Cars That Think

DECEMBER 16, 2022

ALLEN MEDAL Sponsor: IBM LYDIA KAVRAKI Rice University Houston “For foundational probabilistic algorithms and randomized search methods that have broad impact in robotic motion planning and computational biology.” IEEE MILDRED DRESSELHAUS MEDAL Sponsor: Google, LLC MELBA CRAWFORD Purdue University West Lafayette, Ind. IEEE FRANCES E.

Engine 68

Engine Los Angeles Austria San Diego 68

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Daimler is becoming a new member of the MIT CSAIL Alliance Program. MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory ( CSAIL ) is the largest research laboratory at MIT and one of the world’s most important centers of information technology research. The new cooperation with the MIT ideally complements this.

MIT 150

MIT Vehicles Mercedes Fusion 150

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 15, 2016

A study by a team at MIT has concluded that roughly 90% of the personal vehicles on the road in the US could be replaced by an electric vehicle available on the market today, even if the cars can only charge overnight. Reed Faculty Initiatives Fund, and the MIT Energy Initiative. —Jessika Trancik.

MIT 150

MIT Personal Energy Vehicles 150

Green Car Congress

JULY 13, 2019

Robotaxi vehicle concept. The vehicle is currently being developed by NEVS in Trollhättan, Sweden, inspired by the “InMotion” concept that was shown at the CES Asia, in 2017. Professor X); the team consists of top scientists from MIT, CMU, Stanford, UC Berkeley, Harvard, as well as a team of experienced engineers.

Europe 356

Europe San Jose MIT Sweden 356

Cars That Think

MARCH 29, 2024

Now, an MIT spin-off says it has found a solution in an innovative technology that could dramatically reduce the costs and timelines of drilling to fantastic depths. Microwaves meet rocks “But an energy beam doesn’t have those kinds of limits,” says Paul Woskov , senior research engineer at MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center.

Fusion 141

Fusion Energy MIT Iceland 141

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 27, 2021

These universities join MIT, Stanford and the University of Michigan which have worked with TRI over the last five years to expand the body of research into artificial intelligence (AI) with the goal of amplifying the human experience. —Eric Krotkov, TRI Chief Science Officer, who leads the university research program.

Toyota 170

Toyota Los Angeles Universal MIT 170

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 22, 2013

Researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder and Singapore University of Technology and Design have added a “fourth dimension” to additive manufacturing technology, opening up possibilities for the creation and use of adaptive, composite materials in manufacturing, packaging and biomedical applications. A team led by H.

Polymer 246

Polymer Concept Singapore MIT 246

Green Car Congress

APRIL 12, 2010

A team of MIT researchers, led by Dr. Angela Belcher, has engineered a common bacteriophage virus (M13) to function as a scaffold to mediate the co-assembly of zinc porphyrins (photosensitizer) and iridium oxide hydrosol clusters (catalyst) for visible light-driven water oxidation. TEM images of the virus-templated IrO 2 nanowires.

MIT 207

MIT Water Engine Hydrogen 207

Cars That Think

DECEMBER 27, 2022

He earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in business administration from Iona University , in New Rochelle, N.Y. Mancino Former manager of engineering reliability at RCA Life senior member, 93; died 24 September For most of his career, Mancino worked as an engineer at RCA , which was headquartered in New York City.

MIT 76

MIT Texas New York Engine 76

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 22, 2011

A three-year study by a team of researchers based at MIT has concluded that fundamental changes are needed in the US energy-innovation system. The study was carried out at the MIT Industrial Performance Center and involved faculty and students from nine MIT departments. Business as usual is unsustainable over the long run.

Climate Change 240

Climate Change MIT Climate Energy 240

Cars That Think

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Engineered Arts ] At USC Center for Advanced Manufacturing, students have taught a robot to make pour-over coffee. DeepRobotics ] MIT students and researchers from MIT Sea Grant work with local oyster farmers in advancing the aquaculture industry by seeking solutions to some of its biggest challenges. www.youtube.com.

MIT 143

MIT Philadelphia Concept USA 143

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Engineers at NASA Glenn are testing a new boundary layer ingesting (BLI) inlet-fan combination—the first of its kind ever to be tested. Originally conceived of as a propulsion system for generation-after-next (N+2), the BLI system could increase fuel efficiency by 4-8% more than the advanced engines airlines are beginning to use.

Engine 150

Engine Fuel Cleveland Wind 150

Cars That Think

MAY 12, 2023

A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , he also was a Fellow of the American Physical Society and a member of the MIT board of trustees. He received a bachelor’s degree in chemistry in 1949 from Johns Hopkins University , in Baltimore, and earned a Ph.D. He joined the University of Illinois in 1977 as a professor.

Solar 144

Solar Missouri Universal Pennsylvania 144

Cars That Think

APRIL 5, 2024

Researchers believe the concept will become more valuable in the next decade, as electronic devices migrate closer and closer to human skin. James Pikul, University of Wisconsin, Madison Djenizian is part of a group that published a paper in February in the journal Advanced Materials Technologies on a stretchable lithium-ion wire battery.

Batteries 85

Batteries Battery Lithium Ion Wisconsin 85

Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Using a new kind of hydrogel material, researchers at the University of Texas at Austin have pulled water out of thin air at temperatures low enough to be achieved with sunlight. Atmospheric water harvesting draws water from humidity in the air.

Water 134

Water Energy Austin Polymer 134

Cars That Think

MARCH 29, 2022

Skolnik began his career in 1955 at MIT ’s Lincoln Laboratory. While there, he taught a course on radar at Northeastern University , in Boston. He left MIT in 1959 to join Electronic Communications, now part of Raytheon. In 1944 Skolnik joined the American Institute of Electrical Engineers , one of IEEE’s predecessor societies.

France 98

France 2000 2004 Canada 98

Green Car Congress

JUNE 19, 2014

Researchers at MIT and King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM) in Saudi Arabia have devised a robotic system that can detect leaks in gas, oil and water pipelines at a rapid pace and with high accuracy by sensing a large pressure change at leak locations. Top ]: Solid model side view of Leak Detector. Chatzigeorgiou, D.;

MIT 231

MIT Saudi Arabia Water Gas 231

Green Car Congress

MAY 14, 2020

The Electric Power Research Institute’s (EPRI) proof-of-concept study will explore moving from the traditional “maintain and repair” to a “replace and refurbish” approach, in which components are intentionally designed and tested for shorter and more predictable lifetimes with the potential for game-changing O&M cost savings.

Molten Salt 307

Molten Salt Maintenance Massachusetts EPRI 307

Teslarati

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Simply put, Germany took a perfectly working battery-electric vehicle, modified it with a synthetic methanol engine, and dubbed it as a work of true innovation. Bundesministerin Anja Karliczek hat heute in Berlin den Prototypen eines Autos vorgestellt, das mit dem synthetischen Kraftstoff Methanol angetrieben werden kann.

Convert 144

Convert Hydrogen Green Hybrid 144

Cars That Think

APRIL 6, 2022

A recent survey has revealed that 99 percent of computer vision engineers have had a machine learning project completely canceled due to insufficient training data. MIT Synthetic data has some advantages over traditional datasets, the researchers note. Researchers have already been looking towards synthetic data to fill this breach.

MIT 143

MIT Massachusetts Personal Concept 143

Cars That Think

JULY 13, 2023

Goodenough, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Texas at Austin , authored more than 800 technical papers during his career. Stanley Whittingham , who created the lithium-ion concept, and Akira Yoshino , who developed the anode chemistry that was used in Sony’s first lithium-ion battery.

Lithium Ion 97

Lithium Ion Batteries Battery Austin 97

Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

YouTube ] Scientists from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), in the ever-present quest to get machines to replicate human abilities, created a framework that's more scaled up: a system that can reorient over two thousand different objects, with the robotic hand facing both upwards and downwards.

MIT 136

MIT Philadelphia Store Environment 136

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

CleanFUEL USA, a leading supplier of alternative fuel infrastructure and propane engine systems, will build and certify a multi-purpose 8-liter General Motors (GM) propane engine in partnership with Freightliner Custom Chassis Corporation (FCCC), a subsidiary of Daimler Trucks North America. medium-duty engine, as well as a 6.0L

USA 239

USA Engine Alternative Fuels Gasoline 239

Cars That Think

JULY 14, 2022

IEEE BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING AWARD Sponsors: the IEEE Circuits and Systems , Engineering in Medicine and Biology , and Signal Processing societies NIRMALA (NIMMI) RAMANUJAM Duke University Durham, N.C. ION STOCIA University of California, Berkeley “For contributions to the design of cloud and computer network services.”

Universal 97

Universal Belgium Cyprus Colorado 97

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 3, 2014

Such a design, as described at the Small Modular Reactors Symposium by MIT professors Jacopo Buongiorno, Michael Golay, and Neil Todreas, along with others from MIT, the University of Wisconsin, and Chicago Bridge and Iron, could ride out tsunamis. I think this is technically very feasible.

Power 305

Power Powered Energy MIT 305

Cars That Think

JULY 22, 2023

One way teachers are trying to help students grasp difficult concepts is through virtual-reality technology. Making sense of math Ganguly and a team of engineers developed the platform’s software, which includes modules on physics, biology, and chemistry as well as math. Each module covers one topic within the relevant subject.

San Francisco 63

San Francisco New York City Boston New York 63

Cars That Think

JULY 9, 2022

Fuzzy theory is wrong, wrong, and pernicious,” said William Kahan, a highly regarded professor of computer sciences and mathematics at the University of California at Berkeley in 1975. Kalman in 1972, who is now a professor at Florida State University in Tallahassee. The denunciations were sometimes extreme. But Zadeh never wavered.

New York City 105

New York City Iran New York MIT 105

Green Car Congress

JULY 15, 2020

At the conclusion of the Phase 1 period, teams will be down-selected based on an engineering design review and the projected economic impact of their Phase 1 projects on a future electricity grid. Colorado State University. University of Pittsburgh. Natural Gas/Direct Air Capture Hybrid Plant - $800,283.

Carbon 333

Carbon Gas-Electric Grid Gas 333

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

Scientists from a team spanning Harvard University’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard Medical School and the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University have developed a scalable, integrated bioelectrochemical system that uses bacteria to convert solar energy into a liquid fuel.

Solar 150

Solar Convert Fuel Energy 150

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

Scientists from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have developed an ultrafast high-contrast camera that could help self-driving cars and drones see better in extreme road conditions and in bad weather. The speed of the sensor is not limited by any traditional concept such as exposure time, frame rate, etc.

Singapore 207

Singapore Vehicles Grant Light 207

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

The selected projects vary in levels of maturity and industry-readiness—from concept definition (focused on specific experimental proof or detailed analysis) to proof-of-concept (requiring physical experimental validation). Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois. Colorado State University.

Manufacturer 150

Manufacturer Waste Universal Dallas 150

Cars That Think

APRIL 8, 2022

We demonstrate a novel interface concept in which interactive systems directly manipulate the user’s head orientation. This week's guest is OSU's Engineering School Dean Ayanna Howard. Turn your friends into robots! Its a chance to get to know our interviewees a little better! Robot Brains ]. PneuBots ]. CHI 2022 ].

Kits 113

Kits Long Beach Mexico Philadelphia 113

Green Car Congress

JULY 25, 2016

An international team from MIT, Argonne National Laboratory and Peking University has demonstrated a lab-scale proof-of-concept of a new type of cathode for Li-air batteries that could overcome the current drawbacks to the technology, including a high potential gap (>1.2 V) V versus Li/Li +.

Cheap 150

Cheap Li-ion Batteries Battery 150

Cars That Think

AUGUST 12, 2021

Hacettepe University , in Ankara. IEEE Presidents' Scholarship , which is payable over four years of undergraduate university study. The award was presented during the Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair. The incoming freshman at MIT won $600. He plans to study material science and engineering.

Turkey 104

Turkey Cars Hungary Universal 104

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

Researchers at MIT, with colleagues at the University of Minnesota, have provided evidence and theoretical rate coefficients for new pathways in the low-temperature oxidation of hydrocarbons. The new work shows that Korcek had the right concept, although some details differ from his predictions. Credit: ACS, Jalan et al.

Minnesota 218

Minnesota Fuel MIT Green 218

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 4, 2018

Before that, Chris was a faculty member at Carnegie Mellon University, and helped win the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge. Anderson has been developing self-driving technology for the better part of the last decade, starting with the creation of MIT’s Intelligent Co-Pilot in 2007. He has a PhD in Robotics from MIT. Earlier post.).

Fleet 150

Fleet Las Vegas 2005 2007 150

Green Car Congress

MARCH 4, 2016

Therefore, engineers are able to tune or “shape” a boom signature through design to minimize the loudness of the boom it produces in flight. Artist’s concept of a possible Low Boom Flight Demonstration Quiet Supersonic Transport (QueSST) X-plane design. million over four years to MIT. Source: Lockheed Martin.

Design 150

Design Concept Building Wind 150