Lincoln Laboratory

Remembering Professor Emeritus Alan McWhorter, 1930-2018

Long-time EECS professor and Lincoln Laboratory division head is best known for research on transistors, lasers, and masers.

November 21, 2018

Water droplets are inserted into the microhydraulic actuator, which rotates when voltage is applied to electrodes that pull the droplets in one direction. This disc-shaped actuator's inner diameter is 5 millimeters.

Using electricity and water, a new kind of motor can slide microrobots into motion

Microhydraulic actuators, thinner than one-third the width of human hair, are proving to be the most powerful and efficient motors at the microscale.

November 19, 2018

Angela Crews, a PhD candidate in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, coauthored a study comparing weather data collected by low-cost, shoebox-size satellites with that gathered by much larger, more expensive traditional weather satellite.

For collecting weather data, tiny satellites measure up to billion-dollar cousins

Study finds shoebox-sized CubeSats gather weather data comparably to data collected by larger satellites.

September 27, 2018

As the additive manufacturing lead at Lincoln Laboratory, Derek Straub works with technical staff to design 3-D-printed parts for various systems and technologies and oversees production on nine industrial machines.

Derek Straub: Shaping the future of additive manufacturing

Lincoln Laboratory's 3-D printing lead has been named to Manufacturing Engineering magazine's 30 Under 30 list.

September 25, 2018

The recipients of the 2019 IEEE Innovation in Societal Infrastructure Award are (l-r) Andy Vidan, Gregory Hogan, and Paul Breimyer. They are being honored for their development of an integrated decision support system for coordinating disaster response activities.

IEEE honors disaster response system developers

Innovation in Societal Infrastructure Award recognizes Lincoln Laboratory researchers who created a system that gives first responders the big picture.

September 17, 2018

TbD-net solves the visual reasoning problem by breaking it down to a chain of subtasks. The answer to each subtask is shown in heat maps highlighting the objects of interest, allowing analysts to see the network's thought process.

Artificial intelligence system uses transparent, human-like reasoning to solve problems

Model from MIT Lincoln Laboratory Intelligence and Decision Technologies Group sets a new standard for understanding how a neural network makes decisions.

September 11, 2018

Members of a team developing Adaptable Interpretable Machine Learning at Lincoln Laboratory are: (l-r) Melva James, Stephanie Carnell, Jonathan Su, and Neela Kaushik.

Taking machine thinking out of the black box

Adaptable Interpretable Machine Learning project is redesigning machine learning models so humans can understand what computers are thinking.

September 5, 2018

Dozens of Lincoln Laboratory staff members spanning five of the laboratory's technical divisions worked on the lidar mapping effort in Puerto Rico.

Using lidar to assess destruction in Puerto Rico

Lincoln Laboratory team's lidar data will allow FEMA to track further damage if another hurricane strikes the island.

August 30, 2018

Julia 1.0, developed and incubated at MIT, was officially released to the public during JuliaCon, an annual conference of Julia users held recently in London.

MIT-created programming language Julia 1.0 debuts

The dynamic programming language, which is free and open source, combines the speed and popular features of the best scientific and technical software.

August 27, 2018