by RLE at MIT | Nov 18, 2009 | News Links
In everything from computer processor chips to car engines to electric powerplants, the need to get rid of excess heat creates a major source of inefficiency. But new research by Peter Hagelstein in RLE points the way to a technology that might make it possible to...
by RLE at MIT | Nov 13, 2009 | News Links
The retinal implant under development in the RLE research group of John Wyatt has been named by TIME Magazine as one of its 50 best inventions of 2009. «more» Related Links: The 50 Best Inventions of 2009: the Electric Eye Professor John L. Wyatt, Jr. RLE...
by RLE at MIT | Oct 27, 2009 | News Links
During a tour of RLE labs prior to his talk at Kresge Auditorium last Friday, President Barack Obama saw demonstrations of several clean-energy technologies being developed at MIT, including work in the RLE laboratories of Marc Baldo and Vladimir Bulovic showing...
by RLE at MIT | Oct 9, 2009 | News Links
Until this week, the only common calculation where quantum computation promised exponential gains was the factoring of large numbers, which isn’t that useful outside cryptography. In a paper appearing today in Physical Review Letters, however, RLE researchers in Seth...
by RLE at MIT | Oct 1, 2009 | News Links
William F. Schreiber, Professor Emeritus at M.I.T, died suddenly at his home in Cambridge, MA. on Monday September 21, 2009, at the age of 84. From l959 until his retirement in l990, he was a faculty member at MIT as Professor of Electrical Engineering. He was...