Electrical engineering and electronics

Fiber laser points to woven 3-D displaysA fiber that can emit light along its length in any direction may herald flexible 3-D displays and medical tools that activate therapeutic compounds with bursts of light.

Testing unbuilt chipsA new software-simulation system promises much more accurate evaluation of promising — but potentially fault-ridden — multicore-chip designs.

Transistors promise more powerful logic, more logical powerResearch could affect U.S. manufacturing indirectly, by helping introduce products difficult to build elsewhere, and directly, by reducing production costs.

Liskov named to National Inventors Hall of Fame

Measuring blood flow to monitor sickle cell diseaseNew technology may help doctors predict when patients are at risk for serious complications.

Introduction to Electrical Engineering and Computer Science now available in OCW Scholar format6.01SC is the fourth of seven courses OCW will publish this spring specifically to meet the needs of independent learners.

3 Questions with a student leader: Panhel President Denzil SikkaNew head of sorority governing council discusses her ‘home away from home’

Microchips’ optical futureTo keep energy consumption under control, future chips may need to move data using light instead of electricity — and the technical expertise to build them may reside in the United States.

MIT team promotes prostate cancer prognosis toolGroup is a semifinalist in MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition

MITx prototype course opens for enrollmentOnline-learning initiative’s first offering, ‘6.002x: Circuits and Electronics,’ accepting registrants now.

The blind codemakerNew error-correcting codes guarantee the fastest possible rate of data transmission, even over fluctuating wireless links.

For a day, MIT students manufacture Bose speakersIAP workshop teaches acoustics, speaker design to MIT students

Education, empowerment and enlightenment through guided disassembly of your broken stuffPeter Mui ’82 holds Fixit Clinic XVIII at the MIT Edgerton Center.

The faster-than-fast Fourier transformFor a large range of practically useful cases, MIT researchers find a way to increase the speed of one of the most important algorithms in the information sciences.

3-D cameras for cellphonesClever math could enable a high-quality 3-D camera so simple, cheap and power-efficient that it could be incorporated into handheld devices.

Research update: Sharpening the linesNew advance could lead to even smaller features in the constant quest for more compact, faster microchips.

Sal Khan to deliver 2012 Commencement addressOnline-education pioneer, MIT alumnus to speak to the Class of 2012 on June 8.

Electronics takes on a new spinResearchers at MIT find a way to observe and control the way electrons spin on the surface of exotic new materials.

Double dutyA computational biologist and physician, Collin Stultz takes a unique approach to studying diseases that could lead to new treatments.

Allen Lin ’11, MEng ’11 named Marshall ScholarRecent alum will hone interests in policy, synthetic biology through study in the United Kingdom.

Important step toward computing with lightResearch at MIT produces long-sought component to allow complete optical circuits on silicon chips.

David Staelin, longtime professor in EECS and RLE, dies at 73Researcher led a career distinguished by abundant accomplishments, widespread impact in his 55 years at MIT.

Lucas Papademos ’70, SM ’72, PhD ’78 named prime minister of Greece

Charging toward better neural implantsResearchers improve the efficiency of devices that stimulate damaged nerves, reducing potential side effects.

Connecting neurons to fix the brainNew technology helps scientists discover drugs to strengthen synapses.

Abelson named SIGCSE award winner