Lemelson-MIT Program

The Bromfield School from Harvard, Massachusetts, received a 2007 InvenTeams grant from the Lemelson-MIT Program to create a memory-assist device for people with Alzheimer's, dementia, and other memory-related illnesses. In this video, the InvenTeam explains its project at the InvenTeams Showcase, held at MIT in June 2007.

Part 2 of MSRP 2008 a graduate application panel consisting of:Paula Hammond - Bayer Professor of Chemical Engineering, Department of Chemical EngineeringDava Newman - Professor, MacVicar Faculty Fellow, Director TPP, Department of Aeronautics and AstronauticStephen Bell - Professor, Department of BiologyTerry Orlando - Professor, Graduate Officer, Ashdown Housemaster, Dept of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science??

As part of the DARPA Learning Locomotion project, the CSAIL Robot Locomotion Group under the direction of Prof. Russ Tedrake has been designing robust control strategies for a small quadruped robot to dynamically traverse rough terrain containing obstacles with heights comparable to the leg length of the robot. The success of these efforts was due to an efficient kinematic planning algorithm which selects footholds and transitions across the terrain, and on the design of new kinodynamic motion planning tools for double-support gaits (in which two feet are off the ground at the same time for a portion of the gait cycle).This video, taken by Katie Byl, MIT MechE PhD candidate, demonstrates a rare combination of careful foot placements and aggressive dynamic movements, all generated by the same machinery. The robot, 'LittleDog,' is built by Boston Dynamics and operates in a motion capture environment with 'known' terrain; the hope is that this technology will transition to the 'BigDog' robot in the near future in order to improve its capabilities for negotiating 'extreme' terrain. In addition to Byl, other team members include EECS graduate student Alec Shkolnik and CSAIL software project manager, Sam Prentice.?

Yossi Sheffi Director, MIT Center for Transportation Professor, Engineering Systems, MITCTL Director Yossi Sheffi discusses his book The Resilient Enterprise: Overcoming Vulnerability for Competitive Advantage, in which he argues that a company s survival and prosperity depend more on what it does before a disruption occurs than on the actions it takes as the event unfolds. Dr. Sheffi focuses not only on security but on corporate resilience - the ability to bounce back from such disruptions - and how to turn that resilience into competitive advantage.

Martin Fisher is co-founder of the non-profit social enterprise KickStart. To date, Fisher s low-cost irrigation pumps and innovative business model have helped to lift nearly 80 percent of his customers poor African farmers out of poverty. Biography | Press Release

Joseph DeSimone, Chancellor s Eminent Professor of Chemistry at of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is a polymer expert who has inventions in green manufacturing, nanomedicine and medical devices. His lab-to-market entrepreneurship and commitment to mentorship are hallmarks of his career.BiographyPress Release ?

This video presents an overview of the Lemelson-MIT Program's awards and initiatives. The program recognizes outstanding inventors, encourages sustainable new solutions to real-world problems, and enables and inspires young people to pursue creative lives and careers through invention. The Lemelson-MIT Program was established in 1994 at the nation's premier technological university, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, by one of the world's most prolific inventors, Jerome Lemelson (1923-1997), and his wife, Dorothy. It is funded by the Lemelson Foundation and administered by MIT's School of Engineering.

Tess Veuthy ('08) and Maria Luckyanova ('08) discuss their non-profit organization, Developing World Prosthetics, and their work in India with the Jaipur Foot Organization. Their team, Vac-Cast Prosthetics, now called Developing World Prosthetics, won the 2006-2007 MIT IDEAS Competition.

Phi Ho ('08) discusses his work with The Global Child in Cambodia while on a Public Service Fellowship.

An interesting way of demonstrating the operation of a stepper motor. The rotating wire makes contact with the stepper coils in a specific sequence that causes the motor to "step."

Wyn Kelley discussing the juxtaposition as seen in Herman Melville's Moby-Dick.

Daniel Mokrauer-Madden ('08) talks about participating in the annual CityDays, the MIT IDEAS Competition, winning the Priscilla King Gray Award, and more.

The first act of the play "Moby-Dick: Then and Now," directed by Ricardo Pitts-Wiley, and performed in North Kingstown, RI in July 2007.

Clip of Rudy Cabrera describing his thoughts on performance in the theater and in real life.

The CNN series "Innovators" spotlights MIT Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Senior Lecturer Susan Murcott and her work to bring clean water to developing countries. It highlights the innovation of the Kanchan [Note: Kanchan should have superscript TM and should be in italics if you can do that] Arsenic Filter, which she, together with a team of Nepali partners and a former student, Tommy Ngai, invented in 2002. The Kanchan [italics] filter removes both arsenic and microbial contamination from drinking water is one example of the pioneering work she and others are engaged in - the design and dissemination of household drinking water treatment and safe storage systems - a new cluster of innovative technologies to bring safe water to people everywhere. See also: http://web.mit.edu/watsan

Folding Wall-E in origami. Now go watch (real) WALL-E, it's great! for more see http://chosetec.darkclan.net/origami http://chosetec.darkclan.net/origami/wall_e If you watch closely you see that several origami versions are used in this video. The basic design is the same (see crease pattern)

The Sermon as performed (in two parts) in the play Moby-Dick: Then and Now.

Video detailing the reading habits of Rudy Cabrera, Wyn Kelley, Ricardo Pitts-Wiley, and Henry Jenkins.

Scene from Moby-Dick: Then and Now betwen Starbuck and Ahab.

An cathode ray tube (CRT) television is connected to a video camera. When a strong magnet is brought close to the television screen, the image becomes warped and discolored.While many new televisions use flat screen technology, older CRTs produced images by firing electron guns (one red, one green, one blue) through the television body onto the back of the screen. When a magnet is brought close to the screen, it deflects the paths of the electron beams and distorts the picture. A strong enough magnetic field can even create a hole in the electron beams, causing a black spot on the picture. This TV has been subject to many magnet encounters, which has permanently damaged the picture.

Speakers:John Nonnamaker - Associate Director, Graduate Student Career Development?

Alana D. Tyler - RaytheonDr. Karmella A. Haynes - Visiting Assistant Professor of Biology at Davidson College & Howard Hughes Medical Institute Reseach/Teaching Fellow

Imagine windows that not only provide a clear view and illuminate rooms, but also use sunlight to efficiently help power the building they are part of. MIT engineers report a new approach to harnessing the sun's energy that could allow just that. Full storyVideo/MIT News Office

Phi Ho ('08) discusses his work with The Global Child in Cambodia while on a Public Service Fellowship.

Laura Martini ('08) talks about service learning classes, 2.00B and 2.009, and her plans for the future.

Kathleen Cui

City Days

Transportation and the Metropolis: Perspectives and ResearchChris Zegras, Assistant Professor, MIT

Students present a paper by Professor Chris Zegras.

Aeronautics & Astronautics students participated in the 2008 AIAA Design/Build/Fly Competion and put together this video to share their experience. Fortunately the vehicle was not weighed down by its name.