The birth of electrical engineering
The creation of the first electrical-engineering curriculum may have said as much about MIT’s educational philosophy as it did about the pace of innovation.
Four professors named MacVicar fellows
Sanyal, Schuh, Verghese and Winston honored for undergraduate teaching excellence
The quantum singularity
A new experiment would use quantum effects to perform otherwise intractable calculations, but conducting it should be easier than building a quantum computer.
The next operating system
Operating systems for multicore chips will need more information about their own performance — and more resources for addressing whatever problems arise.
Designing the hardware
Improving communication between distributed processors and managing shared data are two of the central challenges in creating tomorrow’s chips.
Rivest unlocks cryptography's past, looks toward future
Public-key system has worked and made Internet commerce feasible, but new systems are ready in case flaws are found.
Professor Eric Grimson named next chancellor
Current head of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science to succeed Phillip L. Clay.
Kenneth Olsen, MIT Corporation life member emeritus, dies at 84
Institute alum, computer pioneer was co-founder of Digital Equipment Corp.
Boning to serve as director of the MIT Masdar Program
Professor, associate head of EECS succeeds Moavenzadeh as head of the program.
Turning reviews into ratings
A new system automatically combs through online reviews to provide recommendations according to unusual criteria.
Collective memory
An MIT project provides a way to preserve information in constantly changing networks, without resorting to a shared server.
EECS PhD candidate honored by Marconi Society
Work on fundamental limits of wideband cooperative localization earns Yuan Shen the Young Scholar award.
How wise are crowds?
By melding economics and engineering, researchers show that as social networks get larger, they usually get better at sorting fact from fiction.