EECS faculty member Manolis Kellis is the co-author in a genomic study of 29 mammalian genomes now appearing in the online journal of Nature and shedding light on the genetic roots of human disease.

Read more in the MIT News Office Oct. 14, 2011 article, also posted in its entirety below.

EECS professors and principal investigators with CSAIL John Guttag and Collin Stultz have teamed with researchers at Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston and the University of Michigan to develop a new technique for monitoring risks in heart patient's electrocardiograms.

The Fall issue of MIT's Spectrum magazine spotlights a number of MIT faculty who work with nanotechnology.

The launch of the MIT/MTL Center for Graphene Devices and Systems (MIT-CG) was announced by MIT Press Release on Sept. 1, 2011. The inter-departmental center based in the Microsystems Technology Laboratories, MTL, and headed by EECS faculty member Tomas Palacios, will bring together MIT researchers and industrial partners to advance the science and engineering of graphene-based technologies. As noted in the press release:

A recent Design article in the EE Times (see the Xcell Journal), gives rave reviews of Arvind's 6.375. "MIT Professor uses ESL tools and FPGAs to teach system architecture" by Clive Maxfield, July 27, 2011.