Computer science and technology

Selling chip makers on optical computingBy designing chips that can be built using existing fabrication processes, MIT researchers show that computing with light isn’t so far fetched.

Feeling the wayRobotic device developed in MIT’s Touch Lab can help visually impaired people navigate around a virtual model of a real building.

Cryptographic voting debutsA new system for ensuring accurate election tallies, which MIT researchers helped to develop, passed its first real-world test last Tuesday.

When Signals Cross: Medical Systems at CSAILProfessor John Guttag and his team of graduate students are working in partnership with clinicians to produce technological solutions for medical problems.

Reporter's Notebook: Inventing languageMIT’s Barbara Liskov, winner of the Turing Award, describes how she helped lay the foundations for today’s programming languages.

What computer science can teach economicsConstantinos Daskalakis applies the theory of computational complexity to game theory, with consequences in a range of disciplines.

Inventor, lawyer and lecturer Robert H. Rines dies aged 87

New methods are changing old materialsComputational approach to materials science could bring new properties even to familiar substances such as concrete and steel

Parallel courseAs chip makers turn to multiple 'cores' to improve performance, MIT researchers help ease programmers' transition to parallel programming.

Seeing thingsResearchers from MIT's CSAIL teach computers to recognize objects.

Quantum computing may actually be usefulA quantum algorithm that solves systems of linear equations could point in a promising new direction.

Securing the webA new MIT programming tool would automatically plug holes that hackers exploit.

Whose Internet is it, anyway?One of the Internet's chief architects looks at the FCC's proposed Net neutrality rules.

Digital DemocracyThe World Wide Web Consortium weighs in on government transparency

Sharing the airUnused wireless spectrum is getting scarce; MIT researchers are teaching emerging technologies to coexist in what's left

Two chips in one MIT team finds a way to combine materials for semiconductor manufacture. The advance helps address the limitations of conventional silicon microprocessors.

Quanta Computer extends collaboration with CSAIL$25 million agreement to fund research on cloud computing, mobile technologies

A phone is not just a phoneStudent projects explore innovative cellphone uses in developing world

Collaboration eyes computing boost for New EnglandRooted at MIT, effort brings together state, industry, academia

Louis Smullin, former electrical engineering department head, 93

Palacios named ONR Young Investigator

Electrical Engineering & Computer Science awards

Drawing inspiration from nature to build a better radioNew radio chip mimics human ear, could enable universal radio

Project Whirlwind comes homePreviously classified documents from first MIT digital computer being made public