Reporter's Notebook: Inventing language
MIT’s Barbara Liskov, winner of the Turing Award, describes how she helped lay the foundations for today’s programming languages.
What computer science can teach economics
Constantinos Daskalakis applies the theory of computational complexity to game theory, with consequences in a range of disciplines.
New methods are changing old materials
Computational approach to materials science could bring new properties even to familiar substances such as concrete and steel
Parallel course
As chip makers turn to multiple 'cores' to improve performance, MIT researchers help ease programmers' transition to parallel programming.
Quantum computing may actually be useful
A quantum algorithm that solves systems of linear equations could point in a promising new direction.
Whose Internet is it, anyway?
One of the Internet's chief architects looks at the FCC's proposed Net neutrality rules.
Intel PhD fellowship recipients announced
Four students from the EECS have been named among this year's winners of the Intel PhD Fellowships
Sharing the air
Unused wireless spectrum is getting scarce; MIT researchers are teaching emerging technologies to coexist in what's left
Two chips in one
MIT team finds a way to combine materials for semiconductor manufacture. The advance helps address the limitations of conventional silicon microprocessors.