Driving toward data justice
Senior Amelia Dogan brings together computer science, city planning, and American studies to work for social change.
Department
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
A simple paper test could offer early cancer diagnosis
The new diagnostic, which is based on analysis of urine samples, could also be designed to reveal whether a tumor has metastasized.
MIT graduate engineering, business, science programs ranked highly by U.S. News for 2023-24
Graduate engineering program is No. 1 in the nation; MIT Sloan is No. 4.
Researchers 3D print a miniature vacuum pump
The device would be a key component of a portable mass spectrometer that could help monitor pollutants, perform medical diagnoses in remote areas, or test Martian soil.
Martin Wainwright named director of the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society
Widely recognized leader in statistics and machine learning to succeed Munther Dahleh.
Eight from MIT elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences for 2023
The prestigious honor society announces more than 250 new members.
Miniscule device could help preserve the battery life of tiny sensors
Researchers demonstrate a low-power “wake-up” receiver one-tenth the size of other devices.
Exploring new sides of climate and sustainability research
With the support of each other and MIT faculty, students in the MCSC’s Climate and Sustainability Scholars Program are making their impact on real-world climate challenges.
Moving perovskite advancements from the lab to the manufacturing floor
U.S. Department of Energy selects MIT to establish collaborative research center for optimizing the development of tandem solar modules.
Ellen Roche and Justin Solomon named Edgerton Award winners
The award recognizes exceptional distinction in teaching, research, and service at MIT.
Drones navigate unseen environments with liquid neural networks
MIT researchers exhibit a new advancement in autonomous drone navigation, using brain-inspired liquid neural networks that excel in out-of-distribution scenarios.
Yael Tauman Kalai PhD ’06 awarded 2022 ACM Prize in Computing
The MIT EECS adjunct associate professor and CSAIL member has been recognized for her outstanding contributions to cryptography.
MIT PhD students honored for their work to solve critical issues in water and food
Gokul Sampath and Jie Yun have been named 2023-24 J-WAFS Fellows.
MIT CSAIL researchers discuss frontiers of generative AI
Experts convene to peek under the hood of AI-generated code, language, and images as well as its capabilities, limitations, and future impact.
An easier way to get bugs out of programming languages
Developed at MIT, D2X is a new tool that makes it easy to debug any domain-specific programming language.