Computer science and technology

Harvard graduate students Ankush Sharma, right, and Alexis Geancotes, left, (who also study at MIT) represent the MoCa team, which developed mobile diagnostics to improve health care in the developing world.

A phone is not just a phone

Student projects explore innovative cellphone uses in developing world

July 2, 2009

Collaboration eyes computing boost for New England

Rooted at MIT, effort brings together state, industry, academia

June 11, 2009

Awards and Honors: June 10, 2009

June 10, 2009

Louis Smullin, former electrical engineering department head, 93

June 8, 2009

Palacios named ONR Young Investigator

June 5, 2009

Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Associate Department Head Duane Boning presents the George C. Newton project prize -- 6.111 to Tony Kim (Hyun) and Nevada Sanchez for video acquisition multi-touch controller.

Electrical Engineering & Computer Science awards

June 3, 2009

Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering Rahul Sarpeshkar, left, and Soumyajit Mandal display their RF (radio frequency) cochlea, a low-power, ultra-broadband radio chip. The chip, held by Mandal, is attached to an antenna, held by Sarpeshkar. The diagram on the computer monitor shows the wiring layout of the chip.

Drawing inspiration from nature to build a better radio

New radio chip mimics human ear, could enable universal radio

June 3, 2009

Stephen Dodd, Jay Forrester, Robert Everett, and Ramona Ferenz at Whirlwind I test control in the Barta Building, 1950.

Project Whirlwind comes home

Previously classified documents from first MIT digital computer being made public

May 22, 2009

MIT teams win U.S. Department of Defense grants

May 22, 2009

Scratch Day goes global

Conference on programming language spans 100 sites

May 12, 2009

It's a fine line

New method could lead to narrower chip patterns

April 9, 2009

Hiroshi Ishii with one of his early projects, bottles that play music when their stoppers are removed.

Ishii makes the virtual tangible

A 'hands-on' approach to computers

April 6, 2009

EECS assistant professors Tomás Palacios, left, and Jing Kong examine oscilloscope traces showing the doubling in frequency of an electromagnetic signal processed through their experimental graphene microchip.

New material could lead to faster chips

Graphene may solve communications speed limit

March 19, 2009

Power down

IS&T recommends ways to save electricity

March 10, 2009

Barbara Liskov wins Turing Award

ACM cites 'foundational innovations' in programming language design