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Microscope system sharpens scientists’ view of neural circuit connections

Professor of Neuroscience in The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory and MIT’s departments of Biology ... images fuzzy. In an open access paper in Scientific Reports, a collaboration of MIT engineers and ... they are lost, says lead author Yi Xue SM ’15, PhD ’19, an assistant professor at the University of ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/microscope-system-sharpens-scientists%E2%80%99-view-neural-circuit-connections

Creating and verifying stable AI-controlled systems in a rigorous and flexible way

verifying Lyapunov conditions didn’t scale well to complex machines. Researchers from MIT’s Computer Science ... formal guarantees that are crucial for safety-critical systems,” says Lujie Yang, MIT electrical ... the key bottleneck,” says Sicun Gao, associate professor of computer science and engineering at the ...

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For developing designers, there’s magic in 2.737 (Mechatronics)

paper, and make sketches, and write down key calculations in order to be creative,” says MIT professor of ... problems across different domains,” says Trumper. “MIT students tend to have seen lots of math and lots of ... bioengineering platforms. Copy of Copy of COMMITTED TO CARING 2024.jpg: Professor of mechanical engineering David ...

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The answer may be blowing in the wind

2023 Leda Zimmerman | MIT Energy Initiative Horizontal Professors Paul Sclavounos & Steven B. Leeb ... offshore wind by 2030 — enough to power 10 million homes. At the MIT Energy Initiative’s Spring Symposium, ... — and sooner rather than later,” said Robert C. Armstrong, MITEI director and the Chevron Professor of ...

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Powered by Literature on Her Way Toward an MD

Senior Cara Lai cites MIT Literature studies as key to her preparation for medical practice. When ... she first arrived at MIT, a freshman in 2012, Cara Lai was focused on engineering studies. But it ... wasn't long before Lai discovered that the breadth and depth of an MIT education is designed to help ...

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Expanding education: From Africa to Cambridge and back again

professor faculty director of the MIT-Africa program, for a three-day short course. There, he, Reda, and ... for a particular combination of purposes in his third experience with the MIT International Science ... countries,” he says of Sierra Leone, “and I wanted to be a part of that.” The mission of the MIT ...

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Engineers design color-changing compression bandage

condition. Now engineers at MIT have developed pressure-sensing photonic fibers that they have woven into ... around a patient’s leg. color-changing compression_1024.jpg Engineers at MIT have developed ... affect several hundred thousand patients in the U.S. each year,” says Mathias Kolle, assistant professor ...

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Researchers solve mystery of how gas bubbles form in liquid

a paper by MIT graduate Amir Pahlavan PhD ’18, Professor Howard Stone of Princeton, MIT School of ... Engineering Professor of Teaching Innovation Gareth McKinley, and MIT Professor Ruben Juanes. The key to ... typically a much more random process. Now, a study by researchers at MIT and Princeton University shows that ...

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Two projects receive funding for technologies that avoid carbon emissions

The Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage Center, one of the MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI)’s ... project, led by principal investigator Asegun Henry, the Robert N. Noyce Career Development Professor in ... Pont Professor of Chemical Engineering, aims to produce hydrogen without CO 2 emissions while creating ...

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Boosting the efficiency of carbon capture and conversion systems

now an assistant professor at Simon Fraser University, along with MIT professors of mechanical ... MIT have developed a method that could significantly boost the performance of systems that use ... today in the journal Cell Reports Physical Science in a paper by MIT postdoc Sami Khan PhD ’19, who is ...

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Ingestible sensor could help doctors pinpoint GI difficulties

professor of mechanical engineering at MIT and a gastroenterologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. ... Engineers at MIT and Caltech have demonstrated an ingestible sensor whose location can be ... Traverso is one of the senior authors of the new study, along with Azita Emami, a professor of electrical ...

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Engineers design sutures that can deliver drugs or sense inflammation

Monday, May 15, 2023 Anne Trafton | MIT News Office Horizontal Professor Giovanni Traverso and his team ... Inspired by sutures developed thousands of years ago, MIT engineers have designed “smart” sutures ... a modern twist, the MIT team coated the sutures with hydrogels that can be embedded with sensors, drugs, or ...

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A portable light system that can digitize everyday objects

Tang; MIT undergraduate student Luca Musk; University of Michigan Assistant Professor Junyi Zhu SM ’19, ... Stefanie Mueller, the TIBCO Career Development Associate Professor in the MIT departments of Electrical ... statistics, as well as new designs on things like a wall, mug, or shoe. Researchers from MIT’s Computer ...

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In it together: Faculty mentors and graduate students

invites graduate students from across MIT’s campus to nominate professors whom they believe to be outstanding ... research, the pressure to reach academic milestones, and the management of life outside MIT can tax even the ... Lienhard2 1024.jpg Professor John Lienhard of the Department of Mechanical Engineering makes the members of ...

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MIT engineers configure RFID tags to work as sensors

Auto-ID Lab at MIT has long been at the forefront of developing RFID technology. Now engineers in this ... MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. “Imagine creating thousands of these inexpensive RFID tag ... a research scientist in the group, and Sanjay Sarma, the Fred Fort Flowers and Daniel Fort Flowers Professor ...

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New heads of house join undergraduate and graduate communities to start the fall semester

Professor of Physics, and has been on the MIT faculty since 2008. His career led him to appointments at the ... Henry Gale (1929) Career Development Professor in Mechanical Engineering. He arrived at MIT in 2014 ... A new group of MIT faculty, staff, and their families will live with, work with, and support ...

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Heather Theberge, mechanical engineering staff member, dies at 42

Heather Theberge, an administrative assistant in the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering’s ... incredible kindness and was beloved by her colleagues,” says Evelyn Wang, professor of mechanical engineering ... and department head. Theberge joined MIT in 2012. In her role as administrative assistant, she was ...

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New ultrastiff, ultralight material developed

MIT’s Nicholas Fang; former postdoc Howon Lee, now an assistant professor at Rutgers University; ... those elements. Now engineers at MIT and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) have devised ... Alex d’Arbeloff Career Development Associate Professor in Engineering Design. So far, the researchers ...

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Robot builds on insights into Atlantic razor clam dynamics

Development Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT. Despite its rigid shell, the Atlantic razor ... trick, Winter and his co-developer, Anette Hosoi, professor of mechanical engineering and applied ... mathematics at MIT, needed to understand how the clam’s movement causes the soil to liquefy, or turn into ...

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