Faculty member in electrical engineering and computer science to focus on innovation in engineering education and new pedagogical approaches.
MIT student Jack Carson named 2026 Udall Scholar
The Udall Foundation identifies and rewards future leaders in tribal public policy, Indigenous health policy, and the environment.
An old patent from MIT Professor Bill Freeman inspired the new “Y-zipper,” a three-sided fastener that snaps gear, robots, and art into shape at the push of a button.
The “MetaEase” technique provides a heads-up to potential scenarios that could cause long wait-times or outages.
Teaching AI models to say “I’m not sure”
A new training method improves the reliability of AI confidence estimates without sacrificing performance, addressing a root cause of hallucination in reasoning models.
Jacob Andreas and Brett McGuire named Edgerton Award winners
The associate professors of EECS and chemistry, respectively, are honored for exceptional contributions to teaching, research, and service at MIT.
Vinod Vaikuntanathan earns 2026 Guggenheim Fellowship
The award is given out yearly to leading thinkers, innovators, and creators across art, science, and scholarship to tackle current issues.
Researchers developed a system that intelligently balances workloads to improve the efficiency of flash storage hardware in a data center.
The first leader of the Computation Structures Group, he pioneered the development of dataflow models of computation.
Researchers use control theory to shed unnecessary complexity from AI models during training, cutting compute costs without sacrificing performance.