which people will actually remember a face says lead author Aditya Khosla a graduate student in the Computer Vision group within CSAIL.
Torralba an associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science and graduate student Wilma Bainbridge. Conversely it could also be used to make faces appear less memorable
We all wish to use a photo that makes us more visible to our audience says Aleix Martinez an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at Ohio State university.
The new study, by assistant professor of engineering systems Jessika Trancik, is being published this week in the journal Environmental science and Technology.
Trancik is joined on the paper by three MIT graduate students: Michael Chang and Christina Karapataki of the Engineering Systems Division and Leah Stokes of the Department of Urban Studies and Planning. policy that focused on controlling carbon emissions is a different kind of policy than one that focused
Count the photonsas Ahmed Kirmani a graduate student in MIT s Department of Electrical engineering and Computer science and lead author on the new paper explains the very idea of forming an image with only a single photon detected at each pixel location is counterintuitive.
and lead to more detected photons and more charge accumulation. In a conventional lidar system the laser fires pulses of light toward a sequence of discrete positions
Researchers in the Optical and Quantum Communications Group which is led by Jeffrey Shapiro the Julius A. Stratton Professor of Electrical engineering
which is also impressive says John Howell a professor of physics at the University of Rochester.
a graduate student at MIT. sing the current state of the art, such as the new Kinect, you cannot capture translucent objects in 3-D,
says Ramesh Raskar, an associate professor of media arts and sciences and leader of the Camera Culture group within the Media Lab,
and Christopher Barsi at MIT and Adrian Dorrington and Lee Streeter from the University of Waikato in New zealand. e use a new method that allows us to encode information in time,
a graduate student in the Media Lab. eople with shaky hands tend to take blurry photographs with their cellphones
much like the human eye, says James Davis, an associate professor of computer science at the University of California at Santa cruz. In contrast,
says Michael Strano, the Carbon P. Dubbs Professor of Chemical engineering at MIT and senior author of the study,
Laurent Cognet, a senior scientist at the Institute of Optics at the University of Bordeaux, says this approach should prove useful for many applications requiring reliable detection of specific molecules. his new concept,
Their finding is reported in a paper in the journal Nature co-authored by Kripa Varanasi, the Doherty Associate professor of Mechanical engineering at MIT
along with James Bird, a former MIT postdoc who is now an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Boston University, former MIT postdoc Rajeev Dhiman,
Howard Stone, a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at Princeton university who was involved not in this work,
and an MK2 inhibitor could be very effective says Michael Yaffe the David H. Koch Professor in Science
and potentially useful approach for others to use says Titia de Lange a professor of cell biology
and genetics at Rockefeller University who was not part of the research team. Using these mice the researchers found that before treatment tumors lacking both MK2
the Doherty Associate professor of Ocean Utilization in MIT Department of Mechanical engineering and the lead author of the study.
who is now an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Boston University. ommon knowledge suggests that the closely spaced posts would provide greater surface area,
a professor of mechanical, aerospace, and nuclear engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic institute who was involved not in this research,
says, xtending the surface temperature at which this phenomenon occurs is a challenging task that has been a century-long research effort.
The research was supported by a Young Faculty Award from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the MIT Energy Initiative,
Patrick Doyle, the Singapore Research Professor of Chemical engineering at MIT, is the senior author of the paper.
says Patrick Tabeling, a professor at the École Supérieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles in Paris,
A new study from MIT and the University of Toronto offers a possible way to overcome that resistance.
Senior authors of the new paper are Stephen Lippard the Arthur Amos Noyes Professor of Chemistry at MIT and a member of MIT's Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research and Shana
Kelley a professor of biochemistry and pharmaceutical sciences at the University of Toronto. Lead authors are Simon Wisnovsky who received his Phd from the University of Toronto and MIT alumnus Justin Wilson Phd 13.
This is the first study to isolate the effects of a platinum drug in mitochondria and we were intrigued very to observe that the DNA damage caused by this drug outside of the nucleus were highly toxic Kelley says.
The new targeted molecule is designed an elegantly platinum complex says Paul Dyson a professor of chemistry at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne who was not part of the research team.
The research was funded by the National Cancer Institute the Canadian Institute of Health and a David H. Koch Graduate Fellowship s
the Lawrence C. 1944) and Sarah W. Biedenharn Associate professor of Physics and senior author of a paper published this week in Science.
Victor Galitski, a professor of physics at the University of Maryland who was involved not in this research,
the Sun Jae Professor of Mechanical engineering at MIT. hat pretty much a description of what the ankle is.
and Hermano Krebs from MIT and Mohammad Rastgaar Aagaah from Michigan Technological University. A robotic walking coach Hogan and Krebs
Eric Perreault, a professor of biomedical engineering and physical medicine and rehabilitation at Northwestern University, says the group findings present the first insight into how muscle activation alters the ankle mechanical properties over its normal range of motion,
Stephen Shum a graduate student in MIT s Department of Electrical engineering and Computer science and lead author on the new paper found that a 100-variable i-vector a 100-dimension approximation of the 120000-dimension space was an adequate
Ten years ago MIT researchers led by Susumu Tonegawa the Picower Professor of Biology and Neuroscience created mice lacking the gene for calcineurin in the forebrain;
and colleagues at the RIKEN-MIT Center for Neural Circuit Genetics at MIT s Picower Institute for Learning and Memory recorded the electrical activity of individual neurons in the hippocampus of these knockout mice
Other authors are Heydar Davoudi and Matthew Wilson the Sherman Fairchild Professor of Neuroscience at MIT and a member of the Picower Institute.
says Frans Kaashoek, the Charles A. Piper Professor in the Department of Electrical engineering and Computer science (EECS).
a graduate student in EECS and first author on the new paper, is the assumption that
and identified every undefined behavior that he and his coauthors Kaashoek and his fellow EECS professors Nickolai Zeldovich and Armando Solar-Lezama imagined that a programmer might ever inadvertently invoke.
Such a system could be used to monitor patients who are at high risk for blood clots says Sangeeta Bhatia senior author of the paper and the John and Dorothy Wilson Professor of Health Sciences and Technology and Electrical engineering and Computer science.
Lead authors of the paper are Kevin Lin a graduate student in chemical engineering and Gabriel Kwong a postdoc in IMES.
Other authors are Andrew Warren a graduate student in Health Sciences and Technology (HST) and former HST postdoc David wood.
The technology could also be useful for predicting recurrence of clots says Henri Spronk an assistant professor of biochemistry at Maastricht University in The netherlands.
and CEO David Lucchino MBA 6 is developing a novel biomaterial for implanted medical devices that permanently barricades these troublesome microbes from the device surface.
co-authored by Loose, Lucchino, MIT Institute Professor Robert Langer, and other researchers. Based on Loose work at MIT,
a chemical engineering Phd student, was charged with developing medical devices that could permanently be inserted in the body without triggering an immune response in other words,
In vitro, the modified catheters on both their external and internal surfaces saw a 98 percent reduction in the accumulation of platelets and three types of white blood cells.
In vivo, the modified catheters showed a 99 percent reduction in thrombus accumulation, 50 percent less inflammation,
Lucchino says he owes some of his business acumen to his education at MIT Sloan,
Today, the two entrepreneurs continue to mentor students and give talks at MIT and Harvard Business school, sharing startup advice,
or their ules of the roadsuch as knowing your technological and personal limitations, working with limited resources, being flexible to economic and other changes,
who has served as guest lecturer at MIT Sloan. s your company grows and there real value attached to
The results were published in the journal Physical Review Letters in a paper by graduate student Guoqiang Xu
and professor of materials science and engineering Michael Demkowicz. e had to go back and check, Demkowicz says, when nstead of extending,
Metal fatigue, for example which can result from an accumulation of nanoscale cracks over time s probably the most common failure modefor structural metals in general
William Gerberich, a professor of chemical engineering and materials science at the University of Minnesota who was involved not in this research,
To improve robots ability to gauge object orientation Jared Glover a graduate student in MIT s Department of Electrical engineering
when an MIT senior named John Romanishin proposed a new design for modular robots to his robotics professor, Daniela Rus,
Two years later, Rus showed her colleague Hod Lipson, a robotics researcher at Cornell University, a video of prototype robots, based on Romanishin design,
a professor of electrical engineering and computer science and director of CSAIL. e just needed a creative insight
#Seeing through silicon Scientists at MIT and the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) have developed a new type of microscopy that can image cells through a silicon wafer,
Other lead authors of the paper are former MIT postdoc Narahara Chari Dingari and UTA graduate students Bipin Joshi and Nelson Cardenas.
The senior author is Samarendra Mohanty, an assistant professor of physics at UTA. Other authors are former MIT postdoc Jaqueline Soares, currently an assistant professor at Federal University of Ouro Preto, Brazil,
and Ramachandra Rao Dasari, associate director of the LBRC. Silicon is used commonly to build ab-on-a-chipmicrofluidic devices,
who is now an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Johns hopkins university. To achieve that, Barman and colleagues took advantage of the fact that silicon is infrared transparent to and near-infrared wavelengths of light.
an associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign who was not part of the research team. he possibilities are endless:
Having witnessed this struggle firsthand on a trip through the Atlas Mountains, MIT Supply Chain Management graduate student Zyad El Jebbari,
A lack of literacy provides a challenging barrier to access the modern distribution channels of today fast-growing market demand for handmade goods. Current models for exporting
Dao and colleagues, including Subra Suresh, president of Carnegie mellon University, former dean of MIT School of engineering,
and Vannevar bush Professor of Engineering Emeritus, have developed a tiny microfluidic device that can analyze the behavior of blood from sickle cell disease patients.
a former MIT postdoc who is now an assistant professor at Florida Atlantic University; Monica Diez-Silva, a former research scientist in MIT Department of Materials science and engineering;
and Gregory Kato of the Department of Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh. Squeezing by People with sickle cell disease,
a professor of aeronautics and mechanical engineering at Caltech who was involved not in this study. The researchers have filed a patent on the device to further its development for diagnostic use,
The research was funded by the National institutes of health and Carnegie mellon University e
#New fibers can deliver many simultaneous stimuli The human brain complexity makes it extremely challenging to study not only because of its sheer size,
says Anikeeva, an assistant professor of materials science and engineering. To do that, her team made use of novel fiber-fabrication technology pioneered by MIT professor of materials science
(and paper co-author) Yoel Fink and his team, for use in photonics and other applications.
John Rogers, a professor of materials science and engineering and of chemistry at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign who was involved not in this research
a principle investigator at the Picower Institute for Learning and Memory who previously developed novel techniques for studying brain circuitry in addiction
For the study, Tye and her graduate student Edward Nieh focused on the connections between the VTA and the lateral hypothalamus (LH),
Next, Nieh worked with an MD/Phd student in Tye's lab, Stephen Allsop, to modify mice
who is also the Whitehead Career development Assistant professor in MIT's Department of Brain and Cognitive sciences. ow we have evidence showing that this transition is represented in the LH-VTA circuit.
and private sources, including Nieh NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, the Integrative Neuronal Systems Fellowship, and the Training program in the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory.
Kara N. Presbrey, Christopher A. Leppla, Romy Wichmann, Rachael Neve, and Craig P. Wildes, all members of the Picower Institute, also contributed to this work a
#New findings reveal genetic brain disorders converge at the synapse Picower Institute for Learning and Memory January 12,
the Picower Professor of Neuroscience in MIT Picower Institute for Learning and Memory, showed that two very different genetic causes of autism
The research was performed by postdoc and lead author Di Tian, graduate student Laura Stoppel, and research scientist Arnold Heynen, in collaboration with scientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and Roche pharmaceuticals.
Design), taught by senior lecturer Amy Smith, when she learned about the plight of 500 million small-scale farmers around the world still using only their hands and hoes for farming.
Participating in the $100k with help from fellow students in engineering and in the MIT Sloan School of management
And over the years, D-Lab students have traveled frequently to Tanzania to help with product development,
But GCS is now furthering development on a motorized multicrop thresher eveloped by a team of students that the Bill
In 2012, Avila and two MIT students also fixed issues with the threads on the sheller drive shaft:
The students discovered the issue and used longer bolts with springs to secure the sheller so when the maize jammed,
says Essess cofounder Sanjay Sarma, the Fred Fort Flowers and Daniel Fort Flowers Professor in Mechanical engineering,
Then, in 2011, Field Intelligence Lab student Long Phan Phd 2 made key innovations to the rig that allowed low-cost cameras (about $1,
Elazer Edelman, the Thomas D. and Virginia W. Cabot Professor of Health Sciences and Technology and a member of IMES, is also a senior author of the paper.
The paper lead authors are graduate student Nuria Oliva and former graduate student Maria Carcole. Exploring material properties Artzi
who is also an assistant professor at Harvard Medical school. Predicting adhesion Using this data, the researchers created a model to help them alter the composition of the material depending on the circumstances.
The work is authored co by MIT associate professor of mechanical engineering Nicholas Fang and graduate student Anshuman Kumar
and their co-authors at IBM T. J. Watson Research center, Hong kong Polytechnic University, and the University of Minnesota.
Although the two materials are structurally similar both composed of hexagonal arrays of atoms that form two-dimensional sheets they each interact with light quite differently.
a researcher at IBM and the University of Minnesota, says, ur work paves the way for using 2-D material heterostructures for engineering new optical properties on demand. nother potential application,
Sheng Shen, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Carnegie mellon University who was involved not in this research, says, his work represents significant progress on understanding tunable interactions of light in graphene-hbn.
I am excited personally very about this novel theoretical work. he research team also included Kin Hung Fung of Hong kong Polytechnic University.
Cambodia held its first national-level science festival at the Royal University of Phnom penh, attracting over 10,000 young students to the science booths over the course of three days.
At one table, Allen Tan, the country director for Cambodia of the Golden West Humanitarian Foundation, held 3-D printed land mine models, decked in bright red, white,
Nearby, J. Kim Vandiver, mechanical engineering professor and director of the MIT Edgerton Center, helped his wife, Kathy Vandiver, community outreach education and engagement director at the Center for Environmental Health Sciences
This science festival was unpredicted an benefit of an association that had begun with a brainstorming session in Phnom penh on ways to improve the training of people who work with unexploded mines and other remnants of conflict in Cambodia and around the world.
but, inherently, the training and deployment are difficult. Trying to alleviate this problem, Tan and Vandiver came up with the idea to use 3-D-printed training models.
There are several advantages of 3d printed devices over 40-year-old real devices that have been rendered inert.
as well as some difficulty in obtaining them in sufficient quantities to use in training. Training with 3-D-printed versions is also more effective
because students can assemble and disassemble such objects and clearly understand how the various brightly colored components interact.
An additional major advantage is the ability to bring these models on commercial airplanes, whereas real parts of bombs are allowed never.
and create a training set consisting of 10 explosive devices commonly encountered by workers in Cambodia.
however, were at the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD. Advanced ordinance teaching materials (AOTM) were developed in the Golden West Design Lab in collaboration with faculty from MIT and the Singapore University of Technology and Design.
Video: Golden West Humanitarian Foundationfortuitously, Vandiver was participating at the time in a collaboration between MIT and SUTD.
and MIT students to improve their CAD skills and learn to perfect 3-D printing.
Ten months ago, the Golden West Foundation completed its first complete set of 3-D-printed models, ready for use in training.
Vandiver contribution to the final training set was introducing modern pedagogical approaches to the training of EOD staff,
and had little education in engineering and science. True to his Edgerton Center roots he helped Tan
and others adopt the use of active learning in EOD training. Instead of the traditional, default lecture style,
students were expected to disassemble and work with the 3-D printed models to learn by discovery how different bombs
who collaborated closely with Institute Professor Harold ocedgerton in the 1970s, founded the Edgerton Center in 1992 as a legacy to Edgerton belief in the power of earning by doing.
He is a professor of mechanical and ocean engineering and also served as a lieutenant in the U s army Corps of Engineers in Vietnam in 1970-1971.
Vandiver visited one of his graduate students working on an EOD project in Cambodia. It was on this visit that he met with Tan
and engaged with him in a conversation about how to involve SUTD and MIT students in meaningful, real projects.
This brainstorming session produced the idea to engage student interns in the computer-aided design of training objects.
SUTD and MIT student interns travel to Cambodia to help with design and production in coordination with John Wright, the project engineer at Golden West headquarters in Cambodia.
The training set costs approximately $7, 000 and may be shipped as ordinary luggage on commercial flights.
The United nations has ordered also sets for EOD training in Sub-saharan africa. Because of the high demand for these effective, portable training sets, the U s. Department of state has funded an extension of the project to produce training sets for cluster bombs and land mines.
There have also been unexpected side effects, such as Cambodia first national science festival. Modeled on the Cambridge Science Festival and the U s. Science and Engineering Festival in Washington
this fair introduced middle school-aged kids to many facets of engineering. Tan hopes the festival will help Cambodian students see that science
and engineering education can make it possible for them to make important contributions to their home and country.
Today, the Golden West Humanitarian Foundation continues to make EOD training sets, and is looking at more ways to improve EOD education using technology.
Vandiver, on top of other MIT and Edgerton Center-related work, stays in contact and continues to be involved in projects that make an impact in developing countries
#Vanishing friction Friction is all around us, working against the motion of tires on pavement, the scrawl of a pen across paper,
Vladan Vuletic, the Lester Wolfe Professor of Physics at MIT, says the ability to tune friction would be helpful in developing nanomachines tiny robots built from components the size of single molecules.
along with graduate students Alexei Bylinskii and Dorian Gangloff, publish their results today in the journal Science.
a professor of physics at the University of Freiburg in Germany, sees the results as a lear breakthroughin gaining insight into therwise inaccessible fundamental physics.
an MIT graduate student in electrical engineering and computer science and first author on the new paper. e need to regulate the input to extract the maximum power,
The prototype chip was manufactured through the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company's University Shuttle Program. Ups and downs The circuit chief function is to regulate the voltages between the solar cell, the battery,
the Joseph F. and Nancy P. Keithley Professor in Electrical engineering, use an inductor, which is a wire wound into a coil.
says Yet-Ming Chiang, the Kyocera Professor of Ceramics at MIT and a cofounder of 24m (and previously a cofounder of battery company A123).
and colleagues including W. Craig Carter, the POSCO Professor of Materials science and engineering. In this so-called low battery, the electrodes are suspensions of tiny particles carried by a liquid
Venkat Viswanathan, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Carnegie mellon University who was involved not in this work, says the analysis presented in the new paper ddresses a very important question of
the Power Sources paper was authored co by graduate student Brandon Hopkins, mechanical engineering professor Alexander Slocum, and Kyle Smith of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
The work was supported by the U s. Department of energy Center for Energy storage Research, based at Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois n
says Bounce Imaging CEO Francisco Aguilar MBA 2, who invented the device, called the Explorer.
Classmate and U s army veteran David Young MBA 2 joined the project early to provide a perspective of an end-user. he VMS steered us right in many ways,
a computer scientist who had founded co a few tech startups including Picturetel, directly out of graduate school, with the late MIT professor David Staelin before coming to VMS as a mentor in 2007.
Among other things, Bernstein says the VMS mentors helped Bounce Imaging navigate, for roughly two years,
as a student at both MIT Sloan and the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard university.
so you wouldn need special training or equipment to look into these dangerous areas, Aguilar says.
Invented by Microchips Biotech cofounders Michael Cima, the David H. Koch Professor of Engineering, and Robert Langer, the David H. Koch Institute Professor, the microchips consist of hundreds of pinhead-sized reservoirs,
each capped with a metal membrane, that store tiny doses of therapeutics or chemicals. An electric current delivered by the device removes the membrane,
and then-graduate student John Santini Phd 9 co-founded Microchips, and invented a prototype for their microchip that was described in a paper published that year in Nature.
The concept is described in a paper in the journal ACS Applied materials and Interfaces by MIT professor of mechanical engineering Ian W. Hunter, doctoral student Seyed M. Mirvakili,
and three others at the University of British columbia. Nanotechnology researchers have been working to increase the performance of supercapacitors for the past decade.
says Hunter, the George N. Hatsopoulos Professor in Thermodynamics in MIT Department of Mechanical engineering, ut it may not be needed for very long.
and future wearable technologies, says Geoff Spinks, a professor of engineering at the University of Wollongong, in Australia,
The team also included Phd student Mehr Negar Mirvakili and professors Peter Englezos and John Madden, all from the University of British columbia s
says Ahmed Ghoniem, the Ronald C. Crane('72) Professor of Mechanical engineering at MIT. One approach calls for using water rather than natural gas as the source of the hydrogen molecules needed for key chemical reactions in the refining process.
Ghoniem and William Green, the Hoyt C. Hottel Professor of Chemical engineering at MIT, have been working to close gaps in the fundamental knowledge about the chemistry involved as SCW
researchers from MIT and the Federal University of Goiás in Brazil demonstrate a novel method for using nanoparticles
the two lead authors, are former postdocs in the laboratory of Robert Langer, the David H. Koch Institute Professor at MIT Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research.
Eliana Martins Lima, of the Federal University of Goiás, is the other co-author. Both Brandl and Bertrand are trained as pharmacists,
says Frank Gu, an assistant professor of chemical engineering at the University of Waterloo in Canada, and an expert in nanoengineering for health care and medical applications. hen you think about field deployment,
an MIT associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science who co-invented the technology. Other cofounders and co-inventors are Anantha Chandrakasan, the Joseph F. and Nancy P. Keithley Professor in Electrical engineering, now chair of CEI technical advisory board;
alumnus Bin Lu SM 7, Phd 3, CEI vice president for device development; Ling Xia Phd2, CEI director of operations;
which brings together MIT students from across disciplines to evaluate the commercial feasibility of new technologies.
where entrepreneurial engineering students are guided through the startup process with group discussions and talks from seasoned entrepreneurs.
and other early startup challenges. t a great class for a student who has an idea,
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