Innovation and Entrepreneurship (I&E)

MIT researchers have developed a microchip that releases chemicals on demand. Left to right: Professor Michael Cima, graduate student John Santini and Professor Robert Langer stand in the Microsystems Technology Laboratory where the chip was fabricated. Mr. Santini holds a silicon wafer containing 21 of the dime-sized chips.

Microchip stores, releases chemicals for many uses

February 3, 1999

Front (left) and back views of a new microchip for the controlled release of chemicals. The dots between the three large bars (cathodes) on the front are the caps (anodes) covering the reservoirs that hold chemicals. An electrical voltage applied between a reservoir cap and a cathode causes a reaction that dissolves the cap, releasing the chemical. The back view shows the larger openings for each ...

MIT microchip releases chemicals on demand

January 27, 1999

A commentary on the controlled release microchip

January 20, 1999

Researchers create 'perfect mirror'

December 9, 1998

Assistant Professor Paula Hammond (right) and graduate student Sarah Clark are developing a new way to create microscopic patterns on surfaces. They recently mechanized the process; Ms. Clark holds part of the equipment to do so.

MIT team develops new way to create microscopic patterns on surfaces

Could become alternative to conventional procedures such as photolithography

December 1, 1998

MIT researchers create a 'perfect mirror'

Besides blocking or reflecting selected frequencies, this new device could help "trap" a light beam

November 26, 1998

Team creates new way to pattern surfaces

November 25, 1998

Luca Callini, who just received his master's in aeronautics and astronautics, and aeronautics and astronautics graduate student Suzanne Essig, far right, worked with Professor Larry Young on an experiment that will go up on the shuttle with astronaut John Glenn later this week. The MIT experiment is actually an artificial-intelligence system that will aid another experiment on sleep, in which the ...

MIT scientific "assistant" is key to shuttle study on astronauts Glenn, Mukai

October 27, 1998

Ronald Demon shows a picture of the frame of the "smart shoe" he developed and patented. Computer chips would be attached to the frame and then a leather or canvas covering would be added to finish the shoe in the desired style.

MIT senior invents 'smart shoe' to ease pain on basketball court

October 22, 1998

It's shoe time for student inventor

October 21, 1998

Corresponding portions of an NTSC image (top) and a high-definition TV image (bottom). An HDTV image contains more than 2 million picture elements and is about six times the spatial resolution of current NTSC images. HDTV employs a 16x9 aspect ratio, vs. NTSC's boxy 4x3 ratio, providing a wide-screen effect like in movie theaters.

Digital TV features include clearer pictures, data access

September 16, 1998

MIT garners five R&D 100 Awards

September 16, 1998

The USS Tarawa contains two major antennas on its mast. Clockwise from top left: a photo of the superstructure containing the antennas, the Cyrax 3-D data points of the structure, the resulting 3-D model of the mast, and a 2-D drawing the the mast's antenna with accurate dimensions, created when the model was exported to a CAD program.

Device makes surveys faster, cheaper

September 16, 1998

Useful byproducts from wastes

September 16, 1998

Tool allows faster machining

September 16, 1998

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Microchip stores, releases chemicals for many uses

MIT microchip releases chemicals on demand

A commentary on the controlled release microchip

Researchers create 'perfect mirror'

MIT team develops new way to create microscopic patterns on surfaces

MIT researchers create a 'perfect mirror'

Team creates new way to pattern surfaces

MIT scientific "assistant" is key to shuttle study on astronauts Glenn, Mukai

MIT senior invents 'smart shoe' to ease pain on basketball court

It's shoe time for student inventor

Digital TV features include clearer pictures, data access

MIT garners five R&D 100 Awards

Device makes surveys faster, cheaper

Useful byproducts from wastes

Tool allows faster machining

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