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MIT students snap space photos of the earth with $40 Canon A470: Very CoolOpens some very intriging low cost possibilities for astronomers around the world.Go Beavers!I miss the good old days walking up and down the Infinite Corridor.RE: MIT students snap space photos of the earth with $40 Canon A470Great job! The trip down is a blast!RE: MIT students snap space photos...; Tags: MIT Students, Canon A470, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Canon Inc., photograph, NASA; Discussion threads 2009-09-24
MIT students snap space photos of the earth with $40 Canon A470: Wondering what to do with that old clunker of a digital camera you've got in your drawer? Try taking photos of space with it. Three enterprising MIT students have successfully launched and retrieved a digital camera in order to snap photos of the earth from the upper atmosphere --...; Tags: Earth, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Digital Camera, Photograph, Camera, Canon Inc., Digital Cameras, Digital Photography, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Janice Chen; Blog posts 2009-09-24
Latest MIT retinal implant to see human trials by 2013: Led by an MIT professor, a team with 20 years of retinal implant research announced a prosthesis that could one day help restore a useful level of vision to certain groups of blind people. by Chris Jablonski; Tags: Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Team Management, Strategy, Management, Chris Jablonski; Blog posts 2009-09-23
MIT 1.3 (Windows): This image display utility acquires photo and scanning devices with TWAIN capabilities, prints and manipulates images in multiple formats. Editing features include image rotation, resize, crop, flip, smoothing, lighten, darken, color reductions and annotations. Scan or open multiple pages and print all as pages in a fax or a document...; Tags: Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Fax, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software; Software downloads 2009-08-26
How do you look on the Internet? MIT Sociable Media Group's "Personas" shows how you look: A friend (yes, I have a few) pointed out an interesting "installation" that can be found on MIT Sociable Media Group's website.Â It's called Personas. Personas was created by Aaron Zinman, with help from Alex Dragulescu, Yannick Assogba and Judith Donath. This installation allows a person to...; Tags: Team, Media, Reference, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Personas, Internet, Team Management, Advertising & Promotion, Management, Marketing, Dan Kusnetzky; Blog posts 2009-08-24

MIT Emerging Tech Factoid #2: MIT Emerging Tech Factoid #2wer wedfMac MTS Converter; Tags: Desktops, MIT Emerging Tech, MIT Emerging Tech Factoid, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Discussion threads 2009-07-17
Peeling stickers inspire new path for stretchable electronics: For some, there's inspiration to be found in unremarkable daily minutia. A team of researchers who studied stickers peeling from windows say that what they've observed could lead to a new way to precisely control the fabrication of stretchable electronics. [caption id="attachment_1595" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Delamination demonstration -...; Tags: Surface, Team, Window, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Electronics, Team Management, Construction, Management, Chris Jablonski; Blog posts 2009-06-15
Interview with Andrea Vaccari, research associate at MIT's SENSEable City Laboratory: Now that machine and sensor data is joining social data traffic on the Internet, the ability to interpret and create meaning out of the information to improve life could be the post-Web 2.0 manifesto. MIT's Senseable City Lab has been on the task for years with various...; Tags: City, Mobile, Network, Data, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Cell Phone, Analysis, SENSEable City Laboratory, Cellular Phones, Networking, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Chris Jablonski; Blog posts 2009-04-06
MIT Media Lab blog survey: MIT Media Lab blog surveyRe:MIT Media Lab blog surveyThe most recent one was administered by Cameron Marlow, also of the MIT Media Lab. If you completed the survey, did you read the consent form? The information page leading to the consent form?=========georgeSurveys; Tags: Marketing research, blog survey, survey, MIT Media Lab, MIT Media, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, blog; Discussion threads 2009-03-03
Podcast: MIT CFO Symposium: Dealing with the unexpected: Here's a panel from the MIT CFO Symposium on managing business volatility. This panel of CFOs examined how to manage through the unexpected. Megan Gates, Partner, Mintz Levin moderator Jane Henderson, CFO, Panacos Pharmaceuticals John Hupalo, Former CFO, First Marblehead Joe Keane, CFO, Reebok...; Tags: Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, CFO, Podcasts, Branding, Investment, Internet, Marketing, Finance, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-12-19
Flying robots for better weather forecasts: MIT researchers think that flying robots could be used to improve weather forecasts and to give people more time to prepare for the worst in case of an emergency. 'With more time for advanced planning, farmers could bring in their crop before a big storm hits. Airlines could adjust their...; Tags: Algorithm, Fleet, Researcher, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Sensor, Robots, Engineering, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille; Blog posts 2008-12-17
Nuclear fusion as future power source: MIT researchers have used their Alcator C-Mod fusion reactor, in operation since 1993, to bring the promise of fusion as a future power source a bit closer to reality. As you probably know, fusion is the reaction that produces the sun's energy and it has an 'enormous potential for future...; Tags: Plasma, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Fusion, Fusion Reactor, V, Construction, Team Management, Management, Roland Piquepaille; Blog posts 2008-12-04
Robots mimic razor clams: MIT researchers have developed a robot inspired by the razor clam. According to the engineers, this RoboClam could lead to a 'smart' anchor that burrows through the ocean floor to reposition itself and could even reverse. These small robots, which have the size of a cigarette lighter, could be used...; Tags: Clam, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Razor Clam, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille; Blog posts 2008-12-02
A 1.4-gigapixel camera to detect asteroids: MIT engineers have developed silicon chips that will be at the heart of a telescope installed on Haleakala mountain, Maui, Hawaii, which will begin operation next month. The system, called Pan-STARRS for Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System, is being developed at the University of Hawaii's Institute for Astronomy....; Tags: Asteroid, Camera, Digital Cameras, Digital Photography, Semiconductors, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Roland Piquepaille, Earth, Pixel, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Image, Chip, Pan-STARRS; Blog posts 2008-11-20
1.5 million Android phones pre-sold? What's up with the 16 October launch party?: 1.5 million Android phones pre-sold? What's up with the 16 October launch party?motley foolsthe reason the 1.5 million preorder sales hasn't been cofirmed by any one is because it's a fantasy number picked up by analysts at the motley fool, who foolishly confused t-mobile's bumped up preorders with actual sales.There's...; Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Sales strategy, Google Inc., phone, Android phones pre-sold, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, pre-sold, Android Phone; Discussion threads 2008-10-13
Refactoring Sequential Java Code for Concurrency Via Concurrent Libraries: Parallelizing existing sequential programs to run efficiently on multicores is hard. The Java 5 package java.util.concurrent (j.u.c.) supports writing concurrent programs: much of the complexity of writing threads-safe and scalable programs is hidden in the library. To use this package, programmers still need to reengineer existing code. This is tedious...; Tags: Java, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Programmer, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development; White papers 2008-09-30
Underwater robot moves like an helicopter: MIT researchers have started to test a new underwater robot that can hover in place like a helicopter. The two-meter-long Odyssey IV will be able to move autonomously up to depths of 6,000 meters at a speed of 2.5 meters per second. But unlike other underwater robots, it will be...; Tags: Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille; Blog posts 2008-09-28
Using tree power to prevent forest fires?: Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT think it's possible to use the energy generated by trees to power a network of wireless sensors to prevent spreading forest fires. These sensors are equipped with off-the-shelf batteries that can be slowly recharged using electricity generated by the trees themselves. 'The...; Tags: Researcher, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Sensor, Tree, Mershin, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Roland Piquepaille; Blog posts 2008-09-23
A robotic tuna for the Navy: You might not know that the bluefin tuna is an ultra-efficient swimmer. But the U.S. Navy knows that this tuna can reach speeds of 50 mph. So it wants to build robotic bluefin tunas for submarine surveillance missions. The first prototypes, designed by Massachusetts engineers, should be available by the...; Tags: Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Massachusetts, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille; Blog posts 2008-09-02
Can computers sort data like humans?: According to U.S. researchers, it is possible to train computers to discover trends and order in large datasets like we do since our childhood. The new algorithm, which was developed at the MIT, may impact the field of artificial intelligence. This model can help computers recognize patterns like we do....; Tags: Algorithm, Data, Structure, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Computer, Engineering, Productivity, Roland Piquepaille; Blog posts 2008-08-30