• Electrical Engineering & Computer Science

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  • 77 juniors and seniors majoring in EECS — are the first to complete a program known colloquially as “SuperUROP,” a play on MIT’s longstanding Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP). The program, created by EECS, immerses students in a yearlong innovation incubator. Over the course of two semesters, students accepted to the program work as members of research labs on campus, and are put in charge of developing an aspect of a group’s project or prototype. They are also given access to facilities that would otherwise be open only to graduate students. Read more
  • The annual School of Engineering Infinite Mile Awards ceremony was held May 22, 2013. School of Engineering Associate Dean Cynthia Barnhart welcomed the large gathering of the eight award winners' colleagues, family and friends. Dean Ian Waitz spoke following the awards presentation, acknowledging the quality of the work demonstrated by the award winners. Francis Doughty was awarded the Infinite Mile for Sustained Excellence. Lourenco Pires was awarded the Ellen J. Mandigo Award for Outstanding Service.
  • Jeffrey Shapiro, the Julius A. Stratton Professor of Electrical Engineering working with members of the Optical and Quantum Communications Group of which he is a co-director in the Research Laboratory of Electronics at MIT has demonstrated experimentally the effectiveness of a new quantum communication protocol. The group has shown in a series of papers the system's effectiveness in both security (against passive eavesdropping) and can be used for greater distances than the current quantum key distribution (QKD).
  • CNN recently interviewed Tomas Palacios, Director of the MIT/MTL Center forf Grahene Devices and 2D Systems. Palacios, the Emmanuel E. Landsman Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, described graphene's unique properties enabling it to conduct electric currents faster than in any other known material. He also provides a view of the potential for graphene's use in the future.
  • Dana Weinstein, the Steve and Renee Finn Career Development Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and Laura Popa, a graduate student in physics at the MIT Microsystems Technology Laboratory (MTL) have developed a new method for manufacturing hardware-based radio-signal filtration. Their work should improve filtration performance while enabling 14 times as many filters per chip.
  • Electrical Engineering and Computer Science faculty members and principal investigators in the Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE) Tim Lu and Rahul Sarpeshkar have designed cells that exploit natural integral biochemical functions to make analog circuits to perform calculations and potentially act as pathogen sensors. The researchers, including lead author MIT postdoc Ramiz Daniel and microbiology graduate student Jacob Rubens have published their work in the May 15 online edition of Nature Biotechnology.
  • The Executive Committee of the MIT Corporation recently approved awarding tenure to seven School of Engineering faculty members including, Scott J. Aaronson, Associate Professor, effective July 1, 2013. Aaronson, also a principal investigator in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab, CSAIL,... read more.
  • Read the 2013 MIT EECS Connector -- the annual news from the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
  • Thirty EECS Masters and MEng students presented their work to over 350 peers, faculty, industry visitors and the general MIT public in the Stata Center Student Street, a new venue for EECS Masterworks. Each spring Masters and MEng students in the EECS Department have the opportunity to present their thesis work to peers and faculty for review, discourse and evaluation. Read more....
  • Research posters and displays lined the walls of a large conference hall at the Kendall Square Marriott on Tuesday, April 16, as invited industry guests along with self-registered MIT students (graduate and undergraduate), staff and faculty came to the three hour event that featured the work of nearly 30 EECS undergraduate students. The conference, titled EECScon 2013 marked the launch of a new, professional-level venue to showcase to the general MIT public the original and innovative research conducted by both UROP and SuperUROP students in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT.
  • Kuang Xu, a graduate student in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science [photo, right], and his advisor, John Tsitsiklis, the Clarence J. Lebel Professor of Electrical Engineering, have demonstrated in a series of recent papers that a little versatility in operations management, cloud computing and even health-care delivery and manufacturing could save exponential reduction in delays.