and was due to be shipped to the launch site in Baikonur Kazakhstan. Recognising the current events in Ukraine we had been engaged in discussions with the government of Canada with respect to a potential delay of the launch of M3m
The memo stated that the suspension includes NASA travel to Russia and visits by Russian government representatives to NASA facilities bilateral meetings email and teleconferences or videoconferences.
Spacecraft currently use radio waves to beam information back home. Laser signals carry more data but the light is almost undetectable
and missions further afield (see a map of planned landing sites). The crew of the final Apollo mission lifted off from the moon's Sea of Serenity on 14 december 1972.
It could reveal different episodes of volcanism at the site which is covered with solidified lava.
The Google Lunar X Prize is offering $20 million to the first private team that by the end of 2015 launches a lunar spacecraft that can land on the moon travel 500 metres
They could even provide us with a global Wi-fi system On earth. Paulo Lozano leads a team working on Cubesat propulsion at the Massachusetts institute of technology.
Longmier's team began their first crowdfunding campaign on the Kickstarter website in July. Although they failed to raise their $200
Creating a universal"satellite Wi-fi""like existing satellite phone coverage, would require thousands of big satellites,
which is prohibitively expensive. But you could dump a thousand Cubesats in one place then spread them out to the right points, for a fraction of the price.
#Virgin galactic joins the reality TV space race Reality TV is set to become a little more out of this world.
Last month Sony Pictures Television announced a partnership with Dutch firm Space Expedition Corporation (SXC) for a show called Milky way Mission
Spacecraft normally rely on radio waves to communicate. These can be detected rain or shine but their relatively long wavelengths limit the information they can transmit in a given time period.
or impossible using only radio frequencies he says. But using shorter wavelengths for communication presents new challenges.
Laser beams do not spread out as much as radio waves while they travel which means that they must be aimed very precisely at detectors on the ground.
For this mission there is a better than 90 per cent chance of any one of those sites being open Cornwell says.
We've never taken a picture of it IBEX mission scientist Eric Christian said today in a teleconference.
#Multibillion-dollar race to put internet into orbit The next-generation internet could come from above, with fleets of satellites delivering broadband to under-served areas of the world THE race is on to build a new kind of internet.
A host of companies and billions of dollars are in play, with the ultimate goal of ringing the planet with satellites that will allow anyone, anywhere,
Presently, satellite internet relies on spacecraft that are travelling in geosynchronous orbit at the same speed as Earth rotates.
as radio waves take a quarter of a second to make the round trip up to a geosynchronous satellite and back.
Added to the time for the other trips your data must take across the rest of the internet,
This plans to put 648 satellites in orbit about 1200 kilometres above Earth's surface, where the round trip time for radio waves is just a few thousands of a second, fine for any online application.
based In virginia, has provided satellite telephone services and low-bandwidth internet since the late 1990s. Its existing network of 66 satellites is set to be replaced by a new one called Iridium NEXT.
the new satellites will be capable of delivering high-speed internet on a par with what Oneweb and Spacex envisage.
Even internet giant Google has got in on the rush to space investing $1 billion in Spacex's venture.
If the internet service providers that rule the physical infrastructure of the internet start charging web services to deliver content to users,
If they're using radio waves, those beams will have areas of overlap and interference.""Beaming down Radio transmission is the most common way to communicate between satellites and Earth.
However, as anyone who has had trouble with their wireless router knows, working with radio waves is finicky.
So Cahoy and colleagues are working on using light to transfer data instead. Easier to focus
"Companies like O3b and Spacex are planning to launch internet satellites with masses of hundreds of kilograms,
Cutler says satellite internet will really take off if companies make their equipment small enough to fit in Cubesats small,
it's being fuelled by an internet perspective i
#Running the color gamut If LCD TVS start getting much more colorful and energy-efficient in the next few years,
it will probably be thanks to MIT spinout QD Vision, a pioneer of quantum dot television displays.
QD Vision has developed an optical component that can boost the color gamut for LCD televisions by roughly 50 percent,
ecause a lot of growth for the TV market is there, says Seth Coe-Sullivan Phd, cofounder and chief technology officer of QD Vision,
and displays only reach about 70 to 80 percent of the National Television Standard Committee color gamut.
Choices we are making today about Internet governance and security have profound implications for the future.
CSAIL is home to much of the technology that is at the core of cybersecurity such as the RSA cryptography algorithm that protects most online financial transactions and the development of web standards via the MIT-based World wide web Consortium.
That gives us the ability to have our hands on the evolution of these technologies to learn about how to make them more trustworthy says Weitzner who was the United states deputy chief technology officer for Internet policy in the White house from 2011 to 2012 while on leave from his longtime position at MIT.
and obtain real-time biochemical information about disease sites and also healthy tissues which is not always straightforward.
Sociometric s system based on years of MIT research consists of employee identification badges with built-in Bluetooth sensors that track location and which way someone s facing.
Individuals have access to their personal data via a Web dashboard or smartphone but companies are given only anonymous aggregated results of patterns and trends in behavior.)
By combining this information with employee-performance data from surveys interviews and objective performance metrics Sociometric can pinpoint areas where management can build more productive offices in ways as surprising as providing larger lunch tables or moving coffee stations to increase interaction.
They also found evidence of communication overload where high volumes of email due to lack of face-to-face interaction were causing some employees difficulty in concentrating
Some major companies such as Google and Facebook Waber says are already promoting socializing by for instance building campuses where all workers come to collaborate.
or a specific sequence of single stranded-dna DNA into a targeted site. However this DNA is produced only when activated by the presence of a predetermined molecule or another type of input such as light.
After the DNA is produced the recombinase inserts the DNA into the cell s genome at a preprogrammed site.
compared with today more common 260-foot towers. hat site-dependent, Smith adds. f you go somewhere in the Midwest where there open plains,
Keystone delivers its mobile, industrial-sized machine and the trapezoid-shaped sheets of steel needed to feed into the system.
but to do so with considerable mobility, enabling immediate transport to a construction site, streamlining delivery and increasing construction efficiency.
similar to zoomed-in perspectives on Google maps. magine we can project a bunch of apartments in Cambridge,
#Beating battery drain Stream video on your smartphone or use its GPS for an hour or two and you ll probably see the battery drain significantly.
As data rates climb and smartphones adopt more power-hungry features battery life has become a concern.
Now a technology developed by MIT spinout Eta Devices could help a phone s battery last perhaps twice as long
The primary culprit in smartphone battery drain is an inefficient power amplifier a component that is designed to push the radio signal out through the phones antennas.
Prepared to send sizeable chunks of data at any given time the amplifiers stay at maximum voltage eating away power more than any other smartphone component and about 75 percent of electricity consumption in base stations#and wasting
This means smartphone batteries lose longevity and base stations waste energy and lose money. But Eta Devices has developed a chip (for smartphones)
and a shoebox-size module (for base stations) based on nearly a decade of MIT research to essentially switch gears to adjust voltage supply to power amplifiers as needed cutting the waste.
When trialed in a base station last year Eta Devices module became the first transmitter for 4G LTE networks to achieve an average efficiency greater than 70 percent Dawson says.
Eta Devices has entered also conversations with major manufacturers of LTE-enabled smartphones to incorporate their chips by the end of next year.
Dawson says this could potentially double current smartphone battery life. Besides battery life Dawson adds there are many ways the telecommunications industry can take advantage of improved efficiency.
Eta Devices approach could lead to smaller handset batteries for example and even smaller handsets since there would be less dissipating heat.
and Twitter to name a few. In the mobile marketeta Devices commercial success is in part a product of engineering ingenuity intersecting with business acumen at MIT.
At the time I was suffering as everyone else was from my iphone running out of battery at lunchtime Astrom says.
The iphone was only a year old but you could see how much data traffic would explode.
A paper detailing the technology was presented at that year s IEEE Radio frequency Integrated circuits Symposium. That Deshpande Center grant was big in terms of the funding
A few major smartphone manufacturers are now using envelope tracking (ET) which adjusts voltage to power amplifiers on the fly.
But by adjusting that voltage continuously ET efficiency falls apart for 4G LTE and 802. 11ac (Wifi) wireless standards even up to 20 MHZ bandwidth.
ETADVANCED in contrast already accommodates ultrahigh bandwidths used by newer communication standards such as LTE Advanced (up to 80#megahertz) and the next-generation Wifi standard (up to 160 megahertz).
) Prepping for future communication standards is one thing that s helped the company thrive Dawson says.
White blood cells can find their way to the site of an infection while scar-forming cells migrate to the site of a wound.
But finding ways of guiding artificial materials within the body has proven more difficult. Now a team of researchers at MIT led by Alfredo Alexander-Katz the Walter Henry Gale Associate professor of Materials science and engineering has demonstrated a new target-finding mechanism.
#Untangling how cables coil The world fiber-optic network spans more than 550,000 miles of undersea cable that transmits e-mail, websites,
A rip or tangle in any part of this network can significantly slow telecommunications around the world.
#MIT launches Laboratory for Social Machines with major Twitter investment The MIT Media Lab today announced the creation of the Laboratory for Social Machines (LSM), funded by a five-year, $10 million
commitment from Twitter. As part of the new program, Twitter will also provide full access to its real-time, public stream of tweets,
as well as the archive of every tweet dating back to the first. The new initiative, based at the Media Lab, will focus on the development of new technologies to make sense of semantic and social patterns across the broad span of public mass media
social media, data streams, and digital content. Pattern discovery and data visualization will be explored to reveal interaction patterns and shared interests in relevant social systems,
Though funded by Twitter, the LSM will have complete operational and academic independence. In keeping with the academic mission of LSM, students and staff will work across many social media
and mass media platforms including, but not limited to, Twitter. he Laboratory for Social Machines will experiment in areas of public communication
and social organization where humans and machines collaborate on problems that can be solved manually or through automation alone, says Deb Roy,
and who also serves as Twitter chief media scientist.""Social feedback loops based on analysis of public media
""With this investment, Twitter is seizing the opportunity to go deeper into research to understand the role Twitter
"says Dick Costolo, CEO of Twitter.""As social media leads us into the emergence of a new era of communication and engagement, the LSM,
in collaboration with Twitter, will create analytical tools to help turn the vision of a new public sphere into reality,
"adds Joi Ito, director of the MIT Media Lab T
#High-speed biologics screen MIT engineers have devised a way to rapidly test hundreds of different drug-delivery vehicles in living animals making it easier to discover promising new ways to deliver a class of drugs called biologics
and mobile but these designs are not just for use in space. This research was funded by NASA and the MIT Portugal Program m
or check email surreptitiously under the table that can be electrifying force for the enterprise,
#Ride sharing could cut cabs road time by 30 percent Cellphone apps that find users car rides in real time are exploding in popularity:
What if the taxi-service app on your cellphone had a button on it that let you indicate that you were willing to share a ride with another passenger?
if the passengers are using cellphone apps. So the researchers also analyzed the data on the assumption that only trips starting within a minute of each other could be combined.
if it ran on a server used to coordinate data from cellphones running a taxi-sharing app.
whether the primary cancer has moved to a new site to generate metastatic tumors, Dao says. his method is a step forward for detection of circulating tumor cells in the body.
that used that technique to create a mobile app that displayed supercomputer simulations, in seconds, on a smartphone.
sales, opening a Web platform to users, and hiring. e needed a sounding board, Knezevic says. e go into meetings
That much faster than the 60 frames per second possible with some smartphones, but well below the frame rates of the best commercial high-speed cameras,
which has amassed a vast facial-expression database is also setting its sights on a mood-aware Internet that reads a user s emotions to shape content.
The broad goal is to become the emotion layer of the Internet says Affectiva cofounder Rana el Kaliouby a former MIT postdoc who invented the technology.
In using Affdex Affectiva recruits participants to watch advertisements in front of their computer webcams tablets and smartphones.
Still in their early stages some of the apps are designed for entertainment such as people submitting selfies to analyze their moods and sharing them across social media.
and provide real-time feedback to the wearer via a Bluetooth headset. For instance auditory cues would provide feedback such as This person is bored
One of Affectiva s long-term goals is to usher in a mood-aware Internet to improve users experiences.
Imagine an Internet that s like walking into a large outlet store with sales representatives el Kaliouby says.
Websites and connected devices of the future should be like this very mood-aware. Sometime in the future this could mean computer games that adapt in difficulty and other game variables based on user reaction.
This approach could lead to devices to charge cellphones or other electronics using just the humidity in the air.
For example Miljkovic has calculated that at 1 microwatt per square centimeter a cube measuring about 50 centimeters on a side about the size of a typical camping cooler could be sufficient to fully charge a cellphone in about 12 hours.
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.
We believe wireless charging has a potential to do that. He is not alone. Last month Witricity signed a licensing agreement with Intel to integrate Witricity technology into computing devices powered by Intel.
Witricity Corp. recently unveiled a design for a smartphone and wireless charger powered by its technology.
The charger can charge two phones simultaneously and can be placed on top of a table or mounted underneath a table or desk.
Courtesy of Witricity Corp. Full Screen Stronger couplingsimilar wireless charging technologies have been around for some time. For instance traditional induction charging
or a radio antenna tuning into a single station out of hundreds.##The concept took shape in early 2000s
Frustrated and standing half awake he contemplated ways to harness power from all around to charge the phone.
At the time he was working on various photonics projects lasers solar cells and optical fiber that all involved a phenomenon called resonant coupling.
Wireless charging: An expectationthese days Gruzen sees wireless charging as analogous to the evolution of a similar technology Wifi that he witnessed in the early 2000s as senior vice president of global notebook business at Hewlett packard.
At the time Wifi capabilities were implemented rarely into laptops; this didn t change#until companies began bringing Wireless internet access into hotel lobbies libraries airports and other public places.
Now having established a standard for wireless charging#of consumer devices with the A4wp (Alliance for Wireless Power) known as Rezence Witricity aims to be the driving force behind wireless charging.
Soon Gruzen says it will be an expectation much like Wifi. You can have a charging surface wherever you go from a kitchen counter to your workplace to airport lounge
and hotel lobbies he says. In this future you re not worried about carrying cords. Casual access to topping off power in your devices just becomes an expected thing.
This is where we re Going with an expected rise of wireless charging one promising future application Soljacic sees is in medical devices especially implanted ventricular assist devices (or heart pumps) that support blood flow.
Currently a patient who has experienced a heart attack or weakening of the heart has wires running from the implant to a charger
#Own your own data Cellphone metadata has been in the news quite a bit lately but the National security agency isn t the only organization that collects information about people s online behavior.
Newly downloaded cellphone apps routinely ask to access your location information your address book or other apps and of course websites like Amazon or Netflix track your browsing history in the interest of making personalized recommendations.
At the same time a host of recent studies have demonstrated that it s shockingly easy to identify unnamed individuals in supposedly anonymized data sets even ones containing millions of records.
Any cellphone app online service or big data research team that wants to use your data has to query your data store
After an initial deployment involving 21 people who used openpds to regulate access to their medical records the researchers are now testing the system with several telecommunications companies in Italy and Denmark.
such as an optical fiber, into the brain to control the selected neurons. Such implants can be difficult to insert,
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,
where each core has associated an router, and data travels between cores in packets of fixed size.
Groups of declarations reach the routers associated with the cores at discrete intervals intervals corresponding to the time it takes to pass from one end of the shadow network to another.
Each router can thus tabulate exactly how many requests were issued during which interval, and by which other cores.
Core 32 router may receive core 10 request well before it receives core 1 . But it will hold it until it passed along 1. This hierarchical ordering simulates the chronological ordering of requests sent over a bus,
and our clever communication protocol will sort out all the details. It a much simpler approach and a faster approach.
pulling it slightly toward the leak site. That distortion can be detected by force-resistive sensors via a carefully designed mechanical system (similar to the sensors used in computer trackpads),
and the information sent back via wireless communications. Detecting leaks by sensing a pressure gradient close to leak openings is a novel idea
By now most people feel comfortable conducting financial transactions on the Web. The cryptographic schemes that protect online banking
you may want your family to be able to share the pictures you post on a social-networking site.
DIG is directed by Tim Berners-Lee the inventor of the Web 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.
DIG s role is to develop new technologies that exploit those protocols. With HTTPA each item of private data would be assigned its own uniform resource identifier (URI) a key component of the Semantic web a new set of technologies championed by W3c that would convert the Web from essentially a collection of searchable
text files into a giant database. Remote access to a Web server would be controlled much the way it is now through passwords and encryption.
But every time the server transmitted a piece of sensitive data it would also send a description of the restrictions on the data s use.
It s not that difficult to transform an existing website into an HTTPA-aware website Seneviratne says.
But using standard Semantic web techniques it would mark that record as derived from the PCP s record
For example, Clockworks may detect specific leaky valves or stuck dampers on air handlers in HVAC units that cause excessive heating or cooling.
such as developing low-cost sensing technology with wireless communication that could be retrofitted on to older equipment.
Liberating data By bringing all this data about building equipment to the cloud, the technology has plugged into the nternet of thingsa concept where objects would be connected, via embedded chips and other methods, to the Internet for inventory and other purposes.
so people can read all data associated with it. s more and more devices are connected readily to the Internet,
The 65-watt Dart can power most laptops, smartphones, and tablets. By November, FINSIX aims to deliver its first shipment of around 4, 500 Darts to Kickstarter backers and other customers.
Google; the NSF Center for Brains, Minds, and Machines at MIT; and Jeremy and Joyce Wertheimer n
Next year the BAT will test its ability to power microgrids at a site south of Fairbanks Alaska in an 18-month trial funded by the Alaska Energy Authority.
which can be difficult to maneuver around certain sites. The modular BAT Rein says packs into two midsize shipping containers for transport
Target sites include areas where large diesel generators provide power such as military bases and industrial sites as well as island and rural communities in Hawaii northern Canada India Brazil and parts of Australia.
But perhaps the most logical added payload Glass says is Wi-fi technology: If you have a remote village for instance he says you can put a Wi-fi unit up outside the village
and you re much higher than you d get with a traditional tower. That would allow you to cover six to eight times the area you would with a tower.
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.
In most photovoltaic (PV) materials, a photon (a packet of sunlight) delivers energy that excites a molecule,
Kushman found a website on which algebra students posted word problems they were having difficulty with,
which is developing smart LED LIGHTS that can wirelessly connect to the Internet and change colors to match people moods p
Depending on several site factors, this produces anywhere from 30 to 400 kilowatts of electricity. Treated wastewater exits the reactor with 80 to 90 percent of pollutants removed,
Ecovolt, on the other hand, is applicable to a range of sites, and has demonstrated a more robust treatment process,
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.
and sciences at MIT gets about 100 emails daily from people across the world interested in his bionic limbs.
smartphone-readable particle that they believe could be deployed to help authenticate currency, electronic parts, and luxury goods, among other products.
without impacting smartphone readout or requiring a complete redesign of the system. Another advantage to these particles is that they can be read without an expensive decoder like those required by most other anti-counterfeiting technologies.
Using a smartphone camera equipped with a lens offering twentyfold magnification anyone could image the particles after shining near-infrared light on them with a laser pointer.
The researchers are also working on a smartphone app that would further process the images and reveal the exact composition of the particles.
The filtering could also be applied to display screens on phones or computers so only those viewing from directly in front could see them.
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