Electrical engineering and electronics
MIT students, alumni awarded 2013 Fulbright grants
May 20, 2013
Selected on the basis of academic or professional achievement, as well as demonstrated leadership potential in their fields
Making quantum encryption practical
May 20, 2013
An MIT team that proposed a new, more-practical scheme for using quantum physics to secure data transmission has now demonstrated it experimentally.
MIT visiting scientist Kanako Miura, 36, dies in bicycle accident in Boston
May 19, 2013
Miura had worked since last fall in MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.
MIT Global Founders’ Skills Accelerator announces 2013 student teams
May 16, 2013
Startup accelerator includes eight MIT student teams as well as teams from six international universities.
Also labeled: Aeronautical and astronautical engineering, Awards, honors and fellowships, Collaboration, Deshpande Center, Entrepreneurship, Global, Graduate, postdoctoral, Innovation and Entrepreneurship (I&E), Mechanical engineering, Media Lab, Skoltech, Startups, Student life, Students, Undergraduate
Cells as living calculators
May 15, 2013
Using analog computation circuits, MIT engineers design cells that can compute logarithms, divide and take square roots.
Wireless researchers host ‘Game-Jam’
May 13, 2013
Event will bring together game developers, graphic designers and audio professionals to design mobile games that will help wireless researchers gather information on network data.
Nine MIT faculty members elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
April 24, 2013
Among 198 elected this year to the prestigious honorary society.
Also labeled: Awards, honors and fellowships, Biology, Brain and cognitive sciences, Chemistry and chemical engineering, Earth and atmospheric sciences, EdX, Engineering Systems, Faculty, Linguistics, Management, McGovern Institute, MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI), Philosophy, Physics, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL)
Patterning graphene with DNA
April 9, 2013
Folded DNA templates allow researchers to precisely cut out graphene shapes, which could be used in electronic circuits.
Faculty describe experiments with digital learning on MacVicar Day
March 22, 2013
Participants discuss how they are 'reimagining the MIT classroom.'
Also labeled: Awards, honors and fellowships, Education, teaching, academics, Engineering Systems, Faculty, Foreign languages and literatures, History, Internet, MacVicar fellows, Massive open online courses (MOOCs), Mechanical engineering, Online learning, Undergraduate, Special events and guest speakers
Berners-Lee wins first Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering
March 18, 2013
Honored for inventing the World Wide Web
Also labeled: Awards, honors and fellowships, Computer science and technology, Faculty, Global, Internet, W3C, Web, Web development
Four professors named 2013 MacVicar Fellows
March 15, 2013
Griffith, Miller, Schulz and Teng awarded the Institute’s highest undergraduate teaching honor.
Goldwasser and Micali win Turing Award
March 13, 2013
Team honored for ‘revolutionizing the science of cryptography.’
New rankings acclaim MIT’s graduate programs in engineering, business
March 12, 2013
MIT leads in seven engineering disciplines and three business fields, says U.S. News & World Report.
Also labeled: Aeronautical and astronautical engineering, Business and management, Chemistry and chemical engineering, Computer science and technology, Education, teaching, academics, Graduate, postdoctoral, Materials science, Mechanical engineering, Nuclear science and engineering, Rankings, Engineering Systems
Paul Juodawlkis elevated to Fellow of the Optical Society
February 25, 2013
Recognized for innovations in optics and photonics
Also labeled: Awards, honors and fellowships, Faculty, IEEE, Lincoln Laboratory, Electrical Engineering
Toward practical compressed sensing
February 1, 2013
Researchers show how the vagaries of real-world circuitry affect the performance of a promising new technique in signal processing and imaging.
Chips that can steer light
January 9, 2013
Record-setting ‘optical phased arrays’ could lead to better laser rangefinders, smaller medical-imaging devices and even holographic TVs.
Flexible, light solar cells could provide new opportunities
December 21, 2012
MIT researchers develop a new approach using graphene sheets coated with nanowires.
Dennis awarded IEEE John von Neumann Medal
December 17, 2012
Presented annually for outstanding achievements in computer-related science and technology
New technology may enable earlier cancer diagnosis
December 16, 2012
Nanoparticles amplify tumor signals, making them much easier to detect in the urine.
Tiny compound semiconductor transistor could challenge silicon’s dominance
December 10, 2012
MIT researchers develop the smallest indium gallium arsenide transistor ever built.
Also labeled: Electrical Engineering & Computer Science (eecs), Indium gallium arsenide, Microchips, Silicon, Transistors, Microsystems, Faculty, Moore's Law, Nanoscience and nanotechnology, Research, Semiconductors, Computer chips, Computing, electronics, Manufacturing, Computer science and technology, Microsystems Technology Laboratories
Martin Schmidt to oversee MIT’s industry-facing offices
November 27, 2012
Associate provost will oversee Technology Licensing Office and Office of Corporate Relations; retains duties around space planning.
Sibling power
November 26, 2012
Siblings Andrew and Jennifer Barry have not only managed to maintain a close friendship into their adult years, but are also both studying robotics at CSAIL
Department snapshot: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
November 16, 2012
EECS places renewed emphasis on interdisciplinary research, partnerships with alumni and industry, and experiential learning.
Also labeled: Big data, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), Computer science and technology, Education, teaching, academics, EdX, Faculty, Industry, Microsystems Technology Laboratories, Research, Research Laboratory of Electronics, Student life, Students, Undergraduate, Women in engineering, Department snapshot
Speeding algorithms by shrinking data
November 13, 2012
A new approach to processing ‘big data’ creates succinct representations of huge data sets, so that existing algorithms can handle them efficiently.
It pays to cooperate
November 13, 2012
Yeast cells that share food have a survival edge over their freeloading neighbors — particularly when there is bacterial competition.
Zue awarded Okawa Prize
November 9, 2012
Honored for work in speech science and spoken-language systems
CSAIL team honored for printable robot
November 8, 2012
Medical devices powered by the ear itself
November 7, 2012
For the first time, researchers power an implantable electronic device using an electrical potential — a natural battery — deep in the inner ear.
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