Electrical engineering and electronics
Automatic building mapping could help emergency responders
September 24, 2012
A prototype sensor array that can be worn on the chest automatically maps the wearer’s environment, recognizing movement between floors.
MIT’s place in the world
September 20, 2012
Inaugural symposium addresses the Institute’s global engagement.
Also labeled: Collaboration, Education, teaching, academics, Faculty, Global Education and Career Development, Globalization, Inauguration, Global, Masdar, President L. Rafael Reif, Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD), Skolkovo, Students, History, Linguistics, OpenCourseWare, Philosophy, Staff, Undergraduate, Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), MISTI, Online learning, D-Lab
Del Alamo receives SRC 2012 Technical Excellence Award
September 19, 2012
Explained: Femtoseconds and attoseconds
September 18, 2012
As electronic and optical devices get ever faster, terms for ever-smaller increments of time are coming into wider use.
Watching electrons move at high speed
September 18, 2012
New MIT system allows femtosecond-resolution movie of electrons in a topological insulator, a promising new electronic material.
World-class musician Mark Stewart comes to the Glass Lab
September 14, 2012
In a yearlong residency, the musician and instrument designer will build a glass orchestra with MIT students.
MIT's Man Vehicle Laboratory turns 50
September 13, 2012
Celebrating anniversary with daylong symposium on Sept. 14
Leonard A. Gould, EECS emeritus professor, dies at 85
September 13, 2012
Joined MIT faculty in 1953; studied control problems and dynamic modeling.
15 MIT students named Siebel Scholars
September 10, 2012
Graduate students in computer science, bioengineering and business honored.
One-molecule-thick material has big advantages
August 23, 2012
MIT researchers produce complex electronic circuits from molybdenum disulfide, a material that could have many more applications.
New nanoparticles shrink tumors in mice
August 16, 2012
Particles that shut off cancer genes could also allow researchers to screen potential drug targets more rapidly.
Graphene’s behavior depends on where it sits
August 13, 2012
New findings show that the material beneath the thin carbon sheets determines how they react chemically and electrically.
Hu awarded IEEE Photonics Society achievement award
August 10, 2012
The wisdom of crowds
August 10, 2012
A recent paper out of Manolis Kellis' group shows the wisdom of crowds when it comes to selecting methods for analyzing gene regulatory networks.
New router enhances the precision of woodworking
August 8, 2012
Handheld device precisely follows a digital plan with minimal guidance from a user.
Researchers build a toolbox for synthetic biology
August 3, 2012
Engineers design new proteins that can help control novel genetic circuits in cells.
Also labeled: Bacteria, Genetics, Research Laboratory of Electronics, Synthetic biology, Yeast, Transcription factors
New aircraft capable of fast, accurate and repeatable flight
July 26, 2012
CSAIL's Robot Locomotion Group unveils new computer-controlled aircraft that can perform knife-edge turns.
Three MIT faculty named Simons Investigators
July 24, 2012
Goldwasser, Guionnet and Seidel are among 21 researchers selected.
Five MIT researchers win presidential early career honors
July 23, 2012
Jarillo-Herrero, Lu, Pathak, Sinha and Thaler among 96 winners.
Research update: Chips with self-assembling rectangles
July 19, 2012
New technique allows production of complex microchip structures in one self-assembling step.
Also labeled: Computer science and technology, Faculty, Graduate, postdoctoral, Innovation and Entrepreneurship (I&E), Materials science, Microchips, Microsystems Technology Laboratories, Research, Research Laboratory of Electronics, Self-assembly, Semiconductors, Students, National Science Foundation (NSF), Singapore-MIT
Dripping faucets inspire new way of creating structured particles
July 18, 2012
Researchers find new method for making spherical particles, from nanoscale to pinhead-sized — including complex beach-ball-like shapes.
Sharing data links in networks of cars
July 5, 2012
A new algorithm lets networks of Wi-Fi-connected cars, whose layout is constantly changing, share a few expensive links to the Internet.
IEEE honors MIT milestones in computing and navigation
June 28, 2012
World’s first real-time digital computer and electronic navigation system are commemorated in Boston.
Teaching self-assembling structures a new trick
June 7, 2012
MIT researchers produce 3-D configurations that could lead to new microchips and other devices.
System improves automated monitoring of security cameras
June 5, 2012
New approach uses mathematics to reach a compromise between accuracy, speed.
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