In keeping with the academic mission of LSM, students and staff will work across many social media
an associate professor at the Media Lab who will lead the LSM, and who also serves as Twitter chief media scientist."
because it gives you the ability to do highly predictive designs with unique targeting capabilities says senior author Mehmet Fatih Yanik an associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science and biological engineering.
Peng Shi a former MIT postdoc who is now an assistant professor at the University of Hong kong is the paper s other lead author.#
For this study Yanik s team developed a new technology to inject RNA carried by nanoparticles called lipidoids previously designed by Daniel Anderson an associate professor of chemical engineering member of the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research and Institute
#Jeff Karp an associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical school who was not part of the research team says this work is an excellent example of harnessing a multidisciplinary team to partner complementary technologies for the purpose of solving a unified problem.
The creation of this material is described in a paper published in the journal Advanced Materials co-authored by MIT postdoc Jeffrey Chou professors Marin Soljacic Nicholas Fang Evelyn Wang and Sang-Gook
and materials science to advance solar energy harvesting says Paul Braun a professor of materials science and engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign who was involved not in this research.
The team also included MIT research scientist Ivan Celanovic and former graduate students Yi Yeng Yoonkyung Lee Andrej Lenert and Veronika Rinnerbauer.
The study which appears today in the journal Nature Medicine is based on an analysis of blood samples from 1500 people participating in long-term health studies.
What that means for the tumor and what that means for the health of the patient those are long-term questions still to be answered says Matthew Vander Heiden an associate professor of biology a member of MIT s Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research
The paper s other senior author is Brian Wolpin an assistant professor of medical oncology at Dana-Farber.
This is a finding of fundamental importance in the biology of pancreatic cancer says David Tuveson a professor at the Cancer Center at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory who was involved not in the work.
It s very expensive for port security to use traditional robots for every small boat coming into the port says Sampriti Bhattacharyya a graduate student in mechanical engineering who designed the robot together with her advisor Ford Professor of Engineering
Led by Timothy Lu an associate professor of biological engineering and electrical engineering and computer science the researchers described their findings in the Sept. 21 issue of Nature Biotechnology.
In the new Nature Biotechnology study graduate students Robert Citorik and Mark Mimee worked with Lu to target specific genes that allow bacteria to survive antibiotic treatment.
which in principle could help to combat the spread of antibiotic resistance fueled by excessive broad-spectrum treatment says Ahmad Khalil an assistant professor of biomedical engineering at Boston University who was not part of the research team.
and his graduate student Allen Cheng created a library of 34000 pairs of bacterial genes. All of these genes code for transcription factors which are proteins that control the expression of other genes.
Dava Newman a professor of aeronautics and astronautics and engineering systems at MIT and her colleagues have engineered active compression garments that incorporate small springlike coils that contract in response to heat.
and Newman along with graduate student Edward Obropta detail the design in the journal IEEE/ASME: Transactions on Mechatronics.
in a paper by a team led by Xuanhe Zhao, the Brit (1961) and Alex (1949) d'Arbeloff Career development Associate professor in Engineering Design,
and Duke university Professor of Chemistry Stephen Craig. Zhao, who joined the MIT faculty from Duke this month
and holds a joint appointment with the Department of Civil and Environmental engineering, says the new material is essentially a layer of electro-active elastomer that could be adapted quite easily to standard manufacturing processes
Learning from nature Cephalopods achieve their remarkable color changes using muscles that can alter the shapes of tiny pigment sacs within the skin for example
Zhenan Bao, a professor of chemical engineering at Stanford university who was involved not in this research, says this is nspiring workand a lever idea.
Sangbae Kim an associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT hypothesizes that this force-control approach to robotic running is similar in principle to the way world-class sprinters race.
Kim says what makes the robot so dynamic is designed a custom high-torque-density electric motor designed by Jeffrey Lang the Vitesse Professor of Electrical engineering at MIT.
and graduate student Meng Yee Chuah will present details of the bounding algorithm this month at the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems in Chicago.
when Downey, who studied electrical engineering and computer science, organized an MIT student team including Airware chief technology officer, Buddy Michini 7, SM 9,
But their advisor, Jonathan How, a professor of aeronautics and astronautics who directs of the Aerospace Controls Laboratory,
but wee MIT students, and we feel better getting last place and learning a lot doing it than winning the competition by repackaging a black-box solution,?
as well as government agencies and academic institutions, such as Harvard university Graduate school of Design. Architects and real estate firms are also using the system for structural designing.
Putting pixels in the room G-speak has its roots in a 1999 MIT Media Lab project co-invented by Underkoffler in Professor Hiroshi Ishii Tangible Media Group called uminous Room,
But in today s issue of the Proceedings of the National Academies of Sciences researchers at MIT Cornell University
Of course nobody should ever be forced to share a vehicle says Carlo Ratti professor of the practice in MIT s Department of Urban Studies and Planning (DUSP) and one of the paper s coauthors.
and is now at Northeastern University and Giovanni Resta a researcher at Santi s home institution the Institute for Informatics and Telematics.
This technique could offer a more reliable way to detect malaria says Jongyoon Han a professor of electrical engineering and biological engineering at MIT.
Peter Rainer Preiser of SMART and Nanyang Technical University in Singapore is also a senior author.
and requires less blood sample as compared to the standard blood-smear protocol says Donhee Ham a professor of electrical engineering at Harvard university who was not part of the research team.
MIT alumni entrepreneurs Gauti Reynisson MBA 10 and var Helgason HS 08 spent the early 2000s working for companies that implemented medication-safety technologies
There they teamed up with Mar A r narsd ttir MBA 08 and devised Medeye a bedside medication-scanning system that uses computer vision to identify pills
and startup pitch receiving help from mentors professors and even business-savvy students. That s when we started to think of a business beyond the technology Reynisson says.
Professor of Biology and Neuroscience director of the RIKEN-MIT Center for Neural Circuit Genetics at MIT s Picower Institute for Learning and Memory and senior author of the paper.#
#The paper s lead authors are Roger Redondo a Howard hughes medical institute postdoc at MIT and Joshua Kim a graduate student in MIT s Department of biology.
Shifting memoriesmemories are made of many elements which are stored in different parts of the brain. A memory s context including information about the location where the event took place is stored in cells of the hippocampus
David Anderson a professor of biology at the California Institute of technology says the study makes an important contribution to neuroscientists fundamental understanding of the brain
This is a tour de force of modern molecular-biology-based methods for analyzing processes such as learning and memory at the neural-circuitry level.
and Carnegie mellon University have devised a new way to separate cells by exposing them to sound waves as they flow through a tiny channel.
Subra Suresh, president of Carnegie mellon, the Vannevar bush Professor of Engineering Emeritus, and a former dean of engineering at MIT,
and Tony Jun Huang, a professor of engineering science and mechanics at Penn State, are also senior authors of the paper.
Lead authors are MIT postdoc Xiaoyun Ding and Zhangli Peng a former MIT postdoc who is now an assistant professor at the University of Notre dame. The researchers have filed for a patent on the device, the technology
of which they have demonstrated can be used to separate rare circulating cancer cells from white blood cells. To sort cells using sound waves,
a professor of mechanical science and engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. hat is just enough to make cells of different sizes
co-invented by Anthony Patera, the Ford Professor of Engineering at MIT, and Knezevic and Huynh.
Feedback from students has been positive, Knezevic says. Primarily, he hears that the software is allowing students to uild intuition for the physics of structures beyond
what they could see by simply solving math problems. n 2. 01x the students learn about axial loading, bending,
and torsion we have apps for each case so they can visualize the stress, strain,
and displacement in 3-D in their browser, he says. e think it a great way to show students the value of fast, 3-D simulations.
and planning to continue its involvement with edx classes. On Knezevic end, at the Boston office, it all about software development, tailoring features to customer needs a welcome challenge for the longtime researcher. n academia,
co-authored by professors Angela M. Belcher and Paula T. Hammond, graduate student Po-Yen Chen,
says Belcher, the W. M. Keck Professor of Energy at MIT. Already, perovskite-based photovoltaic cells have achieved power-conversion efficiency of more than 19 percent,
Yang Yang, a professor of materials science and engineering at the University of California at Los angeles who was involved not in this research,
which also included research scientist Jifa Qi, graduate student Matthew Klug and postdoc Xiangnan Dang, was supported by Italian energy company Eni through the MIT Energy Initiative y
It was developed originally in the laboratory of Koch Institute Director#Tyler Jacks the#David H. Koch Professor of Biology#who is co-senior author of this paper.
They were developed in the laboratories of co-senior author Daniel G. Anderson the Samuel A. Goldblith Associate professor of Chemical engineering an affiliate of MIT's Institute of Medical Engineering and Science;
and author Robert Langer the David H. Koch Institute Professor. In this study researchers tested the nanoparticle-delivery system with different payloads of therapeutic RNA.
because you can design them to treat any type of disease by modifying gene expression very specifically says James Dahlman a graduate student in Anderson s
We re trying to make this analysis easier and cheaper particularly in patient samples says Hadley Sikes an assistant professor of chemical engineering
The paper s lead author is Brandon Heimer an MIT graduate student in chemical engineering. Beyond the genomeafter sequencing the human genome scientists turned to the epigenome the chemical modifications including methylation that alter a gene s function without changing its DNA sequence.
This technique which cuts the amount of time required to analyze epigenetic modifications could be a valuable research tool as well as a diagnostic device for cancer patients says Andrea Armani a professor of chemical engineering
and materials science at the University of Southern California who was not part of the research team.
and boost drug-development efforts says Jacquin Niles an associate professor of biological engineering at MIT. Even though we ve sequenced the entire genome of Plasmodium falciparum half of it still remains functionally uncharacterized.
Graduate student Randall Platt recent Phd recipient Stephen Goldfless and Feng Zhang the W. M. Keck Career development Assistant professor in Biomedical engineering also contributed to the research.
because we ve struggled with the technical aspects of doing these genetic experiments says Kirk Deitsch a professor of microbiology
and immunology at Cornell University who was not part of the research team. Now based on CRISPR we can modify genes in a shorter timeframe and with greatly enhanced precision.
and Erna Viterbi Professor of Electrical engineering and Computer science at MIT and one of the Science paper s co-authors.
Rus is joined on the paper by Erik Demaine an MIT professor of computer science and engineering and by three researchers at Harvard s Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering and School of Engineering and Applied sciences:
This is the first time where they ve self-folded such a complicated robotic structure says Ronald Fearing a professor of electrical engineering
and computer science at the University of California at Berkeley who has been following the MIT and Harvard researchers work.
The flexibility of this technology as delivery gets better in the future will give you a way to pretty rapidly test those combinations says Institute Professor Phillip Sharp an author of the paper.
Tyler Jacks director of MIT s Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research and the David H. Koch Professor of Biology is the paper s senior author.
This is a game-changer for the production of engineered strains of human cancer says Ronald Depinho director of the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center who was not part of the research team.
or sunlight says Yangying Zhu a graduate student in MIT s Department of Mechanical engineering. So you could filter how much solar radiation you want coming in and also shed raindrops.
The paper s co-authors are Evelyn Wang an associate professor of mechanical engineering former graduate student Rong Xiao and postdoc Dion Antao.
a graduate student in electrical engineering and computer science at MIT and first author on the new paper. he motion of this vibration creates a very subtle visual signal that usually invisible to the naked eye.
Joining Davis on the Siggraph paper are Frédo Durand and Bill Freeman, both MIT professors of computer science and engineering;
Neal Wadhwa, a graduate student in Freeman group; Michael Rubinstein of Microsoft Research, who did his Phd with Freeman;
says Alexei Efros, an associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the University of California at Berkeley. ee scientists,
Most surfaces are passive says Kripa Varanasi an associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT and senior author of a paper describing the new system in the journal Applied Physics Letters.
This allows us to attain high velocities with small applied forces says MIT graduate student Karim Khalil the paper s lead author.
In the desert environment dust is present on a daily basis says co-author Numan Abu-Dheir of the King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM) in Saudi arabia.
We need a way to reduce the dust accumulation. Watch a water droplet get pulled across an active surface designed by MIT researchers.
Neelesh Patankar a professor of mechanical engineering at Northwestern University who was involved not in this work says this research introduces a new class of approach for droplet-based microfluidic platforms
The new findings are published in the journal Physical Review Letters in a paper by graduate student Alex Frenzel Nuh Gedik and three others.
Gedik the Lawrence C. and Sarah W. Biedenharn Associate professor of Physics says the measurement method that Frenzel implemented is a cool technique.
Isabella Gierz a professor at the Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter in Hamburg Germany who was involved not in this research says:"
The research team also included Jing Kong the ITT Career development Associate professor of Electrical engineering at MIT who provided the graphene samples used for the experiments;
and Yong Cheol Shin a graduate student in materials science and engineering. The work received support from the U s. Department of energy and the National Science Foundation n
#Vision-correcting displays Researchers at the MIT Media Laboratory and the University of California at Berkeley have developed a new display technology that automatically corrects for vision defects no glasses (or contact lenses) required.
Joining him on the paper are Ramesh Raskar the NEC Career development Professor of Media Arts and Sciences and director of the Media Lab s Camera Culture group and Berkeley s Fu-Chung
and right eyes the vision-correcting display projects slightly different images to different parts of the viewer's pupil.
So the physical pixels projecting light to the right side of the pupil have to be offset to the left
and the pixels projecting light to the left side of the pupil have to be offset to the right.
In the researchers prototype however display pixels do have to be masked from the parts of the pupil for which they re not intended.
says Chris Dainty a professor at the University college London Institute of Ophthalmology and Moorfields Eye Hospital.
This could lead for example to more relevant online ads as well as enhanced gaming and online learning experiences.
This would focus on pragmatic training helping these kids understand the meaning of different facial expressions and how to express their own she says.
As a Phd student at Cambridge university in the early 2000s el Kaliouby began developing facial-coding software.
and Affectiva cofounder Rosalind Picard an MIT professor who pioneered the field of affective computing where machines can recognize interpret process
But more immediately it could work for online learning. Already Affectiva has conducted pilot work for online learning where it captured data on facial engagement to predict learning outcomes.
For this the software indicates for instance if a student is bored frustrated or focused which is especially valuable for prerecorded lectures el Kaliouby says.
To be able to capture that data in real time means educators can adapt that learning experience
and change the content to better engage students making it say more or less difficult and change feedback to maximize learning outcomes el Kaliouby says.
That s one application we re really excited about t
#Making the cut Diode lasers used in laser pointers barcode scanners DVD players and other low-power applications are perhaps the most efficient compact and low-cost lasers available.
Attempts have been made over the years to amplify the brightness of these valuable lasers for industrial applications such as welding and cutting metal.
that brings together faculty from MIT Harvard university Harvard-affiliated hospitals and collaborators worldwide. Stanley s commitment to support the work of the Broad Institute will consist of annual gifts during his lifetime followed by a bequest with a total current value exceeding $650 million.
We are going to illuminate the biology behind these conditions says Eric Lander founding director and president of the Broad Institute and a professor of biology at MIT.
when his son Jonathan was stricken with severe bipolar disorder while in college. The first few years were difficult
Ten years ago finding the biological causes of psychiatric disorders was like trying to climb a wall with no footholds says Hyman who Is distinguished also the Service Professor of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology at Harvard.
and institutions it brings together faculty from MIT Harvard and the five major Harvard-affiliated hospitals:
and its affiliated hospitals and the visionary Los angeles philanthropists Eli and Edythe L. Broad the Broad Institute includes faculty professional staff
and students from throughout the MIT and Harvard biomedical research communities and beyond with collaborations spanning more than 100 private and public institutions in more than 40 countries worldwide e
This is a completely intuitive and natural way to move your robotic fingers says Harry Asada the Ford Professor of Engineering in MIT s Department of Mechanical engineering.
Ultimately Asada says with some training people may come to perceive the robotic fingers as part of their body like a tool you have been using for a long time you feel the robot as an extension of your hand.
He and graduate student Faye Wu presented a paper on the robot this week at the Robotics:
and robots interact says Matthew Mason director of the Robotics Institute at Carnegie mellon University who was involved not in the research.
The new findings by postdoc Nenad Miljkovic associate professor of mechanical engineering Evelyn Wang and two others are published in the journal Applied Physics Letters.
Chuanhua Duan an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Boston University who was involved not in this research says This work provides a new approach for energy harvesting
The research which also included MIT graduate student Daniel Preston and former postdoc Ryan Enright now at Lucent Ireland Ltd. was supported by MIT s Solid-state Solar-Thermal energy Conversion Center
Near the end of the last decade however a team of MIT researchers led by Professor of Physics Marin Soljacic took definitive steps toward more practical wireless charging.
It s probably a dream of any professor at MIT to help change the world for a better place says Soljacic a Witricity cofounder who now serves on its board of directors.
#A new category of magnetic resonanceseeing use for consumer devices Soljacic and a team of five MIT researchers including physics professors Peter Fisher
Sharing code not data The example I like to use is personalized music says Yves-Alexandre de Montjoye a graduate student in media arts and sciences and first author on the new paper.
De Montjoye is joined on the paper by his thesis advisor Alex Sandy Pentland the Toshiba Professor of Media Arts and Sciences;
and Samuel Wang a software engineer at Foursquare who was a graduate student in the Department of Electrical engineering
and at the level of society says Dirk Helbing a professor of sociology at ETH Zurich.
The process is described in the journal Scientific Reports by MIT professor Kripa Varanasi graduate student Brian Solomon and postdoc M. Nasim Hyder.
Anish Tuteja an assistant professor of materials science and engineering at the University of Michigan who was involved not in this research calls it a very interesting and innovative approach to fabricating membranes that can separate out nanoemulsions.
Led by Ed Boyden, an associate professor of biological engineering and brain and cognitive sciences at MIT, the researchers described the protein in the June 29 issue of Nature Neuroscience.
To find a better alternative, Boyden, graduate student Amy Chuong, and colleagues turned to the natural world.
says Garret Stuber, an assistant professor of psychiatry and cell biology and physiology at the University of North carolina at Chapel hill. n animals with larger brains,
Brojan (now at the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia. The ability to change the surface in real time comes from the use of a multilayer material with a stiff skin and a soft interior the same basic configuration that causes smooth plums to dry into wrinkly prunes.
an assistant professor of mechanical engineering and civil and environmental engineering. ess is known about what happens when you curve the surface.
John Rogers, a professor of materials research and engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign who was involved not in this work,
says, t represents a delightful example of how controlled processes of mechanical buckling can be used to create three-dimensional structures with interesting aerodynamic properties.
The research was supported by the National Science Foundation, MIT Charles E. Reed Faculty Initiatives Fund, the Wallonie-Bruxelles International, the Belgian American Education Foundation,
For years, Li-Shiuan Peh, the Singapore Research Professor of Electrical engineering and Computer science at MIT, has argued that the massively multicore chips of the future will need to resemble little Internets,
says Bhavya Daya, an MIT graduate student in electrical engineering and computer science, and first author on the new paper. ou can also have multiple paths to your destination.
a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the University of Michigan. heir contribution is an interesting one:
Now researchers at MIT and King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM) in Saudi arabia have devised a robotic system that can detect leaks at a rapid pace and with high accuracy by sensing a large pressure
a Phd student in mechanical engineering at MIT and lead author of the research papers. ee proved that the concept works.
MIT mechanical engineering professor Kamal Youcef-Toumi, a co-author of the research papers, adds, his technology allows for an unambiguous and reliable sensing of very small leaks that often go undetected for long periods of time.
a professor of mechanical engineering at KFUPM, says that current leak-detection systems are quite expensive, typically costing $250,
At the IEEE s Conference on Privacy Security and Trust in July Oshani Seneviratne an MIT graduate student in electrical engineering and computer science and Lalana Kagal a principal research scientist at CSAIL will present a paper
and the 3com Founders Professor of Engineering at MIT and it shares office space with the World wide web Consortium (W3c) the organization also led by Berners-Lee that oversees the development of Web protocols like HTTP XML and CSS.
Other customers include universities, health-care and life-science facilities, schools, and retail buildings. Equipment-level detection Fault-detection and diagnostics research spans about 50 years with contributions by early KGS advisors
and MIT professors of architecture Les Norford and Leon Glicksman and about a dozen companies now operate in the field.
KGS Buildingsfoundation The KGS cofounders met as participants in the MIT entry for the 2007 Solar Decathlon an annual competition where college teams build small-scale, solar-powered homes to display at the National Mall
They found guidance among the seasoned entrepreneurs at MIT Venture Mentoring Service learning to fail fast,
Gayeski says. ajor health-care institutions, global pharmaceuticals, universities, and others are starting to see the value
Co-founded by four MIT alumni Vanessa Green MNG 8, MBA 1; Anthony Sagneri SM 7, Phd 2;
Under the tutelage of David Perreault, an MIT professor of electrical engineering, Sagneri helped develop a novel circuit that executes power conversion at very high frequency 30 to 300 megahertz
Green, as a student in the MIT Sloan School of management, was looking for technology to commercialize.
and computer science students who were excited to start a company. Around 2010, their interests merged in MIT Sloan 15.390 (New Enterprises),
a course where students pitch business ideas and the class chooses ideas to pursue. Sagneri VHF power-conversion technology wasn chosen.
where students from across departments plan businesses around clean technologies. Throughout the class, she says, teams learn the crucial steps of gathering customer feedback, meeting technological milestones,
For me, a lot of the entrepreneurship process was learned though my MIT education. Moving forward, FINSIX is looking at getting its first product, Dart, into the market and developing higher-and lower-power products to suit customer needs u
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