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FEBRUARY 23, 2024

This work, by Philip Arm, Mayank Mittal, Hendrik Kolvenbach, and Marco Hutter from ETHZ RSL, will be presented at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation ( ICRA 2024 ) in May in Japan (see events calendar above). NRL did some interesting stuff with Nexi robots from MIT and made their own videos. Lex Fridman ]

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JANUARY 27, 2022

The MIT electrical engineering and computer science professor’s positive thinking has led to new ways to improve tried-and-true techniques in the field of information theory. She liked working on creative projects and mathematics, so she decided to study math and literature at MIT. She returned to MIT as a faculty member in 2000.

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DECEMBER 3, 2021

Somehow it builds internal representations of the data that it can take in different directions. For each snippet of sound, it would guess the word or words, and update its connections based on whether it’s right or wrong. Then in fine-tuning it might learn to transcribe a given language using only minutes of transcribed audio.

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JUNE 20, 2023

Bob Kahn: I got my PhD from Princeton in 1964 and took a job as an assistant professor at MIT in the electrical engineering department. At around the same time, Len (Leonard) Kleinrock was doing theoretical work on queuing networks at MIT. Licklider who came to ARPA from BBN (and MIT before that). I was there for a few years.

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MAY 24, 2022

It has already been featured at the Toulouse International Fair, where it thrilled onlookers from 9 to 18 April. So, researchers are brainstorming ideas for foiling cyberattacks on such devices that exploit security weak points in their wireless power or Internet connections. Alain Pitton/NurPhoto/AP Body Area Network.

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JANUARY 8, 2024

After graduating in 1985 with bachelor’s degrees in physics and mathematics, she headed to MIT as a graduate student with the goal of pursuing a career in medical engineering. Connected on one side is a flexible fiber bundle, just 1 mm in diameter, with a light source and a digital CCD camera inside.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 10, 2013

By connecting cars and trucks to wireless networks, and giving unheard-of access to vehicle data, entirely new application categories and hardware modules can be explored—safety, energy efficiency, sharing, health; the list goes on. Connectivity is an increasingly important part of the total user experience while driving.

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AUGUST 30, 2021

Another example is the Swiss Trust Chain (which MIT helped engineer ); that platform is live but its commercial applications are still being developed. Trust chains add a layer on top of existing internet protocols that transforms the internet from a loosely connected communication medium into a trusted transaction medium.

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MAY 14, 2020

Framatome will develop two novel digital twins for use with Metroscope, a software package that connects digital twins and their associated fault libraries and monitors them with an algorithm to detect problems early on. Digital twins of MSRs will require this critical data, which is currently unavailable.

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JUNE 25, 2012

XL Hybrids’ hybrid electric powertrain is a low-cost, low-risk, bolt-on, post-transmission parallel hybrid technology designed for Class 1–3 commercial vehicles that integrates seamlessly with the conventional internal combustion engine and transmission. Our hybrid controller connects to the CAN; our controller is read-only.

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JUNE 29, 2023

The cable car is suspended over a dramatic gorge on the Niagara River on six interlocking steel cables, connecting two points along the shore half a kilometer apart. His second area of expertise was aeronautics, in which he held patents on a semirigid frame system for dirigible balloons based on an internal frame of flexible cables.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 17, 2009

Researchers at MIT have developed a new bicycle rear wheel—the Copenhagen Wheel —that can capture energy from braking and deliver the power back to provide a boost. A close-up of the Copenhagen Wheel, from MIT’s SENSEable City Lab. Click to enlarge. Click to enlarge.

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DECEMBER 31, 2023

Zap and Helion are part of a renaissance in fusion-energy R&D aimed at achieving practical fusion power using much more modest facilities than the vast International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) being built in southern France, at a cost estimated to be north of US $22 billion by the time it’s completed.

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AUGUST 12, 2021

He came up with a mechanical barrier system that attaches to the hood and connects to the car's electronic control unit. The award was presented during the Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair. The incoming freshman at MIT won $600. She began working on the project while she was a research intern at the.

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JUNE 28, 2023

Through the university’s Laboratory for Applications of Remote Sensing , the colleges had developed international collaborations in advancing analysis of remote sensing data and developing open-source software for applications and education. Researchers originally used aerial photography, then satellite images.

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JUNE 29, 2023

The cable car is suspended over a dramatic gorge on the Niagara River on six interlocking steel cables, connecting two points along the shore half a kilometer apart. His second area of expertise was aeronautics, in which he held patents on a semirigid frame system for dirigible balloons based on an internal frame of flexible cables.

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AUGUST 30, 2019

The autonomous boats—rectangular hulls equipped with sensors, thrusters, microcontrollers, GPS modules, cameras, and other hardware—are being developed as part of the ongoing “ Roboat ” project between MIT and the Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Metropolitan Solutions (AMS Institute). Collision-free trajectories.

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APRIL 20, 2024

The ARPANET Is Born Kahn wasn’t the only one thinking about connecting disparate computers in the 1960s. In 1965, Larry Roberts, then at the MIT Lincoln Laboratory , connected one computer in Massachusetts to another in California over a telephone line. Bob Kahn served on the MIT faculty from 1964 to 1966.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Scaringe—a bespectacled mechanical engineer with a PhD from MIT—a billionaire by the age of 38. The industry-first “Gear Tunnel” is a cavernous, side–to-side cargo hold behind the passenger cab, only possible because there’s no internal-combustion powertrain. foot cargo bed. It’s a situation Rivian might want to address, pronto.

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APRIL 22, 2016

Connect with Dr. Frank on social media: https://www.facebook.com/andyfrankatedi [link]. On the other hand, drivers of other vehicles waste considerable time making special trips to refuel their internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles at the liquid fuel station or their battery electric vehicle (BEV) at the rapid recharging station.

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APRIL 24, 2022

With direct funding plus prize money that reached into the millions, DARPA encouraged international collaborations among top academic institutions as well as industry. Team CoSTAR, a collaboration between NASA’s JPL, MIT, Caltech, KAIST, and LTU, inspects the communications-node deployment system on their Husky wheeled robots [top].

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FEBRUARY 29, 2024

He graduated from MIT in 1894 with a degree in electrical engineering, and within the year he (along with his friend George C. In Warren’s own telling of the story , his first attempt at an electric chronometer was a crude motor that connected the gears of a clock to the Boston Edison electrical system. In 1916, the Warren Clock Co.

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MAY 17, 2022

A Portable Desalination System Makes Water Potable—Without a Filter Payal Dhar (Freelance Blogger) MIT researchers have developed a prototype of a suitcase-size device that can turn seawater into safe drinking water. The unit’s one-button operation requires no technical knowledge. What’s more, it has a completely filter-free design.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2009

Researchers from MIT, with colleagues from IISc in Bangalore, India and HiPi Consulting in Maryland have experimentally demonstrated the conversion of heat to electricity using thermal diodes with efficiency as high as 40% of the Carnot Limit. Arrows represent couplings. Source: Hagelstein, 2007. Click to enlarge. —Wu et al.

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APRIL 29, 2009

the session counted among its panelists: Professor John Heywood, Sun Jae Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Director of the Sloan Auto Laboratory at MIT. Weiss, M., “ On the Road in 2035: Reducing Transportation’s Petroleum Consumption ans GHG Emissions ,” MIT Laboratory for Energy and the Environment, Report No. Bandivadekar, A.,

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MARCH 1, 2023

They typically connected to it with a teletypewriter, though the most avant-garde users may have employed simple text-only video terminals. In December 1972, Lampson penned an internal memo, “ Why Alto? ,” that argued for PARC creating large numbers of Alto computers. The two were disciples of J.C.R.

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JUNE 4, 2022

A high-speed network that connects computers, printers, and other peripherals in an office or building. The first personal computer developed in the United States is commonly thought to be the MITS Altair, which sold as a hobbyist’s kit in 1976. Doug Engelbart [of SRI International Inc. Local area network. in Menlo Park, Calif.]

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JANUARY 23, 2023

Perhaps, but getting the vast majority of 111 million US households who own one or more light duty internal combustion vehicles to switch to EVs is going to take time. The entry level F-150 XL with an internal combustion engine has risen in the past year from about $29,990 to $33,695 currently. Carlos Tavares, CEO of Stellantis.

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EV Adoption

MARCH 15, 2021

Unlike Kia’s other electric vehicles to date, the EV6 (which was called ‘CV’ while under development) isn’t based on an existing internal-combustion or hybrid model. The chargers will be located in places where travelers will be able to rest and relax while their cars are connected to the chargers.

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DECEMBER 21, 2021

A flexible conduit will connect the end of the steel pipe with the vehicle. Oceanographers from MIT and elsewhere have been studying the environmental consequences of such operations. Eric Adams , an expert in water-quality monitoring at MIT, who was one of the participants in that study.

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APRIL 21, 2009

But we want to give them cause to continue to press forward." ( MIT Technology Review ). is likely to unveil a prototype plug-in hybrid at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit as part of its company-wide focus on "electrifying" the car, GM officials said Thursday. We hope Ford will, and then move ahead! Marketwatch ).

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APRIL 21, 2023

He is a professor of international law at Harvard Law School , a professor of public policy at its Kennedy School , and a professor of computer science at the university’s John A. Another is the Open Casebook series, a joint project of MIT Press and the Harvard Law School Library that offers open-source digital legal textbooks for free.

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