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.
Remembering Art Smith
'Stabilizing force' was a counselor, advocate, friend and champion for students.
7 win presidential early career honors
MIT has greatest number of recipients from a single institution.
Four MIT students win 2010 MIT-CIMIT Fellowships
Receive multi-year support to work on traditionally underfunded areas in health care.
Social Studies
In MIT's Human Dynamics Lab, Sandy Pentland PhD '82 uses cell phones and wearable sensors to research nonverbal signals, information flow, and the value of face-to-face conversation.