Electrical engineering and computer science (EECS)

Pic2Recipe, an artificial intelligence system developed at MIT, can take a photo of an entree and suggest a similar recipe to it.

Artificial intelligence suggests recipes based on food photos

Given a still image of a dish filled with food, CSAIL team's deep-learning algorithm recommends ingredients and recipes.

July 20, 2017

Researchers have developed a new way to engineer liver tissue by organizing tiny subunits that contain three types of cells embedded into a biodegradable tissue scaffold. This image shows vascularized engineered human liver tissue that has self-organized into a lobule-like microstructure.

Engineered liver tissue expands after transplant

Tiny implantable “seeds” of tissue produce fully functional livers.

July 19, 2017

MIT researchers have designed new methods for paring down neural networks so that they’ll run more efficiently on handheld devices.

Bringing neural networks to cellphones

Method for modeling neural networks’ power consumption could help make the systems portable.

July 18, 2017

Researchers are hoping to use nanotechnology to develop more targeted treatments for drug-resistant bacteria. In this illustration, an antimicrobial peptide is packaged in a silicon nanoparticle to target bacteria in the lung.

Antibiotic nanoparticles fight drug-resistant bacteria

Targeted treatment could be used for pneumonia and other bacterial infections.

July 12, 2017

Watch 3-D movies at home, sans glasses

CSAIL system converts 3-D movies into a more TV-friendly format.

July 12, 2017

$Engineers at MIT have taken a first step in designing a computer chip that uses a fraction of the power of larger drone computers and is tailored for a drone as small as a bottlecap.$

Miniaturizing the brain of a drone

Method for designing efficient computer chips may get miniature smart drones off the ground.

July 11, 2017

The Marble Center for Cancer Nanomedicine’s faculty is made up of Koch Institute members who are committed to fighting cancer with nanomedicine through research, education, and collaboration. Top row (l-r) Sangeeta Bhatia, director; Daniel Anderson; and Angela Belcher. Bottom row: Paula Hammond; Darrell Irvine; and Robert Langer.

Converging on cancer at the nanoscale

Marking its first anniversary, the Koch Institute’s Marble Center for Cancer Nanomedicine goes full steam ahead.

July 7, 2017

This figure shows a 36-tile Jenga system that’s running four applications. Jenga gives each application a custom virtual cache hierarchy.

Using chip memory more efficiently

System for generating ad hoc “cache hierarchies” increases processing speed while reducing energy consumption.

July 7, 2017

Instead of relying on silicon-based devices, a new chip uses carbon nanotubes and resistive random-access memory (RRAM) cells. The two are built vertically over one another, making a new, dense 3-D computer architecture with interleaving layers of logic and memory.

New 3-D chip combines computing and data storage

Advance points toward new generation of computers for coming superstorm of data.

July 5, 2017

Chemical engineering postdoc Antoni Forner-Cuenca (far right) explains work in the Brushett Lab on advanced flow batteries for grid-level energy storage to 2017 MPC-CMSE Summer Scholars (l-r) Kaila Holloway, Gaetana Michelet, Alexandra Oliveira, Saleem Iqbal, and Alejandro Aponte-Lugo. Forner-Cuenca is holding carbon paper where battery reactions take place.

Summer interns' lab work underway

Summer Scholars in materials science and engineering are tackling projects ranging from magnetic thin films to catalysts for energy.

July 3, 2017

A new system dubbed Fractal achieves 88-fold speedups through a parallelism strategy known as speculative execution.

Practical parallelism

System enables large speedups — as much as 88-fold — on common parallel-computing algorithms.

June 30, 2017

Neural networks learn to perform computational tasks by analyzing large sets of training data. But once they’ve been trained, even their designers rarely have any idea what data elements they’re processing.

Peering into neural networks

New technique helps elucidate the inner workings of neural networks trained on visual data.

June 29, 2017

1) Graphene, grown on copper foil, is pressed against a supporting sheet of polycarbonate. 2) The polycarbonate acts to peel the graphene from the copper. 3) Using interfacial polymerization, researchers seal large tears and defects in graphene. 4) Next, they use oxygen plasma to etch pores of specific sizes in graphene.

Scientists produce dialysis membrane made from graphene

Material can filter nanometer-sized molecules at 10 to 100 times the rate of commercial membranes.

June 28, 2017

A new computer system predicts the products of chemical reactions. “The vision is that you’ll be able to walk up to a system and say, ‘I want to make this molecule.’ The software will tell you the route you should make it from, and the machine will make it,” says professor Klavs Jensen.

Computer system predicts products of chemical reactions

Machine learning approach could aid the design of industrial processes for drug manufacturing.

June 27, 2017

Anantha Chandrakasan named dean of School of Engineering

Head of Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science will succeed Ian Waitz.

June 23, 2017

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