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.
Startup’s needle-free drug injector gets commercialization deal
Collaboration with pharmaceutical giant will bring smart jet-injection device to market.
Four from MIT are named 2018 IEEE Fellows
Researchers from across MIT are honored by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
Boosting the antibiotic arsenal
New strategy could enable existing drugs to kill bacteria that cause chronic infections.
Device makes power conversion more efficient
New design could dramatically cut energy waste in electric vehicles, data centers, and the power grid.
Try this! Researchers devise better recommendation algorithm
Improved recommendation algorithm should work especially well when ratings data are “sparse.”
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.
Engineers 3-D print a “living tattoo”
New technique 3-D prints programmed cells into living devices for first time.
On 75th anniversary of first nuclear fission reactor, MIT stages tribute to seminal experiment
MIT’s historic graphite exponential pile has been restored as a tool for education and research.
New nanowires are just a few atoms thick
Subnanometer-scale channels in 2-D materials could point toward future electronics, solar cells.
Four from MIT awarded 2018 Schwarzman Scholarships
Scholars will engage in a year of postgraduate leadership studies at Beijing’s Tshingua University.
Three MIT seniors awarded 2018 Marshall Scholarships
Nick Schwartz, Olivia Zhao, and Liang Zhou will pursue graduate studies in the United Kingdom.
Study sheds light on turbulence in astrophysical plasmas
Theoretical analysis uncovers new mechanisms in plasma turbulence.
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.
Harnessing a “meritocracy of great ideas”
Using a broad design approach, students are developing and evaluating changes to the first-year undergraduate experience.