Innovation and Entrepreneurship (I&E)

Avenue Queue: One long wait inspired career shift

February 6, 2008

Nicolina Akraboff, left, works on an MIT product engineering course project while Roderick La Foy looks on. The two mechanical engineering seniors were part of a team that sewed discarded, flattened plastic bottles together to create insulation for thin walls in Pakistani homes.

Students unveil eco-product prototypes

December 18, 2007

MITEI Energy Salon eyes opportunities

Google energy czar: 'Send us resumes!'

December 12, 2007

MIT Clean Energy Entrepreneurship Prize established to drive innovative ideas to market

$200,000 cash for top prize to be awarded by NSTAR and DOE

November 28, 2007

MIT launches new global innovation initiative

November 19, 2007

The robotic ankle is one of six MIT inventions singled out by Time magazine in its annual survey of the world's most promising visions of the future. MIT Media Lab Professor Hugh Herr and his team of researchers developed the world's first such ankle, an important advance for lower-limb amputees. <a onclick="MM_openBrWindow('time-ankle-enlarged.html','','width=509, height=583')">
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Time magazine honors MIT for inventions, inventors

November 14, 2007

MIT student Julia Kiberd '08 pedals the specially adapted exercise bike, generating power for the laptop she's using to check her e-mail. Helping to host the Student Center display of the bike are (from left) technical instructor Stephen Rudolph, Kendra Johnson '09, IT energy coordinator Laxmi Rao and civil and environmental engineering senior research associate John Germaine.

Students get charge out of pedal power

November 8, 2007

MIT pair honored for biopsy advance

November 6, 2007

MIT's self-driving Land Rover takes to the road. <a onclick="MM_openBrWindow('urban-truck-enlarged.html','','width=509, height=583')">
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MIT finishes fourth in DARPA challenge for robotic vehicles

November 5, 2007

Postdocs Peter Rakich, left, and Milos Popovic of MIT's Research Laboratory of Electronics stand in front of a monitor that shows a demonstration of the way they propose to control microchips with light.

MIT works toward 'smart' optical microchips

Light-powered micro-machines could advance telecommunications

November 1, 2007

MIT's 'robocar' negotiated a course without a driver to advance to the finals of the DARPA Urban Challenge.

MIT's 'robocar' named a finalist in DARPA Urban Challenge

November 1, 2007

Student inventors invited to apply for $30,000 Lemelson-MIT prize

October 24, 2007

MIT's Deshpande Center announces fall 2007 research grants

Ten research teams receive over $1M to turn new ideas into commercial innovations

October 22, 2007

A good luck send-off for 'Robocar'

October 17, 2007

Four MIT faculty win NIH awards

September 18, 2007

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