The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) has named MIT professor Hari Balakrishnan an elected fellow for his contributions to “the design and application of mobile sensing systems.”
Each semester, Associate Professor Virginia Vassilevska Williams tries to impart one fundamental lesson to her computer-science undergraduates: Math is the foundation of everything.
“Modern computer processors are opaque, horrendously complicated, and difficult to understand. It is also incredibly challenging to write computer code that executes as fast as possible for these processors,” says co-author Michael Carbin, an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS). “This tool is a big step forward toward fully modeling the performance of these chips for improved efficiency.”
