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Sharp and Enel Teaming Up on Thin-film Solar
Earth2Tech —
... , and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, look at using a new plastic, as well as anti-reflective and reflective coatings, in the manufacture of thin-film cells. ...
MIT to Open Source Mobile Web Code
ReadWriteWeb —
Several months ago, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology created the Mobile Web Project in an attempt to provide up-to-date university information for its faculty, students and visitors over mobile devices.
Early next year, Information Services and Technology (IS&T;), the central IT department at MIT, and the team responsible for the design, development and maintenance of the software, plans to open source the code.
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The MIT mobile site offers a staff and student directory, a campus map, the ...
Enel to Start Up Two Geothermal Plants in Nevada
Earth2Tech —
... from the U.S. Department of Energy for research, development and demonstration of enhanced geothermal systems. Under that grant, Enel North America will work with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and ...
Maximizing Wave Power, by Design
Earth2Tech —
... and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are working on a device to tap the power of waves, which was designed using millions of calculations in order to capture the maximum amount of energy possible in a specific location. The research (which was detailed in a recent issue of MIT’s EnergyFutures newsletter) was done to maximize the energy capture of a device called an oscillating water column (OWC) that has been used in water-power systems before, and is meant to be placed on or close to the shore; as waves hit the OWC the water level increases and decreases in the ...
Maximizing Wave Power, by Design [Earth2Tech]
GigaOM Network —
... and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are working on a device to tap the power of waves, which was designed using millions of calculations in order to capture the maximum amount of energy possible in a specific location. The research (which was detailed in a recent issue of MIT’s EnergyFutures newsletter) was done to maximize the energy capture of a device called an oscillating water column (OWC) that has been used in water-power systems before, and is meant to be placed on or close to the shore; as waves hit the OWC the water level ...
Battery can 'recharge in seconds'
Web User | News —
Laptop Scientists in the US have developed a way to charge lithium-ion batteries in a matter of seconds. The development could give way to a new generation of lightweight, smaller and faster-charging batteries for laptops and other mobile devices. Up until now, researchers assumed that there was a speed limit on the lithium ions and electrons that pass through the batteries to form an electrochemical circuit. However, Gerbrand Ceder, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and his colleagues used a computer simulation to model the movements of ions and ...
Has MIT finally lost its brains?
Technically Incorrect —
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is home to so many large heads.
Heads that need nurturing. Heads that needs feeding. Heads that need, just occasionally, to sweat and play and bang.
Now, some of MIT's finest brains will be denied these sources of release.
Yes, in a swathing, thoughtless massacre of all that is good and important in human development, MIT has withdrawn funding for eight crucial sports.
No longer will the men and women of MIT be able to represent the school in ice hockey or gymnastics. No longer will the artificial ...
Welcome To The Reputation Economy
louisgray.com —
... , people immediately assume certain things about you. The same can be said for any of the Ivy League universities, high tech universities like MIT and ...
Gold nanoparticles can find and destroy tumors
TG Daily - All News —
... home in on tumors, and then, by absorbing energy from near-infrared light and emitting it as heat, destroy tumors with minimal side effects. In the study, tumors in mice that received an intravenous injection of nanorods plus near-infrared laser treatment disappeared within 15 days. Those mice survived for three months with no evidence of reccurrence, while mice that received no treatment or only the nanorods or laser did not. The nanorods could diagnose as well as treat tumors, says MIT graduate student Geoffrey von Maltzahn, who developed the tumor-homing particles with ...
New fast radio chip mimics human ear
TG Daily - All News —
Cambridge, MA - Taking inspiration from the human ear, MIT engineers have built a fast, ultra-broadband, low-power radio chip that could enable wireless devices capable of receiving cellphone, internet, radio and television signals. Rahul Sarpeshkar, associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science, and his graduate student, Soumyajit Mandal, designed the chip to mimic the inner ear, or cochlea. "The more I started to look at the ear, the more I realized it's like a super radio with 3,500 parallel channels," said Sarpeshkar. They have filed for a patent to ...
New fabric 'can see farther than most shirts'
TG Daily - All News —
Cambridge, MA - MIT researchers have developed a special fabric that acts as a camera, and have used it to take a rudimentary picture of a smiley face. "This is the first time that anybody has demonstrated that a single plane of fibers, or 'fabric,' can collect images just like a camera but without a lens," said Associate Professor Yoel Fink of MIT's Department of Materials Science and Engineering (DMSE). "This work constitutes a new approach to vision and imaging." Lenses, whether natural or man-made, have a limited field of view and are susceptible to damage. Optical fiber ...
Found Footage: Control an unmanned aerial vehicle with an iPhone
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) —
Filed under: Accessories, Software, iPhone What does a former US Navy F/A-18 Hornet pilot do with her time now that she heads MIT's Humans and Automation Lab? The short answer is "really cool stuff," and the long answer is even better. During her tenure as a pilot, professor Cummings became frustrated with the Hornet's cockpit. "I spent whole time complaining - who was the moron who designed this thing?" she told Wired. At MIT, she and her students were inspired to ...
Boola, Boola!: Yahoo Marketing Head’s Cheerleading Memo Post-MicroHoo
BoomTown —
... I render it unto you, dear readers, since it shows just how intent the top managers of Yahoo (YHOO) are, especially internally, in reassuring those concerned that Yahoo had not just gutted itself.
Also amusing–for reasons I cannot understand, since it is an internal memo–is the use of the code name for Yahoo, which is called Yale, after the famous university in New Haven
By the way, Microsoft (MSFT) was known as Cambridge, Mass.-based MIT, as you can see below.
Also some fun facts, showing the give-it-the-old-college-try ...
UAV Controlled With iPhone
The Iphone Spot —
What does a former US Navy F/A-18 Hornet pilot do with her time now that she heads MIT’s Humans and Automation Lab? The short answer is “really cool stuff,” and the long answer is even better.
During her tenure as a pilot, Professor Cummings became frustrated with the Hornet’s cockpit. “I spent whole time complaining – who was the moron who designed this thing?” she told Wired. At MIT, she and her students were inspired to consider a replacement for the huge controllers ...
Sketching in Hardware is Changing Your Life, by Fabricio Dore
Core77 —
... at MIT . At this point, a new discipline interaction design was created, and the first tools were in place to support the goal of "designing technology." 8_dore.jpg Map showing the influence of Ivrea on the prototyping tools we have available today ( ...
Acting fast could cut climate change risk, says MIT
TG Daily - All News —
An MIT analysis of climate risk indicates that even moderate carbon-reduction policies now can substantially lower the risk of future climate change. But global emissions need to be cut quickly if the world is to avoid a temperature rise of more than two degrees Celsius above the pre-industrial level. Without prompt action, says MIT , extreme changes could soon become much more difficult, if not impossible, to control. The US needs to meet its emissions targets, the rest of the developed world must match them, and China and other large developing countries must follow suit with ...
CBO To Join Heritage Answering Committee’s Questions
The Foundry —
... letter from Chairman Henry Waxman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee requesting information concerning our economic modeling of H.R. 2454, the American Clean Energy and Security Act. We quickly responded (our answers are available here). Several other organizations and government agencies also received the same request including the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Energy Information Administration (EIA), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), CRA International, the American Council for Capital Formation (ACCF), and ...
Morning Bell: The Transparent Costs of Cap and Trade
The Foundry —
... Waxman-Markey did not send their questions to some notable organizations that have conducted analysis of their bill like the Congressional Budget Office and the Brooking Institution. After we requested they do so, we have since received word that Waxman and Markey sent the same letter to the CBO. They had previously included the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Energy Information Administration (EIA), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), CRA International, the American Council for Capital Formation (ACCF), and the ...
Verayo uses unique flaws in chips to fight counterfeiting
VentureBeat —
... at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Devadas started the company in 2005 and developed the technology for two years with funding from the U.S. government. ...
