LIDS Director and EECS faculty member Alan S. Willsky has been selected to receive the IEEE Signal Processing Society Technical Achievement Award to be presented in March 2010 at the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing.
At MIT forum, former Lockheed Martin CEO Norman Augustine and other aerospace experts discuss the future of human spaceflight.
A new method of moving tiny particles using magnetic polymer beads and magnetic fields could find uses in microchips and in medicine
Three EECS faculty members, Hu, Rus and Sudan, and two research staff members of the MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Reynolds and Stokes, are elevated to Fellow status of the IEEE effective Jan. 1
A new Media Lab system turns LCD displays into giant cameras that provide gestural control of objects on-screen. And that’s just for starters.
A public television program explores the ways real science is starting to catch up with the futuristic visions in Star Trek.
For drowning surfers, fallen bicyclists and injured mountaineers, students in MIT’s 2.009 class devise products that could save lives.
Actress Padma Lakshmi comes to MIT to raise awareness of endometriosis and help launch the new Center for Gynepathology.
Researchers in MIT’s Microsystems Technology Laboratories are making the case for using exotic materials to help microchips keep improving.
Broad-based MIT project aims to reinvent AI for a new era. By going back and fixing mistakes, researchers hope to produce ‘co-processors’ for the human mind.
Fellowship program was established to support top-tier engineering students — especially women and other groups traditionally underrepresented
A wholly new approach to tuning a laser’s frequency brings us a step closer to airport scanners that can distinguish aspirin from explosives.
