Department of EECS Announces 2024 Promotions
The Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) is proud to announce the following promotions: Pulkit Agrawal is being promoted to Associate Professor Without Tenure, effective...
View ArticleDealing with the limitations of our noisy world
Tamara Broderick first set foot on MIT’s campus when she was a high school student, as a participant in the inaugural Women’s Technology Program. The monthlong summer academic experience gives young...
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Student Spotlight: Victory Yinka-Banjo
This interview is part of a series of short interviews from the Department of EECS, called Student Spotlights. Each Spotlight features a student answering their choice of questions about themselves...
View ArticleUsing generative AI to improve software testing
Generative AI is getting plenty of attention for its ability to create text and images. But those media represent only a fraction of the data that proliferate in our society today. Data are generated...
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Priya Donti named AI2050 Early Career Fellow
Photo courtesy the subject. Assistant Professor Priya Donti has been named an AI2050 Early Career Fellow by Schmidt Sciences, a philanthropic initiative from Eric and Wendy Schmidt aimed at helping to...
View Article2024 MacVicar Faculty Fellows named
Four outstanding undergraduate teachers and mentors have been named MacVicar Faculty Fellows: professor of electrical engineering and computer science (EECS) Karl Berggren, professor of political...
View ArticleOptimizing nuclear fuels for next-generation reactors
In 2010, when Ericmoore Jossou was attending college in northern Nigeria, the lights would flicker in and out all day, sometimes lasting only for a couple of hours at a time. The frustrating...
View ArticleAI generates high-quality images 30 times faster in a single step
In our current age of artificial intelligence, computers can generate their own “art” by way of diffusion models, iteratively adding structure to a noisy initial state until a clear image or video...
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New software enables blind and low-vision users to create interactive,...
A growing number of tools enable users to make online data representations, like charts, that are accessible for people who are blind or have low vision. However, most tools require an existing visual...
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Engineering household robots to have a little common sense
From wiping up spills to serving up food, robots are being taught to carry out increasingly complicated household tasks. Many such home-bot trainees are learning through imitation; they are programmed...
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