Michael Stonebraker wins $1 million Turing Award
CSAIL researcher invented core database concepts, turned many into companies.
Better debugger
System to automatically find a common type of programming bug significantly outperforms its predecessors.
MIT launches three new cybersecurity initiatives
Complementary programs will address cybersecurity from the perspectives of technology, public policy, and organizational management.
U.S. News ranks graduate programs in engineering, business highly
MIT is home to No. 1 graduate engineering program; Sloan is No. 5 business school.
Better machine learning
Kalyan Veeramachaneni tackles some of the biggest bottlenecks holding back the data science industry.
Can an LED-filled “robot garden” make coding more accessible?
CSAIL’s 100-plus blooming, crawling, swimming bots teach basic programming concepts.
Smarter multicore chips
New approach to distributing computations could make multicore chips much faster.
Consumer-friendly makers
Media Lab alumni’s success with “smart” gaming blocks led to an acquisition deal to make consumer drones.
Better how-to videos
System recruits learners to annotate videos, increasing their educational value.
Keeping health care clean
Startup’s smart devices track hand-washing in hospitals to help reduce the spread of infection.
Parallelizing common algorithms
Researchers revamp a common “data structure” so that it will work with multicore chips.
Qubits with staying power
Technique greatly extends duration of fragile quantum states, pointing toward practical quantum computers.
Telling stories using computer science
Senior Shannon Kao’s knack for storytelling informs her research in computer graphics.
Optimizing optimization algorithms
Analysis shows how to get the best results when approximating solutions to complex engineering problems.