by RLE at MIT | Jun 26, 2007 | News Links
Light has been the workhorse of modern telecommunications since the invention of fibre optics. The ever-increasing demand to be able to transmit information not only over the large distances between continents but increasingly over the much smaller distances such as...
by RLE at MIT | Jun 13, 2007 | News Links
Unless it’s your smoke alarm saving your life, mysterious electronic beeping in the middle of the night is highly annoying. It certainly annoyed Marin Soljacic a few years ago when he found himself standing in his kitchen in his pajamas in the middle of the night for...
by RLE at MIT | Jun 13, 2007 | Awards, News Links
The IEEE has named Alan V. Oppenheim as the recipient of its 2007 Jack S. Kilby Signal Processing Medal, recognizing his contributions in the field of digital signal processing (DSP) which have impacted a variety of scientific disciplines including speech coding and...
by RLE at MIT | Jun 11, 2007 | News Links
A team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) lit a 60-watt light bulb from a power source two metres away and with no physical connections between the source and the appliance. «more» Related Links: MIT unveils wireless-power device Prof....
by RLE at MIT | Jun 11, 2007 | News Links
In a perfect world, there’d be no wires. They clutter the view, get tangled behind desks and limit how far networks can reach. «more» Related Links: Wireless breakthrough delivers electrical energy without power cord Prof. Marin Soljacic RLE ab initio...