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The MIT School of Engineering newly tenured faculty are: (clockwise from top left) Dirk Englund, Yury Polyanskiy, Adam Chlipala, Kenneth Kamrin, Qiqi Wang, David Sontag, and Vinod Vaikuntanathan.

The tenured engineers of 2018

Seven award-winning faculty members represent three departments in the School of Engineering.

May 10, 2018

Carlos Gomez Uribe ’02, MEng ’03, PhD ’08, who is an internet tech product and algorithms leader at Facebook, presents during the industry session at the 2018 MIT Statistics and Data Science Conference.

Celebrating 21st century statistics

MIT Statistics and Data Science Conference highlights new approaches and varied applications.

May 8, 2018

A team of MIT researchers tested MapLite on a Toyota Prius outfitted with a range of LIDAR and IMU sensors.

Self-driving cars for country roads

Today’s autonomous vehicles require hand-labeled 3-D maps, but CSAIL’s MapLite system enables navigation with just GPS and sensors.

May 7, 2018

Knight Science Journalism Program at MIT announces 2018-19 class of fellows

Ten top journalists from four countries will spend nine months at MIT, designing their own course of study.

May 2, 2018

An MIT Press digitization project will make available works by or about leading figures in modern architecture, such as Donald Leslie Johnson’s "Frank Lloyd Wright vs. America: The 1930s," an examination of a difficult but important decade in the life of the architect.

Making landmark texts in architecture and urban studies accessible to the world

National Endowment for the Humanties-Mellon Foundation Open Book Program grant will support the digitization and open accessibility of key MIT Press titles.

April 27, 2018

At CSAIL Suresh conducts research on personalized medicine and the societal implications of machine learning.

Building AI systems that make fair decisions

Harini Suresh, a PhD student at MIT CSAIL, studies how to make machine learning algorithms more understandable and less biased.

April 24, 2018

Grand prize winner of $15,000 at the annual MIT IDEAS Global Challenge showcase and awards ceremony went to Umbulizer, a team developing a low-cost, portable ventilator for patients in rural areas where medical resources are scarce and unreliable. Pictured is team member Moiz Imam, a senior in mechanical engineering at MIT, accepting the award from Kate Trimble, senior director of the Priscilla Ki...

IDEAS Global Challenge rewards inventions with social impact

At annual event, 10 teams split $92,500 in prize money for designing innovations that improve lives worldwide.

April 23, 2018

Vinod Vaikuntanathan is an associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science and a principal investigator in CSAIL.

Vinod Vaikuntanathan wins Edgerton Faculty Award

Electrical Engineering and Computer Science faculty member is honored for his innovative work in cybersecurity and his engaging teaching style.

April 23, 2018

Left to right: Sitan Chen, Lillian Chin, and Suchita Nety have been awarded 2018 Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans.

Three MIT graduate students awarded 2018 Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans

Award honors immigrants’ contributions to the United States.

April 17, 2018

To create complete road maps companies like Google often have to have employees take existing aerial images with incomplete information and manually fill in the gaps.

A new way to automatically build road maps from aerial images

“RoadTracer” system from the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory could reduce workload for developers of apps like Google Maps.

April 17, 2018

Speakers included (l-r) Jay Bradner, president of the Novartis Institute for BioMedical Research; Phillip Sharp, MIT Institute Professor; Andrew Plump, chief medical and scientific officer of Takeda; summit organizers and faculty members Regina Barzilay and Dina Katabi from the MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; MIT President Emerita Susan Hockfield; and Robert Califf, ...

Pioneering digital collaborations

MIT hosts a summit on transformative artificial intelligence technologies in biomedical sciences and health care.

April 10, 2018

Timothy Manning Swager has been awarded a 2018 Vannevar Bush Family Fellowship for his project, Complex Smart Colloids.

Timothy Swager receives Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship

The fellowship supports top-tier researchers at U.S. universities whose high-risk, high-payoff work is of strategic importance to the Department of Defense.

April 9, 2018

CSAIL PhD student Amy Zhang led the development of the new Squadbox tool.

Using friends to fight online harassment

CSAIL’s “Squadbox” uses “friendsourcing” to better support targets of cyberbullying.

April 5, 2018

Aude Oliva (right), a principal research scientist at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and Dan Gutfreund (left), a principal investigator at the MIT–IBM Watson AI Laboratory and a staff member at IBM Research, are the principal investigators for the Moments in Time Dataset, one of the projects related to AI algorithms funded by the MIT–IBM Watson AI Laboratory.

Artificial intelligence in action

At the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab, researchers are training computers to recognize dynamic events.

April 4, 2018

MIT Professor Dina Katabi works on wireless systems for health-care monitoring.

Professor Dina Katabi wins Association for Computing Machinery Prize in Computing

Katabi receives prestigious honor and $250,000 cash prize for her contributions to wireless systems.