Electrical engineering and computer science (EECS)

Ginkgo Bioworks staff members Ramya Prathuri (left) and Nate Tedford work at the mass spectrometer in the Ginkgo foundry.

Hacking microbes

Startup’s engineered yeast helps clients produce fragrances and flavors more efficiently.

August 25, 2016

PhD Ezzeldin Hamed, professor Dina Katabi, and visiting researcher Hariharan Rahul developed MegaMIMO to address spectrum crunch.

Solving network congestion

MegaMIMO system from the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab speeds data transfer by coordinating multiple routers at the same time.

August 23, 2016

“You need to have the ability for researchers and engineers to try out thousands of ideas,” says Hari Balakrishnan, the Fujitsu Professor in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT. “With this platform, you become constrained not by hardware or technological limitations, but by your creativity. You can innovate much more rapidly.”

Programmable network routers

New design should enable much more flexible traffic management, without sacrificing speed.

August 23, 2016

MIT biological engineers have devised a memory storage system illustrated here as a DNA-embedded meter that is recording the activity of a signaling pathway in a human cell.

Recording analog memories in human cells

Engineers program human cells to store complex histories in their DNA.

August 18, 2016

Duane Boning named head of Leaders for Global Operations program

Boning succeeds David Simchi-Levi as engineering faculty director of master’s program.

August 16, 2016

Summer Scholar Grant Smith looks into a sputter deposition chamber, where he makes ultrathin films — from 2 to 10 nanometers thick — of magnetic materials suitable for spin-based electronics such as those used in computer memory systems.

Booting up spin-based device studies

Summer Scholar Grant Smith works to establish parameters for making ferromagnetic thin films in the Luqiao Liu lab.

August 15, 2016

Simulations written in Simit, a new programming language, were dozens or even hundreds of times as fast as those written in existing simulation languages. But they required only one-tenth as much code as meticulously hand-optimized simulations that could achieve similar execution speeds.

User-friendly language for programming efficient simulations

New language can speed up computer simulations 200-fold or reduce the code they require by 90 percent.

August 10, 2016

Students from MIT and Hong Kong attended the MIT Kickstart Showcase.

Building out a global classroom

Students from MIT and Hong Kong collaborate to bring their entrepreneurial ideas to fruition during MIT Kickstart.

August 9, 2016

Researchers from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and Indiana University at Bloomington describe a new system that permits database queries for genome-wide association studies but reduces the chances of privacy compromises to almost zero.

Protecting privacy in genomic databases

System helps ensure databases used in medical research will not leak patients’ personal information.

August 9, 2016

Toward practical quantum computers

Built-in optics could enable chips that use trapped ions as quantum bits.

August 8, 2016

Martin Schmidt named Ray and Maria Stata Professor

MIT provost and leader in microscale and nanoscale fabrication appointed to the Ray and Maria Stata Professorship in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

August 3, 2016

To simulate objects, MIT CSAIL researchers analyzed video clips to find “vibration modes” at different frequencies that each represent distinct ways that an object can move.

Reach in and touch objects in videos with “Interactive Dynamic Video”

Technique from Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab could improve augmented reality and reduce the need for CGI green-screens.

August 2, 2016

MIT Women's Technology Program tutor Katherine Ward '16 works on a programming exercise with a student.

$1 million gift to support diversity in STEM education

Gift from Hopper-Dean Foundation will enhance computer science and engineering programs for high school and middle school students.

August 1, 2016

(From left) MIT Professor of Electrical Engineering Steven Leeb, graduate student John Donnal, and electrical engineer and consultant Jim Paris PhD ’13

What’s wasting power at home? Ask your app!

New system from MIT can identify how much power is being used by each device in a household.

August 1, 2016

A new, portable production system is designed to manufacture a range of biopharmaceuticals on demand. The principal component of the microbioreactor is a plastic chip with microfluidic circuits (green), optical sensors (red and blue circles) for monitoring oxygen and acidity, and a filter to retain the cells while the therapeutic protein is extracted (white circle).

Portable device produces biopharmaceuticals on demand

System would use microbes for manufacturing small amounts of vaccines and other therapies.

July 29, 2016

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