Electrical engineering and computer science (EECS)

MIT researchers have developed a neural-network model that can analyze raw text and audio data from interviews to discover speech patterns indicative of depression. This method could be used to develop diagnostic aids for clinicians that can detect signs of depression in natural conversation.

Model can more naturally detect depression in conversations

Neural network learns speech patterns that predict depression in clinical interviews.

August 29, 2018

MIT researchers have developed a machine-learning model that groups patients into subpopulations by health status to better predict a patient’s risk of dying during their stay in the ICU. This technique outperforms "global" mortality-prediction models and reveals performance disparities of those models across specific patient subpopulations.

Model improves prediction of mortality risk in ICU patients

By training on patients grouped by health status, neural network can better estimate if patients will die in the hospital.

August 29, 2018

The new system was developed by a CSAIL group led by Professor Dina Katabi (pictured)

A "GPS for inside your body"

CSAIL wireless system suggests future where doctors could implant sensors to track tumors or even dispense drugs.

August 20, 2018

A novel encryption method devised by MIT researchers secures data used in online neural networks, without dramatically slowing their runtimes, which holds promise for medical-image analysis using cloud-based neural networks and other applications.

More efficient security for cloud-based machine learning

Novel combination of two encryption techniques protects private data, while keeping neural networks running quickly.

August 17, 2018

CSAIL researchers have developed a visualization tool for CAD that, for the first time, lets users instead interactively explore all designs that best fit multiple, often-conflicting performance tradeoffs, in real time.

Design tool reveals a product’s many possible performance tradeoffs

Users can quickly visualize designs that optimize multiple parameters at once.

August 15, 2018

Computer scientists from MIT and IPRI propose a new cryptographic system to improve accountability of government surveillance while maintaining enough confidentiality for the police to do their jobs.

Holding law-enforcement accountable for electronic surveillance

CSAIL system encourages government transparency using cryptography on a public log of wiretap requests.

August 8, 2018

MIT professor of electrical engineering and computer science Dina Katabi (far left) gives a tour of her lab to A.R. Rahman (center) and Anantha Chandrakasan (right), dean of the School of Engineering.

Music as a gateway to shared humanity

Iconic composer A. R. Rahman visits MIT campus to learn more about new technologies.

August 2, 2018

MIT Professor Costis Daskalakis is the 2018 winner of the Nevanlinna Prize.

Constantinos Daskalakis wins prestigious Nevanlinna Prize

Professor of electrical engineering and computer science is honored for his contributions to theoretical computer science.

August 1, 2018

MIT researchers have designed an optical filter on a chip that can process optical signals from across an extremely wide spectrum of light at once, something never before available to integrated optics systems that process data using light.

On-chip optical filter processes wide range of light wavelengths

Silicon-based system offers smaller, cheaper alternative to other “broadband” filters; could improve a variety of photonic devices.

August 1, 2018

MIT professor Silvio Micali, one of the leaders of the new FinTech@CSAIL initiative, speaks to industry leaders at the Stata Center.

CSAIL launches new initiative for financial technology

FinTech@CSAIL industry collaboration will work to improve business models, access to data, and security in the finance sector.

July 26, 2018

A new study from MIT computer scientists suggests that human doctors provide a dimension that, as yet, artificial intelligence does not.

Doctors rely on more than just data for medical decision making

Computer scientists find that physicians’ “gut feelings” influence how many tests they order for patients.

July 20, 2018

School of Engineering second quarter 2018 awards

Faculty members recognized for excellence via a diverse array of honors, grants, and prizes over the last quarter.

July 17, 2018

The clock transmitter chip (pink) wired to a circuit board package. Connected is a metal gas cell (right), in which a 231.061 GHz signal generated from the chip excites the rotation of carbonyl sulfide molecules. Because the peak rotation of the molecules is constant, it can be used as a reference point to keep accurate time.

Molecular clock could greatly improve smartphone navigation

Novel chip keeps time using the constant, measurable rotation of molecules as a timing reference.

July 13, 2018

Chief of Naval Operations Admiral John Richardson SM ’89, EE ’89, ENG ’89 is the senior four-star admiral leading the U.S. Navy. He outlined the challenges ahead for the Navy and invited solutions during an MIT symposium in honor of one of his mentors, Alan Oppenheim, an MIT Ford Professor of Engineering.

Ties with MIT run deep for the US Navy’s top officer

Chief of Naval Operations Admiral John Richardson SM ’89, EE ’89, ENG ’89 poses global challenges to academe.

July 6, 2018

Nancy Hopkins (center) stands with Salvador Luria (left) and David Baltimore at the MIT Cancer Center in the 1980s.

Institute Archives spotlights pioneering women at MIT

Initiative is building collections highlighting the contributions of female faculty.