Andrew McAfee (left); Max Levchin. Photo: Gretchen Ertl
“If you’re going to start a company, do it now,” PayPal co-founder Max Levchin told MIT students during a recent “fireside chat” on campus. Would-be founders should jump in early, he said, because entrepreneurship is a tough enterprise made tougher by the prospect of giving up the comforts of a more traditional career.
MIT researchers (left to right) Riccardo Comin, Luqiao Lui, and Phillip Keathley, have been awarded three-year, $450,000 grants
edX CEO and EECS Professor Anant Agarwal. Photo courtesy of MIT Open Learning.
The Yidan Prize has named EECS professor and edX co-founder Anant Agarwal as one of two 2018 laureates.
Professor Asu Ozdaglar Photo: Lillie Paquette, School of Engineering
Professor Pablo Parrilo
EECS faculty member Pablo Parrilo has been appointed as the Joseph F. and Nancy P. Keithley Professor, EECS department head Asu Ozdaglar announced this week.
Professor Piotr Indyk
EECS Professor Piotr Indyk has been appointed as the Thomas D. and Virginia W. Cabot Professor, department head Asu Ozdaglar has announced.
Photo: Allegra Boverman
EECS Professor Polina Golland has been appointed to the Henry Ellis Warren (1894) Chair.
“The appointment recognizes Professor Golland’s leadership in medical imaging research, her outstanding mentorship and educational contributions, and her exceptional service to the department,” EECS department head Asu Ozdaglar said in making the announcement.
Photo: Jake Belcher
MIT’s engineering program continues to top the U.S. News & World Report list of undergraduate engineering programs at a doctoral institution.
MIT researchers have developed an algorithm that could save digital artists significant time and frustration when vectorizing an image for animation, marketing logos, and other applications. Image: Ivan Huska
Artists may soon have at their disposal a new MIT-developed tool that could help them create digital characters, logos, and other graphics more quickly and easily.
PhD student Lucas Manuelli worked with fellow PhD candidate Pete Florence to develop a system that uses advanced computer vision to enable a Kuka robot to pick up virtually any object. Photo: Tom Buehler, CSAIL
