Electrical engineering and computer science (EECS)

“I see starting a company not only as an option, but the option,” says graduate student Keertan Kini. “It’s a way to make sustainable change in the world.”

Helping policy and technology work together

Engineering grad student Keertan Kini is working to strengthen the intersection of policy and technology.

December 12, 2016

Clockwise from top left: MIT professors Erik Demaine, Fredo Durand, Daniel Jackson, and William Freeman.

Four CSAIL researchers named ACM fellows

Association for Computer Machinery cites Erik Demaine, Fredo Durand, William Freeman, and Daniel Jackson for having "provided key knowledge" to computing.

December 8, 2016

Henry Smith awarded IEEE Noyce Medal

Professor emeritus of electrical engineering recognized for contributions to field of nanofabrication.

December 7, 2016

MIT spinout Benchling is bringing life science researchers a cloud-based platform that integrates different types of lab software into one place, with aims of making research and development easier, quicker, and more collaborative.

“Google Docs” for life sciences accelerates discovery

Cloud-based platform assists in managing, sharing data facilitates research.

December 7, 2016

MIT researchers have developed a new approach to training speech-recognition systems that doesn’t depend on transcription. Instead, their system analyzes correspondences between images and spoken descriptions of those images, as captured in a large collection of audio recordings.

Learning words from pictures

System correlates recorded speech with images, could lead to fully automated speech recognition.

December 6, 2016

A four-rotor "bunnycopter" developed at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory features propellers at different heights.

Design your own custom drone

CSAIL system lets users design and fabricate drones with a wide range of shapes and structures.

December 5, 2016

Clockwise from top left: Alix de Monts ’14, senior Anita Liu, senior Melody Liu, and senior Lisa Ho have been selected as Schwarzman Scholars.

Four MIT students named 2017 Schwarzman Scholars

Alix de Monts, Lisa Ho, Anita Liu, and Melody Liu will study for one year at Tsinghua University in China.

December 2, 2016

The researchers’ neural network was fed video from 26 terabytes of video data downloaded from the photo-sharing site Flickr. Researchers found the network can interpret natural sounds in terms of image categories. For instance, the network might determine that the sound of birdsong tends to be associated with forest scenes and pictures of trees, birds, birdhouses, and bird feeders.

Computer learns to recognize sounds by watching video

Machine-learning system doesn’t require costly hand-annotated data.

December 2, 2016

Tomaso Poggio, a professor of brain and cognitive sciences at MIT and director of the Center for Brains, Minds, and Machines, has long thought that the brain must produce “invariant” representations of faces and other objects, meaning representations that are indifferent to objects’ orientation in space, their distance from the viewer, or their location in the visual field.

How the brain recognizes faces

Machine-learning system spontaneously reproduces aspects of human neurology.

December 1, 2016

Four proposals from six MIT faculty members, pictured here, have been awarded Professor Amar G. Bose Research Grants. Left to right: Angela Belcher, Amy Keating, Karl Berggren, Betar Gallant, Domitilla Del Vecchio, and Ron Weiss.

Bold research visions recognized and rewarded

Four proposals from six MIT faculty members to receive Professor Amar G. Bose Research Grants.

December 1, 2016

MIT senior Brian Wanek wears a racing helmet inside a prototype of what will be the driver’s seat in the 2017 MIT Formula SAE car as sophomore Wasay Anwer measures the frame.

Harder, better, faster, stronger

The MIT Formula SAE team takes a great leap forward to build their 2017 race car.

November 29, 2016

Given a still image from a scene, new deep-learning algorithm can create a brief video that simulates the future of that scene.

Creating videos of the future

Given a still image, CSAIL deep-learning system generates videos that predict what will happen next in a scene.

November 29, 2016

Clockwise from top left: Kevin Zhou; Matthew Cavuto; Zach Hulcher; and Daniel Zuo

Four MIT students named 2017 Marshall Scholars

Matthew Cavuto, Zachary Hulcher, Kevin Zhou, and Daniel Zuo will pursue two years of study in the U.K.

November 28, 2016

Tamara Broderick, assistant professor of electrical engineering and computer science at MIT, was a presenter at the 2016 Machine Intelligence Summit.

Meeting of the minds for machine intelligence

Industry leaders, computer scientists, and venture capitalists gather to discuss how smarter computers are remaking our world.

November 22, 2016

This illustration shows a miniature electron gun driven by terahertz radiation. A UV pulse (blue) back-illuminates the gun photocathode, producing a high-density electron bunch inside the gun. The bunch is immediately accelerated by ultra-intense terahertz pulses to energies approaching 1 kiloelectronvolt. These high-field optically-driven electron guns can be utilized for ultrafast electron diffr...

Toward X-ray movies

Low-power tabletop source of ultrashort electron beams could replace car-size laboratory devices.