays and social networks.
MIT Big Data Initiative launches transportation challenge, privacy working group
New efforts aimed at improving the use and management of big data
MIT students help middle-school girls SHINE in dance and math
Senior Kirin Sinha has founded an after-school program to connect seventh-grade girls with MIT female student-mentors.
Eliminating unexplained traffic jams
If integrated into adaptive cruise-control systems, a new algorithm could mitigate the type of freeway backup that seems to occur for no reason.
SuperUROP raises bar for undergraduate research and innovation
EECS September kickoff reception features guest speakers Susan Hockfield and Ray Stata
Dude, where’s my code?
A new system warns programmers when compilers — which convert high-level programs into machine-readable instructions — might simply discard their code.
Better robot vision
A neglected statistical tool could help robots better understand the objects in the world around them.
