by RLE at MIT | Mar 17, 2008 | Awards, News Links
Professors Jeffrey H. Shapiro of MIT and Horace P. Yuen of Northwestern University were named recipients of the 2008 IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society (LEOS) Quantum Electronics Award for “pioneering and seminal contributions to the theory of the generation,...
by RLE at MIT | Mar 15, 2008 | News Links
Physicist Marin Soljacic is working toward a world of wireless electricity. In the late 19th century, the realization that electricity could be coaxed to light up a bulb prompted a mad dash to determine the best way to distribute it. At the head of the pack was...
by RLE at MIT | Mar 13, 2008 | News Links
Professor Jin Au Kong, an internationally renowned expert on electromagnetic waves who served on the faculty of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science for nearly 40 years, died unexpectedly this week of complications from pneumonia. He was 65....
by RLE at MIT | Mar 12, 2008 | News Links
A bionic device the size of a pencil eraser — the labor of 20 years for a group of visionary Hub doctors and scientists — is offering hope that some forms of blindness could be alleviated within a few years. «more» Related Links: Eyes on prize: Visionary device...
by RLE at MIT | Mar 10, 2008 | News Links
As a young professor, RLE alumnus Carl E. Wieman SB ’73 figured it would be easy to get his students as excited about physics as he was. He would simply explain the subject, and students would see it with the same sterling clarity he did. «more» Related Links: Wieman:...
