Innovation and Entrepreneurship (I&E)

Freshman R.J. Ryan hits the 'emergency' button in his automatic dorm room on East Campus. The button activates 'party mode.'

Freshmen automate dorm room

May 24, 2006

Elizabeth Goldring, foreground, looks into 'seeing machine' to take a virtual tour of a gallery using a joystick. Her assistant, Jackie McConnell, is at right.

MIT poet develops 'seeing machine'

May 23, 2006

Warren Leon presents the top prize in the 2006 Ignite Clean Energy Business Presentation Competition to representatives of Stellaris, from left, Jim Paull, president and co-founder; Tom Ward, vice president; and Lee Johnson, chief operating officer and co-founder.

Competition 'ignites' clean-energy startups

May 17, 2006

MIT teams rewarded for innovation

May 10, 2006

Deshpande Center names Sandler executive director

May 8, 2006

James Fergason has been named the 2006 winner of the $500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize, the largest cash prize in the United States for invention. Fergason's work led to the creation of liquid crystal displays.

Lemelson-MIT awards prizes for innovation

May 3, 2006

Professors Yet-Ming Chiang, left, and Steven Hall show components of their electrochemically actuated morphing rotor prototype (foreground) as well as a reduced-scale model (background) of a previous technology that uses piezoelectrics as the active materials.

MIT makes move toward vehicles that morph

March 22, 2006

Graduate student Amos Winter displays a wheelchair model currently being produced in Tanzania at a MacVicar Day exhibit March 3 in the Stata Center. Winter is working on technical solutions to the challenges faced by wheelchair users in that country.

Building a better wheelchair

Grad student aims to help Tanzanians

March 21, 2006

Young inventors to gather at MIT on March 4

February 24, 2006

Carl Dietrich, 2006 winner of the $30,000 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize, holds a model of the personal air vehicle that he envisions for use in the air and on the road.

Sky's no limit for Lemelson winner

February 15, 2006

Inventors Hall of Fame to induct 2 professors

February 9, 2006

Deshpande Center searching for ideas

February 1, 2006

Andrew Heafitz, an instructor at the Edgerton Center, shows graduate student Olivia Leitermann, in protective gear, how to locate a mine during the IAP session 'MIT Design for Demining,' held Wednesday, Jan. 18.

IAP: Class targets landmine removal

January 17, 2006

Chart shows technologies that teens predict will be obsolete by 2015.

Survey gauges teens' view of tech future

January 12, 2006

Calling all student inventors

December 7, 2005

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