Code of the humans
New book by Noam Chomsky and Robert Berwick explores how people acquired unique language skills.
Laboratory for Information and Decisions Systems (LIDS)
EECS announces four faculty promotions
Palacios, Shah, Tedrake promoted to full professor; Englund promoted to associate professor without tenure.
David Forney awarded the IEEE Medal of Honor
Highest award bestowed by IEEE honors exceptional contributions to the field of data communications.
Asuman Ozdaglar appointed to Keithley Professorship
Professor of electrical engineering and computer science has been appointed to the Joseph F. and Nancy P. Keithley Professorship in Electrical Engineering.
MISTI welcomes new faculty directors
Patrick Jaillet is named faculty director of MIT-France; Paulo Lozano is named faculty director of MIT-Mexico.
Helping robots handle uncertainty
Algorithm for planning multirobot collaborations makes complex models practical.
Building community for EECS postdocs
Postdoctoral scholars in electrical engineering and computer science gain new perspectives as Postdoc6 comes full cycle.
Recommendation theory
Model for evaluating product-recommendation algorithms suggests that trial and error get it right.
New leadership for sociotechnical systems
Ali Jadbabaie from the University of Pennsylvania named interim director of SSRC
MIT computer scientists can predict the price of Bitcoin
CSAIL/LIDS team's algorithm doubles initial investment in under two months.
The connector
Munther Dahleh’s expertise in mathematical modeling gives him profound insight into people, and MIT.