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June 12, 2023

Department of EECS announces 2023 promotions

The department is proud to announce multiple promotions this year.

April 20, 2023

Indyk elected to American Academy of Arts & Sciences

The MIT professor focuses on efficient, sublinear, and streaming algorithms, with innovative research addressing issues in large data and high-dimensional geometry, which relates to the geometry of spaces with more than three dimensions.

April 3, 2023

A four-legged robotic system for playing soccer on various terrains

“DribbleBot” can maneuver a soccer ball on landscapes such as sand, gravel, mud, and snow, using reinforcement learning to adapt to varying ball dynamics.

April 3, 2023

Caroline Uhler named SIAM Fellow for 2023

In the award announcement, SIAM noted that Uhler is being honored for her “fundamental contributions at the interface of statistics, machine learning, and biology”.

Top row, left to right: Alfred Spector, Jeannette Wing Bottom row, left to right: Chris Wiggins, Peter Norvig
December 13, 2022

Big Data, Bigger Ideas: the four coauthors of “Data Science In Context” share their perspectives on a growing field.

As the pioneers of a developing field, data scientists often have to deal with a frustratingly slippery question: what is data science, precisely, and what is it good

A collage of professional headshots includes Phillip Isola, Will Oliver, Costis Daskalakis, Manish Raghavan, Stefanie Mueller, Martin Wainwright, Muriel Médard, Martha Gray, Polina Golland, and David Perreault.
October 25, 2022

Recent chair announcements within EECS

The Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) recently announced the following crop of chair appointments, all effective July 1, 2022. Karl Berggren has been named the

December 2, 2021

2021 EECS Awards

It’s nearing the end of 2021, and we want to celebrate the accomplishments and contributions of our incredible EECS community by sharing some of the awards given by

May 7, 2021

MIT launches new data privacy-focused initiative

Future of Data, Trust, and Privacy initiative aims to address AI-driven analytics and changing attitudes about personal data.

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March 25, 2021

More transparency and understanding into machine behaviors

Left to right: MIT CSAIL PhD student Ankit Shah, postdoc Nadia Figueroa Fernandez, PhD student Serena Booth, and PhD student Yilun Zhou. Photo courtesy of the researchers. Explaining, interpreting,

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February 9, 2021

“I know what you bought at Chipotle”

MIT researchers from the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems have developed an algorithm that can break down anonymized bill totals into individual item costs, creating an overview