Proving Quantum Computers Feasible
Posted On Wednesday, November 28, 2012 By USA Education News. Under MASSACHUSETTS Tags: algorithms, quantum computers, spin chain
With a new contribution to probability theory, researchers show that relatively simple physical systems could yield powerful quantum computers.
Quantum computers are devices — still largely theoretical — that could perform certain types of computations much faster than classical computers; one way they might do that is by exploiting “spin,” a ...
Brain Waves Encode Rules For Behavior
Posted On Friday, November 23, 2012 By USA Education News. Under MASSACHUSETTS Tags: Brain waves, Earl Miller, neuroscience, Picower Professor, rhythmic
Fluctuations in electrical activity may also allow the brain to form thoughts and memories.
A new study from researchers at MIT and Boston University (BU) sheds light on how neural ensembles form thoughts and support the flexibility to change one’s mind. The research team, led by Earl Miller, the Picower Professor ...
MIT A Linchpin Of Major New USAID Program
Posted On Wednesday, November 21, 2012 By USA Education News. Under MASSACHUSETTS Tags: Interdisciplinary, Public Service Center, Sanyal, technologies, USAID, world’s poor
Institute researchers aim to spur development and evaluation of useful technologies to help the world’s poor..
MIT will receive up to $25 million in funding from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) as part of a new five-year project intended to fight poverty by developing and evaluating useful technologies ...
Jellyfish-Inspired Device That Rapidly and Efficiently Captures Cancer Cells From Blood Samples
Posted On Wednesday, November 21, 2012 By USA Education News. Under MASSACHUSETTS Tags: blood samples, bloodstream, cancer cells, drugs, tumor cells
Tumor cells circulating in a patient’s bloodstream can yield a great deal of information on how a tumor is responding to treatment and what drugs might be more effective against it. But first, these rare cells have to be captured and isolated from the many other cells found in a ...
New Metamaterial Lens Focuses Radio Waves - Device could improve satellite and molecular imaging.
Posted On Wednesday, November 21, 2012 By USA Education News. Under MASSACHUSETTS Tags: focuses radio waves, lens, metamaterial
In many respects, metamaterials are supernatural. These manmade materials, with their intricately designed structures, bend electromagnetic waves in ways that are impossible for materials found in nature. Scientists are investigating metamaterials for their potential to engineer invisibility cloaks — materials that refract light to hide an object in plain sight ...
MIT Researchers Find That Heat Moving in Materials Called Superlattices Behaves like Waves
Posted On Wednesday, November 21, 2012 By USA Education News. Under MASSACHUSETTS Tags: heat flow, nanostructure, thermoelectrics.
Thermoelectric devices, which can harness temperature differences to produce electricity, might be made more efficient thanks to new research on heat propagation through structures called superlattices. The new findings show, unexpectedly, that heat can travel like waves, rather than particles, through these nanostructures: materials made up of layers only a ...
Department Snapshot: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Posted On Wednesday, November 21, 2012 By USA Education News. Under MASSACHUSETTS Tags: Anantha Chandrakasan, Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering
In the 1950s, when MIT researchers were helping to invent the discipline of computer science, they didn't think of themselves as computer scientists; they thought of themselves as electrical engineers or physicists or mathematicians. Operating systems and programming languages were just tools they needed in order to maximize the productivity ...
New Injectable Gels Toughen Up After Entering the Body
Posted On Wednesday, November 21, 2012 By USA Education News. Under MASSACHUSETTS Tags: described the new gels, disease, drugs, injectable gels
Gels that can be injected into the body, carrying drugs or cells that regenerate damaged tissue, hold promise for treating many types of disease, including cancer. However, these injectable gels don’t always maintain their solid structure once inside the body.
MIT chemical engineers have now designed an injectable gel that responds ...
University Grads Rated Among World’s Most Employable
Posted On Wednesday, November 7, 2012 By USA Education News. Under MASSACHUSETTS Tags: BU CareerLink, Center for Career Development, Going Global, International Students & Scholars Office, Student Services
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The power of a BU diploma was recognized last week when the employability of graduates of the University was ranked 17th in the world and 7th among U.S. schools in a survey published in the'c2~New York Times'c2~and the'c2~International Herald Tribune. The'c2~2012 Global Employability Survey'c2~was conducted by Emerging, a French consulting ...
BU Joins Association of American Universities
Posted On Wednesday, November 7, 2012 By USA Education News. Under MASSACHUSETTS Tags: Association of American Universities, Autism Center of Excellence, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program
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How To Brain Controls Our Habits
Posted On Tuesday, November 6, 2012 By USA Education News. Under MASSACHUSETTS Tags: brain, control, euroscientists, Gatsby Foundation, habits
MIT neuroscientists identify a brain region that can switch between new and old habits.par
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Habits are behaviors wired so deeply in our brains that we perform them automatically. This allows you to follow the same route to work every day without thinking about it, liberating your brain to ponder other things, ...
MET Dean to Assume New Post - Interim Dean Will Take Over January 1
Posted On Friday, November 2, 2012 By USA Education News. Under MASSACHUSETTS Tags: Dean Jay Halfond, distance education, Sloan Consortium, Tanya Zlateva
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After nearly a dozen years helming BU'e2'80'99s Metropolitan College, Dean Jay Halfond will step down at the end of the fall semester. He will teach a graduate seminar at the School of Education next semester before taking a yearlong sabbatical, beginning next summer. He plans to teach and conduct research ...
Mining Physicians Notes for Medical Insights
Posted On Friday, November 2, 2012 By USA Education News. Under MASSACHUSETTS Tags: medical, Medical Informatics, Peter Szolovits, Physicians, Rumshisky
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A new approach to algorithmically distinguishing words with multiple possible meanings could help find useful data in electronic medical records.par
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In the last 10 years, it'e2'80'99s become far more common for physicians to keep records electronically. Those records could contain a wealth of medically useful data: hidden correlations between symptoms, treatments ...
An MIT Economist’s Path to the Center of Health-Care Policymaking in Washington.
Posted On Monday, October 29, 2012 By USA Education News. Under FEATURED, MASSACHUSETTS Tags: Affordable Care Act, economist’s, Jonathan Gruber, Mr. Mandate
Earlier this year, The New York Times called Jonathan Gruber “Mr. Mandate.” And with good reason: His in-depth modeling of health-insurance markets helped create the legislation for mandatory private insurance that is near the center of the U.S. presidential election.
Indeed, Gruber is in the unique position of having made a ...
DR. Pendred Noyce Appointed To Board Of Elementary And Secondary Education
Posted On Thursday, October 25, 2012 By USA Education News. Under MASSACHUSETTS Tags: Dr. Noyce’s, ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION, Governor Patrick, Harvard University
BOSTON – Wednesday, October 24, 2012 – Governor Deval Patrick today announced that he has appointed Dr. Pendred “Penny” Noyce to the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education.
"Dr. Noyce’s lifelong experience and commitment to education in Massachusetts makes her an excellent addition to the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education," ...
Researchers Examine Health Impacts of More U.K. Runways
Posted On Friday, October 19, 2012 By USA Education News. Under MASSACHUSETTS Tags: Atmospheric Environment, Barrett, Department for Transport, Heathrow Airport, Thames Estuary
Study: An expanded Heathrow Airport would lead to 100 more pollution-related early deaths annually in the U.K. by 2030.
According to the U.K.’s Department for Transport, demand for air travel in the country will more than double by 2030, from 127 million to 300 million passengers per year. A debate over ...
Calcium Reveals Connections Between Neurons
Posted On Thursday, October 18, 2012 By USA Education News. Under MASSACHUSETTS Tags: autism, detecting an odor, psychiatric diseases, psychiatric disorders
New way to image brain-cell activity could shed light on autism and other psychiatric disorders.
A team led by MIT neuroscientists has developed a way to monitor how brain cells coordinate with each other to control specific behaviors, such as initiating movement or detecting an odor.
The researchers’ new imaging technique, based ...
Architect Christoph Reinhart Studies how Buildings — And Whole Communities — Can Use Daylight to Become More Energy-Efficient
Posted On Tuesday, October 16, 2012 By USA Education News. Under MASSACHUSETTS Tags: architects, Christoph Reinhart’s, Energy, planners, prospective tenants
Light is an important commodity in real estate: A nice splash of direct sunshine can lift the value of any house or apartment. But sunlight is a housing asset in another way. A healthy dose of it means any given building can use solar power extensively, as a potentially cheaper ...
