Electrical engineering and computer science (EECS)

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Crash-tolerant data storage

Formally verified working file system could lead to computers guaranteed never to lose your data.

August 24, 2015

A metabolic master switch underlying human obesity

Researchers find pathway that controls metabolism by prompting fat cells to store or burn fat.

August 19, 2015

Coupled with a digital pen, new models from the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab can help detect dementia and other cognitive disorders earlier than ever before.

Could a pen change how we diagnose brain function?

Team from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab detects dementia using AI and a digital pen.

August 13, 2015

CSAIL researchers converted their lab into a miniature “bar” that included a PR2 robot “bartender” and two four-wheeled Turtlebot "waiters."

Robots collaborate to deliver meds, supplies, and even drinks

Bots from the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab work together more effectively in the face of uncertainty.

August 10, 2015

MIT researchers awarded grants from new Siebel Energy Institute

August 7, 2015

Fadel Adib, Dina Katabi, President Barack Obama, and Zachary Kabelac at the White House Demo Day

President Obama invites MIT entrepreneurs to give demo at the White House

Wireless motion-tracking device from CSAIL researchers is among highlighted innovations at “Demo Day.”

August 6, 2015

Computing at full capacity

MIT spinout Jisto helps companies optimize utilization with real-time deployment, monitoring, and analytics.

July 31, 2015

Shown here is a prototype laptop power adapter made by Cambridge Electronics using GaN transistors. At 1.5 cubic inches in volume, this is the smallest laptop power adapter ever made.

Making the new silicon

Gallium nitride electronics could drastically cut energy usage in data centers, consumer devices.

July 29, 2015

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Shoring up Tor

Researchers mount successful attacks against popular anonymity network — and show how to prevent them.

July 28, 2015

Associate Professor Michael R. Watts (left) and Professor Lionel C. Kimerling (right).

Consortium including MIT awarded $110M national grant to promote photonics manufacturing

Partnership of government, industry, and academia will pursue integration of optical devices with electronics.

July 27, 2015

The proposed SLAM-aware object recognition system is able to localize and recognize several objects in the scene, aggregating detection evidence across multiple views. The annotations are actual predictions proposed by the system.

Object recognition for robots

Robots’ maps of their environments can make existing object-recognition algorithms more accurate.

July 23, 2015

Siting wind farms more quickly, cheaply

New model predicts wind speeds more accurately with three months of data than others do with 12.

July 17, 2015

Cutting cost and power consumption for big data

New network design exploits cheap, power-efficient flash memory without sacrificing speed.

July 10, 2015

MIT pole vaulter goes ever higher

Senior Cimran Virdi is vaulting into the NCAA record books as an engineering major at MIT — a school with a history of success in track and field.

July 9, 2015

Computer program fixes old code faster than expert engineers

What takes coders months, CSAIL’s “Helium” can do in an hour.