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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

MIT team designing house of the future

June 15, 1998

MIT collaborative team to design prototype for house of the future

June 10, 1998

Langer, Nelsen discuss inventing and licensing

June 3, 1998

Shipping problem egg-cites freshmen

June 3, 1998

MIT Research Scientist Hermano I. Krebs watches as a patient at the Burke Rehabilitation Hospital uses MIT-Manus, a robotic arm designed to aid in his recovery.

MIT robot is promising tool for rehabilitation of stroke victims

May 21, 1998

Study shows physical-therapy robot aids stroke recovery

May 20, 1998

Two teams win top prize in MIT $50K contest

May 13, 1998

In Carl Dietrich's design for a perpetual motion machine (one of three he submitted),the upper reservoir fills at high tide and the water slowly empties into the lower reservoir, continuously turning a water wheel. Once the tide falls below the level of the lower reservoir, the water drains back into the ocean through a one-way valve.

Students compete to design a perpetual-motion machine

May 13, 1998

"Impossible" perpetual motion contest awards two honorable mentions

May 11, 1998

MIT team creates new battery material

April 28, 1998