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January 6, 2025

School of Engineering welcomes new faculty

The School of Engineering welcomes 15 new faculty members across six of its academic departments. This new cohort of faculty members, who have either recently started their roles at MIT or will start within the next year, conduct research across a diverse range of disciplines. Many of these new faculty specialize in research that intersects…

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January 6, 2025

Toward a code-breaking quantum computer

The most recent email you sent was likely encrypted using a tried-and-true method that relies on the idea that even the fastest computer would be unable to efficiently break a gigantic number into factors. Quantum computers, on the other hand, promise to rapidly crack complex cryptographic systems that a classical computer might never be able…

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January 6, 2025

Janabel Xia: Algorithms, dance rhythms, and the drive to succeed

Senior math major Janabel Xia is a study of a person in constant motion. When she isn’t sorting algorithms and improving traffic control systems for driverless vehicles, she’s dancing as a member of at least four dance clubs. She’s joined several social justice organizations, worked on cryptography and web authentication technology, and created a polling app that…

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January 6, 2025

Yael Tauman Kalai PhD ’06 awarded 2022 ACM Prize in Computing

Yael Tauman Kalai PhD ’06, an MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) adjunct professor, member of the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), and senior principal researcher at Microsoft Research has been awarded the 2022 ACM Prize in Computing for “breakthroughs in verifiable delegation of computation and fundamental contributions to…

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January 6, 2025

Peter Shor wins Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics

Peter Shor, the Morss Professor of Applied Mathematics at MIT, has been named a recipient of the 2023 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics. He shares the $3 million prize with three others for “foundational work in the field of quantum information”: David Deutsch at the University of Oxford, Charles Bennett at IBM Research, and Gilles…

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January 6, 2025

MIT launches new data privacy-focused initiative

Strategic use of data is vital for progress in science, commerce, and even politics, but at the same time, citizens are demanding more responsible, respectful use of personal data. Internet users have never felt more helpless about how their data are being used: Surveys show that the vast majority of U.S. adults feel that they…

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January 6, 2025

3 Questions: Ron Rivest on trusting electronic voting systems

Ron Rivest is an MIT Institute Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He’s an authority on algorithms and an inventor of the RSA public-key cryptosystem, one of the most widely used algorithms to securely transmit data. Since the 1980s, he’s taught students how to use cryptography to help secure voting systems.…

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School of Engineering welcomes new faculty

Toward a code-breaking quantum computer

Janabel Xia: Algorithms, dance rhythms, and the drive to succeed

Yael Tauman Kalai PhD ’06 awarded 2022 ACM Prize in Computing

Peter Shor wins Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics

MIT launches new data privacy-focused initiative

3 Questions: Ron Rivest on trusting electronic voting systems