Using reason, again and again
Philosopher Brian Hedden studies decision-making over time — and recently chose to return to alma mater MIT, where he is now connecting ethics and computing.
Turning molecules into reliable electronic devices
A new fabrication platform integrates molecules into electronic devices, opening the door to emerging computing technologies.
EECS 2026 Awards
The annual departmental awards recognize excellence from students, faculty, and staff alike.
MIT EECS Launches 6A-Entrepreneurship Pitch Day
The competition spotlit a new generation of student founders building ventures at the intersection of research, industry, and innovation.
Awarded jointly by the Bavarian State Government and the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, it is the most highly endowed award for technology and engineering in Germany.
Making robots faster by helping them think ahead
By planning actions based on the future position of a robot, the VLASH technique streamlines motions and accelerates performance.
Following the questions where they lead
Assistant Professor Bailey Flanigan has arrived at complex computational methods for helping democracy thrive.
Dimitri Bertsekas, Prolific Author in Optimization, Dynamic Programming and Reinforcement Learning, Dies at 83.
Bertsekas’s research spanned, and had a major influence upon, several fields, including optimization, control, large-scale computation, reinforcement learning, and artificial intelligence.
Helping AI models to meet the real world
Through research and entrepreneurship, Professor Devavrat Shah is helping to design methods that can handle constant decision-making using limited computational resources.
Tiny robot boats build floating structures
MIT researchers developed FloatForm, a swarm of small aquatic robots that snap together like ants forming a raft, assembling into reconfigurable structures on the water.