by RLE at MIT | Feb 26, 2010 | News Links
Microelectromechanical devices—tiny machines with moving parts—are everywhere these days: they monitor air pressure in car tires, register the gestures of video game players, and reflect light onto screens in movie theaters. RLE researchers in Vladimir Bulovic’s group...
by RLE at MIT | Feb 25, 2010 | News Links
A single cell in the human body is approximately 10,000 times more energy-efficient than any nanoscale digital transistor, the fundamental building block of electronic chips. RLE’s Rahul Sarpeshkar is now applying architectural principles from these...
by RLE at MIT | Feb 12, 2010 | News Links
About 10 years ago, electrical engineers suggested that bundles of data could be transmitted over a network more efficiently if, instead of passing unaltered from one end to the other, they were scrambled together along the way and unscrambled at the end. In 2003,...
by RLE at MIT | Feb 8, 2010 | News Links
A radical new approach to the design of communications networks, called “network coding” promises to make Internet file sharing faster, streaming video more reliable, and cell-phone reception better—among other improvements. “Most networks right now are built roughly...
