iCampus Student Competition yields online tools for improved on campus...
The MIT Council on Educational Technology (MITCET) and the Office of Educational Innovation and Technology (OEIT) announced the winner and runners-up for the 2013 iCampus Student Prize competition at...
View ArticleMIT visiting scientist Kanako Miura, 36, dies while bicycling in Boston
On Sunday, May 19, MIT visiting scientist Dr. Kanako Miura, 36, died after being struck by a motor vehicle while riding her bicycle in Boston’s Back Bay neighborhood. Miura, an expert in humanoid...
View ArticleEngineering course ‘demystifies’ entrepreneurship
Undergraduates at MIT have been known to spend countless hours conceiving and creating marketable innovations in labs and classrooms. Sometimes, however, they may struggle with turning their ideas into...
View ArticleReinventing invention
An expandable table. A collapsible CNC router. Motorized wheels whose diameter can enlarge and contract depending on the terrain. These are a few of the examples of "transformable design" now on...
View ArticleAn electrical switch for magnetism
Researchers at MIT have developed a new way of controlling the motion of magnetic domains — the key technology in magnetic memory systems, such as a computer’s hard disk. The new approach requires...
View ArticleAn electrical switch for magnetism
Researchers at MIT have developed a new way of controlling the motion of magnetic domains — the key technology in magnetic memory systems, such as a computer’s hard disk. The new approach requires...
View ArticleDennis Freeman appointed dean for undergraduate education
Dennis Freeman, professor of electrical engineering, has been appointed as MIT’s next dean for undergraduate education, effective July 1, Chancellor Eric Grimson announced today. Freeman succeeds...
View ArticleAmar Bose ’51, SM ’52, ScD ’56, Bose Corporation’s founder, has died at 83
Amar Bose ’51, SM ’52, ScD ’56, a former member of the MIT faculty and the founder of Bose Corporation, has died. He was 83. Dr. Bose received his bachelor’s degree, master’s degree and doctorate from...
View ArticleCSAIL researchers develop new ways to streamline, simplify 3-D printing
With recent advances in three-dimensional (3-D) printing technology, it is now possible to produce a wide variety of 3-D objects, utilizing computer graphics models and simulations. But while the...
View ArticleNew 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...
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