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III - Electronics, Computers & Systems
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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. -
March 19, 2013
Researchers in the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS) working with a colleague at Georgia Tech have shown in a paper titled " Optimization of Lyapunov Invariants in Verification of Software Systems" in the latest issue of the journal IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, that principles from control theory can be applied to computer software to improve software verification. -
February 20, 2013
Researchers in the laboratory of Anantha Chandrakasan, the Joseph F. and Nancy P. Keithley Professor of Electrical Engineering and head of the MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, have developed a Quad HD TV chip which has already demonstrated a fourfold increase in TV screen resolution. The new MIT Quad HD TV chip is being presented this week at the International Solid State Circuits Conference in San Francisco. -
February 20, 2013
Monday, Feb. 18. Anantha P. Chandrakasan, the Joseph F. and Nancy P. Keithley Professor of Electrical Engineering and the Department Head of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) at MIT was honored today at the 60th Anniversary Plenary Session of the IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), for which he has been Conference Chair since 2010. In presenting him with the 2013 IEEE Donald O. Pederson Award, the IEEE has recognized Prof. Chandrakasan for outstanding contributions to solid-state circuits in terms of benefit to society, enhancement to technology, and professional leadership. -
February 19, 2013
Researchers in the lab of Anantha Chandrakasan, the Joseph F. and Nancy P. Keithley Professor of Electrical Engineering, including Rahul Rithe, a graduate student in MIT’s Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, have developed a chip which can perform professional quality enhancements of photographs quickly and without draining power on smartphone and digital cameras--cutting out the need for added energy- and time-consuming computational photography systems.CSAIL, LIDS, MTL, RLE, I-Comm, II-AI, III-Electronics, IV-Physics -
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 10, 2012
A team from the MIT Microsystems Technology Laboratories (MTL) including Jesús del Alamo, the Donner Professor of Science in MIT’s Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), EECS graduate student Jianqian Lin, and Dimitri Antoniadis, the Ray and Maria Stata Professor of Electrical Engineering have used indium gallium arsenide to build nanometer-sized metal-oxide semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFETs) that can outpace silicon providing the smallest non-silicon transistors yet. -
November 13, 2012
Victor Zue, the Delta Electronics Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT and the director of international relations for the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL), has been named the 2012 recipient of the Okawa Prize. Zue was honored for his "pioneering and outstanding contributions to speech science and conversational spoken-language systems." -
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... -
August 23, 2012
Molybdenum-Disulfide (MoS2), like Graphene, is a one-molecule-thick material. But, MIT researchers including EECS Professors Tomas Palacios and Jing Kong have been able to produce complex electronic circuits from MoS2, a material that could have many more applications than graphene. This work is now reported in the journal Nano Letters. -
July 23, 2012
Victor Zue, the Delta Electronics Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT and former Director of the Institute's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) from 2007 - 2011 (and co-director of CSAIL since its inception in 2004), is the recipient of the 2013 IEEE James L. Flanagan Speech and Audio Processing Award. He is cited "for pioneering contributions to acoustic phonetics and conversational spoken-language systems." -
June 12, 2012
Sarpeshkar teams with researchers at the Lincoln Laboratory to develop an implantable fuel cell built that could power neural prosthetics that help patients regain control of limbs. -
May 16, 2012
"L. Rafael Reif, a distinguished electrical engineer whose seven-year tenure as MIT’s provost has helped MIT maintain its appetite for bold action as well as its firm financial footing, has been selected as the 17th president of the Institute. Reif, 61, was elected to the post this morning by a vote of the MIT Corporation." Read more of the MIT News Office, May 16, 2012 announcement. -
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 -
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. -
November 28, 2011
Li-Shiuan Peh, associate professor in the MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab, CSAIL, principal investigator, has been -
September 28, 2011
"The signals in cells are not ones or zeroes," Sarpeshkar says. read more... -
September 21, 2011
The Fall issue of MIT's Spectrum magazine spotlights a number of MIT faculty who work with nanotechnology. The topic of nanotechnology is introduced with the opening: "Nanotechnology’s -
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. -
June 30, 2011Rahul Sarpeshkar, EECS associate professor and principal investigator with the Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE) is one of three MIT faculty members selected to attend the NAE's 17th U.S.
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February 28, 2011The MIT News Office has offered, starting February 23, 2011, a five part series of in-depth articles about MIT's Computer Science research titled "The Multicore Future." All articles
