Revolutionizing global health
In more than 20 years working on wireless sensors and radio frequency identification (RFID), Richard Fletcher has produced several startups and over a dozen patents.
Researchers devise efficient power converter for internet of things
Design reduces converter’s resting power consumption by 50 percent.
Voice control everywhere
Low-power special-purpose chip could make speech recognition ubiquitous in electronics.
Secure wireless chargers
New chip would thwart the counterfeiting that plagues the market for wired device chargers.
MIT Energy Initiative report provides guidance for evolving electric power sector
Experts call for regulatory, policy, and market transformation to realize potential of distributed energy technologies.
What’s wasting power at home? Ask your app!
New system from MIT can identify how much power is being used by each device in a household.
Cities of tomorrow
New book by Senseable City Lab researchers presents vision of data-driven urban design.
MIT Forum and Infosys Risk Group release preliminary global risk survey findings
Survey indicates 92.54 percent of companies think the nature of risk is changing due to complexity in the digital economy.
Making cities smarter
MIT researchers are creating tools that synthesize and collect data so that urban planners can vastly improve the quality of urban life.
New institute will accelerate innovations in fibers and fabrics
National public-private consortium led by MIT will involve manufacturers, universities, agencies, companies.
U.S., EU leaders talk Web policy and world economy at MIT
With EU vice president, U.S. secretary of commerce discusses EU-U.S. “Privacy Shield” and launches new policy program.
Energy-friendly chip can perform powerful artificial-intelligence tasks
Advance could enable mobile devices to implement “neural networks” modeled on the human brain.
New initiatives accelerate learning research and its applications
Gabrieli, Belcher, Sarma leading new efforts to understand learning, improve it at all levels of education.
Quantum materials: A new paradigm for computing?
Diamond spintronics and graphene-based infrared detectors are among leading-edge technologies reported at annual Materials Day Symposium at MIT.