New System Converts MRI Scans into 3D-Printed Heart Models for Surgical Planning
Engineers and computer scientists at MIT and Boston Children’s Hospital have developed a new system that can convert MRI scans of a patient’s heart into…
Computer Science News
New Technique Could Enable Chips with Thousands of Cores
More efficient memory-management scheme could help enable chips with thousands of cores. Researchers from MIT have unveiled the first fundamentally new approach to cache coherence…
Engineers Developing ‘Hedgehog’ Robots That Hop and Tumble in Microgravity
Engineers from NASA, MIT, and Stanford are developing “hedgehog” robots that are specifically designed to overcome the challenges of traversing small bodies in microgravity by…
Customizing 3D Printing – New System Automatically Turns CAD Files into Visual Models
A new Web-based interface allows a wide range of modifications to basic designs that are printable on a 3-D printer, allowing novices to do in…
Gallium Nitride Electronics Poised to Drastically Cut Energy Usage
Using an exotic material called gallium nitride (GaN), Cambridge Electronics Inc. has announced a line of GaN transistors and power electronic circuits that promise to…
New Statistical Technique to Help Evaluate Sites for Offshore Wind Farms
Scientists at MIT have developed a new statistical technique that yields better wind-speed predictions than existing techniques do, saving power companies’ time and money in…
New Network Design Exploits Power-Efficient Flash Memory
Engineers from MIT have developed a new system that, for several common big-data applications, should make servers using flash memory as efficient as those using…
Engineers Develop a New Slimmer Design for Invisibility Cloaks
A team of engineers from UC San Diego have developed a new design for a cloaking device that overcomes some of the limitations of existing…
Engineers Design Printable Centimeter-long Origami Robot
Engineers at MIT have developed a tiny robot that can swim, climb an incline, traverse rough terrain, and carry a load twice its weight while…
Engineers Develop a Computer That Operates on Water
Researchers at Stanford University have developed a synchronous computer that operates using the unique physics of moving water droplets. Their goal is to design a…
New Algorithm Lets Robots Autonomously Plan for Tasks
Researchers from MIT have developed a new algorithm that lets autonomous robots divvy up assembly tasks on the fly, an important step forward in multirobot…
“Fingerprinting” Chips to Aid in Fight Against Counterfeiting
MIT spinout Verayo has created technology that tracks random variations in silicon chips to assign them unique “fingerprints” to aid in the fight against worldwide…
New Circuits That Can Control Light and Sound
A team of researchers has developed hybrid technologies that can control light and sound, allowing information to be stored, filtered, and manipulated with far greater…
New Circuit Reduces Power Leakage When Transmitters Are Idle
Engineers have developed a new transmitter design that reduces off-state leakage 100-fold. At the same time, this new technology provides adequate power for Bluetooth transmission,…
New Approach Improves Execution Times and Efficiency of Multicore Chips
New research from MIT describes a system that cleverly distributes data around multicore chips’ memory banks, improving execution times by 18 percent on average while…
New Device Allows Scientists to Watch How Cells Interact
MIT engineers have developed a new device that allows scientists to observe communication between immune cells. The immune system is a complex network of many…
New Algorithm Should Enable Household Robots to Better Identify Objects
New research from MIT shows that a system using an off-the-shelf algorithm to aggregate different perspectives allows household robots to recognize four times as many…
New Photon Detectors – A Crucial Step Toward Quantum Chips
In a new study, researchers describe a micrometer-scale flip-chip process that enables scalable integration of superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors on a range of photonic circuits….