It Looks Loopy, But It Works
Loops of string make rock piles stand tall in study by Holmes and Guerra By Patrick L. Kennedy Say a missile or an earthquake has just damaged your apartment building. Stone rubble litters the street. Must you wait for the Army Corps of Engineers to arrive, clear away the rubble, and rebuild the blasted wall? […]
The Universal Decoder That Works in One Microsecond
By Patrick L. Kennedy Assistant Professor Rabia Yazicigil (ECE) and colleagues from MIT and Maynooth have developed the first silicon chip that can decode any error-correcting code—even codes that don’t yet exist— potentially leading to faster and more efficient 5G networks and connected devices. “This could change the way we communicate and store information,” says […]
The Sensor You Swallow
By Patrick L. Kennedy Thanks to the work of Assistant Professor Rabia Yazicigil (ECE) and her colleagues at MIT, Crohn’s and other bowel disease sufferers might someday skip the arduous annual endoscopy and instead swallow a pill-sized device that would literally shed light on what’s going on inside the gastrointestinal (GI) tract. MIT researchers previously […]
Photonic Communication Comes to Computer Chips
Startup’s optoelectronic chips could reduce energy usage by up to 50 percent in data centers while increasing computing speeds. By Rob Matheson – MIT News Office, originally published on MIT News. ECE Professor Milos Popovic moved to BU in mid-2016 from a previous position as Assistant Professor at University of Colorado Boulder. While at CU Boulder, […]
Recognizing Undergraduate ECE Student for Machine Learning and Cloud Computing Research
Anthony Byrne Receives MIT Best Lighting Talk Award By Shereen Abubakr (QST ’18) ECE undergraduate Anthony Byrne (ENG ’19) received the Best Lightning Talk Award at the 2017 IEEE MIT Undergraduate Research Technology Conference. The aim of the conference is to bring undergraduates from around the world together to advance technology by presenting, discussing, and […]