The incredible shrinking “power brick”
Startup FINsix leverages novel MIT technology to shrink laptop adapters to a quarter the size.
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Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Spruce up your selfie
A new algorithm could transfer acclaimed photographers’ signature styles to cellphone photos.
Improving a new breed of solar cells
Quantum-dot photovoltaics set new record for efficiency in such devices, could unlock new uses.
EECScon and Masterworks events raise awareness of student research
Two venues provide industry, faculty, and student guests with full range and depth of research.
The science of networking
MIT senior Esther Jang uses science, engineering, and teaching to help others and challenge herself.
Dahleh appointed leader in LIDS
Planning the next steps for information and decisions systems at MIT.
It’s in the genes — but whose?
Genetic material hitchhiking in our cells may shape physical traits more than we thought.
Getting more electricity out of solar cells
New MIT model can guide design of solar cells that produce less waste heat, more useful current.
Terahertz imaging on the cheap
New theory could reduce number of sensors required for high-resolution imaging systems.
Computer system automatically solves word problems
Applications could include educational tools, systems to solve practical geometry or physics problems.
MIT team wins Clean Energy Prize for solving solar’s shade problem
Unified Solar takes home $225,000 for a circuit that augments the output of partially shaded solar cells.
Smart components that assemble themselves
Skylar Tibbits launches the Self-Assembly Lab at MIT, where researchers are building materials that can coalesce on their own to form structures.
