New energy source for future medical implants: sugar
MIT engineers have developed a fuel cell that runs on the same sugar that powers human cells: glucose. This glucose fuel cell could be used to drive highly efficient brain implants of the future, which...
View ArticleCommunication scheme makes popular applications ‘gracefully mobile’
The Secure Shell, or SSH, is a popular program that lets computer users log onto remote machines. Software developers use it for large collaborative projects, students use it to work from university...
View ArticleNew chip captures power from multiple sources
Researchers at MIT have taken a significant step toward battery-free monitoring systems — which could ultimately be used in biomedical devices, environmental sensors in remote locations and gauges in...
View ArticleSearching genomic data faster
In 2001, the Human Genome Project and Celera Genomics announced that after 10 years of work at a cost of some $400 million, they had completed a draft sequence of the human genome. Today, sequencing a...
View Article‘Rising Stars in EECS’ convene at MIT
On Nov. 1 and 2, nearly three dozen of the world’s top young female electrical engineers and computer scientists gathered at MIT to experience something rare: outnumbering men in the room.The...
View ArticleOzdaglar selected as the inaugural Steven and Renee Finn Innovation Fellow
Department of Electrical Engineer and Computer Science (EECS) Professor Asu Ozdaglar has been named the inaugural Steven and Renee Finn Innovation Fellow. Made possible by a gift from EECS alumnus...
View ArticleChips that can steer light
If you want to create a moving light source, you have a few possibilities. One is to mount a light emitter in some kind of mechanical housing — the approach used in, say, theatrical spotlights, which...
View Article‘Invisible’ particles could enhance thermoelectric devices
Thermoelectric devices — which can either generate an electric current from a difference in temperature or use electricity to produce heating or cooling without moving parts — have been explored in the...
View ArticlePaul Juodawlkis elevated to Fellow of the Optical Society
Dr. Paul W. Juodawlkis, assistant leader of the Electro-optical Materials and Devices Group at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, was elevated to the rank of Fellow of the Optical Society (OSA) last month. He was...
View ArticleSpecial deal on photon-to-electron conversion: Two for one!
Throughout decades of research on solar cells, one formula has been considered an absolute limit to the efficiency of such devices in converting sunlight into electricity: Called the Shockley-Queisser...
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The brains behind research on the brain
While studying physics and electrical engineering as an MIT undergraduate in the late 1990s, Mehmet Fatih Yanik managed to avoid taking any biology classes until his final semester, when he was forced...
View ArticleEncryption is less secure than we thought
Information theory — the discipline that gave us digital communication and data compression — also put cryptography on a secure mathematical foundation. Since 1948, when the paper that created...
View ArticleMIT Professional Education creates Online X Programs and launches big data...
MIT will offer its first online professional course, Tackling the Challenges of Big Data, to a global audience beginning March 4. The four-week online course, aimed at technical professionals and...
View ArticleFast, furious, and soon to be electric
Early on Saturday mornings, before the rest of campus stirs awake, Jacqueline Sly ’14 grabs coffee and heads down Massachusetts Ave. to building N51. Winding through familiar walkways, past boxes of...
View ArticleGetting more electricity out of solar cells
When sunlight shines on today’s solar cells, much of the incoming energy is given off as waste heat rather than electrical current. In a few materials, however, extra energy produces extra electrons —...
View ArticleMIT and Tecnológico de Monterrey establish program in nanoscience and...
MIT has established a formal relationship with Tecnológico de Monterrey, one of Latin America’s largest universities, to bring students and faculty from Mexico to Cambridge for fellowships,...
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