#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.
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.
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 few major smartphone manufacturers are now using envelope tracking (ET) which adjusts voltage to power amplifiers on the fly.
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.
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.
Frustrated and standing half awake he contemplated ways to harness power from all around to charge the phone.
this didn t change#until companies began bringing Wireless internet access into hotel lobbies libraries airports and other public places.
#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.
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),
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.
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.
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,
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.
which excites electrons that flow through the thylakoid membranes of the chloroplast. The plant captures this electrical energy
and survive at a distant site, the researchers say. Many of the proteins overexpressed in the more aggressive tumors are activated by the same cellular signaling pathways,
With the Internet boom in full swing he co-founded a couple of dot-coms but began viewing climate change and energy as the real challenges of my generation.
The simple readout could even be transmitted to a remote caregiver by a picture on a mobile phone.
These particles congregate at tumor sites where MMPS cleave hundreds of peptides which accumulate in the kidneys
and a bicycle-powered charging system for cellphones and lanterns. Davide Zaccagnini a vascular surgeon and program manager for the Science Monks and Technology Leadership Program says he was motivated to join because
and can recharge the signal processing chip in roughly two minutes. he idea with this design is that you could use a phone, with an adaptor,
which include banks retail firms and telecommunications companies worldwide. After the purchase the Ksplice team joined Oracle to help the company integrate the software in its products.
Mobile phone usage is far more prevalent in Kenya than traditional banking is and the system lets people transfer money by text message.
More memorable or lessthe system could ultimately be used in a smartphone app to allow people to modify a digital image of their face before uploading it to their social networking pages.
The research was funded by grants from Xerox Google Facebook and the Office of Naval Research h
The technique known as raster scanning is how old cathode ray tube-tube televisions produced images illuminating one phosphor dot on the screen at a time.
Instead, the new device uses an encoding technique commonly used in the telecommunications industry to calculate the distance a signal has travelled
we can do calculations that are very common in the telecommunications world, to estimate different distances from the single signal.
a graduate student in the Media Lab. eople with shaky hands tend to take blurry photographs with their cellphones
This approach offers a huge array of recognition sites specific to different targets, and could be used to create sensors to monitor diseases such as cancer, inflammation,
Synthetic antibodies The new polymer-based sensors offer a synthetic design approach to the production of molecular recognition sites enabling, among other applications, the detection of a potentially infinite library of targets.
In the new paper, the researchers describe molecular recognition sites that enable the creation of sensors specific to riboflavin, estradiol (a form of estrogen),
but they are now working on sites for many other types of molecules, including neurotransmitters, carbohydrates, and proteins.
it forms a binding site, Strano says. 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,
and Dust environment Explorer (LADEE) spacecraft had made history by using a pulsed laser beam to transmit data over the 239000 miles from the moon to Earth at a record-breaking data-download speed of 622 megabits per second (Mbps). This download speed is more than six times faster than the speed achieved by the best
LLCD also demonstrated a data-upload speed of 20 Mbps on a laser beam transmitted from a ground station in New mexico to the LADEE spacecraft in lunar orbit;
and delivered these various parts to the spacecraft and to the ground site. Finally we designed
and Systems Glover and MIT alumna Sanja Popovic 12 MENG 13 who is now at Google describes a new robot-vision algorithm based on the Bingham distribution that is 15 percent better than its best
Bear and others discovered that the loss of this gene results in exaggerated protein synthesis at synapses, the specialized sites of communication between neurons.
GCS began going to the villages and selling solar-powered lamps, which also charge cellphones. Suddenly, its product started moving and fast. hat
and other devices such as the cellphone charger that GCS later developed. e called it our universal adapter,
#Drive-by heat mapping In 2007, Google unleashed a fleet of cars with roof-mounted cameras to provide street-level images of roads around the world.
But there were many challenges. ery expensive thermal cameras had lower resolution than your smartphone camera,
#Toward tiny, solar-powered sensors The latest buzz in the information technology industry regards he Internet of thingsthe idea that vehicles, appliances, civil-engineering structures, manufacturing equipment,
at very limited input power levels 10 nanowatts to 1 microwatt for the Internet of things. The prototype chip was manufactured through the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company's University Shuttle Program.
that can be tossed into potentially hazardous areas to instantly transmit panoramic images of those areas back to a smartphone. t basically gives a quick assessment of a dangerous situation,
and too expensive for wide use. started looking into low-cost, very simple technologies to pair with your smartphone,
but we still want to work with a first responder existing smartphone, Aguilar says. But the key innovation, Aguilar says,
or smartphone technologies. ur main focus is making sure the Explorer works well in the market,
or smartphones, the researchers say. They may also be useful for other applications where high power is needed in small volumes
is better power electronics for data centers run by Google, Amazon, Facebook, and other companies, to power the cloud.
Doggie Wearables Monitoring Shoppers and Catching TV While You Doze off In the past two years there been a boom in talk around the Internet of things and Wearables.
biometric sensors will be featured in 40 percent of smartphones shipped to end users With the way technology is developing and the increasing consumer demand,
The technology uses mobile phones and tablets to collect data on where people are and how theye moving.
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#Researchers use oxides to flip graphene conductivity Graphene a one-atom thick lattice of carbon atoms is touted often as a revolutionary material that will take the place of silicon at the heart of electronics.
First the cell absorbs sunlight which excites electrons in the active layer of the cell.
A similar effect can be realized at a much smaller scale by using arrays of metallic nanostructures since light of certain wavelengths excites collective oscillations of free electrons known as plasmon resonances in such structures.
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As for TV technology nearly every TV manufacturer at CES this year remarked Geoffrey Morrison in CNET said quantum dots helped deliver better more lifelike color.
Trying to print a cellphone is probably not the way to go Mcalpine said It is customization that gives the power to 3-D printing.
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#New technique allows low-cost creation of 3-D nanostructures Researchers from North carolina State university have developed a new lithography technique that uses nanoscale spheres to create three-dimensional (3-D) structures
Nanoporous metals offer an increased number of available sites for the adsorption of analytes a highly desirable feature for sensors.
Once injected, the material locks into place at the site of the injury and rapidly decreases the time it takes for blood to clot in some instances by a whopping 77 percent,
or she can inject the material into the wound site where it will trigger a rapid coagulation
and his colleagues solidifies at the site of the wound and begins promoting coagulation in the targeted area.
and then regain its shape once inside the body something necessary for locking itself in place at the wound site,
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.
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