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July 16, 2012
As MIT and Harvard gear up to offer new edX courses in the fall, the edX team is taking stock of its experience with 6.002x and beginning to incorporate what it learned into the system’s design. -
July 11, 2012
Professor of applied math and computer science at MIT and head of the Computation and Biology Group, Bonnie Berger, with former and current students, has developed an algorithm that allows researchers to access huge amounts of data in geneome databases despite the rate of genome sequencing that threatens to outpace researchers' ability to analyze the added data. -
July 9, 2012
Anantha Chandrakasan, the Keithley Professor of Electrical Engineering and EECS Department Head working with doctoral student Saurav Bandyopadhyay has developed multi-source energy harvesting chips -
July 5, 2012
Members (and graduates) of the Theory of Distributed Systems Group, TDSG, at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab, CSAIL under EECS/CSAIL faculty member Nancy Lynch, including Alejandro Cornejo, EECS graduate student, have developed a new algorithm that would allow Wi-Fi-connected cars to share their Internet connections. -
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 -
July 2, 2012
Fernando J. Corbato, a professor emeritus in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT and a principal investigator at CSAIL, has been honored by the Computer History Museum as a 2012 Fellow. -
June 28, 2012
Prof. Hari Balakrishnan and graduate student Keith Winstein have developed an alternative to SSH - a remote log-in program called Mosh for mobile shell - finally allowing for the mobile Internet. They reported their work at the Usenix Annual Technical Conference in Boston this month. -
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. -
June 18, 2012
Liskov and group creates Aeolus, a new programming system to track of users' data access privileges - preventing data leaks and designed for ease of programmer use. -
June 18, 2012As reported by the MIT News Office, June 18, 2012, staff writer David Chandler, members of the the MIT Medical Electronic Device Realization Center (MEDRC) under Brian Anthony, co-director of the
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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. -
June 1, 2012
EECS associate professor of electrical engineering Karl Berggren has teamed with MIT Materials Science and Engineering Prof. Caroline Ross to create 3D micro structures that have potential for multiple applications.MTL, RLE, IV-Physics, Nanotech -
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 31, 2012
Three MIT researchers — Mildred Dresselhaus, Ann Graybiel and Jane Luu — are among seven pioneering scientists worldwide named today as this year’s recipients of the Kavli Prizes. Dresselhaus was the sole winner of the Nanoscience Prize. -
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 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. -
May 15, 2012
Muriel Medard has collaborated with several colleagues to examine the use of two dominating information theories used in today's vast and growing transmission of data while both avoiding noise and demonstrating how to determine the capacities of networks. Medard, California Institute of Technology's Michelle Effros and the late Ralf Koetter of the University of Technology in Munich have addressed some of the toughest issues in a two part paper published recently in IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. -
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 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 -
April 18, 2012
EECS faculty members Charles Sodini and Joel Voldman with Brian W. Anthony, a research scientist in MIT’s Laboratory for Manufacturing and Productivity co-founded the Medical Electronic Device Realization Center, MEDRC at MIT in the Spring 2011. Since then the wisdom of this collaboration between the MIT researchers in the MEDRC, their industry partners and the medical community in the Boston-Cambridge area has been confirmed as the center grows with ideas and participants. -
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. -
April 12, 2012
“There’s a much larger patient population for whom physicians would like this measurement, but the invasiveness stops them from obtaining it,” says Verghese, whose lab focuses on using computer models of human physiology to interpret patient data.
