EECS celebrates the launch of SuperUROP
The Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) held a reception on Oct. 18 to celebrate the official launch of the new SuperUROP undergraduate research program. The SuperUROP is a...
View ArticleMedical devices powered by the ear itself
Deep in the inner ear of mammals is a natural battery — a chamber filled with ions that produces an electrical potential to drive neural signals. In today’s issue of the journal Nature Biotechnology, a...
View ArticleCSAIL team honored for printable robot
This past summer, the African Robotics Network (AFRON) challenged roboticists around the world to design a new class of robot, one that could be easily integrated into classrooms around the world. SEG,...
View ArticleZue awarded Okawa Prize
Victor Zue, the Delta Electronics Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT and the director of international relations for the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence...
View ArticleIt pays to cooperate
Many species exhibit cooperative survival strategies — for example, sharing food or alerting other individuals when a predator is nearby. However, there are almost always freeloaders in the population...
View ArticleSpeeding algorithms by shrinking data
In computer science, the buzzword of the day is “big data.” The proliferation of cheap, Internet-connected sensors — such as the GPS receivers, accelerometers and cameras in smartphones — has meant an...
View ArticleDepartment snapshot: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Photos: Dominick Reuter (1-8), Steven Leeb (9,10) and M. Scott Brauer (11-30) This is part of an occasional series of features profiling academic departments at MIT. In the 1950s, when MIT researchers...
View ArticlePaul Juodawlkis elevated to Fellow of the Optical Society
Dr. Paul W. Juodawlkis, assistant leader of the Electro-optical Materials and Devices Group at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, was elevated to the rank of Fellow of the Optical Society (OSA) last month. He was...
View ArticleNew rankings acclaim MIT’s graduate programs in engineering, business
Extending a decades-long run, MIT’s graduate program in engineering has again been ranked No. 1 in the country by U.S. News & World Report. MIT has held the top spot since 1990, when the magazine...
View ArticleGoldwasser and Micali win Turing Award
MIT professors Shafi Goldwasser and Silvio Micali have won the Association for Computing Machinery’s (ACM) A.M. Turing Award for their pioneering work in the fields of cryptography and complexity...
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Four professors named 2013 MacVicar Fellows
From left to right: Linda Griffith, Rob Miller, Laura Schulz and Emma Teng. Four MIT professors have been named 2013 MacVicar Faculty Fellows for their outstanding undergraduate teaching, mentoring and...
View ArticleBerners-Lee wins first Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering
The Royal Academy of Engineering has announced that Tim Berners-Lee, the 3COM Founders Professor of Engineering at MIT, has been named one of the winners of the inaugural Queen Elizabeth Prize for...
View ArticleFaculty describe experiments with digital learning on MacVicar Day
Attendees at the MacVicar Day celebration on Friday, March 15, became participants in an online-learning experiment led by Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering Anette “Peko” Hosoi. She asked...
View ArticlePatterning graphene with DNA
DNA’s unique structure is ideal for carrying genetic information, but scientists have recently found ways to exploit this versatile molecule for other purposes: By controlling DNA sequences, they can...
View ArticleNine MIT faculty members elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Nine MIT faculty members are among 198 leaders from academia, business, public affairs, the humanities and the arts elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the academy announced today....
View ArticleWireless researchers host ‘Game-Jam’
It is difficult to provide a detailed and comprehensive picture of wireless network data performance in the real world. Although providers like AT&T and Verizon offer coverage maps on their web...
View ArticleCells as living calculators
MIT engineers have transformed bacterial cells into living calculators that can compute logarithms, divide, and take square roots, using three or fewer genetic parts.Inspired by how analog electronic...
View ArticleMIT Global Founders’ Skills Accelerator announces 2013 student teams
Fourteen teams will participate in this year’s MIT Global Founders’ Skills Accelerator (MIT GFSA), an international entrepreneurship program that provides student entrepreneurs with the skills and...
View ArticleMaking quantum encryption practical
One of the many promising applications of quantum mechanics in the information sciences is quantum key distribution (QKD), in which the counterintuitive behavior of quantum particles guarantees that no...
View ArticleMIT students, alumni awarded 2013 Fulbright grants
Several MIT undergraduate and graduate students and alumni — Noam Angrist, Marvin Arnold, Dorothy Brown, Hyunjii (Justina) Cho, Deborah Hanus and Marisa Lau — have been awarded Fulbright study/research...
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