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7 min - 2008-09-14 Walt Brown received a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) where he was a National Science Foundation Fellow. He has taught college courses in physics, mathematics, and computer science. Brown is a retired full

MIT International Science and Technology Initiatives (MISTI) has awarded four student projects funding for international collaborations through its new initiative, MISTI 2.0. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

By gillooly@mit.edu (Larry Hardesty, MIT News Office) Last Thursday, the day after the New York Yankees won their first World Series of the 21st century, MIT Institute Professor Barbara Liskov, the 2008 recipient of the Turing Award — frequently called the Nobel Prize for computer science — delivered the first lecture of the 2009 Dertouzos...

By gillooly@mit.edu (Larry Hardesty, MIT News Office) Computer scientists have spent decades developing techniques for answering a single question: How long does a given calculation take to perform? Constantinos Daskalakis, an assistant professor in MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, has exported thos...

By gillooly@mit.edu (Larry Hardesty, MIT News Office) Sipser also says that “the P-versus-NP problem has become broadly recognized in the mathematical community as a mathematical question that is fundamental and important and beautiful. I think it has helped bridge the mathematics and computer science communities.”

By gillooly@mit.edu (Larry Hardesty, MIT News Office) But Esther and Harold E. Edgerton Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Antonio Torralba and Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab graduate students Ce Liu, PhD '09, and Jenny Yuen have developed an object recognition system that doesn't req...

By gillooly@mit.edu (Larry Hardesty, MIT News Office) We've looked at a lot of these web applications, and there's literally hundreds of places where these checks happen," says Nickolai Zeldovich, an assistant professor in MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab. Indeed, Zeldovich and his colleagues identified one popu...

 CA s creators were MIT students and faculty, benefiting from the university's heavy investment in computer science during the 1960s. Loguidice and Barton go in-depth with the team and project's surprisingly complex origins: The nerdy members of MIT's Tech ...

 KS 4.00 Mechanical Engineering Igor Kopylov (Fencing) MIT I Sr. Roseland, NJ 4.00 Computer Science & Engineering James Steward (Tennis) John Carroll IV Sr. Monroe, Mich. 3.98 Biology Kyle Vanderhyde (Wrestling) Olivet IV Sr. Sparta, Mich. ...

  USA The company's technology is based on the work of Vladimir Bulovic, an associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science at MIT, and Moungi Bawendi, a professor of chemistry at MIT focused on the synthesis of nanomaterials. ...

 MA We've even chronicled the decline of a once-world famous computer science lab, the Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL), which is still based on Broadway in Cambridge, not far from MIT. But I've always wanted to wrap these up into a bigger ...

 MA Louis D. Smullin, former head of the electrical engineering department who helped to create mit's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), died peacefully at his residence at Lasell House on Thursday, June 4. He was 93. ...

 MA The natural science index result is also interesting (natural science includes math, engineering, computer science as well as physics, chemistry, biology, etc.). Caltech's score is 3.36, followed by Stanford 1.21, MIT 1.16, Harvard .93, Berkeley .92, ...

 NY One group of dedicated software developers at MIT has made serious inroads in developing open source software tools for semantic Web, many of which can be used as add-ons for Firefox. David Karger, a researcher in the Computer Science and Artificial ...

PR Newswire (press release), NY Kleinberg received an AB in computer science and mathematics from Cornell University and a Ph.D. in computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Since 1996, he has been a professor of computer science at Cornell as well as a ...

 MA Pathak was previously vice president of product management at Judy's Book in Seattle (which Sack founded), and also spent time in the San Francisco Bay Area as a co-founder of Quova, and Boston as an MIT alum in computer science. ...

The findings are being reported in a paper in the May issue of Electron Device Letters and also in a talk this week at the American Physical Society meeting by Tomás Palacios, assistant professor in MIT's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and a core member of the...

By Paul B. '11 When most people I know think of MIT, the first thing to leaps to mind is almost always computer science, physics, or some other aspect of science and engineering. As important as it is, international development isn't exactly something MIT is world-renowned for. Yet.

Ronald L. Rivest, a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at MIT, said the two biggest issues facing e-voting technology is maintaining ... EmTech 08: Audits, Open Source Needed With E-voting PC World Counting Every Vote MIT Technology Review

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By Ellen Duranceau Stuart Shieber, Harvard professor of computer science, introduced a motion to the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences on October 16 that would have the faculty uniformly grant a non-exclusive, limited license to Harvard to post their scholarly and research articles openly on the web....