But the craft does include touchscreen interfaces to control the spacecraft as well as manual buttons for critical functions that would be needed in case of emergency.
#Baby model cosmos grows up to look like the real thing A supercomputer simulation has tracked the evolution of the universe from a mere 12 million years after the big bang until the present day.
and supermassive black holes pulling in material that gets too Close to run the simulation the team used several supercomputers in Europe and the US each
of which contained many central processing units or CPUS. By contrast an ordinary computer might have just one.
The entire simulation took 16 million CPU hours which means that running it on a single normal computer would take nearly 2000 years.
The resulting cosmos was almost indistinguishable from the real one we see today. As a demonstration the team compared a simulated version of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field observation to the real thing
which was made when the Hubble space telescope stared at one spot in the sky for nearly 12 days.
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.
The feed relays to a control station, where a human surgeon operates it using joysticks.
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.
Established in the 1960s India's space programme has focused so far on aiding the country's development building satellites to spot potential sources of groundwater and monitor deforestation.
#Virgin galactic joins the reality TV space race Reality TV is set to become a little more out of this world.
Dubbed Space Race it is one of three space-based reality TV SHOWS that could be gracing our screens in the coming years assuming producers can get their hands on a working spacecraft.
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,
Last June, Sony used QD Vision product, called Color IQ, in millions of its Bravia riluminostelevisions, marking the first-ever commercial quantum dot display.
ecause a lot of growth for the TV market is there, says Seth Coe-Sullivan Phd, cofounder and chief technology officer of QD Vision,
these displays will be olling out to the rest of the world. Replacing the bulb In conventional LCD TVS
and green filters to produce the colors on the screen. But this actually requires phosphors to convert a blue light to white;
and displays only reach about 70 to 80 percent of the National Television Standard Committee color gamut.
with greater power efficiency than any other technology. he value proposition is that you are not changing the display,
and yet the entire display looks much better. The colors are much more vivid known as much more saturated allowing you to generate a much more believable image,
Green from radle to gravewhile QD Vision aims to bring consumers more color-saturated displays,
which replaces phosphor in displays the company developed a much greener synthesis, according to the EPA.
Other technologies, called organic light-emitting diode (OLED) displays, use an organic compound to reach upward of 100 percent of the color gamut
Lighting to displays, and back QD Vision technology began at MIT more than a decade ago.
Coe-Sullivan, then a Phd student in electrical engineering and computer science, was working with Bulovic and students of Moungi Bawendi, the Lester Wolfe Professor in Chemistry,
quantum dot displays. aking a transition like that from lighting to displays tests the nerves of folks involved, from top to bottom,
Pooling all resources into displays, the company eventually caught the eye of Sony, and last year became the first to market with a quantum dot display.
Today, QD Vision remains one of only two quantum dot display companies that have seen their products go to market.
Now, with a sharp rise in commercial use, quantum dot technologies are positioned to penetrate the display industry
Coe-Sullivan says. Along with Color IQ-powered LCD TVS, Amazon released a quantum dot Kindle last year,
and Asus has a quantum dot notebook. nd there nothing in between that quantum dots can address,
The idea is to generate a robust marketplace of ideas about how best to enhance the trustworthiness of computer systems while respecting individual privacy and free expression rights encouraging innovation and supporting the broader public interest.
Choices we are making today about Internet governance and security have profound implications for the future.
And UC Berkeley s Center for Internet Security and Policy will be organized around assessing the possible range of future paths cybersecurity might take.
That s our unique contribution to this challenge says Daniel Weitzner the principal investigator for the CPI and a principal research scientist in MIT s Computer science and Artificial intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL.
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.
To address these issues CPI will not only bring to bear different disciplines from across MIT from computer science to management to political science
William Hewlett who earned an SM degree in electrical engineering from MIT in 1936 was cofounder with David Packard of the Hewlett-packard Company a multinational information technology company y
With these modifications nitroxides can circulate for several hours in a mouse s bloodstream long enough to obtain useful MRI images.
The mouse liver produces Vitamin c so once the particles reached the liver they grabbed electrons from Vitamin c turning off the MRI signal
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.
Additionally more than 60 research organizations across the globe are using the system on management social psychology medicine computer science and physical therapy among other things.
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.
You can store very long-term information says Timothy Lu an associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science and biological engineering.
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.
and Lu treat an entire population of cells as an analog hard drive greatly increasing the total amount of information that can be stored
These engineered bacteria could also be used as biological computers Lu says adding that they would be particularly useful in types of computation that require a lot of parallel processing such as picking patterns out of an image.
and for computing it might be interesting to do highly parallelized computing. It might be slow
This week MIT and Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) announce the launch of the Center for Microbiome Informatics
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.
Behind Keystone Smith, who studied mechanical engineering and electrical engineering and computer science at MIT, conceived of a tapered spiral-welding process
3-D printing. Until recently, Spielberg worked in the MIT Media Lab with Neri Oxman, the Sony Corporation Career development Assistant professor of Media Arts and Sciences, graduate students Steven Keating and John Klein,
As part of the Mediated Matter Group, he focused on converting a robotic arm to a computer controlled arm, capable of printing projects, like houses.
Outside the box Ordinarily, 3-D printing occurs inside a box limiting the size of printable objects to that of the printer housing.
It analogous to how an office printer cartridge runs back and forth, but on a much grander scale:
but to do so with considerable mobility, enabling immediate transport to a construction site, streamlining delivery and increasing construction efficiency.
Spielberg jumped to the other end of the 3-D printing spectrum, moving from walls to nanoscale fluidic chips.
Once again, Spielberg role in the lab is with optimizing the 3-D printer that makes the device.
and, much like manufacturing a standard computer chip, starts with creating silicon wafers, which act as a template for the final product.
Nonetheless, he a member of a recently formed rock band with a fellow mechanical engineering major and two computer science majors, keeping music
This new visualization system combines ceiling-mounted projectors with motion-capture technology and animation software to project a robot intentions in real time.
if we fly a quadrotor, and see something go wrong in its mind, we can terminate the code before it hits the wall, or breaks.
They then developed computer software that visually renders iddeninformation, such as a robot possible routes, and its perception of an obstacle position.
they were able to spot problems in the underlying algorithms, and make improvements much faster than before. here are a lot of problems that pop up because of uncertainty in the real world,
or hardware issues, and that where our system can significantly reduce the amount of effort spent by researchers to pinpoint the causes,
or restructure your vision of how your algorithm works. You could see applications where you might cut down a whole month of work into a few days.
In test scenarios, the group has flown physical quadrotors over projections of forests, shown from an aerial perspective to simulate a drone view as
and directed quadrotors to take images of the terrain images that could eventually be used to eachthe robots to recognize signs of a particularly dangerous fire.
similar to zoomed-in perspectives on Google maps. magine we can project a bunch of apartments in Cambridge,
Because the Federal aviation administration has placed restrictions on outdoor testing of quadrotors and other autonomous flying vehicles Omidshafiei points out that testing such robots in a virtual environment may be the next best thing.
who was involved not in the research. t will also enable the testing of decision-making algorithms in very harsh environments that are not readily available to scientists.
#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.
and a former associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science who co-invented the technology. That turns out to be the key to keeping the efficiency very high.
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.
The AMO technology was a new transmitter architecture where algorithms could choose from different voltages needed to transmit data in each power amplifier
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.
i-Teams draft the two professors earned a Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation grant in 2009 allowing for the first demonstration of the hardware showing a 77 percent gain in efficiency over standard systems.
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
#Spinning out a company has been the best way to validate the technology especially with novel power-electronics hardware Dawson says.
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.
In introducing new hardware you not only have to be better than the product of today
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.
Courtesy of Juan Aragones Josh Steimel and Alfredo Alexander-Katzfull Screen The next step is to test the approach in more complex settings.
Personalized treatmentsthis system could be used in combination with hundreds of existing mouse strains that have been engineered to express known cancer genes allowing researchers to study more thoroughly the interactions of multiple genes.
#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.
along with computer scientists at Columbia University, have developed a method that predicts the pattern of coils and tangles that a cable may form
At Columbia, computer scientists adapted a source code used for simulating animated hair and, incorporating the parameters of the MIT experiment,
so a lot of algorithms we develop, we need to think about geometry. Grinspun had upgraded previously a code he developed to simulate hair to model the flow of viscous fluids like honey.
so we thought that we should port some of his algorithms into engineering, and test if these patterns can be predicted,
In my opinion the best nanosystems are going to be done by 3-D printing because it would bypass the problems of standard microfabrication Velsquez-Garca says.
3-D printing is going to make a big difference in the kinds of systems we can put together
#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,
while collaborative tools and mobile apps will be developed to enable new forms of public communication and social organization.
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
which includes antibodies peptides RNA and DNA to human patients. In a study appearing in the journal Integrative biology the researchers used this technology to identify materials that can efficiently deliver RNA to zebrafish and also to rodents.
because it gives you the ability to do highly predictive designs with unique targeting capabilities says senior author Mehmet Fatih Yanik an associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science and biological engineering.
Then the lipidoid-RNA complex was injected automatically guided by a computer vision algorithm. The system can be adapted to target any organ
The lipidoid material screen is just an example demonstrated in this article; a similar strategy can be extended readily to other libraries
If we can pick up certain design features from the screens it can guide us to design larger combinatorial libraries based on these leads Yanik says.
Using those mouse models we found that we could perfectly recapitulate these exact metabolic changes during the earliest stages of cancer Vander Heiden says.
panel on one side that it can slide along an underwater surface to perform ultrasound scans.
Indeed Bhattacharyya built the main structural components of the robot using a 3-D printer in Asada s lab. Half of the robot the half with the flattened panel is waterproof and houses the electronics.
Two of those tubes vent on the side of the robot opposite the flattened panel so they can keep it pressed against whatever surface the robot is inspecting.
The control algorithm constantly adjusts the velocity of the water pumped through each of the six jets to keep the robot on course.
and electrical engineering and computer science the researchers described their findings in the Sept. 21 issue of Nature Biotechnology.
and mobile but these designs are not just for use in space. This research was funded by NASA and the MIT Portugal Program m
Zhao says the same basic approach could eventually lead to production of large, flexible display screens and antifouling coatings for ships.
Now MIT researchers have developed an algorithm for bounding that they ve successfully implemented in a robotic cheetah a sleek four-legged assemblage of gears batteries
The key to the bounding algorithm is in programming each of the robot s legs to exert a certain amount of force in the split second during
and graduate student Meng Yee Chuah will present details of the bounding algorithm this month at the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems in Chicago.
Kim and his colleagues developed an algorithm that determines the amount of force a leg should exert in the short period of each cycle that it spends on the ground.
#In experiments the team ran the robot at progressively smaller duty cycles finding that following the algorithm s force prescriptions the robot was able to run at higher speeds without falling.
Kim says the team s algorithm enables precise control over the forces a robot can exert while running.
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