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Researchers from MIT, with colleagues from IISc in Bangalore, India and HiPi Consulting in Maryland have experimentally demonstrated the conversion of heat to electricity using thermal diodes with efficiency as high as 40% of the Carnot Limit. Arrows represent couplings. Source: Hagelstein, 2007. Click to enlarge. —Wu et al.

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MAY 19, 2016

Researchers at the Max Planck Institute in Dusseldorf, Germany, and MIT have developed a novel strategy to design nanostructured, bulk high-entropy alloys (HEAs) ( earlier post ) with multiple compositionally equivalent high-entropy phases. Source: MIT. The new approach is described in a paper this week in the journal Nature.

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The nonprofit was one of seven winners last year of MIT Solve’s Gender Equity in STEM Challenge. The MIT Solve Gender Equity in STEM Challenge thoroughly vets all applicants—their theories, practices, organizational health, and impact,” Smith says. With each concept learned, the students built a more difficult app. “It

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A new modeling study by a team from MIT CSAIL (Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory) and Cornell suggests that using ride-sharing from companies like Uber and Lyft theoretically could reduce the number of taxis on the road in New York City by 75% without significantly impacting travel time. —Daniela Rus.

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MAY 22, 2017

TRI is working with several industry partners in addition to MIT ML to develop applications and proofs of concept for three areas of the new mobility ecosystem: driving/testing data sharing, car/ride share transactions and usage-based insurance. —Neha Narula, Director, Digital Currency Initiative at the MIT Media Lab.

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And like any human-to-human connection, they have an emotional effect on people. These included the funding of two university research programs in addition to the DAR-V new-concept research vehicle. MIT AgeLab observes the human factors of voice command. Toyota has helped to fund a study undertaken at MIT’s AgeLab.

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JULY 19, 2011

There is an extensive body of work on connected vehicle research, and some background is required before coming back to Ford. US DOT Connected Vehicles Research. Connected vehicle mobility applications provide a connected, data-rich travel environment. Background. This information can be used to improve system operation.

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MAY 14, 2020

The Electric Power Research Institute’s (EPRI) proof-of-concept study will explore moving from the traditional “maintain and repair” to a “replace and refurbish” approach, in which components are intentionally designed and tested for shorter and more predictable lifetimes with the potential for game-changing O&M cost savings.

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More than 540 initial concept papers were received in the three focus areas. The aerobic microbe has been engineered at MIT and is capable of converting a variety of organic compounds into oil, from which biodiesel may be produced. A novel metal complex for electrolysis of water will be used to generate the hydrogen at high rates.

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MARCH 29, 2024

Now, an MIT spin-off says it has found a solution in an innovative technology that could dramatically reduce the costs and timelines of drilling to fantastic depths. It wasn’t much of a jump to make the connection that if we can melt steel chambers and vaporize them, we could melt rocks.” Quaise Energy , based in Cambridge, Mass.,

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In this video, we explore a future concept-of-operations for swarm management and how large groups of robots and drones will be able to interact and work together. MIT CSAIL ] Thanks, Rachel! Sony is reimagining communication and connection, and developing one-of-a-kind friendships between humans and robots in the process.

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One approach to establishing this connection is to use the hydrogen from water splitting to reduce carbon dioxide to generate liquid fuels via a biocatalyst. This is a proof of concept that you can have a way of harvesting solar energy and storing it in the form of a liquid fuel. —Torella et al. eutropha , Re2133-pEG12.

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JUNE 20, 2023

So IEEE Spectrum talked with Kahn to learn this part of the story and his conception of open-architecture networking. Bob Kahn: I got my PhD from Princeton in 1964 and took a job as an assistant professor at MIT in the electrical engineering department. Licklider who came to ARPA from BBN (and MIT before that). I went to BBN.

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DECEMBER 24, 2024

IEEE Spectrum s most-read energy stories of 2024 centered on creative ways to produce, store and connect more carbon-free energy. The concept, called space-based solar power, is an idea so grand, yet so tantalizing, that engineers and government bodies have spent a great deal of time trying to figure out how to make it happen.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

will conduct a one-year “proof-of-concept seedling” program. to demonstrate proof of concept for hydride-based thermal. Thermal Fuel: HybriSol Hybrid nanostructures for high-energy-density solar thermal fuels Using innovative nanomaterials, MIT will develop a thermal. to connect photovoltaic solar panels to the grid.

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APRIL 8, 2022

We demonstrate a novel interface concept in which interactive systems directly manipulate the user’s head orientation. We propose a collaborative system combining flying and ground robots, using a universal physical coupling interface (PCI) that allows for momentary connections and disconnections between multiple robots/devices. [

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He has a PhD in Robotics from MIT. As the Self-Driving System (SDS) reaches the required maturity and safety levels in the first cities, it can be integrated across the Group brands, for different product categories: from fully self-driving pods, like SEDRIC, the Volkswagen concept introduced in 2017. Earlier post.).

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The DIGIT touch sensor is based on the GelSight style of sensor, which was first conceptualized at MIT over a decade ago. ReSkin operates on a fairly simple concept: it's a flexible sheet of 2mm thick silicone with magnetic particles carelessly mixed in. DIGIT is open source, so you can make one on your own, but that's a hassle.

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CHAN MIT “For pioneering technical contributions and leadership in the fields of space and terrestrial optical communications and networks.” For leadership and innovative concepts in the design, deployment, and utilization of airborne and space-based radar systems.” IEEE EDISON MEDAL Sponsor: Samsung Electronics Co. , VINCENT W.S.

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One way teachers are trying to help students grasp difficult concepts is through virtual-reality technology. Ganguly says the learning platform is a supplemental program, as “VR is not for everyday use; it’s for learning concepts that students find more difficult to understand.” It takes about three days to complete a module.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Ericsson (Sweden), Nokia (Finland), Samsung (South Korea), and Huawei (China) build the radio units, baseband units, and other hardware and software that go into cell towers and the wired networks that connect them. So how will concepts like privacy, security, or sustainability be embedded in 6G—if at all? billion in 2020.

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Doi was inspired by the speed and agility of MIT roboticist Rodney Brookss Genghis , a six-legged insectile robot that was created to demonstrate basic autonomous walking functions. Essentially, he believed that even nonliving things were imbued with spirituality, a concept linked to animism in Japan.

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They typically connected to it with a teletypewriter, though the most avant-garde users may have employed simple text-only video terminals. There, Kay established the Learning Research Group centered around his conception of a hand-held, screen-oriented, graphical, networked personal computer, which he called the Dynabook.

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Team CoSTAR, a collaboration between NASA’s JPL, MIT, Caltech, KAIST, and LTU, inspects the communications-node deployment system on their Husky wheeled robots [top]. Shipping containers connected end-to-end formed complex networks, and many of them were carefully sculpted and decorated to resemble mining tunnels and natural caves.

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APRIL 21, 2009

Audi Volkswagen-owned company exploring PHEVs Metroproject Quattro Sub-compact PHEV Concept Car shown October 2007; PHEV of A1 Sportback under consideration Bright Automotive For-profit spin off from Rocky Mountain Institute designing lightweight PHEVs, successor to RMIs 1990s "Hypercar" concept. Has shown some concept fuel-cell PHEVs.

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APRIL 20, 2024

The ARPANET Is Born Kahn wasn’t the only one thinking about connecting disparate computers in the 1960s. In 1965, Larry Roberts, then at the MIT Lincoln Laboratory , connected one computer in Massachusetts to another in California over a telephone line. Bob Kahn served on the MIT faculty from 1964 to 1966.

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This article is based on the authors’ new book, Fantasies of Virtual Reality (The MIT Press). The two connected through their forum posts, and Luckey sent one of his prototype VR headsets to Carmack. This graphical realism became closely entwined with the concept of immersion.

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He came up with a mechanical barrier system that attaches to the hood and connects to the car's electronic control unit. The incoming freshman at MIT won $600. The concept of a 3D-printed 3D printer was a theory before Minnick began his project three years ago. A SELF-REPLICATING 3D PRINTER.

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Some of these real-world offspring, like the Apple Lisa computer and the Hewlett-Packard LaserJet printer, took many of their root concepts from PARC; others, like the Ada computer language and the Intel 1103 dynamic RAM chip, are less closely related. What an ideal concept that would be for Xerox. Local area network.

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At left, the hair cells [light blue spiral] connect to the cochlear nerve cells [blue filaments and dots]. Claus-Peter Richter from Northwestern University, who proposed directly stimulating the auditory nerve with high-energy infrared light, though that concept wasn’t confirmed by other laboratories. Daniel Keppeler.

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DECEMBER 29, 2023

The technique has had a controversial past—the concept first emerged around 1911, but only came into prominence in the 1960s. NASA’s Laser Link Boasts Record-Breaking 200-Gb/s Speed MIT Lincoln Laboratory Everyone loves a good speed record. By 1979, however, it was discredited, at least until the last few years.

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I went off to MIT , not fully understanding the subject I chose to major in.” She left MIT in 1957, then earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in electrical engineering from Columbia in 1962 and 1963. Making chips at the time involved manually designing transistors and connecting them with circuits.

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MARCH 15, 2021

The X Prologue will be the first Toyota EV concept released outside China. The tie-up with Singapore-based SolidEnergy Systems, which was founded by MIT grad Qichao Hu, is focused on new battery chemistry to reduce the size of the batteries while increasing an EV’s range. – March 10, via Forbes. March 14, via CleanTechnica.

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GM says it is already looking ahead to the next generation of Volt-based vehicles — it unveiled the Cadillac Converj concept in January — and says costs will come down as the technology spreads to more models. One wonders if the recent headway at MIT in building lithium ion cells using ?virus? Forget the black helicopter conspiracies.

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Written by Josie Garthwaite 9 Comments Posted March 31st, 2009 at 5:00 am in Automotive Before unveiling the concept version of its Model S sedan, an $57,400 electric car that Tesla Motors wants to build using loans from the Department of Energy, the startup said the Model S battery would be designed to handle rapid charging.

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