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June 26, 2012
Daskalakis, students use game theory to tackle 30 year economics problem - extending Nobel winner’s work on single-item auctions to auctions involving multiple items. -
June 22, 2012
EECS team, including EECS graduate students and recent graduate, builds software that amplifies motion - to be applied in medical monitoring such as patients' vital signs. -
May 31, 2012
At a major Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence event held May 31, 2012 at the MIT Stata Center, a new CSAIL initiative known as "bigdata@CSAIL" was announced by MIT president Susan Hockfield as Intel’s CTO, Justin Rattner announced that MIT would house a new Intel research center to focus on techniques for the science and engineering of big data -- the huge amounts of information generated by Web users and networked sensors. In addition, Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick announced the Massachusetts Big Data Initiative to investigate how big-data technologies can improve government. -
May 29, 2012
Indyk/Katabi's sparse Fourier transform (SFT) has been named to MIT Technology Review’s 2012 list of the world’s 10 most important emerging technologies. -
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. -
April 13, 2012
Arvind and graduate students presented a new method for improving the efficiency of hardware simulations of multicore chips at the IEEE International Symposium on Performance Analysis of systems and Software. -
March 14, 2012
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March 9, 2012
The National Science Foundation (NSF) named Scott Aaronson of MIT as one of two recipients of this year’s Alan T. Waterman Award. The honor goes to an outstanding researcher under the age of 35 in any field of science or engineering that is supported by the NSF. -
March 9, 2012
Testing unbuilt chips A new software-simulation system promises much more accurate evaluation of promising — but potentially fault-ridden — multicore-chip designs. -
March 2, 2012
March 1, 2012 announcement courtesy of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab, CSAIL news. The National Inventors Hall of Fame has named Institute Professor Barbara Liskov as one of -
February 15, 2012
EECS faculty members Vladimir Stojanovic, Rajeev Ram and Michael Watts are collaborating to build the case for integrating optoelectronic and electronic chip components to create the next generation -
February 10, 2012
Emeritus professor of computer science, principal investigator at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) and member of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer -
January 18, 2012
EECS faculty members Dina Katabi and Piotr Indyk with graduate students Eric Price and Haitham Hassanieh will present a new algorithm this week at the Association for Computing Machinery’s Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA) that, for a large range of practically important cases, improves on the fast Fourier transform -- in some cases yielding a tenfold increase in speed. -
January 12, 2012
Polina Golland, EECS associate professor and principal investigator in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab, CSAIL, is featured today, Jan. 12, 2012, by the MIT News Office (and on -
January 1, 2012
Patrick Winston's work on creating a computer system that can think and reason like a human is featured on NPR RadioLab. -
December 19, 2011
Project Angstrom’s self-aware computing has been selected by the Editors of Scientific American as one of "Ten World Changing Ideas" in the December 2011 issue. -
December 19, 2011
MIT has launched a new online learning initiative dubbed "MITx." The initiative announced to the MIT community today by MIT Provost L. Rafael Reif, who leads MIT's online learning -
December 15, 2011
David K. Gifford, member of the EECS Department and professor of Computer Science & Engineering, has been selected by the Association for Computing Machinery, the ACM, as one of 46 for the class -
December 12, 2011
"Around 30 percent of the brain is devoted to or connected to vision," says EECS faculty member and principal investigator with the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence -
December 9, 2011
Arvind, the Charles W. and Jennifer C. Johnson Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (in photo by Scott Bauer, left), and his students (photographed by Melanie Gonick), EECS PhD -
December 8, 2011
As noted on the CSAIL website: CSAIL Principal Investigator Manolis Kellis, associate professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, has been awarded the 2011 Niki -
December 7, 2011
Scott Aaronson, the Career Development Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, a member of the Theory of Computation and Complexity Theory groups, and principal -
December 1, 2011
Tomás Lozano-Pérez, the School of Engineering Professor of Teaching Excellence at MIT has been named IEEE Fellow 2012. Lozano-Pérez, a principal investigator at the Computer
