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,
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.
This technique could offer a more reliable way to detect malaria says Jongyoon Han a professor of electrical engineering and biological engineering at MIT.
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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
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 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
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.
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;
This allows us to attain high velocities with small applied forces says MIT graduate student Karim Khalil the paper s lead author.
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.
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:"
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
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.
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
Already Affectiva has conducted pilot work for online learning where it captured data on facial engagement to predict learning outcomes.
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.
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.
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 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.
He and graduate student Faye Wu presented a paper on the robot this week at the Robotics:
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.
To find a better alternative, Boyden, graduate student Amy Chuong, and colleagues turned to the natural world.
John Rogers, a professor of materials research and engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign who was involved not in this work,
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:
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.
and MIT professors of architecture Les Norford and Leon Glicksman and about a dozen companies now operate in the field.
They found guidance among the seasoned entrepreneurs at MIT Venture Mentoring Service learning to fail fast,
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,
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,
The paper lead authors are Young-Gyu Yoon, a graduate student at MIT, and Robert Prevedel, a postdoc at the University of Vienna.
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.
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.
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
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.
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,
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
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.
Kushman found a website on which algebra students posted word problems they were having difficulty with,
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.
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,
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
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.
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
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,
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,
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,
John Joannopoulos, the Francis Wright Davis Professor of Physics; and Dexin Ye of Zhejiang University in China.
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,
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
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.
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.
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