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This Startup Uses the MIT Inventor App to Teach Girls Coding

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The nonprofit was one of seven winners last year of MIT Solve’s Gender Equity in STEM Challenge. The MIT Solve Gender Equity in STEM Challenge thoroughly vets all applicants—their theories, practices, organizational health, and impact,” Smith says. With each concept learned, the students built a more difficult app. “It

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Inside the Three-Way Race to Create the Most Widely Used Laser

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Watson Research Center , and the MIT Lincoln Laboratory —independently reported the first demonstrations of a semiconductor laser, all within a matter of days in 1962. Invention of the laser spurs a three-way race The core concept of the laser dates back to 1917, when Albert Einstein theorized about “stimulated emission.”

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Video Friday: DALL-E 2

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We demonstrate a novel interface concept in which interactive systems directly manipulate the user’s head orientation. PneuBots is a modular soft robotics construction kit consisting of seven types of self-foldable segments with high tensile strength, three types of pneumatic connectors and splitters, and a custom-designed box.

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IEEE Honors Iconic Engineers

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CERF Google, LLC Reston, Va. DEBOY Infineon Technologies Austria AG Villach, Austria TATSUHIKO FUJIHIRA Fuji Electric Matsumoto, Japan “For contributions to the concept and realization of superjunction power devices that significantly improve power efficiency.” Meet the recipients of the 2023 IEEE Medals and Recognitions.

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How Vannevar Bush Engineered the 20th Century

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In the 1920s, he cofounded Raytheon , and the company competed with behemoth RCA in the design and manufacture of vacuum tubes. Vannevar Bush’s Contributions to Computing Starting in the 1920s, Bush began designing analog computing machines, known as differential analyzers. MIT Museum But wait, there’s more!

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Volkswagen Group in strategic collaboration with self-driving technology startup Aurora Innovation; Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) fleets

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The Volkswagen Group and self-driving technology startup Aurora Innovation, founded by technology veterans from Google, Tesla and Uber, announced a strategic collaboration ahead of the 2018 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. He has a PhD in Robotics from MIT. Drew Bagnell, Co-founder & Chief Technical Officer.

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Materials Project releases trove of data to public; support for work on multivalent battery chemistries and electrolytes

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The Materials Project, a Google-like database of material properties aimed at accelerating innovation ( earlier post ), has released an enormous trove of data to the public, giving scientists working on batteries, fuel cells, photovoltaics, thermoelectrics, and other advanced materials a powerful tool to explore new avenues of research.

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