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GM plugs in to battery technology with MIT roots
08-10-2007 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)A company with roots at MIT has been selected to develop battery cells to power the Chevrolet Volt, a highly anticipated plug-in hybrid car that should be able to travel about 40 miles on battery power alone. GM hopes to begin selling the car in 2010.
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- Team develops energy-efficient microchip
02-05-2008 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Researchers at MIT and Texas Instruments have unveiled a new chip design for portable electronics that can be up to 10 times more energy-efficient than present technology. The design could lead to devices that last far longer when running from a battery.
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- Team develops energy-efficient microchip
02-04-2008 · EurekAlert!
Researchers at MIT and Texas Instruments have unveiled a new chip design for portable electronics that can be up to 10 times more energy-efficient than present technology. The design could lead to cell phones, implantable medical devices and sensors that last far longer when running from a battery.
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- Robots headed for deepwater operations
11-08-2006 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
MIT Sea Grant recently co-hosted a technology forum to discuss how autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) can offer low-cost solutions for deepwater oil and natural gas exploration and production.
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- iCampus collaboration celebrates innovation
12-08-2006 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
The seven-year, $25 million iCampus partnership between MIT and Microsoft, which has borne fruit across the globe by facilitating progress in educational technology, was celebrated with a symposium at MIT Dec. 1 and 2.
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- CMS fetes digital games, cultural research
02-28-2007 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
The students, staff and faculty of MIT's Comparative Media Studies program showed they could walk the walk and talk the talk of transformative media technology when they turned the Stata Center lobby into an attention-grabbing interior landscape on Feb. 22.
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- Student-run Energy 2.0 focuses on innovation
03-13-2007 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
The 2007 MIT Energy Conference, "Energy 2.0: Solving Tomorrow's Energy Challenges through Entrepreneurship, Technology & Policy," attracted 550 energy professionals, investors, entrepreneurs, policy makers, academics and graduate students.
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- Diseases to be focus of Singapore-MIT alliance
03-30-2007 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Infectious diseases will be the focus of the first research group through the proposed Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology Center, as announced by the Singaporean National Research Foundation, which will sponsor the center.
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- Students take Porsche to electric avenue
06-05-2007 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
For the past six months a team of MIT students has spent hundreds of hours converting a sleek Porsche 914 into an electric vehicle. Their goal? To demonstrate the viability of electric vehicle technology and to help clarify what has yet to be done.
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- Autism theory put to the test with new technology
06-27-2007 · EurekAlert!
Dr. Tim Welsh is studying the ancient "inhibition of return" pattern of human behavior in hopes of uncovering the root of autism.
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- Robotic pets may be bad medicine
11-29-2006 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
In the face of techno-doomsday punditry, Sherry Turkle has long been a proponent of the positive. But now the director of the MIT Initiative on Technology and Self says she has finally met a technology that upsets her.
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