• Electrical Engineering & Computer Science

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  • Faculty, students, staff and their friends and families attended the Sunday, May 19, annual awards and recognition event held at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. See the slide show and read about the awards.
  • EECS faculty member John Guttag has lead a collaborative effort between MITx, edX and the City of Chicago to offer a six weeks Intro to Computer Science and Programming -- including Python -- to the city's high school students. "A Taste of Python Programming" is an adaptation of 6.00x, among the most popular of MOOCs offered by MITx and includes video lectures recorded by MIT Chancellor W. Eric Grimson and EECS Senior Lecturer Chris Terman.
  • Congratulations to all our SB, MEng, LGO, SM and PhD graduates!!! You not only graduated, but you graduated in a tropical storm magnificently! See the slide shows from the Hooding line-up and reception and from the EECS graduation reception.
  • Srini Devadas and Jacob White have been selected for their significant contributions to the Design Automation Conference (DAC), which celebrated its 50th anniversary June 2 -6. Both were recognized for their impact on the course of DAC’s history.
  • EECS faculty members Shafi Goldwasser, and Nickolai Zeldovich, both members of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) at MIT, and EECS graduate student Raluca Ada Popa have teamed with colleagues at University of Toronto and Microsoft Research to report a development in the area of homomorphic encryption that offers a functional encryption scheme to maintain security of encrypted data in the cloud.
  • Dennis Freeman, professor of electrical engineering, has been appointed as MIT’s next dean for undergraduate education, effective July 1, Chancellor Eric Grimson announced today (June 6, 2013). Freeman succeeds Daniel Hastings, the Cecil and Ida Green Education Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics and Engineering Systems, who has served as dean for undergraduate education since 2006. Freeman is noted for his lengthy record of leadership in teaching, advising and curricular innovation in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department and across the Institute.
  • Robert J. Caldwell of Kansas City, MO graduated from MIT as a member of the Class of 1936 in Electrical Engineering and as an ROTC Officer in the US Army. Following study at the University of Chicago from 1931 to 1933, Caldwell entered MIT as a sophomore in the fall of 1933, earning his SM through the Course VI-A Cooperative Program. On June 7, Bob Caldwell turns 100!
  • We would like to invite all graduates and their guests to attend the post-commencementreception on Friday, June 7th from 1:30-3:30pm. The event will take place in the North Court (the courtyard between Biology, the Koch Center and the Stata Center). Please stop by the EECS tent for refreshment. Graduates will also get special EECS gifts. I look forward to congratulating you in person. - Anantha P. Chandrakasan, EECS Department Head.
  • All EECS PhD grads are invited to come to the post Hooding reception in the Stata Center (4th floor) R&D on Thursday, June 6 (1:30 - 3:30pm). This is for you and your families and friends! Come to celebrate!
  • Sangeeta Bhatia, has teamed with colleagues to identify twelve chemicals which make it possible to grow liver tissue in a lab dish, making future liver tissue to treat many of the 500 million people suffering from chronic liver diseases such as hepatitis C much closer to reality. Their work is reported in the June 2 issue of Nature Chemical Biology.
  • Armando Solar-Lezama, EECS faculty member and head of the Computer-Aided Programming Group at CSAIL, has teamed with Sumit Gulwani, a colleague at Microsoft Research and EECS graduate student Rishabh Singh, to develop a new software system than can automatically identify errors in students' programming assignments, recommending corrections. This work could also lead to automated grading -- a big problem for MOOCs. Read more...