Electrical engineering and computer science (EECS)

“Multicore systems are really hard to program,” says Daniel Sanchez, an assistant professor in MIT’s Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. “You have to explicitly divide the work that you’re doing into tasks, and then you need to enforce some synchronization between tasks accessing shared data. What this architecture does, essentially, is to remove all sorts of expli...

Parallel programming made easy

New chip design makes parallel programs run many times faster and requires one-tenth the code.

June 20, 2016

Researchers developed a simple application for devices that use Apple’s iOS operating system. The application flashes a small dot somewhere on the device’s screen, attracting the user’s attention, then briefly replaces it with either an “R” or an “L,” instructing the user to swipe either the right or left side of the screen. Correctly executing the swipe ensures that the user has act...

Eye-tracking system uses ordinary cellphone camera

Crowd-sourced data yields system that determines where mobile-device users are looking.

June 15, 2016

Researchers at MIT and Sandia National Laboratories have designed a device that is an array of 37 microfabricated lasers on a single chip. Its power requirements are relatively low because the radiation emitted by all of the lasers is “phase locked,” meaning that the troughs and crests of its waves are perfectly aligned.

New approach to microlasers

Technique for “phase locking” arrays of tiny lasers could lead to terahertz security scanners.

June 13, 2016

Artificial intelligence produces realistic sounds that fool humans

Video-trained system from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab could help robots understand how objects interact with the world.

June 13, 2016

Left to right: School of Engineering Dean Ian A. Waitz, graduate student Zachary Sherman, and Alan Oppenheim '59, '64 ScD, sponsor of the School of Engineering Graduate Student Award for Extraordinary Teaching and Mentoring.

School of Engineering awards for 2016

Awards were given to outstanding faculty, undergraduates, and graduate students.

June 10, 2016

Andrea Campbell (left), head of the MIT Department of Political Science and the Arthur and Ruth Sloan Professor of Political Science, and Valerie Karplus, assistant professor of global economics and management, take part in a panel discussion at the Technology and Policy Program 40th anniversary event.

Technology and Policy Program celebrates 40 years

Special event marks four decades of TPP and looks to the future of technology and policy.

June 9, 2016

Clockwise from top left: Shreya Dave, Carolena Ruprecht, Michael Birk, and Mohammed Alsobay

Energy grads launch careers in research, engineering, and analysis

June 8, 2016

An artist's drawing of a black hole named Cygnus X-1. It formed when a large star caved in. This black hole pulls matter from the blue star beside it.

A method to image black holes

New algorithm could stitch together astronomical measurements made across the globe.

June 6, 2016

Gene circuits in live cells can perform complex computations

Technique combines analogue and digital processes in engineered cells.

June 3, 2016

Making cities smarter

MIT researchers are creating tools that synthesize and collect data so that urban planners can vastly improve the quality of urban life.

June 1, 2016

“Super Mario Brothers” is hard

Analysis shows popular video game is among the hardest problems in the “complexity class” PSPACE.

June 1, 2016

Top row (left to right): Robert Fadel, Dean Ian A. Waitz, Jim Long, Hsinhwa Lee, Ted Equi, Sandra Lopes, Joseph Baylon, Carolyn Carrington, Anthony Zolnik, Doreen Morris, Marlena Love, and Stephen Wetzel. Bottom row (left to right): Cathy Greene, Amy Bass, Sharon Leary, Bethany Walsh, Jessica Jones, and Kate Moynihan.

Spotlight on engineering staff

The 2016 Infinite Mile Awards in the School of Engineering

May 31, 2016

Left: Sandy Alexandre began her appointment as East Campus associate head of house in March. Right: Neel and Julie Shah, who have been appointed heads of house for Sidney Pacific.

Julie Shah, Sandy Alexandre receive campus houseteam appointments

Shah named head of house after serving as Sidney Pacific associate housemaster; Alexandre joins East Campus as associate head of house.

May 26, 2016

DOD seal. Center contains an eagle against a blue background. Perimeter says "Department of Defense; United States of America."

Thirteen MIT students awarded National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowships

Honor recognizes individuals who have demonstrated ability and special aptitude for advanced training in science and engineering.

May 26, 2016

“[T]oday, if you want to write a program, you go and bring in these huge frameworks and these huge pieces of functionality that you then glue together, and you write a little code to get them to interact with each other. If you don’t understand what that big framework is doing, you’re not even going to know where your program is going to start executing,” says Armando Solar-Lezama.

Automatic bug finder

System could make complex analysis practical for programs that import huge swaths of code.

May 25, 2016

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