Electrical engineering and computer science (EECS)

“In the span of about six months, I went from a nearly unemployed dropout with poor ad-hoc computer science skills to a technical position at one of the world's leading technology firms, in large part thanks to the open availability of these materials,” says Trent Parker.

OpenCourseWare opens up a whole new career

With self-directed learning, Trent Parker designs his own professional pathway.

May 22, 2018

“I’ve always been interested in technology and in the different ways in which you can make people’s lives better through [technological] tools,” Rodríguez says.

William Rodríguez: Helping others broaden their horizons

MIT senior and Model UN leader William Rodríguez works to encourage the global exchange of ideas.

May 20, 2018

The eight 2018 MIT Fulbright Students are: (top, l-r) Emily Watlington, Caitlin Fischer, Luke Weisenbach, Julia Cha; (bottom, l-r) Jessica Varner, Andrew Xia, Skanda Koppula, Mary Tsang.

Eight from MIT receive 2018 Fulbright awards

Graduating students and alumni will conduct research abroad in 2018-19 academic year.

May 18, 2018

Delta Electronics Professor of Computer Science Regina Barzilay (left) gives a tutorial on the fundamentals of machine learning.

Applying machine learning to challenges in the pharmaceutical industry

MIT researchers and industry form new consortium to aid the drug discovery process.

May 17, 2018

Students, faculty, staff, alumni, and industry representatives strolled along the Charles M. Vest Student Street in the Stata Center, viewing research results from 130 year-long SuperUROP projects.

Showcasing the results of students' real-world research

SuperUROP and Masterworks participants share the findings of their intensive hands-on projects.

May 15, 2018

“Realizing that I could leverage my technical background in computer science to drive innovation in the theater arts motivated me to be part of the CS+HASS-SuperUROP,” says Nitah Nyang’ate Onsongo. “I hope to gain a better understanding of the scope of the communication breakdown within the theater field and help revolutionize how theater is received by society.”

CS+HASS SuperUROP debuts with nine research projects

In yearlong program, MIT students apply computer science to humanities, arts, and social science research.

May 15, 2018

The MIT School of Engineering newly tenured faculty are: (clockwise from top left) Dirk Englund, Yury Polyanskiy, Adam Chlipala, Kenneth Kamrin, Qiqi Wang, David Sontag, and Vinod Vaikuntanathan.

The tenured engineers of 2018

Seven award-winning faculty members represent three departments in the School of Engineering.

May 10, 2018

Carlos Gomez Uribe ’02, MEng ’03, PhD ’08, who is an internet tech product and algorithms leader at Facebook, presents during the industry session at the 2018 MIT Statistics and Data Science Conference.

Celebrating 21st century statistics

MIT Statistics and Data Science Conference highlights new approaches and varied applications.

May 8, 2018

Cleverly dividing information among multiple servers lets an MIT system protects the privacy of contributors to genomic databases in a way that is much more computationally efficient than standard cryptographic techniques.

Protecting confidentiality in genomic studies

Cryptographic system could enable “crowdsourced” genomics, with volunteers contributing information to privacy-protected databases.

May 7, 2018

A team of MIT researchers tested MapLite on a Toyota Prius outfitted with a range of LIDAR and IMU sensors.

Self-driving cars for country roads

Today’s autonomous vehicles require hand-labeled 3-D maps, but CSAIL’s MapLite system enables navigation with just GPS and sensors.

May 7, 2018

“When I first started Python, I basically felt like I was learning some unfathomable witchcraft. Many of the concepts still feel hard to grasp for me, and that sort of feeling is what made me love it,” says second-year student James Quigley. He is featured with Ana Bell, a lecturer in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at MIT.

Computation counts

Students are flocking to 6.00 (Introduction to Computer Science and Programming Using Python), where they learn not just coding but computational thinking.

May 4, 2018

Seven MIT graduate students are receiving 2018 National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowships. Top row, left to right: Eeshan Chetan Bhatt, Frederick Daso, Ashley Kaiser, and Bharath Kannan. Bottom row, left to right: Peter Yucheng Lu, Molly Parsons, and Sarah Schwartz.

Seven from MIT named National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellows

Fellowships last for up to three years, covering full tuition and mandatory fees.

May 2, 2018

Left to right: 2018 Memorial Scholarship winners Dianna Gagnon, Noam Watt, Sloan Kanaski; MIT FCU President and CEO Brian Ducharme; Memorial Scholarship winners Jessica Quaye and Talya Klinger.

MIT Federal Credit Union presents 2018 scholarships, People Helping People Award

MIT senior Nick Schwartz honored for his service to the community; six high school and college students awarded $1,000 Memorial Scholarships.

April 30, 2018

At CSAIL Suresh conducts research on personalized medicine and the societal implications of machine learning.

Building AI systems that make fair decisions

Harini Suresh, a PhD student at MIT CSAIL, studies how to make machine learning algorithms more understandable and less biased.

April 24, 2018

Vinod Vaikuntanathan is an associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science and a principal investigator in CSAIL.

Vinod Vaikuntanathan wins Edgerton Faculty Award

Electrical Engineering and Computer Science faculty member is honored for his innovative work in cybersecurity and his engaging teaching style.

April 23, 2018

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