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May 20, 2013
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. -
April 19, 2013
EECS professor Muriel Medard, principal investigator in the Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE) has teamed with EECS graduate student Ulric Ferner and Bell Labs researcher Emina Sojanin to develop a new technique to cut down on wasteful storage practices, especially of video content, in large data centers. Their work has been reported in the April issue of Technology Review. -
December 21, 2012
EECS researchers including professors Vladimir Bulovic, Jing Kong and Mildred Dresselhaus and postdoctoral associate Hyesung Park and graduate student Joel Jean have joined MIT colleagues including associate professor of materials science and engineering Silvija Gradecak and postdoctoral associate Sehoon Chang, to produce a new kind of flexible and solar cell based on graphene paired with nanowires and quantum dots. This work could rival the current use of silicon crystals or indium tin oxide (ITO) and is predicted to be scalable for alternative use to the silicon or ITO models.MTL, RLE, IV-Physics, Energy, Nanotech -
November 7, 2012
Anantha Chandrakasan, EECS Department Head, and two of his students in the MIT Microsystems Technology Laboratories (MTL) have joined a team of researchers from the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology (HST) and the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary (MEEI) to show that a natural battery in the mammalian inner ear can power an implantable electronic device. Read more... -
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... -
October 9, 2012
Read the story about the quest for energy storage and a new company that has arisen in this process. Developed in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT, a new breed of ultracpacitors that can store twice as much energy and deliver 10 times as much power as conventional capacitors is now being produced for commercial use. -
July 3, 2012
Mildred Spiewak Dresselhaus, a professor of physics and engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, walks with a very large carbon footprint, and in her case it’s a good thing. For more than half a century, Dr. Dresselhaus has studied the fundamental properties of carbon.MTL, RLE, IV-Physics, Energy -
April 24, 2012
Institute Professor Emerita Mildred S. Dresselhaus, working with materials science graduate student Shuang Tang has discovered that bismuth-antimony not only shares the properties that have made graphene the latest wonder material, but which could offer additional and complementary functionality under different conditions.MTL, RLE, IV-Physics, Energy -
February 1, 2012
Professor James Kirtley is working with EECS graduate students Michael Zieve and Jared Monnin to build a laboratory-scale microgrid that they will use to verify and further investigate results from -
September 16, 2011
Summary Reported by the MIT Energy Initiative, EECS Department Head Anantha Chandrakasan working with EECS graduate students has made batteryless power generation possible by relying on temperature -
August 25, 2011
EECS Associate Professor and principal investigator in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab Li-Shiuan Peh, is part of a team that won best paper award at the Association for Computing Machinery MobiSys conference, for designing a smartphones network system that has the potential to reduce fuel consumption by 20 percent. -
August 3, 2011EECS faculty members Munther Dahleh, EECS associate department head, and Sanjoy Mitter, both also members of the Laboratory of Information and Decision Systems (LIDS) have presented work recently
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June 9, 2011Two separate research teams at MIT, including one led by Electrical Engineering Professor Vladimir Bulović and another headed by Tonio Buonassisi, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering and
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July 13, 2010Read about EECS faculty members cited in the spring 2010 MIT Energy Initiative newsletter, Energy Futures. Professor Steve Leeb's work on energy efficient lighting is described. Leeb and his
