Code of the humans
New book by Noam Chomsky and Robert Berwick explores how people acquired unique language skills.
Topic
Electrical engineering and computer science (EECS)
Download RSS feed: News Articles / In the Media / Audio
Solving global problems with MIT in Brazil
MIT student travels to São Paulo to assist non-profit in recognizing and organizing waste collectors.
Solar cells as light as a soap bubble
Ultrathin, flexible photovoltaic cells from MIT research could find many new uses.
Eleven MIT researchers win Sloan Research Fellowships
Faculty from eight MIT science and engineering departments among 126 selected from across the U.S. and Canada.
Three from MIT elected to the National Academy of Engineering
Contributions of new members include the design of parallel computing systems, the development of 3-D printing, and the discovery of near-Earth asteroids.
EECS announces four faculty promotions
Palacios, Shah, Tedrake promoted to full professor; Englund promoted to associate professor without tenure.
Five with MIT ties tapped for Inventors Hall of Fame
MIT professor and four alumni honored for inventing electronic ink, the spanning tree protocol, and Sketchpad, a human-machine graphical communication system.
John Wyatt, longtime MIT professor and cofounder of Boston Retinal Implant Project, dies at 69
Dedicated researcher was a circuits expert developing a retinal implant to help the blind see.
Welcome the MIT Siebel Scholars for 2016
Graduate students from bioengineering, business, computer science, and energy science join a distinguished intellectual community.
Computer science meets economics
Constantinos Daskalakis adapts techniques from theoretical computer science to game theory.
Toward hack-proof RFID chips
New technology could secure credit cards, key cards, and pallets of goods in warehouses.
A virtual “guide dog” for navigation
Low-power chip processes 3-D camera data, could enable wearable device to guide the visually impaired.
MIT students win first round of SpaceX Hyperloop contest
Design tops more than 100 entries at an international high-speed transportation competition inspired by Elon Musk and sponsored by SpaceX.
Learning to solve
Hallmark program “SuperUROP” lets undergrad engineers dive into a year-long research experience.