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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

A remotely operated vehicle and undersea terminal emits a coarse acquisition stabilized beam after locking onto another lasercom terminal.

Advancing undersea optical communications

Lincoln Laboratory researchers are applying narrow-beam laser technology to enable communications between underwater vehicles.

August 17, 2018

This test image from one of the four cameras aboard the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) captures a swath of the southern sky along the plane of our galaxy. More than 200,000 stars are visible. The image, which is centered in the constellation Centaurus, includes dark tendrils from the Coal Sack Nebula and the bright emission nebula Ced 122 (upper right).The bright star at bottom cente...

TESS takes initial test image

Exoplanet-seeking satellite developed by MIT swings by moon toward final orbit.

May 18, 2018

MIT engineers have developed a new virtual-reality training system for drones that enables a vehicle to “see” a rich, virtual environment while flying in an empty physical space.

Researchers develop virtual-reality testing ground for drones

With new system, drones navigate through an empty room, avoiding crashes while “seeing” a virtual world.

May 17, 2018

WHOI and MIT researchers deploy an autonomous underwater vehicle to test new navigation and sensing algorithms.

Fundamental equations guide marine robots to optimal sampling sites

New principled approach helps autonomous underwater vehicles explore the ocean in an intelligent, energy-efficient manner.

May 9, 2018

An artist concept depicts TESS in front of a lava planet orbiting its host star.

Ushering in the next phase of exoplanet discovery

Professor Sara Seager previews a new era of discovery as a leader of the TESS mission, which is expected to find some 20,000 extrasolar planets.

May 3, 2018

The YenAra (in Twi, a local language in Ghana, meaning “our very own”) backpacks team, now in AFEP, is developing advanced, functional, yet stylish backpacks that encourage individuals to showcase their creativity through socially responsible ways. Pictured are two of the founders, Sedinam Worlanyo (left) and Bolutife Fakoya, both Swarthmore College alumni, presenting at Swarthmore SwatTank An...

AFFOA and VMS launch Advanced Fabrics Entrepreneurship Program

Year-long program will give early-stage entrepreneurs a leg up in the functional fabrics industry.

April 13, 2018

A set of flight camera electronics on one of the TESS cameras, developed by the MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research (MKI), will transmit exoplanet data from the camera to a computer aboard the spacecraft that will process it before transmitting it back to scientists on Earth.

TESS readies for takeoff

Satellite developed by MIT aims to discover thousands of nearby exoplanets, including at least 50 Earth-sized ones.

April 12, 2018

In the NICS command and control tent at the base of operations, Zeljko Sinkovic, who is working with the Laboratory to develop the Southeast Europe version of NICS, inputs information into the system. On the map, a car icon has been placed where responders have confirmed it has crashed, and the red dots represent the locations of responders.

Southeastern European nations are latest to adopt emergency-response system

Lincoln Laboratory, in partnership with NATO, is modifying the system to help the region coordinate disaster response across borders.

April 4, 2018