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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.” -
February 7, 2013
In a spotlight for the MIT News Office, Devavrat Shah describes his choice to become a professor of electrical engineering and computer science after a brief foray (while he was a graduate student at Stanford in 1999) at a startup where he found the stimulation of contributing 1% inspiration time was diluted by 99% execution effort. Read more... -
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 1, 2012
At the Interdisciplinary Workshop on Information and Decision in Social Networks at MIT on November 8-9, Associate Professor Devavrat Shah and his student Stanislav Nikolov, will present a new algorithm that can, with 95 percent accuracy, predict which topics will trend an average of an hour and a half before Twitter’s algorithm puts them on the list — and sometimes as much as four or five hours before. 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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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. -
October 25, 2011
Hal Abelson, CSAIL Principal Investigator and the Class of 1922 Professor of Computer Science and Engineering in the EECS Department at MIT has been named the recipient of the 2012 ACM SIGCSE Award -
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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February 10, 2011
In recognition of the development of Exhibit, an open-source software data visualization tool developed by CSAIL's SIMILE group, including EECS faculty member and CSAIL principal investigator -
November 19, 2010
Dahleh, Ozdaglar and Acemoglu team to understand how as networks of people grow larger, they usually tend to converge on an accurate understanding of information distributed among them. read more... -
November 16, 2010Devavrat Shah the Jamieson Career Development Associate Professor in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT and principal investigator in the Laboratory of Information and Decisions
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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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December 16, 2008Information scraps, such as sticky notes, business cards with bits of critical data scribbled across them--a personal phenomenon common to most busy people in today's fast paced world--can
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March 20, 2008Asu Ozdaglar, Associate Professor in MIT Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, the Class of 1943 Career Development Professor and member of the Laboratory of Information and Decision Systems,
