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June 10, 2013
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. -
March 15, 2013
Professor Rob Miller is one of four MIT faculty selected as 2013 MacVicar Faculty Fellow for outstanding undergraduate teaching, mentoring and educational innovation. One recommender wrote: “I think Rob embodies the ideal of an MIT teacher — caring, engaging, tirelessly working on behalf of the students, eliciting respect, admiration, and joy from the students.” -
March 13, 2013
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 theory. Essentially laying the foundation for modern cryptography by formalizing the concept that cryptographic security had to be computational rather than absolute, the two have turned cryptography from an art into science -- and, in the process provided the basis for securing today's communications protocols, Internet transactions and cloud computing. They also made fundamental advances in the theory of computational complexity, an area that focuses on classifying computational problems according to their inherent difficulty. -
February 16, 2013
In a paper titled "Ampli fication of Chosen-Ciphertext Security," two CSAIL postdoctoral associates Huijia (Rachel) Lin and Stefano Tessaro, who work with EECS Professor Shafi Goldwasser, have proposed a new technique aimed at protecting against the worst possible scenario in current enryption scheme vulnerabilities. This work will be presented in May this spring at the International Conference on the Theory and Applications of Cryptographic Techniques. -
February 10, 2013
Anant Agarwal, president of edX, the worldwide, online learning initiative of MIT and Harvard University and professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE). He is recognized “for contributions to shared-memory and multicore computer architectures.” -
December 14, 2012
In an effort to bring a more human dimension to the online education experience, MIT Professor Rob Miller and EECS graduate students Mason Tang and Elena Tatarchenko have developed a new computer system that will help provide students with feedback on their homework assignments and create more interaction between students, teachers, and alumni. -
December 7, 2012
EECS Prof. Hal Abelson is making waves with his work developing the new Center for Mobile Learning at MIT and a new program called App Inventor, which is designed to allow individuals with no programming background the opportunity to create mobile applications. The Center, which is led by Abelson, Professor Eric Klopfer and Professor Mitchel Resnick, is dedicated to putting mobile technology into the hands of children as a vehicle for learning. -
November 13, 2012
Dropbox co-founder Drew Houston, who earned his undergraduate degree in computer science at MIT in 2005 and teamed with then EECS undergraduate student Arash Ferdowsi to found the company, will be the MIT June 7, 2013 Commencement speaker. "I’ve had some of the most formative experiences of my life at MIT,” Houston says. “It’s where Dropbox started and where I met my co-founder, Arash, so it’s an honor to come back and share my story. Technology is at the heart of how we shape our future and confront our challenges, and more than ever the world needs MIT graduates to lead us forward.” -
November 7, 2012
In celebration of its 40th anniversary, the EE Times is recognizing the innovators who made the electronics industry what it is today and particularly the visionaries who are creating new paths. Several members of the MIT Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department are among the ten visionaries selected including Rodney Brooks and Wireless@MIT. Read more. -
October 17, 2012
Calling it a glimpse into the future, technology news website CRN has hailed MIT EECS/CSAIL faculty and the new Wireless@MIT center as the source for seven new technologies that will impact (favorably) our daily lives. Read more... -
September 18, 2012How much does your smartphone know about you — even when it's turned off? Under the guidance of CSAIL Principal Investigator Hal Abelson, the Class of 1922 Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, CSAIL graduate students Fuming Shih and Frances Zhang are investigating how much certain smartphone applications know about users.
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July 31, 2012
Daniel Jackson, professor of computer science and engineering in the EECS department, principal investigator in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab, CSAIL, head of the CSAIL Software Design Group, and MacVicar Faculty Fellow is also an avid photographer. His work featuring black and white photos of labs at MIT and titled 'Dark Machines: Inside MIT's Laboratories' is now on exhibit (through Dec. 31, 2012) at the MIT Museum. -
July 24, 2012
Shafi Goldwasser, the RSA professor of electrical engineering and computer science at MIT and principal investigator with the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab, is among three at MIT selected as Simons Investigator by the Simons Foundation. -
June 28, 2012
Prof. Hari Balakrishnan and graduate student Keith Winstein have developed an alternative to SSH - a remote log-in program called Mosh for mobile shell - finally allowing for the mobile Internet. They reported their work at the Usenix Annual Technical Conference in Boston this month. -
June 18, 2012
Liskov and group creates Aeolus, a new programming system to track of users' data access privileges - preventing data leaks and designed for ease of programmer use. -
May 24, 2012
Prof. Martin Rinard's group has developed new mathematical framework that allows computer scientists to reason rigorously about sloppy computation. -
May 1, 2012
Shafi Goldwasser and former graduate student Guy Rosenblum, who is now at Microsoft Research, have conducted a ten year foundational study on computer security that focuses on side-channel attacks, the latest and greatest threat to security as cloud computing becomes the new standard. -
April 25, 2012
At the Association for Computing Machinery’s Symposium on Theory of Computing in May, Silvio Micali, and graduate student Pablo Azar will present a new type of mathematical game that they’re calling a rational proof. -
September 16, 2011Summary Press release: Election Integrity: Past, Present, and Future The Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project will host an all-day event on Saturday, October 1, 2011 from 9:00am to 5:00pm in the
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August 22, 2011EECS faculty member Nickolai Zeldovich, the Douglas Ross (1954) Career Development Assistant Professor of Software Technology, together with Dina Katabi, the Class of 1947 Career Development
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June 13, 2011Reported today, June 13, 2011, by the MIT News Office, Computer Science Associate Professor in the MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Dina Katabi has teamed with
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March 30, 2011Frans Kaashoek, EECS professor and associate director of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), has won the Association for Computing Machinery’s 2010 ACM-Infosys
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March 16, 2011Shafi Goldwasser, the RSA Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT and a principal investigator at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL), has been named
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February 16, 2011Electrical Engineering and Computer Science faculty member Ron Rivest gave Killian Lecture attendees on Feb. 8, 2011, a review of the history of cryptography including the history of code-making and
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February 24, 2010As reported by the MIT News Office (Feb. 22, 2010), five junior MIT professors have won 2010 Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellowships, which are intended to enhance the careers of the very
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