Making photos their business
Today, online photo-sharing is a technological phenomenon, with billions of images shared daily via social media, image-hosting websites and mobile apps.Back in 2009, when photo-sharing had just become...
View ArticleDental scanner allows researcher to sink his teeth into entrepreneurship
Traditionally, dentists have made dental impressions by having patients bite down on a moldable silicone material. Such impressions, however, can be messy and uncomfortable, and sometimes inaccurate....
View ArticleTeaching entrepreneurship with discipline
Discipline may not be the first quality people associate with entrepreneurship. But according to Bill Aulet, senior lecturer and managing director of the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship,...
View ArticleStartup cofounder discusses entrepreneurship with high schoolers
Around 90 students in the MIT Online Science, Technology and Engineering Community (MOSTEC) participated last month in an interactive webinar with David Young, cofounder and chief commercial officer of...
View ArticleAccelerating startups, the MIT way
Startup accelerators — programs that provide financial and other support to early-stage businesses — have sprouted across Boston, and the nation, over the past decade. Add to this list MIT’s Global...
View ArticleBringing ‘common sense’ to text analytics
Bringing “common sense” to artificial intelligence is one of the biggest challenges in computer science: It entails equipping computers with the shared knowledge that humans use to infer meaning, make...
View ArticleKeeping ‘digital storefronts’ fresh
In 2010, a team of MIT graduate students designed an app that allowed people to rate entrees at local restaurants. This aimed to help restaurant patrons find the best local dishes. Soon, however, the...
View ArticleCreating a permanent bacteria barrier
Any medical device implanted in the body attracts bacteria, proteins, and other microbes to its surface, causing infections and thrombosis (blood clotting) that lead to hundreds of thousands of deaths...
View ArticleGiving students ‘a six-month runway’ to launch startups
The MIT Media Lab announced today that a new fund — run by the independent, nonprofit E14 Fund Management Inc. — will help launch seven new startups created by Media Lab graduates. By providing...
View ArticlePowering better online document viewing
Viewing PDF and Microsoft Office documents on a Web browser can cause slow loading and messy formatting — and often such documents won’t load at all. Most times, users will simply download the...
View ArticleCatalyst for business
After working at a software company for four years, MIT alumnus Andrew Dougherty MBA ’01 was itching to do something entrepreneurial in the energy industry. Browsing the website of MIT’s $50K (now...
View ArticleCatching (radio) waves
In 2000, five MIT Media Lab alumni co-founded ThingMagic to help bring radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology — wireless readers and data-transmitting tags — to the supply chain. This meant...
View ArticleClimbing the ‘power ascension’ market
Since MIT spinout Atlas Devices’ flagship product, the Atlas Powered Rope Ascender (APA), first hit the market in 2007, it’s been touted by media as a real-world version of Batman’s famed utility-belt...
View ArticleBringing the world reboot-less updates
It’s an annoyance for the individual computer user: You’ve updated your operating system, and now you need to reboot. This is so the computer can switch to the modified source code.Imagine, however,...
View Article3-D scanning, with your smartphone
Traditionally, 3-D scanning has required expensive laser scanner equipment, complicated software, and technological expertise. But MIT spinout Viztu Technologies helped change that: Back in 2011,...
View ArticleGrowing a business, from the lab
In the early 1990s, MIT researcher Shuguang Zhang, then an MIT postdoc, stumbled upon peptides that could self-assemble into nanostructures, creating three-dimensional environments for cell culturing....
View ArticleDrew Houston and Bob Langer encourage Start6 students at completion of IAP...
Start6, the new Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) IAP workshop for immersion in innovation and entrepreneurship, wrapped up its third week with sendoffs from two icons in...
View ArticleThe surprising value of waste
In the “sanitation value chain,” human waste, with the proper infrastructure, is turned into a valuable commodity. Collecting, storing, and recycling waste into valuable byproducts, such as fertilizer,...
View ArticleBuilding nursery 2.0
One of today’s rising tech trends, wearable technology — such as fitness-tracking bracelets, smartwatches, and smartglasses — figured prominently at this January’s Consumer Electronics Show, held in...
View ArticleDriving down fuel usage
Despite their potential to reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and fuel consumption, electric and hybrid cars and trucks struggled for years to find a solid customer base. Much of the reason came...
View ArticleStudy: Attractive men fare best in gaining venture capital
You can’t judge a startup by the looks of its founder — but many potential investors do. That’s the upshot of a newly published study co-authored by MIT researchers, which shows that attractive men...
View ArticleMechE alumna Danielle Zurovcik’s WiCare named finalist for Hult Prize
MIT spinoff WiCare, founded by mechanical engineering alumna Danielle Zurovcik SM ’07, PhD ’12, has been named one of six finalists in this year’s Hult Prize competition.The Hult Prize Foundation is a...
View ArticleBrighter future for bacteria detection
Ever wonder why fruits and vegetables sometimes hit the shelves contaminated by pathogenic bacteria such as listeria, E. coli, and salmonella? According to Tim Lu, an assistant professor of electrical...
View ArticleD-Lab Scale-Ups Fellowship applications open
Launched in 2011, the D-Lab Scale-Ups Fellowship program serves as an acceleration platform for innovators and entrepreneurs seeking to turn appropriate technologies into scalable and sustainable...
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