The findings are published this week in the journal Nature Communications by graduate students Chun-Teh Chen and Chern Chuang, professor of civil and environmental engineering Markus Buehler,
a graduate student in chemistry, says, here you isolate each component. Only indirect ways of probingcan be used,
The research team also included Jianshu Cao, a professor of chemistry at MIT, Vincent Ball at the University of Strasbourg in France,
#Illuminating neuron activity in 3-D Researchers at MIT and the University of Vienna have created an imaging system that reveals neural activity throughout the brains of living animals.
says Ed Boyden, an associate professor of biological engineering and brain and cognitive sciences at MIT and one of the leaders of the research team. n short,
Boyden team developed the brain-mapping method with researchers in the lab of Alipasha Vaziri of the University of Vienna and the Research Institute of Molecular Pathology in Vienna.
The paper lead authors are Young-Gyu Yoon, a graduate student at MIT, and Robert Prevedel, a postdoc at the University of Vienna.
High-speed 3-D imaging Neurons encode information sensory data motor plans, emotional states, and thoughts using electrical impulses called action potentials,
Ramesh Raskar, an associate professor of media arts and sciences at MIT and an author of this paper, has worked extensively on developing this type of 3-D imaging.
Aravinthan Samuel, a professor of physics at Harvard university, says this approach seems to be an xtremely promisingway to speed up 3-D imaging of living, moving animals,
Other co-authors at MIT include Nikita Pak, a Phd student in mechanical engineering, and Gordon Wetzstein, a research scientist at the Media Lab. The work at MIT was funded by the Allen Institute for Brain science;
The MIT researchers research scientist Gordon Wetzstein, graduate student Matthew Hirsch, and Ramesh Raskar, the NEC Career development Associate professor of Media Arts and Sciences and head of the Camera Culture group built a prototype of their system using off-the-shelf components.
The heart of the projector is a pair of liquid-crystal modulators which are like tiny liquid-crystal displays (LCDS) positioned between the light source and the lens.
Spreading pixels Oliver Cossairt, an assistant professor of electrical engineering and computer science at Northwestern University, once worked for a company that was attempting to commercialize glasses-free 3-D projectors. hat
and Adam Rein MBA 10 Altaeros has developed the world s first commercial airborne wind turbine which uses a helium-filled shell to float as high as a skyscraper and capture the stronger steadier winds available at that altitude.
Prototype to productglass first conceived of the BAT while working at MIT toward his master s degree in aeronautics and astronautics.
and knowing that traditional towers could never reach high-altitude winds he designed the BAT in his free time receiving technical guidance from Institute Professor Sheila Widnall and other faculty.
Soon he d bring his concept to 15.366 (Energy Ventures) a class at the MIT Sloan School of management where engineering policy and business students build startups around clean tech ideas.
At the time Rein who had done independent research on clean energy was an MBA student and teacher s assistant for the class who helped Glass flesh out an initial business model.
The duo along with Harvard university grad student Alain Goubau and investor Alex Rohde then an Alfred P. Sloan Fellow soon formed Altaeros.
They solicited advice from seasoned entrepreneurs at MIT s Venture Mentoring Service (VMS) our first advisory board Rein says who steered the startup toward rapid prototyping by using low-cost off-the-shelf materials.
and test winches and cables Looking back Glass credits his undergraduate years on MIT s Solar Electrical Vehicle Team a student organization that builds and races solar
At the Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition in June Hamed Pirsiavash a postdoc at MIT and his former thesis advisor Deva Ramanan of the University of California at Irvine will present a new activity
and bowling with training videos culled from Youtube. They found that according to metrics standard in the field of computer vision their algorithm identified new instances of the same activities more accurately than its predecessors.
if they didn t. We ve known for a very long time that the things that people do are made up of subactivities says David Forsyth a professor of computer science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
says Daniel Anderson, the Samuel A. Goldblith Associate professor of Chemical engineering, a member of MIT Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research and Institute for Medical Engineering and Science,
The paper other senior author is Robert Langer, the David H. Koch Institute Professor at MIT and a member of the Koch Institute.
Lead authors are MIT graduate student James Dahlman and Carmen Barnes of Alnylam Pharmaceuticals. Targeted delivery RNAI is a naturally occurring process,
Masanori Aikawa, an associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical school, describes the new technology as monumental contributionthat should help researchers develop new treatments
Scientists from Alnylam Pharmaceuticals and Harvard Medical school also contributed to the study, which was funded by a National Defense Science and Engineering Fellowship, the National Science Foundation, MIT Presidential Fellowships, the National institutes of health, the Stop and Shop Pediatric Brain tumor Fund,
The MIT team, led by Michael Yaffe, the David H. Koch Professor in Science, and Paula Hammond, the David H. Koch Professor in Engineering, describe the findings in the May 8 online edition of Science Signaling. think it a harbinger of what nanomedicine can do for us in the future,
says Hammond, who is a member of MIT Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research. ee moving from the simplest model of the nanoparticle just getting the drug in there
For this project, Hammond and her graduate student, Stephen Morton, devised dozens of candidate particles. The most effective were a type of particle called liposomes spherical droplets surrounded by a fatty outer shell.
a professor of systems biology at the Technical University of Denmark who was not part of the research team. he latter is vital,
and Kevin Shopsowitz, visiting student Elise Siouve, and graduate student Nisarg Shah also contributed to the research.
The work was funded by the National institutes of health, the Center for Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence, the Koch Institute Frontier Research Program supported by the Kathy and Curt Marble Fund for Cancer Research,
all led by MIT Troy Van Voorhis, professor of chemistry, and Marc Baldo, professor of electrical engineering.
In most photovoltaic (PV) materials, a photon (a packet of sunlight) delivers energy that excites a molecule,
Van Voorhis used experimental data gathered in samples specially synthesized by Baldo and Timothy Swager, MIT John D. Macarthur Professor of Chemistry.
To detect fission rates which are measured in femtoseconds (10-15 seconds) the MIT team turned to experts including Moungi Bawendi, the Lester Wolfe Professor of Chemistry,
David Reichman, a professor of chemistry at Columbia University who was involved not in this research, considers the new findings very important contribution to the singlet fission literature.
Think about a range around you like five feet says Gregory Wornell the Sumitomo Electric Industries Professor in Engineering in MIT s Department of Electrical engineering
Regular irregularityso Wornell and his co-authors James Krieger a former student of Wornell s who is now at MIT s Lincoln Laboratory
and Yuval Kochman a former postdoc who is now an assistant professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
working with colleagues at the University of Washington, have developed a new computer system that can automatically solve the type of word problems common in introductory algebra classes.
and finance problems whose solutions don appear in the back of the teacher edition of a textbook.
an MIT graduate student in electrical engineering and computer science and lead author on the new paper, the new work is in the field of emantic parsing,
a professor of computer science and engineering and one of his two thesis advisors, and by the University of Washington Yoav Artzi and Luke Zettlemoyer.
The researchers will present their work at the annual meeting of the Association for Computational linguistics in June.
Kushman found a website on which algebra students posted word problems they were having difficulty with,
For the training, however, they used two different approaches or, in the parlance of machine learning, two different types of supervision.
In the first case, the system, after training, was able to solve roughly 70 percent of its test problems;
the system examined hundreds of thousands of eaturesof the training examples. Some of those features related specific words to problem types:
a professor of computer science of the University of Southern California. he approach of building a generative story of how people get from text to answers is a great idea.
an MIT associate professor of biological engineering. here a general recognition that in order to understand the brain processes in comprehensive detail,
said Bessma Aljarbou, a graduate student at the MIT Sloan School of management, during Unified Solar winning pitch last night to a capacity crowd. hade brings energy loss, reliability concerns,
an MIT Phd student in electrical engineering and computer science (EECS) who invented the technology. With the prize money, the team including students from MIT, the California Institute of technology,
and Stanford university aims to further develop the technology and launch the company. By 2015 the team aims to complete in-lab testing
The CEP, the nation leading student-run energy business-plan competition, awarded a total of $320,
said Thomas Baade-Mathiesen, a graduate student at MIT Sloan and co-managing director of the CEP. nd that even counting conservatively,
Open to students at any U s. university and now partnered with Cleantech Open, the competition aims to promote clean energy innovation
and that what wee effectively doing, added team member Albert Chan, a graduate student in MIT Leaders for Global Operations program.
an EECS Phd student studying power electronics, said during the team pitch. t empowers users to build their own grid, from the ground up,
The top prize for energy efficiency (and an Audience Choice Award) went to a University of Maryland team, MF Fire,
It an architecture influenced by Silver graduate years in MIT Engineering Systems Division, which stresses reliability, scalability,
and Buck, a biological engineering graduate student, won a grant from the NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts program to create a life-support system that could treat waste
The research team, led by professor Leona Samson, used this approach to measure DNA repair in a type of immortalized human blood cells called lymphoblastoid cells,
who is the Uncas and Helen Whitaker Professor, an American Cancer Society Professor, and a member of MIT departments of biological engineering and of biology, Center for Environmental Health Sciences,
Graduate students Carrie Margulies and Isaac Chaim; technical assistants Siobhan Mcree and Patrizia Mazzucato; and research scientists Vincent Butty, Anwaar Ahmad, Ryan Abo,
A research team led by professor Michael Cima has invented an injectable device that reveals oxygen levels over several weeks
In cases where you are trying to make therapeutic decisions you want to have some numbers that you can fall back on says Vincent Liu a graduate student in Cima s lab at MIT s Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research
Cima the David H. Koch Professor of Engineering is the paper s senior author. Other authors are recent MIT Phd recipient Christophoros Vassiliou and recent master s degree recipient Syed Imaad.
Long-term MRIMRI uses magnetic fields and radio waves that interact with protons in the body to produce detailed images of the body s interior.
Ralph Weissleder a professor at Harvard Medical school and director of the Massachusetts General Hospital Center for Molecular Imaging Research says this type of sensor is a novel way to potentially track how cancer patients
#Bionic ankle'emulates nature'These days Hugh Herr an associate professor of media arts and sciences at MIT gets about 100 emails daily from people across the world interested in his bionic limbs.
Then there are students looking to join Herr s research group. The technology inspires young people to get into the field
Akselrod and Parag Deotare professors Vladimir Bulovic and Marc Baldo and four others. This is the first direct observation of exciton diffusion processes Bulovic says showing that crystal structure can dramatically affect the diffusion process.
David Lidzey a professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Sheffield who was involved not in this work calls the research a really impressive demonstration of a direct measurement of the diffusion of triplet excitons and their eventual trapping.
storable and distributable, says Jeffrey Grossman, an associate professor of materials science and engineering, who is a co-author of a paper describing the new process in the journal Nature Chemistry.
an assistant professor of chemistry at the University of North carolina who was involved not in this work. He adds that the resulting increase in energy storage density s surprising and remarkable. his result provides additional motivation for researchers to design more
The team also included MIT research scientist Nicola Ferralis, assistant professor of mechanical engineering Alexie Kolpak, and undergraduate Jennie Zheng,
as well as Harvard professor Daniel Nocera. The work was supported by BP though the MIT Energy Initiative and the U s. Department of energy Advanced Research Projects Agency Energy n
#Tiny particles could help verify goods Some 2 to 5 percent of all international trade involves counterfeit goods, according to a 2013 United nations report.
Led by MIT chemical engineering professor Patrick Doyle and Lincoln Laboratory technical staff member Albert Swiston the researchers have invented a new type of tiny,
The paper lead authors are MIT postdoc Jiseok Lee and graduate student Paul Bisso. MIT graduate students Rathi Srinivas and Jae Jung Kim also contributed to the research.'
'A massive encoding capacity'The new particles are about 200 microns long and include several stripes of different colored nanocrystals,
a professor of biologically inspired engineering at Harvard university who was involved not in the research. here are several striking features of this work,
along with a colleague from the University of Chicago, presents evidence of a strong convergence of prices within the Eurozone, the region of European countries sharing a common currency.
says Roberto Rigobon, the Society of Sloan Fellows Professor of Management at the MIT Sloan School of management,
says Alberto Cavallo, a professor at MIT Sloan, and another co-author of the paper. ee finding those things don seem to matter relative to the retailer showing prices in the same currency.
Along with Cavallo and Rigobon, the study was conducted by Brent Neiman, a professor at the University of Chicago Booth School of business.
Gita Gopinath, an economics professor at Harvard university, calls the work terrific paperthat adds new information to the field. hat we did not know,
What s exciting about this approach is that we can actually correct a defective gene in a living adult animal says Daniel Anderson the Samuel A. Goldblith Associate professor of Chemical engineering at MIT a member of the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research
and also identifies several of the challenges that will need to be addressed moving forward to the development of human therapies says Charles Gersbach an assistant professor of biomedical engineering at Duke university who was not part of the research team.
Other authors are Institute Professor Phillip Sharp; Tyler Jacks director of the Koch Institute; postdoc Sidi Chen;
written by MIT graduate student Yichen Shen, professor of physics Marin Soljacic, and four others. e are excited about this,
John Pendry, a professor at Imperial College London who was connected not to this research, calls this an ngenious application. n a macroscopic scale this is equivalent to observing the world through a set of louvers that allow light to enter from one direction only,
associate professor of mathematics Steven Johnson; John Joannopoulos, the Francis Wright Davis Professor of Physics; and Dexin Ye of Zhejiang University in China.
The work was supported in part by the Army Research Office, through MIT Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies,
and the U s. Department of energy, through the MIT S3tec Energy Research Frontier Center r
#Seeking a parts list for the retina New technique classifies retinal neurons into 15 categories,
Sebastian Seung, a former MIT professor of brain and cognitive sciences and physics who is now at Princeton university,
says Constance Cepko, a professor of genetics at Harvard Medical school. Previous efforts have focused on analyzing only a small number of cell types at a time,
or diagnostic sensors says Timothy Lu an assistant professor of electrical engineering and biological engineering. Lu is the senior author of a paper describing the living functional materials in the March 23 issue of Nature Materials.
The paper s lead author is Allen Chen an MIT-Harvard MD-Phd student. Other authors are postdocs Zhengtao Deng Amanda Billings Urartu Seker and Bijan Zakeri;
and graduate student Robert Citorik. Self-assembling materialslu and his colleagues chose to work with the bacterium E coli
and materials engineering says Lingchong You an associate professor of biomedical engineering at Duke university who was not part of the research team.
According to Tim Lu, an assistant professor of electrical engineering and biological engineering at MIT, it boils down to the inefficient bacteria-detection assays used in the food industry.
Based on Lu graduate school research at MIT, the assay uses biological particles called bacteriophages, or phages,
when Lu was an MD/Phd student in the MIT-Harvard Health Sciences and Technology program in the mid-2000s.
In a lab at Boston University Lu engineered phages that could break apart antibiotic-resistant biofilms coatings where bacteria live
This discovery would earn Lu the $30, 000 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize, in 2008, and a spot on Technology Review 2010 list of top innovators under 35.
through university business-plan competitions across the country, and outfitted nearly an entire lab with reused equipment from MIT and auctions.
In an incubator at the University of Massachusetts at Boston, the renamed Sample6 tailored the product for the food industry before relocating to its current headquarters in Boston Seaport District,
an assistant professor of chemistry and leader of the research team. eptides are ubiquitous. Theye used in therapeutics,
a graduate student in Pentelute lab. Other authors include Klavs Jensen, head of MIT Department of Chemical engineering,
Many universities, including MIT, have facilities to manufacture these peptides, but the process usually takes two to six weeks,
an associate professor of chemistry at the Scripps Research Institute who was not part of the research team. hat
Chemistry graduate students Surin Mong and Alexander Vinogradov are lead authors of that paper along with Simon. The researchers have patented the technology,
. Lai Fellowship, an Astrazeneca Distinguished Graduate student Fellowship, the National Institute of General Medical sciences, and the National institutes of health M
the Carbon P. Dubbs Professor of Chemical engineering and leader of the MIT research team. hey repair themselves, theye environmentally stable outside,
a professor of biomedical engineering at Boston University who was involved not in the research. he authors nicely show that self-assembling nanoparticles can be used to enhance the photosynthetic capacity of plants,
We re excited about soft robots for a variety of reasons says Daniela Rus a professor of computer science
Escape velocitythe robotic fish was built by Andrew Marchese a graduate student in MIT s Department of Electrical engineering
Video Melanie Gonick All of our algorithms and control theory are designed pretty much with the idea that we ve got rigid systems with defined joints says Barry Trimmer a biology professor at Tufts University who specializes in biomimetic soft robots.
the Daniel K. Ludwig Professor for Cancer Research in MIT Department of biology. his study couldn have been done five to 10 years ago.
a professor of radiation oncology at Harvard Medical school and Massachusetts General Hospital. ur knowledge about the abundance of extracellular matrix proteins in tumors has been limited.
and don t need a large battery says Tod Hynes 02 co-founding president of XL Hybrids and a lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of management.
As an MIT undergraduate in management in the late 1990s and early 2000s Hynes became very passionate about startups.
Coming full circle Hynes now teaches at MIT helping to walk students through the process of launching alternative-energy startups.
since he was an undergraduate and even since he started XL Hybrids. MIT has done a tremendous job at becoming a world center for energy innovation he says e
The technology developed by MIT professor and Howard hughes medical institute investigator Sangeeta Bhatia relies on nanoparticles that interact with tumor proteins called proteases each
When we invented this new class of synthetic biomarker we used a highly specialized instrument to do the analysis says Bhatia the John and Dorothy Wilson Professor of Health Sciences and Technology and Electrical engineering and Computer science.
The paper s lead authors are graduate student Andrew Warren postdoc Gabriel Kwong and former postdoc David wood.
This is a clever and inspired technology to develop new exogenous compounds that can detect clinical conditions with aberrantly high protease concentrations says Samuel Sia an associate professor of biological engineering at Columbia University who was involved not in the research.
The research was funded by a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship a Mazumdar-Shaw International Oncology Fellowship the Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award from the National institutes of health
The findings the result of microscopic analysis of bacteria inside microfluidic devices were made by MIT postdoc Roberto Rusconi former MIT postdoc Jeffrey Guasto (now an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Tufts
University) and Roman Stocker an associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at MIT. Their results are published in the journal Nature Physics.
and there is no preferential accumulation Rusconi says. The new findings could also be important for studies of microbial marine ecosystems by affecting how bacteria move in search of nutrients
Howard A. Stone a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at Princeton university who was involved not in this research calls this a very interesting paper
the better, says Darrell Irvine, a professor of biological engineering and of materials science and engineering, and the senior author of the paper.
a professor of dermatology at University Hospital Zurich who was not part of the research team. oth the effect on the stimulated immune responses
There students and monks will be able to learn from materials such as lectures on MIT s Opencourseware (with added Tibetan subtitles.
Science teachers in rural India have a very basic education and no way to continue that education Priyadarshi says.
And often in India he says Once they become teachers they re shy of going back to education.
We re trying to break that paradigm and the idea has gained already traction. The centers will provide courses serve as hubs where people can try out things Priyadarshi says
and provide continuing education to science teachers with each center serving 30 to 40 nearby schools he says.
This project is led by now a team of Tibetan high school students mentored by volunteers and is advanced in an stage of development.
The program links MIT teachers and mentors to Tibetan community programs through Skype supplemented by regular travel by Dalai lama Center staff alumni and students who among other work teach weeklong leadership
classes to groups of Tibetan students and monks. Some team members will travel to India this spring to work on ongoing projects including a rainwater harvesting system
The education is a two-way street Zaccagnini says with the MIT students and alumni bringing their technological knowledge
a professor of physical medicine and rehabilitation at the University of California at Irvine. obotic measurements will help us identify promising treatments with smaller numbers of patients
Researchers at MIT Microsystems Technology Laboratory (MTL), together with physicians from Harvard Medical school and the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary (MEEI
the Joseph F. and Nancy P. Keithley Professor of Electrical engineering and corresponding author on the new paper. r you could imagine a smart pillow,
director of the Cochlear Implant Center at the University of California at San francisco. here a much greater stigma of having a hearing loss than there is of having a visual loss.
The source of Kspliceksplice s roots trace back to 2006 when Arnold was charged with implementing a security update for MIT s Student Information Processing Board that arrived on a weekday.
Under the tutelage of Frans Kaashoek the Charles A. Piper Professor of Computer science and Engineering Arnold started developing Ksplice for his graduate thesis
William Jack of Georgetown University, show that income shocks force households without access to M-PESA to reduce their consumption by 7 percent more than households in the M-PESA network.
an associate professor of applied economics at the MIT Sloan School of management. heye more likely to get money from their friends and family,
Other scholars say the results are interesting, and suggest follow-up questions about the larger impact,
an economist at Georgetown University who has read the paper. However, Vella adds, oving forward,
the APA is now being used by all four military branches on the battlefield and in training to climb mountains, buildings, and ships.
who won the 2007 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize for his work (providing $30, 000 that further funded APA prototyping).
which challenges student teams to invent technologies based on military requests. Original specifications for the invention called for a device that weighed less than 25 pounds
says Amy Finkelstein, the Ford Professor of Economics at MIT and a principal investigator of the study,
along with Katherine Baicker, a professor at the Harvard School of Public health. The study, which is being published today in the journal Science,
Other scholars in the field say the study opens the way for further scrutiny of emergency room use.
Amitabh Chandra, an economist and professor at the Harvard Kennedy School who has read the paper, praises the study as xemplary social science,
Evidence from Oregon Health insurance Experiment, were lead author Sarah Taubman of the National Bureau of Economic Research, Heidi Allen of Columbia University School of Social work,
and Bill Wright of the Center for Outcomes Research and Education at Providence Health and Services in Portland, Ore.
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