Innovation and Entrepreneurship (I&E)

Husk Insulation wins $200,000 MIT Clean Energy Prize

Team from University of Michigan focused on advanced bio-based insulation

May 13, 2009

'Bother bots' win the day

Annual 2.007 robot competition features good defense

May 8, 2009

Eight teams win IDEAS awards

Grants will support efforts in developing nations

May 5, 2009

Innovator Selanikio Wins $100,000 Lemelson-MIT Award for Sustainability

April 28, 2009

LEES to be merged into RLE

April 16, 2009

Pedro Torres-Carrasquillo is working on techniques for machine-based identification of dialects in a spoken language.

Dialect Detectives

System that distinguishes among variants in spoken languages could enhance automated machine translation

April 16, 2009

Q&A with Joseph Coughlin on AGNES and the AgeLab

April 14, 2009

Jacqueline Novogratz, CEO and founder of Acumen Fund.

Acumen Fund founder to give Legatum Lecture April 9

April 3, 2009

The Terrafugia Transition taking off from runway 17 at Plattsburgh International Airport.

Flying car takes wing

MIT alums' invention makes its first test flights

March 19, 2009

EECS assistant professors Tomás Palacios, left, and Jing Kong examine oscilloscope traces showing the doubling in frequency of an electromagnetic signal processed through their experimental graphene microchip.

New material could lead to faster chips

Graphene may solve communications speed limit

March 19, 2009

Chandrakasan honored for semiconductor work

March 12, 2009

Barbara Liskov wins Turing Award

ACM cites 'foundational innovations' in programming language design

March 10, 2009

Legatum lectures and poster session on March 6

March 4, 2009

Transportation, transformed

Multidisciplinary research will go way beyond the car

March 4, 2009

Researchers in RLE, led by Charlotte Reed, are using the sense of touch to develop communication aids for the profoundly deaf. The devices convert sound waves to vibrations, which the deaf person holding the device can feel, and help lip-readers identify sounds that can be difficult to distinguish visually.

Good vibrations

Devices aid the deaf by translating sound waves to vibrations

February 26, 2009

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