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August 23, 2013
A new summer UROP experience was organized and run by members of the EECS faculty to allow students to build web apps for educational technology, both for online courses (edX) and for residential courses on campus. Sixteen students – including nine freshmen, five sophomores and two juniors built some very impressive apps and learned a lot of coding -- together. The prospect of making both MITand MITx courses better was a strong motivator for the participants. Photo: 6.MITx UROP Richard Lu, Course 6 sophomore demonstrates the Pentimento Player app, an interactive 'video' player. Read more! -
August 23, 2013
On the news of the death of Professor Emeritus Kenneth N. Stevens, Department Head Anantha Chandrakasan shared the following message with his EECS faculty colleagues. Please read also the MIT News Office Aug. 23, 2013 obituary by Larry Hardesty titled: "Kenneth Stevens, professor emertitus in EECS, dies at 89. Stevens' pioneering work as the originator of the quantal theory of speech helped earn him the National Medal of Science." -
August 17, 2013
Detecting early-stage malarial infection of blood cells is a diagnostic that has recently come closer to reality through the work of MIT's Anantha Chandrakasan, EECS Department Head, and Subra Suresh, former MIT Dean of Engineering, now president of Carnegie Mellon University. The work, which has been published Aug. 8 in the journal Lab on a Chip, is potentially applicable to detecting other infections and diseases. -
August 14, 2013
Muriel Médard, professor of electrical engineering in the MIT EECS Department and principal investigator in the Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE) and EECS graduate student Falvio du Pin Calmon have teamed with researchers at the National University of Ireland to demonstrate that the security of many keyless-entry systems may not be as secure as previously thought. Médard and the NUI team will present their work at the Asilomar Conference on Signals and Systems in September. -
August 8, 2013
Rodney Brooks, iRobot co-founder and Chairman and CTO of Rethink Robotics, was recently featured in the MIT News Office — following the selection by Technology Review of Rethink Robotics as one of 50 Disruptive Companies 2013. Founded by Brooks in 2008, Rethink Robotics is stocking manufacturers with easily taught assembly-line capable robots that can work safely alongside humans. -
August 7, 2013
EECS PhD student Kuang Xu is featured by the MIT News Office for his application of predictive modeling to improve emergency-room wait times. Read more in the Aug. 7, 2013 MIT News Office article. -
August 6, 2013
Sanjoy K. Mitter, professor of electrical engineering and principal investigator and former director of the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems at MIT, has been selected as Fellow by the International Federation of Automatic Control. He is cited in this honor “for fundamental contributions to nonlinear filtering, stochastic control, optimization, optimal control, hybrid systems theory, and the unification of communication and control.” -
August 5, 2013
CSAIL News: EECS professor Nancy Lynch, who heads the Theory of Distributed Systems Group at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and EECS graduate student Moshen Ghaffari, and Cal Newport, a former graduate student in Lynch’s group who’s now an assistant professor of computer science at Georgetown University have used adversarial models in achieving greater network stability for adhoc networks, ie., for wireless device use. -
August 5, 2013
CSAIL News: Professor Anant Agarwal appeared on the July 24 edition of The Colbert Report, a satirical late-night comedy show hosted by comedian Stephen Colbert. Agarwal, a former director of CSAIL, is the president of edX, the not-for-profit online learning enterprise founded by Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). -
August 3, 2013
MIT researchers including electrical engineering and computer science professor Manolis Kellis, a member of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) at MIT and Muriel Medard, professor of electrical engineering and principal investigator in the Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE) at MIT have teamed with colleagues at the Broad Institute to develop a broadly applicable technique to study network connections. -
August 2, 2013
Three CSAIL roboticists have been named to IEEE Intelligent Systems' 2013 list of "AI's 10 to Watch", which celebrates 10 rising stars in the field of artificial intelligence (AI). The CSAIL members named to the list are: Nora Ayanian, Finale Doshi-Velez and Stefanie Tellex. -
July 31, 2013
Mehmet Fatih Yanik, associate professor of electrical engineering and biological engineering at MIT and head of the High-Throughput Neurotechnology Group based in the Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE) has created his life's work by combining his training in physics and engineering with his passion for understanding the complexities of the human nervous system and how to determine therapeutics for neurological disorders. Read more... -
July 31, 2013
The MIT Women’s Technology Program in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science has just finished its 12th summer — introducing 40 high school rising female seniors to the challenges and excitement of engineering and computer science. Read more... -
July 30, 2013
James Fujimoto, the Elihu Thomson Professor of Electrical Engineering at MIT has been selected for the 2014 IEEE Photonics Award. The award, which is sponsored by the IEEE Photonics Society, is given in recognition of outstanding achievements in photonics. Prof. Fujimoto is cited “for pioneering the development and commercialization of optical coherence tomography for medical diagnostics.” -
July 26, 2013
New research to be presented at the 2013 SIGGRAPH computer graphics conference could transform field of 3-D printing. Read about the work of EECS/CSAIL Professor Wojciech Matusik and his group to simplify the software that drives the 3D printing of multi-material objects. July 25 article by Abby Abazorius, CSAIL. -
July 26, 2013
The Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) announced on July 25, 2013 that Professor William Freeman has been honored with the Test of Time Award for his paper "Orientation Histograms for Hand Gesture Recognition,” co-written by Michal Roth in 1995. The award was presented at the 2013 IEEE Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition Conference in Shanghai, China. -
July 19, 2013
Researchers from CSAIL and Center for Wireless Networks and Mobile Computing have developed a TCP congestion-control system called Remy, which they will present at the annual conference of the Association for Computing Machinery’s Special Interest Group on Data Communications. Hari Balakrishnan, the Fujitsu Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and EECS graduate student Keith Winstein are the authors of the work titled "TCP ex Machina: Computer-Generated Congestion Control". -
July 11, 2013
EECS Professors Regina Barzilay and Martin Rinard (and their respective graduate students Nate Kushman and Tao Lei) have demonstrated that ordinary language can be used (in specific cases) to aid in generating code for computer programs. Read more -
July 10, 2013
Faculty members in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at MIT are converging on a wide range of research issues through game theory, which used to be a staple of economics research in the 1950s. EECS faculty members Asuman Ozdaglar, Costis Daskalakis, Munther Dahleh, and Silvio Micali discuss their approaches in this Technology Review feature. Read more. -
July 5, 2013
Joel Voldman engineers cutting-edge approaches to stem cell signaling, point of care therapeutics, and neuroengineering. In the never-ending mega study of how biological systems work, Joel Voldman’s mission is to understand the most basic interactions between single cells. To achieve that, he applies the power of microfluidics to isolate the actions and behaviors of single cells and the interactions between cells. -
July 3, 2013
Read about Tomas Palacios, the Emmanuel E. Landsman Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT, where he is a principal investigator in the Microsystems Technology Laboratories (MTL) in the July 3, 2013 MIT News Office article by Larry Hardesty titled "High potential - Tomás Palacios investigates use of ‘extreme materials’ in electronics, which could reduce energy consumption and make computers far faster." -
July 1, 2013
A team based in the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) has been selected as one of the top ten (out of more than one hundred) teams in the first stage of the DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC). The team is headed by EECS professor Seth Teller and includes co-investigator in the team challenge and EECS faculty member Russ Tedrake. CSAIL story by Abby Abazorius. Photos: Jason Dorfman. -
July 1, 2013
EECS faculty member Dina Katabi, principal investigator in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and her graduate student Fadel Adib have developed a system (dubbed Wi-Vi) which uses low-cost wireless technology to track moving humans behind walls. -
July 1, 2013
Srini Devadas, the Edwin Sibley Webster Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and members of the Computational Structures Group in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) have developed a new system that not only disguises a server's memory-access patterns, but also prevents attacks that rely on how long computations take. -
June 24, 2013
Mobility on demand has now been enhanced by an algorithm to balance the need for rental vehicles needed for one way usage. Read more!
