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Celebrating MIT's excellent staff

Fifteen individuals and four teams to be honored at 2010 MIT Excellence Awards

February 17, 2010

Rethinking networking

MIT researchers helped develop a theory that promised much more efficient data networks; then they were the first to put it into practice.

February 12, 2010

Pablo Parrilo, the Finmeccanica Career Development Professor at MIT’s Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems

Nonlinear thinker

With techniques for translating complicated equations into ‘sums of squares,’ Pablo Parrilo helps make sense of previously insoluble problems.

January 29, 2010

At Davos, MIT faculty discuss the nature of intelligence

Videos available of professors' presentations at World Economic Forum

January 28, 2010

Picture-driven computing

New research could enable computer programming based on screen shots, not just code

January 20, 2010

Although compressing preexisting image files is not a typical application of linear compression, it provides a vivid means of comparing algorithms. A source image (top) was compressed using two linear-compression algorithms. When the images were decompressed, the older algorithm (middle) provided a slightly more faithful reconstruction of the original — but it took more than 100 times as long to...

Putting the squeeze on data

In work that could make it easier to handle huge data sets, MIT researchers improve data compression's fidelity without sacrificing speed

December 21, 2009

Five from MIT named 2010 IEEE Fellows

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

December 14, 2009

Rethinking artificial intelligence

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.

December 7, 2009

A small, autonomous helicopter, programmed by MIT students under the direction of Professor Nick Roy, passes through a simulated window as part of a competition held over the summer.

Flight of fancy

Using an autonomous mini-helicopter, an MIT team stunned the Association for Unmanned Vehicles International by solving one of its notoriously tough challenges on the first try.

December 3, 2009