The Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) was the first of the Institute’s great modern interdepartmental academic research centers. Today, we are one of MIT's largest such organizations, and the most diverse research laboratory at MIT in our scope of intellectual interests. http://www.rle.mit.edu/ Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:15:30 -0500 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:15:29 -0500 FeedForAll Mac v2.1 (2.1.0.1); http://www.FeedForAll.com/ http://www.rle.mit.edu/images/logo_rle.gif http://www.rle.mit.edu/ 43 31 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 harvest much of that wasted heat and turn it into usable electricity. http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2009/thermoelectric.html B4F367F3-F00E-402A-AC79-FD230D0A9F1F-3782-00001931C1A71EC1-FFA Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:10:45 -0500 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. http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1934027_1934003_1933955,00.html B3069C01-48DF-4DC6-B79C-E3672C60231E-4014-000018364A951A33-FFA Fri, 13 Nov 2009 18:15:23 -0500 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 high-efficiency light bulbs and windows that can double as solar energy collectors. http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2009/obama-labs.html 20F70C1E-3E3C-4383-BF0D-34203DA140A0-15945-0001DDA4114403A6-FFA Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:36:42 -0400 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 Lloyd's group present a new algorithm that could bring the same type of efficiency to systems of linear equations — whose solution is crucial to image processing, video processing, signal processing, robot control, weather modeling, genetic analysis and population analysis, to name just a few applications. http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2009/quantum-algorithm.html%0Ahttp://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2009/quantum-algorithm.html 91589F2E-289D-49CA-944B-66570BCE84DB-398-00000174BCFF3C9F-FFA Fri, 09 Oct 2009 11:36:13 -0400 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 director of the Advanced Television Research program in the Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE) from 1983 until his retirement. In 1969 with Melvin J. Fennell from The Associated Press and fellow MIT professors and PhDs Samuel J. Mason, and Donald E. Troxel, Mr. Schreiber developed one of the first commercially successful optical character recognition (OCR) machines, which served as the basis for starting, in the same year, the company ECRM. http://www.eecs.mit.edu/cgi-bin/announcements.cgi?page=2009/data/377.dat 89E37BB0-B13B-4171-9764-3B4BC62A360E-429-000000A3575947E0-FFA Thu, 01 Oct 2009 12:10:39 -0400 Led by electrical engineering professor John Wyatt, team develops retinal implant that could help restore useful level of vision to certain groups of blind people. Inspired by the success of cochlear implants that can restore hearing to some deaf people, researchers at RLE are working on a retinal implant that could one day help blind people regain a useful level of vision. http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2009/microchip-blind-092309.html 1531D67D-2A06-4759-B062-856227D5DD15-2052-00000C982FBDC646-FFA Wed, 23 Sep 2009 14:45:06 -0400 Led by Wolfgang Ketterle and David E. Pritchard, RLE physicists shed new light on magnetism in experiment with ultracold atoms. For the first time, RLE scientists in the Center for Ultracold Atoms have observed ferromagnetic behavior in an atomic gas, addressing a decades-old question of whether it is possible for a gas to show properties similar to a magnet made of iron or nickel. http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2009/magnetic-gas-0918.html AD1CAB40-B1E8-474B-9A70-E4B2C18916C0-2052-00000C91CFF49641-FFA Fri, 18 Sep 2009 14:44:39 -0400 RLE researchers have developed light-detecting fibers that, when weaved into a web, act as a flexible camera. Fabric composed of these fibers could be joined to a computer that could provide information on a small display screen attached to a visor, providing the soldier greater awareness of his surroundings. The researchers, led by Professor Yoel Fink of RLE, emphasize that while such an application and others like it are still only dreams, work is rapidly progressing on developing fabrics capable of capturing images. http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2009/flexible-0708.html%0Ahttp://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2009/flexible-0708.html%0Ahttp://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2009/flexible-0708.html DCA5DFCD-36ED-46DE-9EE1-046079AA6C26-1045-000004D9B67AAE8E-FFA Wed, 08 Jul 2009 12:20:43 -0400 Louis D. Smullin, head the Microwave Tube Laboratory and the Active Plasma Systems Group of the Research Laboratory of Electronics, and former head of the electrical engineering department who helped to create MIT's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), died peacefully at his residence at Lasell House on Thursday, June 4. He was 93. http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2009/obit-smullin-0608.html 56B28B6C-3223-4D1A-B111-0AB9607B2B78-650-000001C46AD6A426-FFA Tue, 09 Jun 2009 14:40:53 -0400 MIT engineers have built a fast, ultra-broadband, low-power radio chip, modeled on the human inner ear, that could enable wireless devices capable of receiving cell phone, Internet, radio and television signals. Rahul Sarpeshkar, associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science, and his graduate student, Soumyajit Mandal, designed the chip to mimic the inner ear, or cochlea. http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2009/bio-electronics-0603.html%0Ahttp://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2009/bio-electronics-0603.html 73D90937-0EEC-4A12-9AF3-A0E7A270061D-2612-00000E36F7D749A6-FFA Wed, 03 Jun 2009 15:09:03 -0400 Albert T. McGurl has been named a 2009 recipient of the Infinite Mile Award for his service to the RLE research community. http://web.mit.edu/vpr/www/infinitemile/previous2009.html 46A31FD5-3DB2-449F-900B-52AAA0C772CB-368-0000010216DE5358-FFA Mon, 18 May 2009 11:13:24 -0400 In a blown-up image from a scanning tunneling microscope, it looks just like an endless sheet of chicken wire: a simple flat sheet made up of a lattice of hexagons. But this nanoscopic material called graphene, first generally acknowledged to exist just five years ago, turns out to have a variety of unique, and potentially very useful, characteristics -- ones several MIT researchers, such as Vladimir Bulovic and Jing Kong of RLE, are actively trying to better understand and turn into real-world applications. http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2009/graphene-feature-0504.html FBF4C9AA-0410-43FD-ACC1-0F63252052CA-3460-0000181FFE14A05F-FFA Mon, 04 May 2009 18:04:31 -0400 The Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) announces that RLE Professors Marc A. Baldo, Karl K. Berggren, Jongyoon Han, Joel Voldman, and Lizhong Zheng, all appointed in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), have been awarded permanent tenure. http://www.rle.mit.edu/news/news_05032009.html 014F3E88-DAFE-4B72-83D7-BF8F1876F617-602-0000063EC1094385-FFA Sun, 03 May 2009 14:15:11 -0400 John Joannopoulos, the Francis Wright David Professor of Physics and principal investigator in the RLE ab initio Physics group, is among six MIT faculty members newly elected to the National Academy of Sciences in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research. http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2009/nas-members-0428.html CAA68FCC-12E1-4D38-8226-32C4FD36CAE5-2493-000010CBBCC8EE87-FFA Tue, 28 Apr 2009 15:44:47 -0400 he Massachusetts Institute of Technology will be home to two of 46 new multimillion-dollar Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRCs) announced today by the White House, in conjunction with a speech delivered by President Barack Obama at the annual meeting of the National Academy of Sciences.The EFRC program will provide $19 million to fund the Center for Excitonics at MIT, which will be directed by Marc A. Baldo, associate professor of electrical engineering and a principal investigator in the Research Laboratory for Electronics. http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2009/efrc-0427.html CD42AF72-DD8E-4C63-B438-A07EC054BF83-431-000001E1371763EB-FFA Mon, 27 Apr 2009 14:56:52 -0400 A $4 million gift by Emanuel E. Landsman '58, SM '59, ScD '66 and his wife, Sheila E. Landsman, to the MIT Laboratory for Electromagnetic and Electronic Systems (LEES) and the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) will provide a career development professorship, fellowship support and UROP funds in the fields of power electronics and electric energy-related engineering. http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/landsman-0425.html 67637208-2A4C-4BEC-B091-2DDBD2AB9EAA-1132-0000056BA4C5A2BC-FFA Sat, 25 Apr 2009 12:31:04 -0400 Vladimir Bulovic, the KDD Associate Professor of Communications and Technology in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and principal investigator in the Research Laboratory of Electronics, RLE, is the 2009 winner of the Bose Award for Excellence in Teaching in the School of Engineering. http://www.eecs.mit.edu/cgi-bin/announcements.cgi?page=2009/data/153.dat 3159FE0B-C8ED-4557-9F41-212B2C6689C7-431-000001DADF027BC9-FFA Wed, 15 Apr 2009 14:56:24 -0400 The Laboratory for Electromagnetic and Electronic Systems (LEES) will be merged into the Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE) effective July 1, 2009 as part of a growing emphasis on energy-related research in RLE. http://www.rle.mit.edu/news/news_04162009.html 1467F97A-D1DF-49FE-90B4-F184EC002CA6-1159-0000070255697EA8-FFA Thu, 16 Apr 2009 13:04:03 -0400 The Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) announces that Dr. Paul B. Corkum, Professor of Physics, Ottawa University and the National Research Council of Canada, will deliver the 2009 Hermann Anton Haus Lecture. The lecture will take place Monday, 27 April 2009, 4:00 PM, in the Hermann Anton Haus Room of the RLE Conference Center (Room 36-428). The lecture is open to the general public. http://www.rle.mit.edu/news/news_04022009.html 918E07A0-80F2-4BF8-9F47-8DADA7EE6848-1479-000008D4D1FC7F29-FFA Thu, 02 Apr 2009 13:37:24 -0400 Mr. Hansen Bow, a doctoral student in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, has been awarded the Helen Carr Peake Research Assistantship for September 2009 through August 2010. Mr. Bow’s doctoral research is being done in the Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE) under the supervision of Prof. Jongyoon Han. Mr. Theodore Moallem and Mr. Christopher Rohde have won Helen Carr Peake Research Prizes for 2009. Mr. Moallem, who is a doctoral student in the Speech and Hearing Bioscience and Technology Program in the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, is working under the joint supervision of Prof. Louis Braida, Dr. Charlotte Reed, and Mr. Nathaniel Durlach in RLE. Mr. Rohde is a doctoral student in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science whose research is being supervised by Prof. Mehmet Fatih Yanik in RLE. http://www.rle.mit.edu/news/news_03312009.html 77EA970B-1A6E-4E81-9FA1-29B48A01A8B1-2242-00000D08AA902722-FFA Tue, 31 Mar 2009 14:54:25 -0400 Researchers at MIT have found a novel method for etching extremely narrow lines on a microchip, using a material that can be switched from transparent to opaque, and vice versa, just by exposing it to certain wavelengths of light. http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2009/nanopatterning-0409.html 9E51AE2E-9544-47DD-9C51-0917A2D91FC2-2375-00000FCA5E5775EA-FFA Thu, 09 Apr 2009 15:51:51 -0400 New research findings by Prof. Jing Kong and colleagues could lead to microchips that operate at much higher speeds than is possible with today's standard silicon chips, leading to cell phones and other communications systems that can transmit data much faster. http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2009/graphene-palacios-0319.html D5CE87FD-65A4-4AE6-B05F-0F7AC4080F03-588-00000265D16FA318-FFA Thu, 19 Mar 2009 15:38:54 -0400 Anantha Chandrakasan, director of MIT's Microsystems Technology Laboratories, today received the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) University Researcher Award. Chandrakasan, the Joseph F. and Nancy P. Keithley Professor of Electrical Engineering, was honored for his work in micro-power design, wireless micro-sensor arrays and ultra-wideband radios. http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2009/sia-chandrakasan-0312.html D609AB93-E233-4B7E-9562-11E67282F16B-1522-000008D22AE446F8-FFA Thu, 12 Mar 2009 14:20:13 -0400 Vladimir Bulovic is one of the four newest MacVicar fellows. The program, now in its 18th year, is designed to create an elite group of MIT scholars committed to excellence in teaching and innovation in education. http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2009/macvicar-0305.html 21AC2655-2295-4E8C-924B-0AF5752B13A4-5488-0000EF7AE9540F62-FFA Thu, 05 Mar 2009 15:13:25 -0500 Lip reading is a critical means of communication for many deaf people, but it has a drawback: Certain consonants (for example, p and b) can be nearly impossible to distinguish by sight alone. http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2009/deaf-touch-0226.html 43AA19EF-E080-4262-B45B-ED6F7F4551BB-3741-0000185AFB815929-FFA Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:18:02 -0500 Wolfgang Ketterle has been elected the recipient of a Humboldt Research Award after having been nominated by the German scientist Theodor W. Hansch. http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2009/aandh-tt0225.html 2022E15E-FA60-4FA4-ABC1-1914F798CBAB-5488-0000EF73D5D21E76-FFA Wed, 25 Feb 2009 14:12:54 -0500 Professors Mehmet Fatih Yanik and Martin W. Zwierlein of RLE have been awarded 2008 Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellowships which are intended to enhance the careers of the very best young faculty members in specified fields of science. http://www.rle.mit.edu/news/newsbriefs/newsbrief_022508_yanik.html A190582C-C24D-11DD-AFEA-000D9378B896-4004-000000A1017222AD-FFA Mon, 25 Feb 2008 16:51:18 -0500 Henry I. Smith of RLE was named a recipient of the 2008 Nano 50 Award from Nanotech Briefs, recognizing him as a leader and pioneer "with a significant background of accomplishments in advancing the state of the art in nanotechnology." http://www.nanotechbriefs.com/nano50_winners.html 8F9D2488-C24D-11DD-AFEA-000D9378B896-4004-000000A0C59DEFFA-FFA Wed, 12 Nov 2008 16:50:47 -0500 New ways of squeezing out greater efficiency from solar photovoltaic cells are emerging from computer simulations and lab tests conducted by a team of physicists and engineers at MIT. Using computer modeling and a variety of advanced chip-manufacturing techniques, they have applied an antireflection coating to the front, and a novel combination of multi-layered reflective coatings and a tightly spaced array of lines -- called a diffraction grating -- to the backs of ultrathin silicon films to boost the cells' output by as much as 50 percent. http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/solar-efficiency-1126.html D7D3D774-C18F-11DD-8B83-000D9378B896-4983-000000BF28A1AB93-FFA Wed, 26 Nov 2008 18:12:50 -0500 Joel Voldman at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) was presented with the first Young Innovator Award, which is sponsored by the American Chemical Society (ACS) journal Analytical Chemistry, on October 13 at the MicroTAS 2008 conference in San Diego. This new award recognizes a young scientist who has demonstrated exceptional technical advancement and innovation early in his or her career. Voldman’s research interests focus on microtechnology for cell sorting and stem cell biology. http://pubs.acs.org/journals/ancham/news/2008/11/06/rm_people.html 77A0061D-AD00-11DD-A818-000D9378B896-1936-0000005C32BFF6D2-FFA Thu, 06 Nov 2008 14:16:00 -0500 MIT Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE) engineers have achieved adramatic breakthrough in drift-free synchronization based on mode-locked lasers. This achievement is an important milestone in transitioning mode-locked laser-based synchronization systems from the laboratory into real-world facilities. http://www.rle.mit.edu/news/news_11042008.html 623663EA-AA94-11DD-8291-000D9378B896-1135-00000029E36F7DD2-FFA Tue, 04 Nov 2008 12:18:23 -0500 The Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has named Luca Daniel, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, and Jing Kong, Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering, to receive 2008 Jonathan Allen Junior Faculty Awards. http://www.rle.mit.edu/news/news_10142008.html 1E6C9DF5-9A21-11DD-8A26-000D9378B896-972-000000398E7EB6D1-FFA Tue, 14 Oct 2008 14:52:02 -0400 Eight MIT faculty members will be inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS) as part of its new class of 190 fellows and 22 foreign honorary members, including Professor Henry I. Smith. http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/aaas-1010.html E5D8C1A6-9A20-11DD-8A26-000D9378B896-972-00000038D1EB02A5-FFA Fri, 10 Oct 2008 14:51:25 -0400 Marin Soljacic is a young theoretical physicist whose work on several aspects of electromagnetic waves holds important implications for understanding fundamental principles of optical physics and for development of devices such as switches for optical computers and wireless power transmitters. http://www.macfound.org/site/c.lkLXJ8MQKrH/b.4537289/ 97115E5E-A077-11DD-90AF-000D9378B896-2932-00000071D9326FA4-FFA Sun, 28 Sep 2008 16:26:05 -0400 Two MIT faculty members—a physicist and a structural engineer who studies architectural history—have won 2008 MacArthur Fellowships, commonly known as "genius" grants. Marin Soljacic '96, assistant professor of physics, and John Ochsendorf, associate professor of architecture, will each receive $500,000 in "no strings attached" support over five years from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/macarthur-0923.html 801A8C13-A077-11DD-90AF-000D9378B896-2932-000000718CA7C880-FFA Sun, 28 Sep 2008 16:25:28 -0400 A bizarre but well-established aspect of quantum physics could open up a new era of electronic detectors and imaging systems that would be far more efficient than any now in existence, according to new insights by an MIT leader in the field. http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/quantum-detect-0911.html AA3A6018-80ED-11DD-8A80-000D9378B896-8532-000005CAB1E52335-FFA Thu, 11 Sep 2008 13:10:41 -0400 MIT researchers may have found a way to overcome a key barrier to the advent of super-fast quantum computers, which could be powerful tools for applications such as code breaking. Ever since Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman first proposed the theory of quantum computing more than two decades ago, researchers have been working to build such a device. http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/artificial-atom-0903.html EF6DC3EB-79FA-11DD-AA22-000D9378B896-3209-000000AA07DA712F-FFA Wed, 03 Sep 2008 16:57:56 -0400 MIT engineers report a new approach to identifying protein structures key to Alzheimer's disease, an important step toward the development of new drugs that could prevent such structures from forming. http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/alzheimers-protein-0821.html%0Ahttp://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/alzheimers-protein-0821.html%0Ahttp://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/alzheimers-protein-0821.html 8214893A-72BD-11DD-B2A8-000D9378B896-524-00000008D2E976A2-FFA Thu, 21 Aug 2008 11:50:46 -0400 In his darkened lab at MIT, Marc Baldo shines an ultraviolet lamp on a 10-*centimeter square of glass. He has coated the surfaces of the glass with dyes that glow faintly orange under the light. Yet the uncoated edges of the glass are shining more brightly--four neat, thin strips of luminescent orange. http://www.technologyreview.com/Energy/21217/ 662D352E-6E1B-11DD-A399-000D9378B896-1049-00000059EAD7612D-FFA Tue, 19 Aug 2008 14:20:01 -0400 Using a novel system based on molecules that can assemble themselves into precise patterns, MIT researchers have come up with a way of beating size limitations that would otherwise crimp improvements in data-storage media and electronic microchips. http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/self-assembly-0814.html 3DFD1B32-6D3F-11DD-BCE1-000D9378B896-670-0000000FE906975E-FFA Thu, 14 Aug 2008 12:04:05 -0400 major new grant to unify MIT's strengths into an interdisciplinary doctoral study program spanning science and engineering http://www.rle.mit.edu/news/news_08042008.html 4F7AA24E-6321-11DD-9B6F-000D9378B896-1836-0000007591DDD5CC-FFA Mon, 04 Aug 2008 15:05:02 -0400 MIT has been awarded a $3 million grant from the National Science Foundation to establish a pioneering doctoral-study program in the growing field of quantum information science (QIS), which has evolved rapidly recently with a new influx of ideas from quantum physics and poses great potential in supercomputing. http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/quantum-0804.html C4B3F666-630B-11DD-85AD-000D9378B896-964-0000002DC49C4EBA-FFA Mon, 04 Aug 2008 12:30:27 -0400 A new way of capturing the energy from the Sun could increase the power generated by solar panels tenfold, a team of American scientists has shown. The new technique involves coating glass with a specific mixture of transparent dyes which redirect light to photovoltaic cells in the frame. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7501476.stm 289C5234-5816-11DD-AC11-000D9378B896-1452-0000004307C9BD13-FFA Fri, 11 Jul 2008 13:47:10 -0400 A new type of solar panel that allows light to pass through it like a pane of glass has been invented by scientists who said that it is 10 times more powerful than conventional methods of producing energy from sunlight. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/new-windows-double-as-solar-panels-865592.html 1838307A-5816-11DD-AC11-000D9378B896-1452-00000042D127A54B-FFA Fri, 11 Jul 2008 13:46:42 -0400 If you think solar is still too expensive, here's how to get more bang for your solar-cell buck. Take a small solar cell, and slice it into thin slivers. Wrap the slivers around the edges of a slab of glass. Paint the glass with a high-tech, but cheap, dye, which you bought online, and voilé! You have a new solar panel. It can collect much more energy than the pricey cell you started with, and it costs only a little more. http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/34053/title/Solar_panels_to_dye_for D7924252-5815-11DD-AC11-000D9378B896-1452-00000041F9AD34C4-FFA Fri, 11 Jul 2008 13:46:15 -0400 Looking to make solar panels cheaper, MIT researchers have created sheets of glass coated with advanced organic dyes that more efficiently concentrate sunlight. The researchers, whose results appear in this week's issue of Science, say that the coated glass sheets could eventually make solar power as cheap as electricity from fossil fuels. http://www.technologyreview.com/Energy/21066/ 923289C4-5815-11DD-AC11-000D9378B896-1452-0000004112726C2B-FFA Thu, 10 Jul 2008 13:44:09 -0400 Imagine windows that not only provide a clear view and illuminate rooms, but also use sunlight to efficiently help power the building they are part of. MIT engineers report a new approach to harnessing the sun's energy that could allow just that. http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/solarcells-0710.html D4FDD07A-5445-11DD-A26F-000D9378B896-3887-000000C1EB999EA6-FFA Thu, 10 Jul 2008 17:18:27 -0400 Professor Jeffrey H. Shapiro will be one of three recipients of the 2008 Quantum Communication Award, given to recognize, "...outstanding achievements in quantum communication research." http://qcmc2008.org/awards.php 039EC507-3BC1-11DD-B87D-000D9378B896-1243-0000003630DF564B-FFA Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:27:02 -0400 A mat of nanowires with the touch and feel of paper could be an important new tool in the cleanup of oil and other organic pollutants, MIT researchers and colleagues report in the May 30 online issue of Nature Nanotechnology. http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/oil-paper-0530.html 2A5564CB-30E7-11DD-8483-000D9378B896-3216-000000AF6C60263D-FFA Fri, 30 May 2008 17:02:34 -0400 Significant extension of the human lifespan by disease-preventive and tissue-regenerative technologies within the next one to two decades will dramatically impact the world economy http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/hope-yanik-0521.html 1A88327A-30E7-11DD-8483-000D9378B896-3216-000000AF37B51D60-FFA Wed, 21 May 2008 17:02:03 -0400 Diagnostics for All, a nonprofit company that has developed a unique process for making simple medical test kits out of paper, was the top winner of MIT's 100K Entrepreneurship Competition. The company's inexpensive tests require only a single drop of blood to provide a color-coded response indicating the presence of any of several different diseases. http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/100k-0516.html 06B001AF-30E7-11DD-8483-000D9378B896-3216-000000AEF5905821-FFA Fri, 16 May 2008 17:01:31 -0400 The Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) announces that two Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) faculty and two faculty holding joint appointments in EECS and the Division of Health Sciences and Technology (HST) conducting research in RLE will be promoted in July 2008. http://www.rle.mit.edu/news/news_05072008.html CB20C56C-1C73-11DD-B39E-000D9378B896-2312-0000008A902203D8-FFA Wed, 07 May 2008 16:26:18 -0400 The Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) announces that Dr. Roozbeh Ghaffari and Mr. Michael Vahey have won Helen Carr Peake Research Prizes for 2008. http://www.rle.mit.edu/news/news_05012008.html B833E01A-1C73-11DD-B39E-000D9378B896-2312-0000008A510D5A1B-FFA Thu, 01 May 2008 16:25:48 -0400 The American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the nation's oldest and most prestigious honorary societies and independent policy research centers, today announced the election of a new class of members. Drawn from the sciences, the arts and humanities, business, public affairs, and the nonprofit sector, the 190 new Fellows and 22 Foreign Honorary Members are leaders in their fields and include Nobel laureates and recipients of Pulitzer and Pritzker prizes, Academy and Grammy awards, and Kennedy Center Honors. http://www.amacad.org/news/new2008.aspx 4544136C-1BB8-11DD-8896-000D9378B896-863-0000001BDB5A0948-FFA Mon, 28 Apr 2008 18:05:01 -0400 Lecture series honoring Haus brings eminent visitors to MIT http://www.rle.mit.edu/news/news_04292008.html 26B5B634-1637-11DD-9B11-000D9378B896-2467-000000D4317DC534-FFA Tue, 29 Apr 2008 17:57:10 -0400 An MIT team has improved upon its landmark technology reported last year in which the researchers used a fingernail-sized lab on a chip to image, perform surgery on and sort tiny worms to study nerve regeneration. http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/lab-on-chip-0410.html A8CC543E-162B-11DD-AAB0-000D9378B896-1606-000000ADE3D4404A-FFA Thu, 10 Apr 2008 16:34:44 -0400 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, detection, and applications of novel states of light." http://www.ieee.org/portal/site/leos/menuitem.c068a7b8deb7e828fb2275875bac26c8/index.jsp?&pName=leos_level1&path=leos/info&file=previous_award_winners.xml&xsl=generic.xsl FB4014B5-F9E9-11DC-9C07-000D9378B896-3803-000000BC6669AEA9-FFA Mon, 17 Mar 2008 13:32:23 -0400 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 inventor Nikola Tesla, who had a grand scheme to beam elec*tricity around the world. http://www.technologyreview.com/read_article.aspx?ch=specialsections&sc=emerging08&id=20248 21FAEE78-F447-11DC-9D49-000D9378B896-1374-00000037C96DDC72-FFA Sat, 15 Mar 2008 13:26:01 -0400 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. http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/obit-kong-0313.html 2D8A73C2-F43F-11DC-85DE-000D9378B896-853-0000001D45D30AF8-FFA Thu, 13 Mar 2008 12:32:33 -0400 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. http://news.bostonherald.com/news/regional/general/view.bg?articleid=1078909 1A873C1A-F43F-11DC-85DE-000D9378B896-853-0000001D06743EF9-FFA Wed, 12 Mar 2008 12:28:19 -0400 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. http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/macvicar-0310.html 472A63D9-F06D-11DC-94A5-000D9378B896-2790-0000008ECB8333B0-FFA Mon, 10 Mar 2008 15:59:57 -0400 MIT Professor Emeritus J. Francis Reintjes celebrated for his keen wit and unassuming but steadfast leadership in electrical engineering and computer science, passed away February 21, 2008 after a brief illness. http://www.eecs.mit.edu/cgi-bin/announcements.cgi?page=2008/data/61.dat%0Dhttp://www.eecs.mit.edu/cgi-bin/announcements.cgi?page=2008/data/61.dat%0Dhttp://www.eecs.mit.edu/cgi-bin/announcements.cgi?page=2008/data/61.dat F6C0BE1A-E710-11DC-8742-000D9378B896-3463-000000B24A237D25-FFA Fri, 29 Feb 2008 16:55:31 -0500 The strange world of quantum mechanics can provide a way to surpass limits in speed, efficiency and accuracy of computing, communications and measurement, according to research by MIT scientist Seth Lloyd. http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/aaas-quantum-0216.html%0Dhttp://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/aaas-quantum-0216.html%0Dhttp://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/aaas-quantum-0216.html%0Dhttp://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/aaas-quantum-0216.html%0Dhttp://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/aaas-quantum-0216.html%0Dhttp://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/aaas-quantum-0216.html%0Dhttp://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/aaas-quantum-0216.html BC331848-DF1F-11DC-A366-000D9378B896-1581-0000006530C9AA22-FFA Sat, 16 Feb 2008 14:21:26 -0500 James M. Daley, Project Technician in the RLE NanStructures Laboratory (NSL), has been named one of nineteen 2008 recipients of the MIT Excellence Award, the Institute's highest honor for staff, in the category of "Unsung Hero." http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/excellence-tt0213.html BCE935E1-E4B7-11DC-BDEB-000D9378B896-3223-000000B29FE966DE-FFA Wed, 13 Feb 2008 17:11:41 -0500 Martin Zwierlein, assistant professor of physics, was recently awarded one of Germany's premier awards for young scientists. The 100,000 euro Klung-Wilhelmy-Weberbank Prize for physics was presented to Zwierlein at a ceremony on Nov. 16 at the Free University of Berlin. http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2007/zwierlein-tt1205.html D3C81EB2-A4DD-11DC-B714-000D9378B896-876-000000271CC1B4E1-FFA Fri, 07 Dec 2007 11:03:10 -0500 Professor Jacob K. White, Cecil H. Green Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, was named a 2008 IEEE Fellow. Professor White was cited for his contributions to pioneering simulation tools for RF circuits, electrical interconnects, and micro machined devices. http://www.ieee.org/web/membership/fellows/index.html 11E5971A-9485-11DC-A01E-000D9378B896-4261-0000008EA46EF24C-FFA Thu, 15 Nov 2007 15:47:31 -0500 RLE alumnus, J. Nicholas Laneman, Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Notre Dame, was named a recipient of a Presidential Early Career Award (PECASE). The PECASE is the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government on scientists and engineers beginning their independent careers. Professor Laneman's widely cited doctoral work in RLE laid the foundations of "cooperative communication", which has since become a particularly active field and is influencing the design and architecture of next-generation wireless infrastructure. http://ee.nd.edu/news/story.cgi?id=113 1F34186A-8D52-11DC-AB82-000D9378B896-1172-00000020B1BA7A0F-FFA Thu, 01 Nov 2007 11:55:15 -0400 A new theory developed at MIT could lead to "smart" optical microchips that adapt to different wavelengths of light, potentially advancing telecommunications, spectroscopy and remote sensing. http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2007/optical-control-1101.html D4F48812-8BD9-11DC-9455-000D9378B896-2325-0000008060D964FC-FFA Thu, 01 Nov 2007 15:01:14 -0400 The Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation at MIT today announced it is awarding $1,030,000 in grants to ten MIT research teams currently working on emerging technologies. These projects have the potential to revolutionize disease therapies, nano-scale imaging, renewable energy from biomass, energy storage, HIV care in the developing world, wound healing, medication delivery and explosives detection. http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2007/deshpande-1022.html CAED73C3-80DD-11DC-B32C-000D9378B896-2382-000000A2A24DCA06-FFA Mon, 22 Oct 2007 16:32:06 -0400 Mehmet Fatih Yanik has stopped light in its tracks and created a self-contained biological laboratory, complete with large numbers of living test subjects, on the surface of a microchip. Now he is focusing on learning how to keep nerve cells from degenerating and getting damaged ones to regenerate. http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2007/packard-tt1017.html DD03900E-80DD-11DC-B32C-000D9378B896-2382-000000A2DE9664B9-FFA Wed, 17 Oct 2007 16:32:32 -0400 MIT researchers have discovered a hearing mechanism that fundamentally changes the current understanding of inner ear function. This new mechanism could help explain the ear's remarkable ability to sense and discriminate sounds. Its discovery could eventually lead to improved systems for restoring hearing. http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2007/hearing-1010.html 227868B2-80DC-11DC-A237-000D9378B896-2280-0000009D1B8BE73C-FFA Wed, 10 Oct 2007 16:20:06 -0400 The David and Lucile Packard Foundation has named 20 new promising scientific researchers as the 2007 recipients of Packard Fellowships for Science and Engineering. Each Fellow will receive an unrestricted research grant of $625,000 over five years. http://www.packard.org/newsDetails.aspx?RootCatID=2&CategoryID=48&ItemID=3646 http://www.packard.org/newsDetails.aspx?RootCatID=2&CategoryID=48&ItemID=3646 Tue, 09 Oct 2007 16:46:55 -0400 The Steven Wade Neiterman Award is given to individuals engaged in information technology work in any department at MIT. The award is given to individuals who share the qualities that Steve exhibited: his abilities in collaborative problem solving, in coaching colleagues, and in team building. http://web.mit.edu/ist/wadeaward/recipients.html http://web.mit.edu/ist/wadeaward/recipients.html Tue, 18 Sep 2007 16:55:12 -0400 Professors Ed Boyden, Alan Jasanoff, and Mehmet Fatih Yanik will each receive $1.5 million over five years for winning New Innovator Awards. Yanik, assistant professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, will "develop microchip technologies to perform extremely fast studies of gene function in small animals to rapidly identify genetic targets for new drugs." Yanik also has an appointment in the Research Laboratory of Electronics. http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2007/pioneer-innovator-0918.html http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2007/pioneer-innovator-0918.html Tue, 18 Sep 2007 16:47:15 -0400 Genetic studies on whole animals can now be done dramatically faster using a new microchip developed by engineers at MIT. http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2007/chip-0820.html http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2007/chip-0820.html Mon, 20 Aug 2007 16:47:45 -0400 Several MIT faculty and alumni have been named to the TR35, Technology Review Magazine's annual compilation of the 35 top innovators worldwide under the age of 35. http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2007/tr35-0815.html http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2007/tr35-0815.html Wed, 15 Aug 2007 16:47:58 -0400 Mehmet Yanik, an assistant professor of electrical engineering and computer science, has invented a way to stop light pulses on a chip and release them at will. The technology could allow engineers to route and store optical data in telecommunications networks and on microchips without having to convert it to electricity. http://www.technologyreview.com/tr35/Profile.aspx?Cand=T&TRID=634 http://www.technologyreview.com/tr35/Profile.aspx?Cand=T&TRID=634 Wed, 15 Aug 2007 16:48:09 -0400 President George W. Bush presented the nation's highest science and technology honors Friday to MIT President Emeritus Charles M. Vest, pioneering biomedical engineer Robert S. Langer and groundbreaking atomic physicist Daniel Kleppner. http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2007/nsf-medals-0727.html http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2007/nsf-medals-0727.html Fri, 27 Jul 2007 16:48:33 -0400 Kleppner received the medal for pioneering studies of the interaction between atoms and light, and for "lucid explanations of physics to non-specialists." http://www.boston.com/yourlife/health/blog/2007/07/mit_trio_win_na.html http://www.boston.com/yourlife/health/blog/2007/07/mit_trio_win_na.html Mon, 16 Jul 2007 16:48:42 -0400 Three distinguished members of the MIT community - President Emeritus Charles M. Vest, pioneering biomedical engineer Robert S. Langer and groundbreaking atomic physicist Daniel Kleppner - have been awarded the nation's highest technology and science honors. http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2007/vest_langer_kleppner-0716.html http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2007/vest_langer_kleppner-0716.html Mon, 16 Jul 2007 16:48:51 -0400 The Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has named three Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE) faculty to career development professorships. http://www.rle.mit.edu/news/news_07122007.html http://www.rle.mit.edu/news/news_07122007.html Thu, 12 Jul 2007 16:49:01 -0400 Daniel Kleppner, the Lester Wolfe Professor Emeritus of Physics, has been chosen as the the Frederic Ives Medal/Jarus W. Quinn Endowment winner by the Optical Society of America. http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2007/aandh-0703.html http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2007/aandh-0703.html Tue, 03 Jul 2007 16:49:10 -0400 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 the interconnects between high-speed microchips, has led to a variety of approaches to manipulating light. http://www.nature.com/nphys/journal/v3/n6/full/nphys630.html http://www.nature.com/nphys/journal/v3/n6/full/nphys630.html Tue, 26 Jun 2007 16:49:18 -0400 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 about the sixth time in a month, staring at his cell phone, beeping to tell him he'd forgotten to plug it in. http://www.canada.com/reginaleaderpost/news/arts_life/story.html?id=256c274e-e39a-4d1f-b392-455f6d1d6a79 http://www.canada.com/reginaleaderpost/news/arts_life/story.html?id=256c274e-e39a-4d1f-b392-455f6d1d6a79 Wed, 13 Jun 2007 16:49:27 -0400 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 recognition, seismic signal processing, artificial intelligence, radar and sonar, communication systems and biomedical signal analysis. http://www.rfglobalnet.com/content/news/article.asp?DocID=%257B2B7E181C-B706-4404-B81F-6B4E5B677697%257D http://www.rfglobalnet.com/content/news/article.asp?DocID=%257B2B7E181C-B706-4404-B81F-6B4E5B677697%257D Wed, 13 Jun 2007 16:49:36 -0400 In a perfect world, there'd be no wires. They clutter the view, get tangled behind desks and limit how far networks can reach. http://www.chicagotribune.com/technology/chi-mon_powerjun11,1,1783484.story?coll=chi-techtopheds-hed http://www.chicagotribune.com/technology/chi-mon_powerjun11,1,1783484.story?coll=chi-techtopheds-hed Mon, 11 Jun 2007 16:49:44 -0400 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. http://news.zdnet.co.uk/emergingtech/0,1000000183,39287474,00.htm http://news.zdnet.co.uk/emergingtech/0,1000000183,39287474,00.htm Mon, 11 Jun 2007 16:49:53 -0400 If you thought wireless Internet made life convenient, try wrapping your mind around wireless power. http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleid=07511C52-E7F2-99DF-3FA6ED2D7DC9AA20 http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleid=07511C52-E7F2-99DF-3FA6ED2D7DC9AA20 Thu, 07 Jun 2007 16:50:02 -0400 MIT team experimentally demonstrates wireless power transfer, potentially useful for powering laptops, and cell phones without cords. http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2007/wireless-0607.html http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2007/wireless-0607.html Thu, 07 Jun 2007 16:50:12 -0400 The mess of electrical cables that recharge our laptops, mobile phones and PDAs could soon disappear altogether—at least according to a team of US physicists, who have shown how power can be transmitted without wires using special "resonant" antennas. http://physicsweb.org/articles/news/11/6/5 http://physicsweb.org/articles/news/11/6/5 Thu, 07 Jun 2007 16:50:25 -0400 Lorraine is among the best of the unsung heroes of administration at MIT. She is responsible for many behind-the-scene tasks that are essential to fulfill requirements. http://web.mit.edu/vpr/www/infinitemile/previous-2007.html http://web.mit.edu/vpr/www/infinitemile/previous-2007.html Fri, 25 May 2007 16:50:34 -0400 The highest award conferred by the Society for overall distinction in optics, this award is presented to Daniel Kleppner for sustained innovation, discovery and leadership in the interaction of radiation with atoms and for his service and general educational activities. http://www.osa.org/news/pressroom/release/05.2007/overall_awards.aspx#frederickives http://www.osa.org/news/pressroom/release/05.2007/overall_awards.aspx#frederickives Mon, 21 May 2007 16:50:42 -0400 Detecting the molecular structure of a tiny protein using nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) currently requires two things: a million-dollar machine the size of a massive SUV, and a large sample of the protein under study. http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2007/microdetector.html http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2007/microdetector.html Tue, 15 May 2007 16:50:51 -0400 Cheryl Charles was awarded the MIT School of Engineering's 2007 Infinite Mile Award for Diversity and Community. http://web.mit.edu/engineering/soe-awards/award-ceremony2007.html#charles http://web.mit.edu/engineering/soe-awards/award-ceremony2007.html#charles Thu, 10 May 2007 16:51:01 -0400 A new way to use lasers to snap highly detailed 3-D pictures of the eye could help improve diagnoses of many ocular diseases, engineers say. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,269716,00.html http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,269716,00.html Sat, 05 May 2007 16:51:09 -0400 In work that could improve diagnoses of many eye diseases, MIT researchers have developed a new type of laser for taking high-resolution, 3-D images of the retina, the part of the eye that converts light to electrical signals that travel to the brain. http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2007/eye-imaging.html http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2007/eye-imaging.html Mon, 30 Apr 2007 16:51:20 -0400 The Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) announces that Ms. Sasha Devore has been awarded the first Helen Carr Peake Research Assistantship, while Mr. Jianping Fu and Dr. Darren Whiten have won Helen Carr Peake Research Prizes for 2007. http://www.rle.mit.edu/news/news_04112007.html http://www.rle.mit.edu/news/news_04112007.html Wed, 11 Apr 2007 16:51:28 -0400 Jing Kong will be working with colleague Francesco Stellaci to study superhydrophobic nanomaterials, a simple and rapid nanomaterial approach to controlling surface wetting that could impact how environmentally hazardous materials are cleaned. http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2007/deshpande-0314.html http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2007/deshpande-0314.html Wed, 14 Mar 2007 16:51:38 -0400 Dear Friends, It is with great sadness that I report the death of Henry J. Zimmermann, Professor Emeritus of Electrical Engineering and fourth Director of the Research Laboratory of Electronics. Professor Zimmermann died Sunday, 18 March 2007, at Meadows on Edgewood in North Andover, Massachusetts. He was ninety years old. http://www.rle.mit.edu/news/news_03232007.html http://www.rle.mit.edu/news/news_03232007.html Fri, 23 Mar 2007 16:51:48 -0400 What are the ultimate powers of quantum computers, quantum communications and quantum precision measurement systems? http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2007/quantum.html http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2007/quantum.html Fri, 09 Mar 2007 16:51:56 -0500 The annual MIT Excellence Awards ceremony was held Feb. 28 in Kresge Auditorium. Seventeen members of the Institute staff were recognized. http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2007/excellence-0307.html http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2007/excellence-0307.html Wed, 07 Mar 2007 16:52:05 -0500 Some people learn better when they are being graded; some do worse. Some like to go over classroom material by saying it out loud to themselves; some like to teach it to others. Some said they learn best when they look, some when they listen and some when they draw pictures. http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2007/macvicar-day.html http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2007/macvicar-day.html Tue, 06 Mar 2007 16:52:13 -0500 The Executive Committee of the MIT Corporation accepted President Susan Hockfield's recommendations for the promotion of three RLE faculty: Rajeev J. Ram from associate professor to full professor, and Karl K. Berggren and Luca Daniel from assistant professors to associate professors. The promotions are effective July 1, 2007. http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2007/faculty-promotions.html http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2007/faculty-promotions.html Mon, 05 Mar 2007 16:52:22 -0500 Researchers around the world are trying to tap a barely used portion of the electromagnetic spectrum—terahertz radiation—to scan airline passengers for explosives and illegal drugs. http://www.technologyreview.com/Infotech/18203/ http://www.technologyreview.com/Infotech/18203/ Tue, 20 Feb 2007 15:52:30 -0500 When he led a U.S. Army bomb squad in Baghdad in 2003, Staff Sgt. Luke Stalcup carried electronic devices to track bombs on roads, in trash cans or in cars. But these man-made imitations of a dog's nose often proved disappointing. http://www.naplesnews.com/news/2007/feb/16/hightech_fido_could_save_lives_iraq/ http://www.naplesnews.com/news/2007/feb/16/hightech_fido_could_save_lives_iraq/ Fri, 16 Feb 2007 15:52:42 -0500 The annual MIT Excellence Awards acknowledge innovation, leadership, collaboration, dedication, outreach, inclusiveness, service and results. The program is designed to recognize individuals and teams for their exceptional contributions to their office, department or school—or to the Institute as a whole. http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2007/excellence-0214.html http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2007/excellence-0214.html Wed, 14 Feb 2007 15:52:51 -0500 The Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) announces that Dr. Eli Yablonovitch, Northrop Grumman Opto-Electronics Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), will deliver the 2007 Hermann Anton Haus Lecture. The lecture will take place at the MIT campus on Wednesday, 18 April 2007, 4:00 PM, in the Hermann Anton Haus Room of the RLE Conference Center (Room 36-428). http://www.rle.mit.edu/news/news_02092007.html http://www.rle.mit.edu/news/news_02092007.html Fri, 09 Feb 2007 15:53:00 -0500 Fiber-optic networks transmit massive amounts of information quickly, but the signals weaken as the data-carrying light travels long distances. Now, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology said they've overcome a major obstacle in harnessing the full power and speed of the light waves. http://www.boston.com/news/education/higher/articles/2007/02/09/mit_team_details_optics_on_a_chip_device/ http://www.boston.com/news/education/higher/articles/2007/02/09/mit_team_details_optics_on_a_chip_device/ Fri, 09 Feb 2007 15:53:08 -0500 Scientists have developed a microchip system that can sieve through biomolecules, such as proteins, in search of the tell-tale signs of disease. http://www.drugresearcher.com/news/ng.asp?n=74093-massachusetts-institute-of-technology-microchip-microseive-fluid-separation-biomarkers http://www.drugresearcher.com/news/ng.asp?n=74093-massachusetts-institute-of-technology-microchip-microseive-fluid-separation-biomarkers Fri, 09 Feb 2007 15:53:17 -0500 It's a problem chip manufacturers have known about for some time: As electronic components continue to grow more and more diminutive in size, the metal interconnects between them will soon cease to meet the needed performance criteria that devices demand. This is where optical interconnections—or using light instead of an electrical current as a transmission medium—come into play. http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,2091475,00.asp http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,2091475,00.asp Wed, 07 Feb 2007 15:53:26 -0500 In work that could lead to completely new devices, systems and applications in computing and telecommunications, MIT researchers are bringing the long-sought goal of "optics on a chip" one step closer to market. http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2007/optics.html http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2007/optics.html Tue, 06 Feb 2007 15:53:36 -0500 The Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has named Collin M. Stultz, Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Assistant Professor of Health Sciences and Technology, to receive the 2007 Jonathan Allen Junior Faculty Award. The Allen Award recognizes Professor Stultz's achievements in the field of computational biophysics and provides support for his research initiatives. Professor Stultz is the first recipient of the award. http://www.rle.mit.edu/news/news_02062007.html http://www.rle.mit.edu/news/news_02062007.html Tue, 06 Feb 2007 15:53:45 -0500 What are the ultimate powers of quantum computers, quantum communications, and quantum precision measurement systems? The new $3.5M W. M. Keck Foundation Center for Extreme Quantum Information Theory (xQIT) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has been inaugurated with $1.63M in funding from the Keck Foundation, as well as funding from MIT and other sponsors, to discover answers to these fundamental, yet still unsolved, questions. Seth Lloyd, Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Jeffrey H. Shapiro, Julius A. Stratton Professor of Electrical Engineering and Director of the Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE) will lead the new center. http://www.rle.mit.edu/news/news_02052007.html http://www.rle.mit.edu/news/news_02052007.html Mon, 05 Feb 2007 15:53:54 -0500 A new MIT microchip system developed in RLE promises to speed up the separation and sorting of biomolecules such as proteins. The work is important because it could help scientists better detect certain molecules, or biomarkers, associated with diseases, potentially leading to earlier diagnoses or treatments. http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2007/sieve.html http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2007/sieve.html Mon, 05 Feb 2007 15:54:03 -0500 Professor Qing Hu has been named a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS). Professor Hu is cited for his, "contributions to the development of long-wavelength terahertz quantum-cascade lasers and real-time terahertz imaging." http://www.aps.org/programs/honors/fellowships/2006-fellows.cfm http://www.aps.org/programs/honors/fellowships/2006-fellows.cfm Fri, 26 Jan 2007 15:54:12 -0500 A nano solution to increasing bandwidth: MIT researchers develop microphotonic devices for communications, clearing the way for higher-performance optical networks. http://www.technologyreview.com/Nanotech/18074/ http://www.technologyreview.com/Nanotech/18074/ Wed, 17 Jan 2007 15:54:21 -0500 Professor Alan V. Oppenheim has been named the 2007 recipient of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Jack S. Kilby Signal Processing Medal. The Medal, which is sponsored by Texas Instruments, Inc., recognizes Professor Oppenheim, "For visionary leadership and exceptional contributions to the field of digital signal processing." http://www.ieee.org/portal/pages/about/awards/pr/2007medalrecips.html http://www.ieee.org/portal/pages/about/awards/pr/2007medalrecips.html Thu, 04 Jan 2007 15:54:28 -0500