Electrical engineering and electronics
Daniela Rus named CSAIL director
May 22, 2012
EECS professor to become new leader of MIT’s largest interdepartmental laboratory.
New mathematical framework formalizes oddball programming techniques
May 22, 2012
Loop perforation — speeding up programs by skipping instructions — is just one method that gets rigorous mathematical treatment in a new paper.
L. Rafael Reif selected as MIT’s 17th president
May 16, 2012
As provost since 2005, the president-elect has inspired innovation and played a critical role in the financial stewardship of the Institute.
The elusive capacity of networks
May 15, 2012
Calculating the total capacity of a data network is a notoriously difficult problem, but information theorists are beginning to make some headway.
In search of new ways of producing nano-materials
May 9, 2012
Kong’s research focuses on how to make and control novel forms of thin-film carbon.
Four MIT professors elected to National Academy of Sciences
May 3, 2012
Liskov, Suresh, Townsend and Young bring to 78 the number of Institute faculty who are NAS members.
Thwarting the cleverest attackers
May 1, 2012
Savvy hackers can steal a computer’s secrets by timing its data storage transactions or measuring its power use. New research shows how to stop them.
MITx: What the students think
April 27, 2012
From Buenos Aires to Honolulu to Montreal, a virtual community grows up around the online initiative’s prototype course.
Algorithmic incentives
April 25, 2012
A new twist on pioneering work done by MIT cryptographers almost 30 years ago could lead to better ways of structuring contracts.
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