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Stefanie Mueller changes everything: A hands-on class responds to Covid

Assistant professor adapts her laboratory class, Engineering Interactive Technologies, to the pandemic, with surprising results.

Less-wasteful laser-cutting

Fabricaide, developed at MIT CSAIL, provides live design feedback to help users reduce leftover material.

A machine-learning approach to finding treatment options for Covid-19

Researchers develop a system to identify drugs that might be repurposed to fight the coronavirus in elderly patients.

Shafi Goldwasser wins L’Oréal-UNESCO Award

Professor and pioneer in cryptography named 2021 Laureate for North America in the 2021 L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science International Awards.

Four MIT researchers elected to the National Academy of Engineering for 2021

New members have made advances in computer vision, autonomous aerospace vehicles, electric power system analysis and control, and power electronics technology.

A language learning system that pays attention — more efficiently than ever before

MIT researchers’ new hardware and software system streamlines state-of-the-art sentence analysis.

Fabricating fully functional drones

CSAIL's “LaserFactory” system automates the full process for making functional devices in one system.

Examining the world through signals and systems

Assistant Professor Cathy Wu aims to help autonomous vehicles fulfill their promise by better understanding how to integrate them into the transportation system.

Machine-learning model helps determine protein structures

New technique reveals many possible conformations that a protein may take.

Byte-sized learning

2021 IAP offerings from the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science ranged from the playful to the profound.