computer science and technology archive

MIT reports finer lines for microchips - MIT researchers have achieved a significant advance in nanoscale lithographic technology, used in the manufacture of computer chips and electronic devices, to make finer patterns of lines over larger areas than have been possible with other methods. July 8, 2008

MIT architect Sass puts up a prefab at MoMA - Larry Sass, assistant professor of computation in the MIT Department of Architecture, is one of five architects featured in a major show this summer at the Museum of Modern Art titled "Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling." July 3, 2008

Barbara Liskov named Institute Professor - Barbara H. Liskov, the Associate Provost for Faculty Equity and Ford Professor of Engineering, has been named an Institute Professor, the highest honor awarded by MIT's faculty and administration. July 1, 2008

Berners-Lee named 3Com Founders Professor - Internet pioneer Timothy Berners-Lee has been named the 3Com Founders Professor of Engineering in the School of Engineering, with a joint appointment in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. June 20, 2008

Helping MIT neighbors cross the 'digital divide' - A group of MIT volunteers hopes to close the digital divide gap through CommuniTech, a program that started in 2000 by focusing on refurbishing older donated computers and giving them to economically disadvantaged people in the area. June 4, 2008

Lerman to become MIT's vice chancellor - Dean for Graduate Education Steven R. Lerman '72, S.M. '73, Ph.D. '75 will become MIT's vice chancellor, effective July 1, Chancellor Phillip L. Clay announced this week. May 28, 2008

Scientists fathom niches of ocean microbes - Marine bacteria in the wild organize into professions or lifestyle groups that partition many resources, rather than competing for them, according to MIT research that could change the way scientists approach the classification of microbes. May 22, 2008

MIT helps develop image-recognition software - It takes surprisingly few pixels of information to be able to identify the subject of an image, a team led by an MIT researcher has found. The discovery could lead to great advances in the automated identification of online images. May 21, 2008

Digitalk: Where IT's at - News from MIT Information Services and Technology. May 14, 2008

New game lets visually impaired share the fun - AudiOdyssey, a new computer game that simulates a deejay laying down musical tracks, has been developed by MIT and Singaporean students to make it possible for visually impaired people to play on a level field with their sighted friends. May 13, 2008

Four students win $25,000 prize in Google competition - Four MIT undergraduates shared a $25,000 prize as round one winners in Google's Android Developer Challenge, a worldwide open competition for software developers based off Google's Android software stack for mobile applications. May 12, 2008

MIT crowned regional champs in battle of brains - A team of MIT students was named regional champions--and placed second overall--in an annual competition, sponsored by IBM, that challenged students to solve a semester's worth of computer programming problems in just five hours. April 11, 2008

Microsoft joins MIT Kerberos Consortium - MIT today announced that Microsoft joined the MIT Kerberos Consortium as a Founding Sponsor. Slava Kavsan, Director of Development for Windows Core Security at Microsoft, will take a seat on the Executive Board. March 31, 2008

Bringing a bit of MIT to Africa - Armed with a grant from the MIT Public Service Center, sophomore Edison Achelengwa returned to his home country of Cameroon during January to work on installing MIT's OpenCourseWare on computers in two of the country's universities. March 19, 2008

OCW, Elsevier offer free journal content - In a move to encourage open education, MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) and Elsevier have agreed to make available figures and text selections from any of the publisher's more than 2,000 journal titles for use on OCW. March 19, 2008

EECS in Asia - Markus Zahn and Hsiao-Wuen Hon sign an agreement to send EECS students to the Beijing-based Microsoft Research Asia. March 19, 2008

Digitalk: Where IT's at - News from MIT Information Services and Technology. March 12, 2008

Joseph Weizenbaum, professor emeritus, 85 - Joseph Weizenbaum, professor emeritus of computer science at MIT who grew skeptical of artificial intelligence after creating a program that made many users feel like they were speaking with an empathic psychologist, died March 5 in Berlin. March 10, 2008

No easy answers in evolution of human language - The evolution of human speech was far more complex than is implied by some recent attempts to link it to a specific gene, says MIT Professor Robert Berwick, who will discuss his work Feb. 17 at the AAAS Annual Meeting in Boston. February 17, 2008

Turning 'funky' quantum mysteries into reality - The strange world of quantum mechanics can provide a way to surpass limits in speed, efficiency and accuracy of computing, communications and measurement, according to research by MIT scientist Seth Lloyd. February 16, 2008

Brains informing computers, and vice versa - After many years, Tomaso Poggio's two parallel lines of research--one aimed at using computers to understand how the brain works, the other at improving the abilities of computers to "think"--have begun to converge. February 16, 2008

Digitalk: Where IT's at - News from MIT Information Services and Technology. February 13, 2008

Researcher on front lines of genomic revolution - Manolis Kellis, a young and fast-rising MIT researcher, uses sophisticated computational tools to investigate and analyze the genomes of a variety of organisms, including humans, mice, fruit flies and yeast. February 6, 2008

Avenue queue: One long wait inspired career shift - Waiting in line isn't what it used to be. A robo-voice tells subway riders when a train is entering the station. Passholders and cash toll-payers don't mix vehicle lanes. Soothing, eh? You can thank Professor Richard Larson for that. February 6, 2008

Teams battle to on-screen victory - Tanks, soldiers, snipers and bombers fanned out rapidly over unfamiliar undulating terrain, searching for their enemy counterparts and trying to seize control of battle towers. Their commanders? MIT coders, duking it out in the BattleCode programming competition. February 6, 2008

Reality meets fantasy in Sloan students' site - Two MIT Sloan MBAs are spicing up prime-time television with a web site that injects a little fantasy into reality. The site, TVLeagues.com, brings together two recent pop-culture phenomena: fantasy sports leagues and so-called "reality" TV shows. January 25, 2008

Neuroscientists see flaws in computer vision tests - A new MIT study cautions that apparent successes in teaching computers to recognize visual objects like humans may be misleading because the tests being used are inadvertently stacked in favor of computers. January 24, 2008

Digitalk: Where IT's at - News from MIT Information Services and Technology. January 16, 2008

MIT reports new twist in microRNA biology - MIT scientists have found a new way that DNA can carry out its work that is about as surprising as discovering that a mold used to cast a metal tool can also serve as a tool itself, with two complementary shapes each showing distinct functional roles. January 9, 2008

Digitalk: Where IT's at - News from MIT Information Services and Technology. December 12, 2007

Team analyzes genomes of 12 fly species - In work that reveals important clues in the evolution of genes, a consortium of MIT scientists and colleagues has analyzed the genomes of twelve species of the fruit fly in one of the first large-scale comparisons of multiple animal genomes. November 9, 2007

MIT develops lecture search engine to aid students - A new lecture search engine developed at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory could help students find specific parts of online lectures. The web-based technology allows users to search hundreds of MIT lectures for key topics. November 7, 2007

MIT finishes fourth in DARPA Grand Challenge - MIT's automated Land Rover, packed with computers and electronic sensors, finished fourth in the DARPA Grand Challenge. The MIT vehicle, competing for the first time, was one of only six to complete the challenging 55-mile course. November 5, 2007

MIT's 'robocar' named finalist - Team MIT has made it to the finals of the DARPA Urban Challenge, a competition for cars and trucks that run without human help. The goal of the contest is to develop vehicles that can operate on their own in battle and keep humans out of harm's way. November 1, 2007

Bat and mouse game - An image by MIT researchers, based on a computer model of a bat in flight, won first place in the Informational Graphics category of the 2007 International Science and Technology Visualization Challenge. October 5, 2007

Research helps convert brain signals into action - MIT researchers have developed a new algorithm that unifies seemingly disparate approaches to prototype neural prosthetic devices, the apparatuses that convert brain signals into action for paralyzed patients or amputees. October 2, 2007

MIT launches Kerberos Consortium - MIT on September 27 announced the launch of the Kerberos Consortium, embarking on an ambitious mission to create a universal authentication platform to protect the world's computer networks. September 27, 2007

Computer model could improve drugs' effectiveness - MIT researchers have developed a computer modeling approach that could improve a class of drugs based on antibodies, molecules key to the immune system. The model can predict structural changes in an antibody that will improve its effectiveness. September 23, 2007

Digitalk: Where IT's at - News from MIT Information Services and Technology. September 19, 2007

Two to share leadership position for faculty equity - Professors Wesley Harris and Barbara Liskov have been selected to share the office of Associate Provost for Faculty Equity. The pair will focus on issues including the recruitment, retention, promotion and career development of minority and women faculty. September 7, 2007

MIT aims to optimize chip designs - Variations in miniscule computer chips can cause fluctuations in circuit speed and power. An MIT research team is working to predict the variation in circuit performance and maximize the number of chips working within the chips' specifications. August 16, 2007

DARPA names MIT's 'robocar' a semifinalist - An MIT vehicle that effectively drives itself has been selected as a semifinalist in this year's DARPA Urban Challenge, a competition for cars and trucks that run without human help. August 9, 2007

MIT encryption pioneer wins Marconi Prize - MIT Professor Ronald L. Rivest, who helped develop one of the world's most widely used Internet security systems, has been named the 2007 Marconi Fellow and prize-winner for his pioneering work in the field of cryptography, computer and network security. July 17, 2007

Drivers Unwanted: MIT 'Robocar' takes a spin - A team of MIT faculty and researchers are working toward what could be the car of the future: a vehicle that drives itself, with people as passengers. Their vehicle took a driving test last week during a visit by officials from the DARPA Urban Challenge competition. June 28, 2007

Shannon collection shows wit and whimsy - Known as the father of digital communications and information theory, late MIT professor Claude E. Shannon spent his spare time inventing clever, toy-like devices for fun. Among the creations are a chess machine and a juggling W.C. Fields. May 30, 2007

Digitalk: Where IT's At - News from MIT Information Services and Technology. May 23, 2007

MIT launches IT program for Accenture workers - Accenture and the MIT office of Professional Education Programs (PEP) are working together to develop the Accenture Solutions Delivery Academy, in an effort to help meet the global demand for a highly skilled IT workforce. May 17, 2007

Creating from Scratch - MIT Media Lab's Scratch aims to turn kids from media consumers into media producers. The new software enables kids to create their own interactive stories, games, music, and animation for the Web, but without having to learn complex programming languages. May 14, 2007

MIT, IBM team up on first PlayStation®3 course - MIT and IBM have announced the success of the first course in the United States structured around the capabilities of the Cell Broadband Engine, the microprocessor that powers the new PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system. May 2, 2007

Kenyan center supports literacy, development - Aisha Walcott, a graduate student in electrical engineering and computer science, recently traveled to Laare, Kenya, as a representative of the Imara outreach program, which was funded by a grant from the MIT Public Service Center. May 2, 2007

MIT shows how brain interprets surfaces - A team of researchers from MIT and NTT Lab in Japan reveal how the brain responds to surface textures. Their findings show that the perception of reflectance and gloss may be coded by neurons that respond differentially to light and dark spots. April 19, 2007

Assistive robot adapts to people, new places - Robot housekeeping may be decades away from becoming a reality, but a new MIT humanoid called Domo shows promise as a household assistant for the elderly or wheelchair-bound. Applications could also include agriculture and space travel. April 9, 2007

MIT programmers strike gold - A team of MIT programmers won a gold medal in the world finals of the 31st Association for Computing Machinery International Collegiate Programming Contest, held mid-March in Tokyo.   April 3, 2007

Model helps students visualize nanoscale problems - An educational experiment during IAP demonstrated that students can learn to apply sophisticated atomistic modeling techniques to traditional materials research in just a few classes, an advance that could dramatically change the way civil engineers learn to model the mechanical properties of materials. April 2, 2007

Engineers create SpaceNet--the supply chain - MIT researchers Olivier L. de Weck and David Simchi-Levi created SpaceNet, a software tool for modeling interplanetary supply chains. The tool is meant to help NASA establish a long-term human presence on the moon. March 19, 2007

New center to explore quantum information theory - MIT's new $3.5 million W. M. Keck Foundation Center for Extreme Quantum Information Theory (xQIT) enables a major new push by MIT theorists in the international race to determine the ultimate capabilities of quantum information systems. March 9, 2007

PSC grants expand MIT's global reach - Undergraduate and graduate students who work in developing regions outside the United States over Independent Activities Period or over the summer are eligible to receive grants for up to $1,000 from the Public Service Center (PSC). March 7, 2007

Model simulates atomic processes in nanomaterials - A research team that includes members from MIT has developed a modeling approach to study how materials behave under stress at the atomic level, which could help engineers design materials with an ideal balance between strength and resistance to failure. March 1, 2007

Model mimics neural processes in object recognition - For the first time, MIT scientists have applied a computer model of how the brain processes visual information to a complex, real world task: recognizing the objects in a busy street scene. February 23, 2007

Flow of tiny bubbles mimics computer circuitry - In work that could dramatically boost the capabilities of "lab on a chip" devices, MIT researchers have created a way to use tiny bubbles to mimic the capabilities of a computer while also performing chemical reactions. February 8, 2007

MIT 'optics on a chip' may revolutionize electronics - In work that could lead to completely new devices, systems and applications in computing and telecommunications, MIT researchers are bringing the long-sought goal of "optics on a chip" one step closer to market. February 6, 2007

Tim Berners-Lee receives Draper Prize - The man credited with inventing the World Wide Web, Timothy J. Berners-Lee, will receive the 2007 Charles Stark Draper Prize, the $500,000 annual award and gold medallion considered "engineering's Nobel Prize." January 5, 2007

SENSEable City reveals 'friendspotting' - MIT researchers today unveiled a new social networking application that will make it possible for anyone on the Institute's 168-acre campus to locate anyone else, via their laptop. December 13, 2006

Hard drives will evolve into soft hearts ... or not - A Nov. 30 debate on the limits of intelligent machines held at MIT echoed a presidential campaign slugfest. Nobody won a round, but the audience scored insight from two of the brightest minds in the field of artificial intelligence. December 5, 2006

CSAIL hosts debate on robotic 'nature' and future - "Creativity: The Mind, Machines, and Mathematics," a debate and discussion hosted by AI pioneer Rodney Brooks, will celebrate the 70th anniversary of Alan Turing's groundbreaking paper "On Computable Numbers," on Nov. 30. November 28, 2006

MIT chemist studies how electrons behave - Troy Van Voorhis likes to watch how things work. This natural curiosity led to his current research on the behavior of electrons, which will now be further supported by a 2006 David and Lucile Packard Foundation fellowship. November 17, 2006

Work may aid study of collagen ailments - An MIT researcher's mathematical model explains for the first time the distinctive structure of collagen, a material key to healthy human bone, muscles and other tissues. The new model shows collagen's structure from the atomic to the tissue scale. November 14, 2006

MIT, Southampton to collaborate on web research - MIT and the University of Southampton today announced the launch of a long-term research collaboration that aims to produce the fundamental scientific advances necessary to guide the future design and use of the World Wide Web. November 2, 2006

Laptops will link global learners - The real star at an Oct. 19 lecture by Nicholas Negroponte was not the Media Lab co-founder himself but what he brought to the talk--a bright green and white model from his One Laptop Per Child project. October 24, 2006

MIT junior sells social networking site - In March 2006, MIT junior Joe Presbey sold Sconex, the high-school networking web site he cofounded, to New York teen marketing firm Alloy for more than $6 million. October 18, 2006

MIT's intelligent aircraft fly, cooperate autonomously - MIT researchers and collaborators have laid the groundwork for an intelligent airborne fleet of small, unmanned vehicles for military use. The vehicles would require little human supervision and could automatically monitor their condition. September 26, 2006

Epilepsy breakthrough on horizon - Researchers at MIT are developing a device that could detect and prevent epileptic seizures before they become debilitating. The scientists plan to test the new detector in epilepsy patients this fall. August 31, 2006

Handheld computers make light work of education - A group of MIT undergraduate students is writing code for PDAs as part of a group of projects aimed at making science, economics and other "dry" topics vividly interesting, interactive and fun, for students, teachers and citizens at large. August 23, 2006

Sales method pays off for materials scientists - The same computer methods used by online sales sites to suggest books to customers can help predict the crystal structures of materials -- work that could one day influence the design of a range of products, from batteries to airplane wings. July 19, 2006

MEET to graduate first class in Jerusalem - The first class of Israeli and Palestinian high school students enrolled in Middle East Education Through Technology (MEET), an MIT-led nonprofit and nonpolitical grassroots summer program, will graduate this year in Jerusalem. July 11, 2006

Alan Kotok, 64, created joystick - Computer pioneer Alan Kotok, an MIT alumnus who helped create both the first video game and the gaming joystick, died of a heart attack in his home in Cambridge, Mass., on Friday, May 26. June 13, 2006

Kenyan grad shares what he's learned - Graduating senior Eric Mibuari, hoping to share the fruits of his "challenging and rewarding" years at MIT, has started a community computer center in Laare, Kenya, the town where he grew up. June 7, 2006

Comfortable buildings -- hold the air conditioning - Operating commercial buildings consumes a sixth of all the energy used in the Western world. Getting rid of air conditioning could help, so MIT researchers are making it easier to design buildings that cool occupants with natural breezes. June 2, 2006

Public database aids drug researchers - Researchers at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard have released a major upgrade of ChemBank, a publicly available database created to help drug hunters discover new and effective medicines. May 30, 2006

Freshmen automate dorm room - Little by little, freshmen Zack Anderson and R.J. Ryan, residents of East Campus, have turned an ordinary, standard-issue dorm room into something extraordinary: a fully automated pad. May 24, 2006

New material puts its own spin on electronics - Researchers at MIT's Francis Bitter Magnet Lab have developed a novel magnetic semiconductor that may greatly increase the computing power and flexibility of future electronic devices while dramatically reducing their power consumption. May 24, 2006

Infotech program aids African students - Each summer for the past six years, the MIT Africa Internet Technology Initiative (AITI) has sent MIT students, both graduate and undergraduate, to several countries in Africa. Working in teams of four, the students teach courses computer programming courses. May 17, 2006

Media Lab researcher gets into Monkey Business - Rachel Kern's office in the MIT Media Lab is quiet -- a bit too quiet -- when visitors drop by to hear about Monkey Business, her master's thesis and the latest research phase in the lab's Speech Interface Group. May 17, 2006

Nokia Research Center Cambridge opens - Advancing the vision of mobility while developing real-world applications, MIT and Nokia announced April 21 the opening of the Nokia Research Center Cambridge. April 21, 2006

New map reveals secret of stem cell development - The process by which humans manage to develop from a single fertilized egg into the trillions of cells that make up a mature adult may become clearer, thanks to stem cell research by scientists from MIT, the Whitehead Institute and Harvard. April 21, 2006

Protein viewer unveiled - Two hundred high school biology students on a recent field trip to campus became the first to use a new 3-D protein database viewer that was created at MIT and will soon be available to schools nationwide. April 12, 2006

Studies link cancer, inflammatory disease - The biological processes underlying diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis and cancer are fundamentally linked, and should be linked in how they are treated with drugs, a series of MIT studies indicates. March 29, 2006

New tool may reveal architectural past - A computer design tool originally created for animation may soon unlock the secrets of the structure of ancient cathedrals, according to MIT Assistant Professor John Ochsendorf of architecture. March 9, 2006

New directions for digital design on display - "Digital_minimal," a new exhibition in the School of Architecture and Planning's Wolk Gallery, explores a number of alternative directions for our digital future. March 1, 2006

Karger moves in the best circles - When David Karger, a professor of electrical engineering, isn't teaching algorithms in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), he's got dancing on his mind. March 1, 2006

Virtual forms for buildings and society - Two MIT faculty members presented research and offered innovative perspectives on building technology and digital literacy at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science held February 16-20 in St. Louis. February 23, 2006

NAE welcomes 2 from MIT - MIT professors Dimitri A. Antoniadis and M. Frans Kaashoek are among the 76 new members of the National Academy of Engineering. February 14, 2006

IAP: Lab demonstrates voice recognition software - Taking a cue from the magic of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter books, a new speech recognition program demonstrated at MIT's ATIC Lab on Jan. 17 asks users to speak directly to the objects on the screen. January 23, 2006

Get ready for 'Invasion of Technology' - It'll be a jamming night at the Museum of Science as humans, computers and robots join forces to present a musical hybrid of Western and traditional Balinese music, featuring premieres by MIT musicians, on Jan. 25. January 18, 2006

Tour professor's digital 'Nature' in Paris - MIT-based graphic designer, artist and computer scientist John Maeda has his first European solo exhibition at Fondation Cartier Pour l'Art Contemporain in Paris. December 13, 2005

MIT gets Blue Gene supercomputer - "Blue Gene," a new computer that will be MIT's most powerful, will be dedicated on Thursday, Nov. 10. November 9, 2005

Exhibit shows this wireless campus never sleeps - MIT unwired last month when Information Services & Technology installed the last of 2,800 wireless access points, making the MIT campus one of the largest geographic entities -- about 9.4 million square feet -- served by a single wireless network. November 1, 2005

Eric Grimson named head of EECS - Professor Eric Grimson, a leading expert in computer vision, has been named the new head of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. October 28, 2005

MIT and Nokia establish lab for high-impact research - MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and Nokia Research Center have announced a research collaboration to advance the state of the art in mobile computing and communications technologies. October 27, 2005

Electrical Engineering and Computer Science awards - 2005 awards listings. June 1, 2005

Math optimizes kidney matches - Many more people could get kidney transplants thanks to new mathematical techniques designed to optimize a novel matching program, according to Sommer Gentry, who will receive her Ph.D. from MIT on Friday, and her husband, a transplant surgeon at Johns Hopkins. June 1, 2005

Three elected to Academy of Sciences - Three MIT faculty members have been newly elected to the National Academy of Sciences in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research. May 11, 2005

Mind and hand - Martin L. Demaine, shown with an example of his glasswork, was recently named artist-in-residence in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. May 4, 2005

Prank research paper makes the grade - Sometimes jargon really is gibberish. Take the "scientific" papers generated by a computer program and submitted by three MIT computer science students to a scientific conference. April 15, 2005

$20M project sets sights on future of computing - MIT has teamed up with Quanta Computer Inc. on a five-year, $20 million joint research project designed to change the way people interact with technology. April 8, 2005

African students get web link to MIT labs - Students in Uganda, Tanzania and Nigeria can now perform sophisticated engineering and science experiments at MIT--without ever getting on a plane. March 21, 2005

Junior wins national award for math research - Mihai Patrascu, a junior majoring in mathematics, has been named the national Outstanding Male Undergraduate by the Computing Research Association. January 21, 2005

CDO program to begin this fall - MIT's new S.M. program in Computation for Design and Optimization (CDO) will prepare graduates to understand the key computational methods and issues in both the design and operation of complex engineering and scientific systems. January 12, 2005

W3C celebrates first ten years of the web - The World Wide Web Consortium, located at MIT, celebrated its 10th anniversary with a symposium that examined the impact of the web, the consortium's role in developing the web, and the risks and opportunities facing the web in the coming decade. December 3, 2004

Plane speaking - Aeronautics researchers at MIT have developed a manned-to-unmanned aircraft guidance system that allows a pilot in one plane to guide another unmanned airplane by speaking commands in English. November 2, 2004

Biology program first of its kind in U.S. - MIT launched its graduate program in Computational and Systems Biology, the first of its kind in the country. The first four students matriculated this fall into the interdisciplinary program at the interface of biology, engineering and computer science. October 27, 2004

Cricket brings location data inside - Cricket is an indoor location system developed by Professor Hari Balakrishnan and colleagues at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). It provides fine-grained location information to applications running on handhelds, laptops and sensor nodes. October 27, 2004

Device networks focus of conference - Extending the Internet to everyday devices is the focus of an MIT conference Oct. 1 that will bring together many of the original Internet architects and their current counterparts. September 22, 2004

Engineering biology - The first international meeting on synthetic biology, bringing together biologists and computer scientists from around the world, was held at MIT last month. July 23, 2004

Berners-Lee knighted - Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web and director of the World Wide Web Consortium hosted at MIT, was dubbed a Knight Commander, Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II on July 16. July 16, 2004

Electrical engineering and computer science - 2004 awards listings. June 2, 2004

'Pervasive computing' - The Cambridge-MIT Institute has launched the Pervasive Computing Community to explore the challenges of a world where computers are burgeoning in numbers. March 26, 2004

Brain circuitry findings could shape computer design - Guosong Liu, neuroscientist at Picower Center at MIT, reports new information on neuron design and function that could lead to new directions in how computers are made. March 10, 2004

Brain trinary system could influence computer design - Guosong Liu, a neuroscientist at the Picower Center for Learning and Memory, reports new information on neuron design and function could lead to new computer design. March 8, 2004

PCs are a 'rough draft' - Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates called today's personal computers "a good rough draft" in a presentation to undergraduate students aimed at attracting them to the software industry. February 27, 2004

New materials mined - A computational technique used to predict everything is now being applied by MIT engineers and colleagues to the search for new materials. November 19, 2003

Professor wins MacArthur - A 22-year-old MIT professor whose work fuses art, science, work and play is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, known as the "genius" grant. October 8, 2003

Professor wins "genius" grant - A 22-year-old MIT professor whose work fuses art, science, work and play is the recipient of a $500,000 MacArthur Fellowship, commonly known as the "genius" grant. October 6, 2003

Lab homes in on home life - A "living laboratory" operated jointly by MIT and TIAX will allow researchers and companies to study how new technologies, materials and design strategies will change the way people live. June 24, 2003

EECS awards - Award recipients in electrical engineering and computer science. June 4, 2003

LCS and AI Lab to merge - Two major laboratories at MIT are merging: the Laboratory for Computer Science and the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. June 4, 2003

MIT's computer science, AI labs merge - Thomas L. Magnanti, dean of the MIT School of Engineering, today announced the merger of two major laboratories at MIT: the LCS and the AI Lab. May 28, 2003

Nothing but blue skies - Professor Eric Feron and his aero/astro-LIDS research team celebrated the 100th anniversary of EECS by powering their robotic helicopter. May 21, 2003

EECS principles listed - President Emeritus Paul E. Gray has been associated with MIT's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science for more than 50 years. May 21, 2003

EECS celebrates 100 years - There is much to celebrate as the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) observes its 100th anniversary with two days of festivities. May 21, 2003

EECS celebrates 100 years at MIT - To mark its 100th anniversary, the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) will host a two-day celebration on May 23-24. May 14, 2003

Prof started college at 12 - When he was 12, Erik Demaine talked himself into Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, despite having no grades or academic record to speak of. February 26, 2003

Fluid morphs into startling designs, surprising MIT researchers - As a project last summer, Cory Lorenz collaborated with Zahn to explore the effects of time-varying magnetic fields on ferrofluids. February 5, 2003

IBM gives MIT a supercomputer - IBM has awarded a high-performance grid-based computer to MIT's new Computational and Systems Biology Initiative to assist with tackling problems in bioinformatics, genomics, image informatics and structural biology. January 15, 2003

CSBi biology of the future - The MIT Computational and Systems Biology Initiative (CSBi) hosted more than 300 participants from academia and industry. January 15, 2003

Private data on discarded computers - Discarded computers, even those with "erased" disk drives, may harbor confidential information such as credit card numbers and medical records, two MIT graduate students found. January 15, 2003

CSBi field overview - The MIT Computational and Systems Biology Initiative (CSBi) will hold its 2003 annual conference, "From Bioinformatics to Biofabrication," Jan. 9-10 in Wong Auditorium. January 8, 2003

MIT, London report transatlantic touch - Researchers at MIT and UC London have linked hands in the first transatlantic touch, "feeling" each other's manipulations of a small box on a computer screen. October 28, 2002

Uncle Sam wants you for cybersecurity - Clarke told the audience that this may be the first time any national strategy has been developed with so much input from citizens, non-governmental organizations and corporations. October 22, 2002

Techies need to teach - Princeton University Professor Brian Kernighan Kernighan described his Princeton course, "What Should an Educated Person Know about Computers," during the Laboratory of Computer Science (LCS) Dertouzos Lecture Series. October 11, 2002

LCS shares grant - The Laboratory for Computer Science is sharing a $12 million grant to develop a secure, decentralized Internet infrastructure that's resistant to failure and attack. October 2, 2002

MIT has part in internet grant - MIT's Laboratory for Computer Science is sharing a $12 million grant to develop a secure, decentralized Internet infrastructure that's resistant to failure and attack. September 25, 2002

Approach to secure digital information developed - Researchers at the MIT Center for Bits and Atoms report that they have developed a new physical approach to protecting digital information. September 19, 2002

Computer lab is moving - The Adaptive Technology for Information and Computing Lab moved this week to Room 7-143. ATIC will now be next door to a satellite office of the Disabilities Services Office. August 26, 2002

'Virtual Grand Rounds' - Physicians and medical students from around the world can now access a new interactive web-based guide developed at MIT for understanding and managing invasive fungal infections. July 17, 2002

Project Oxygen showcases new advances - At the second annual meeting of the Oxygen alliance on June 12-13, researchers showcased the technology advances that this ambitious goal has inspired. July 17, 2002

Scientists propose design for quantum computer - Scientists at MIT, the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the University of Michigan have taken a significant step toward developing a quantum computer. July 17, 2002

EECS creates summer program for girls - Douglas Ricket, created the Women's Technology Program to teach 10th and 11th-grade girls math, computer science and electrical engineering. July 5, 2002

Project Oxygen unveils new technologies - At the second annual meeting of the MIT Oxygen Alliance, held June 12-13, researchers showed the technology advances this ambitious goal has inspired. June 19, 2002

Design proposed for Quantum computer - Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Michigan have taken a significant step toward developing a quantum computer. June 12, 2002

Heat exchanger linked to web - With funds through MIT's I-Lab and I-Campus initiatives, Clark Colton bought a heat-exchanger system modified by its manufacturer to be suitable for remote control. May 22, 2002

Researchers create animation of face - Mary 101's face belongs to a real person, but her image is now a video ventriloquist's dummy. MIT researchers Tomaso Poggio and Tony F. Ezzat can make her say anything they want. May 22, 2002

Realistic speech animation - Mary 101's face belongs to a real person, but her image is now a video ventriloquist's dummy. May 22, 2002

Salz makes TopCoder semifinals - With $100,000 on the line, four computer programmers sat behind white screens on a platform, their lines of code appearing in real time on monitors set up around the room. May 8, 2002

Course beamed to Africa - Students from eight sub-Saharan African countries are currently taking an MIT course without leaving their continent. April 24, 2002

Kids get excited by science - A collaboration between MIT and the Agassiz School succeeded both in bringing the inexact science of science to life in the classroom and leaving students hungry to learn more. April 10, 2002

New software helps airlines save money - New scheduling software being adopted by United Airlines could save the company as much as $25 million annually, said researchers from MIT and the University of Florida. April 3, 2002

Site to help building designers save energy - An MIT web site will soon enable architects to see whether they can save energy and increase comfort by facing their new building south rather than west. February 6, 2002

Wireless networking focus of new center - the MIT Center for Wireless Networking kicked off its flagship project, "Advanced Concepts in Wireless Networking for Mobile Devices," with two days of talks and working sessions. January 16, 2002

Fieldwork gets high-tech boost - New software application that records environmental data in the field, then transmits it wirelessly to a remote server for display on the Internet. January 9, 2002

Berners-Lee wins Japan Prize - Timothy Berners-Lee has been awarded the prestigious Japan Prize for 2002 in the field of computing and computational science and engineering. December 19, 2001

Berners-Lee wins Japan Prize for WWW - Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of WWW, has been awarded the prestigious Japan Prize for 2002 in the field of computing and computational science and engineering. December 17, 2001

NSF awards to create Center for Bits and Atoms - NSF awarded $13.75 million to create a Center for Bits and Atoms to explore how content of information relates to physical representation, from atomic nuclei to global networks. November 27, 2001

Tips for successful virtual collaborations - An interdisciplinary MIT team has identified key factors for successful virtual collaborations among members of globally dispersed teams, and continues work to make virtual meetings more effective. November 5, 2001

Zue interim head of LCS - Dean of Engineering Thomas Magnanti has named Professor Victor Zue as the interim director of the Laboratory for Computer Science. September 12, 2001

Colleagues attend Dertouzos funeral - Ten MIT colleagues were among the mourners attending the Tuesday (Sept. 4) funeral services in Athens for Professor Michael L. Dertouzos. September 5, 2001

MIT Professor Dertouzos dies at 64 - Professor Michael L. Dertouzos died Monday night (Aug. 27) at Massachusetts General Hospital. August 29, 2001

Online lab in microelectronics - MIT students can now test and probe fragile, microscopic electronic structures via WebLab, a novel online lab that can be accessed from dorm rooms and other convenient locations. March 6, 2001

Microelectronics WebLab - A commentary by Jesus A. del Alamo. March 6, 2001