Innovation and Entrepreneurship (I&E)

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

MIT students and residents of Ventanilla, Peru work on the bicilavadora, a novel, inexpensive bike/washing machine.

Spin cycle: a new kind of washer

Machine could produce clean clothes and local jobs

February 19, 2009

Kauffman Foundation study finds MIT alumni companies generate billions for regional economies

Study reinforces the importance of universities in driving entrepreneurial growth

February 17, 2009

Zack Anderson, senior in elecrical engineering and computer sciences, holds a GenShock prototype up to a Humvee coil spring where it is installed.

More power from bumps in the road

MIT students develop energy-harvesting shock absorbers

February 9, 2009

Media Lab student Amit Zoran shows the Chameleon Guitar, along with a variety of the interchangeable soundboards -- made of different woods and other materials -- that can be inserted to alter the guitar's acoustic characteristics.

'Chameleon Guitar' blends old-world and high-tech

Guitar built by a student at MIT's Media Lab promises to provide the best of electronic and acoustic.

February 3, 2009

The TransitionÂ® Roadable Light Sport Aircraft Proof of Concept with wings extended at Lawrence Municipal Airport.

Road-worthy plane? Or sky-worthy car?

Alums to begin test flights of 'roadable plane'

February 2, 2009

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