EECS website spotlights
This page has been created to make past EECS website spotlights available to MIT EECS website visitors. These sotlights have highlighted department events and people since the images of the Stata Center were featured in fall, 2004.
| Looking at LIDS, the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems
Visit the new LIDS website to explore the many sides of LIDS, including the recent conference to explore the future of Information Theory with leading researchers from around the world, titled the Path Ahead, held Nov. 12-14, 2009. Read about the people, research and culture of LIDS in LIDS-All magazine, 2009 edition. |
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EECS MISTI FT09: Opportunities and Feedback for and from EECS graduate students and EECS undergrads. EECS students (both undergrad and grad) are urged to take advantage of the fantastic opportunities offered through the MISTI program for internships abroad. Two events EECS MISTI open houses were advertised. See the fantastic feedback on past visits from 5 returning EECS students. CHINA-Sean Liu | ITALY-Yu Gu, Aleem Siddiqui | CHINA-Scot Frank | SPAIN-Praveen Subramani Oct. 30 - Nov. 20, 2009 |  |
President Obama visits the Baldo and Bulovic Labs on historic visit to MIT for major clean energy speech President Barak Obama visited the energy labs of EECS faculty members Marc Baldo and Vladimir Bulovic to learn about the latest solar technologies for energy capture and quantum dot lighting. MIT News Office: "President Obama lights up MIT" Oct. 23, 2009 Oct. 26 - 30, 2009 |
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the VI-A M.Eng. Thesis Program: A great opportunity for EECS Juniors and current M.Eng. students to relate the scientific and engineering principles learned in the classroom to current engineering problems and to complete an industry-based Masters of Engineering Thesis. Six current EECS VI-A M.Eng. students share their enthusiastic feedback on their VI-A company experiences in some cases at locations overseas. Sept. 25 - Oct. 26, 2009 |
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EECS Resources for Launching into Fall Term 2009 Read about the multiple resources available to new and continuing students in the EECS Department: descriptions of new classes offered for Fall Term, theEECS Graduate Student Association, GSA, the services of the HKN, the national honor society for computer science and electrical engineering, including tutoring and information and evaluations of existing department classes, the services of eecsREFS, a mediation service run by and available to EECS graduate students, the EECSblogs, and the Research Area Open Houses for graduate students. |
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Discover Electrical Engineering and Computer Science August 4 - 28, 2009 |
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Women's Technology Program in EECS 2009 The MIT Women's Technology Program (WTP) is a four-week summer academic and residential experience where female high school students explore engineering through hands-on classes, labs, and team-based projects in the summer after 11th grade. The spotlight focused on WTP EECS classes where 40 students participated in the month long on-campus program to learn about electrical engineering and computer science. See the WTP videos featured on Tech TV. June 18 - August 4, 2009 |
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EECS students graduate, June 5, 2009: Hooding line up | Hooding reception, held June 4 at the Stata Center Graduation lineup | Degrees: PhD grads09 | June 10 - July 17, 2009 |
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EECS International: A month long spotlight on the global opportunities to EECS students and faculty via the new EECS International website. EECS VI-A International and EECS MISTI along with other efforts were highlighted. Over 22 images of EECS students who benefited from internship experiences in nine countries were made available from the EECS homepage. See the EECS International spotlight page about EECS International. May 1 - June 10, 2009 | Photos used for spotlight |
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EECS Spring Fling Awards 2009: Members of the MIT EECS Department community gathered at the MIT Museum, May 17, 2009, for an evening of light refreshments and to witness the awards given at the end of the academic year to students, faculty and staff in recognition of achievement and service. Department Head Eric Grimson and Associate Department Heads Duane Boning and Srini Devadas presented the awards. Images, award announcements. May 17, 2009 |
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EECS MasterWorks 2009:
Since the establishment of the M.Eng. degree in 1993, the EECS Department has hosted the MasterWorks event giving M.Eng. and Masters of Science students in EECS the opportunity to present his/her research work to the community, including fellow students and faculty members. Read more and see images. May 4, 2009 |
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EECS Research - EECS graduate students: Cutting edge work made possible by teams of faculty and students. Read about specific examples within the Department and the Institute. From quantum dot solar cells to award-winning organizational software, EECS research teams are making an impact. |
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Insitute Professor Barbara Liskov wins the ACM 2009 Turing Award, with the citation: "For contributions to practical and theoretical foundations of programming language and system design, especially related to data abstraction, fault tolerance, and distributed computing." Read more: http://www.eecs.mit.edu/spotlights/liskov_turing09.html March 6 - 31, 2009 (special headline announcement) |
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Irwin Jacobs, Inaugural Distinguished Lecture series MTL and SoE sponsored inaugural Distinguished Lecture on Feb. 19, 2009 by Irwin Mark Jacobs (S.M. 1957, Ph.D. 1959), Cofounder and Chairman of Qualcomm, Inc. "From Information theory Corses at MIT to Providing Chips and Technology for a World with Four Billion Cellular Subscribers - Memories and a Look Ahead" Read more, images from the lecture. Feb. 10 - March 5, 2009 |
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A look toward the future and at the global impact that EECS research has made and continues to advance in the areas of health sciences, energy, and the environment. Additional copies of the newsletter are available by sending a request (with appropriate mailing address) to: newsletter@eecs.mit.edu
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During the height of the graduate application season, EECS graduate student bloggers and guest blogger, EECS Prof. Joel Voldman, shared their thoughts on the application process and beyond.
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VI-A M.Eng. Thesis Program, Student Testimonials Testimonials given by current EECS VI-A M.Eng. students for the benefit of future Course VI Juniors interested in applying. Applications were due Oct. 14, 2008 at the VI-A Office in EECS headquarters, at room 38-409H. VI-A M.Eng. program student brochure 2008 Oct. 8 - 31, 2008 |
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EECS MISTI Open House, Oct. 7, 2008 MIT International Science and Technology Initiatives (MISTI) with the EECS Department held an open house on Tuesday, Oct. 7 for students to explore possible global opportunities for study and research.
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VI-A M.Eng. Thesis Program Open House, Oct. 1, 2008 Spotlight for Vourse VI Juniors to meet current VI-A M.Eng. Thesis Program students and hear their experiences in the program at an open house. Read more about the EECS VI-A M.Eng. Thesis Program
Sept. 22 - Oct. 2, 2008 |
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EECS Industrial Connection (ICP) Career Fair, Sept. Fall, 2008 The EECS Industrial Connection Program (ICP)'s annual Career Fair was held Sept. 17, 2008 in the Grier Rooms.
Sept. 12 - 22, 2008 |
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EECS undergraduate- and graduate-level classes and the UPDATES page and/or the MIT listings for FT08 EECS classes. More information available at the EECS Academics webpage and at the EECS Undergraduate Office and the EECS Graduate Office websites. Also class sites on the Course 6 MIT Stellar website.
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Periodlically the EECS Department spotlights the outstanding research conducted by its faculty members and research staff to share the depth and breadth of impact this work has in both expanding the human knowledge base and adding to quality of life. See each of the featured projects: Marc Baldo: solar concentrators, Jing Kong: nanowire mesh for oil spills, Steve Leeb: intelligent lighting, Russ Tedrake: advances in robot locomotion, Antonio Torralba: image recognition simplified, Fatih Yanik: Live-animal on a chip enables live nerve studies
July 23 - Aug. 27, 2008 |
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Robert H. Rines: An Appreciation The EECS Department ran this spotlight in appreciation for Dr. Rines' creation of and teaching two unique and timely classes, 6.901 Invention and Patents and 6.931, Development of Inventions and Creative Ideas. Notes of appreciation were solicited (and still are) as we compile them to share with Dr. Rines.
July 1 - 22, 2008 |
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EECS undergraduate and M.Eng. degree recipients EECS PhD recipients (FT07-ST08)
June 11 - 30, 2008 |
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EECS Spring Fling June 18, 2008 Annual awards presentation in EECS held at the MIT Museum.
May 27 - June 10, 2008 |
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EECS Masterworks 2008: A Sweet Feast of Sweet Projects! Every year for the past fifteen years—since the establishment of the M.Eng. degree—the EECS Department has hosted the Masterworks event giving M.Eng. students in EECS the opportunity to present his/her research work to the community, including fellow students and faculty members. Also, open to MS students, this year's Masterworks event was held for the first time in the Stata Center dining area. |
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6.087/6.081 students create award winning mobile platform software Video of the award winning 'Locale' team hosted by MIT Tech TVElectrical Engineering and Computer Science Professor Hal Abelson, pictured immediate right, stands proudly with students who won the Google Android Prize, just after their presentation. They are Christina Wright,senior in electrical engineering and computer science, Claire Bayley,sophomore in physics, Carter Jernigan, senior in electrical engineering and computer science, and Jasper Lin, senior in math. Photo / Donna Coveney, MIT News Office. May 14 - 21, 2008 |
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iLabs used for 6.002, 6.012 and 6.720: Up to 2,000 users per week doing over 15,000 experiments from dorms, athena clusters 24/7--and over 19 universities worldwide sharing in the knowledge base. Take the iLabs video tour hosted by MIT Tech TV April 25 - May 14, 2008 |
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ICPC2008: EECS/CSAIL Computer Programming Team wins gold in battle of the brains Under the guidance of EECS Professor and CSAIL member Martin Rinard, the three member team from MIT including freshman Bohua Zhan, Andrew Lutomirski, graduate student in physics, and Xuancheng Shao, junior in EECS and mathematics won second place in the 32nd annual IBM sponsored Association for Computing Machinery, ACM, International Computer Programming Contest, ICPC, held in Albert Canada. April 15-25, 2008 |
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EECS graduate students share their thoughts with visitors on the new 'EECS-perimental' blog.
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Read about the role EECS faculty and research staff are playing in improving energy generation and storage--through thermoelectrics, solar photovoltaics, thermophotovoltaics, turbine projects and microenergy harvesting and in energy efficiency in new and vastly more efficient means for light production, energy generation in specific architectural situations, electric transmission and in novel approaches to energy needs in transportation. March 13 - 21, 2008 |
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Remembering J. Francis (Frank) Reintjes, 1912-2008 MIT News Office, March 5, 2008 "The Man Who Came to Dinner and Never Left"
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Jan. 28 - Feb. 7, 2008 |
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http://www.eecs.mit.edu/student_groups.html Nov. 19 - Dec. 5, 2007 |
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VI-A M.Eng. Thesis Program Open House and Student Testimonials
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Aug. 24 - Aug. 29, 2007 |  |
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DARPA Urban Challenge 2007: Go Team MIT!
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Celebrating Marilyn Pierce,
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EECS is Everywhere Research, Spring 2007
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| Spring Term Classes 2007
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May 30 - August 15, 2006 |
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April 25 - May 30, 2006 |
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