Innovation and Entrepreneurship (I&E)

Smitha Raghunathan operates the Kinkajuice human-powered battery charger designed and built by her and her teammates, including (left to right) Etan Trangle, Jim Lin, Alfredo Bocanegra, Jennifer Hu and Lisa Chandler.

Human, solar power prominent in 2.009 products

December 15, 2004

Research aims to restore amputee limb function

December 10, 2004

Ford partnership drives results at MIT

November 10, 2004

Fall 2004 projects funded by the MIT Deshpande Center

October 26, 2004

Deshpande Center expands grant program to all MIT faculty

October 26, 2004

Alumnus Brian Hughes, chairman of Insolia shoe company, explains the engineering used in his product to make high heel shoes more comfortable.

Alumni make heels for pain-free fashion

September 29, 2004

Members of the Fuel Cell Breakthrough i-Team plan their strategy. From left, Jin Yi; Brett Prince (with back to camera); Matt Ziskin;, principal investigator Yang Shao-Horn, professor of mechanical engineering; and Jeff Baer.

I-Teams course readies technologies for market

September 28, 2004

Inventor Isaac Berzin, left, converses with Peter Cooper, director of utilities in MIT's Department of Facilities, atop MIT's cogeneration plant. Berzin's company, GreenFuel, is installing bioreactors consisting in part of temperature-controlled tubes, at right, which will hold algae through which waste gases will pass.

Up on the roof, algae appetites may transform waste into energy

August 9, 2004

Pontin joins Technology Review as editor-in-chief

June 24, 2004

High schoolers show off inventions at MIT

June 17, 2004

IDEAS

June 2, 2004

Active Joint Brace was selected as the winner at the MIT's $50K Entrepreneurship Competition. Team members, from left, are: Kailas Narendran, Joe Jackson, Mira Sahney, Hocking Cheng, Raja Surapanani and John McBean. Not pictured: Shashi Kant and Adam Rizika.

Active Joint Brace wins MIT $50K competition

May 14, 2004

Sloan School graduate student Harris Rabin demonstrates CycleScore, an interactive exercise program that he and three colleagues created as an iCampus project.

Sloan students pedal exercise

May 5, 2004

Nick Holonyak Jr., the 2004 winner of the $500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize, invented the first practical LED. Today's LEDs illuminate everything from alarm clocks to the NASDAQ billboard in Times Square.

LED inventor, materials scientist win 2004 Lemelson-MIT Prizes

April 28, 2004

Left: To detect and destroy an enemy missile, microwave energy is targeted on the missile while nullifying enemy jammers. Right: To kill a cancerous tumor, microwave energy is focused on the tumor while nullifying any energy that would overheat surrounding health tissue.

MIT radar research used to fight breast cancer