At a launch event for the school's new wireless technology research center,MIT PhD student Swarun Kumar presented technology for a new autonomous vehicle that recognizes when it may be in danger of striking other cars and pedestrians. ...
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As in-car displays house more information and controls, there is concern at how to make the screens less distracting while driving. Now a new study has found that even small changes in typeface style can help reduce the visual load of a ...
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MIT researchers have found a way to observe how electrons move in the class of materials known as topological insulators. Topological insulators are exotic materials,discovered just a few years ago,in which the electrons demonstrate ...
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Sony's diode lasers claim 2012 Leibinger prize 17 Sep 2012 Mass production of laser diodes and backwards compatible optical data storage recognized with biennial Zukunftspreis. Osamu Kumagai, a senior VP at Sony, has won the 2012 ...
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"Surfaces that define space can also be producers of energy,"says Kennedy,a visiting lecturer in architecture."The boundaries between traditional walls and utilities are shifting." Sheila Kennedy Image courtesy of MIT Sheila Kennedy ...
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At its annual TECHCON technology conference in Austin,TX(at which the latest results of SRC-funded research are shared among university students,faculty and industry experts),university-research consortium Semiconductor Research Corp(SRC)of ...
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The research project Low Energy Electronics Systems (LEES) has started its work with a kick-off meeting. The program's initiator is the renowned Singapore MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART) Center based in Singapore. The LEES ...
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The research project Low Energy Electronics Systems (LEES) has started its work with a kick-off meeting. The program’s initiator is the renowned Singapore MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART) Center based in Singapore. The ...
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Designing for the Web isn't what it used to be--thank goodness!HTML5,CSS3,and advances in JavaScript make it possible to do things today that yesterday's Web designers could only dream about. Of course,Web design has also become much more ...
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Most Taiwanese printing machinery suppliers experienced downturns during the first half of 2012 due both to global economic uncertainty and a growing rivalry between emerging competitors. According to the latest data issued by the ...
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When it comes to woodworking, a board cut a few millimetres too long or too short can make the difference between a work of art and a pile of firewood. For a lot of us, this small margin of error can turn the making of even the simplest ...
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A way of producing 3D TV images that work no matter where you are in the room could see images stand out from a flat TV screen–without the need for any additional glasses. Depth perception depends on differences between what our two ...
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Computerworld-At its recent developers conference in San Francisco,Google touted the new prototype of its Google Glass computerized eyeglasses. The Android-powered eyeglasses are equipped with a processor,memory,a camera,GPS sensors and a ...
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'Artificial photosynthesis'turns water into hydrogen 06 Jun 2012 Researchers at Spain's Jaume I University develop semiconductor'leaf'that needs only sunlight to release hydrogen from water. Water good idea:UJI makes hydrogen ...
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) researchers have found that a post-etch anneal dramatically improves the performance of their self-aligned indium gallium arsenide (InGaAs) quantum-well metal–oxide–semiconductor ...