Topics: Electrical Engineering+Electronics

Anant Agarwal is putting the equivalent of a data center on a chip. Photo: Len Rubenstein
Spring 2011

Data Center on a Chip

Anant Agarwal is designing chips that contain thousands of processors, or cores, making them up to 10 times more efficient than today’s chips.

Irwin and Joan Jacobs never forgot their lean days as students. Photo: David Butow
Spring 2008

Giving Back

Irwin and Joan Jacobs, who never forgot their lean days as students, give MIT $30 million to support graduate fellowships.

Fall 2004

Research Briefs

Insight into Alzheimer’s, cutting aircraft noise, and more.

Grad student Solomon Assefa co-founded the MIT Africa Internet Technology Initiative (AITI), a student-run program that sends MIT students to teach Internet skills to African students and teachers. The program has sent 30 MIT students to Kenya, Ethiopia, and Ghana over the past five years and reached about 500 students and 30 teachers in Africa. Photo: Ed Quinn
Spring 2004

Teaching Technology

Grad student Solomon Assefa co-founded a group that teaches Internet technology to students in Africa.

Junior Keith Durand steps to Mahler. Photo: Ed Quinn
Spring 2004

Step to the Music

Junior Keith Durand can play Mahler’s Third Symphony with his feet.