News from the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Whether it's through groundbreaking research or creating the next generation of global innovators, our faculty, students, and staff are working to make a better world through transformative technologies and new approaches to learning.
We invite you to find out more about what we've been up to in the 2016 issue of our newsletter for EECS alumni and friends.
Read the articles from the 2016 issue on this page, read the PDF or download the PDF .
Contents
Features
- SuperUROP: Learning to solve
- StartMIT: Galvanizing entrepreneurs
- StartMIT: Empowering innovation
- MIT launches Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS)
- Creating postdoc connections
- MIT.nano: Ship in a bottle
- Rising Stars: It takes a network
- New institute will accelerate innocations in fibers and fabrics
- AIM Photonics to promote photonics manufacturing
- CSAIL joins with Toyota on $25 million center for autonomous cars
Research Updates
- Diminishing returns in Machine Learning: Increasing Gains
- Spin orbit electronics: From heavy metals to topological insulators
- A quantum Internet of Things
- IDSS Conversations: Guy Bresler on learning graphical models from data
Education News
- A learn-by-doing approach to coding
- Toward bug-proof software
- Science on Saturday
- The expanding universe of natural language processing
Alumni News
- A conversation with Colin Angle and Erika Ebbel Angle
- Katherine Yelick: Putting the pieces together
- Jamie Goldstein: Building something from nothing
- Thuan Pham: Engineering in uncharted territory
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