Understanding Arctic Sea Ice
Understanding Arctic Sea Ice
Read more about Principal Research Scientist Patrick Heimbach's work in MIT's Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences at MIT News, the MITgcm website, and the website for NASA's ECCO2.About the animation: The simulation was conducted with the MIT coupled ocean-sea ice general ...
Position-Correcting Router
Position-Correcting Router
Researchers at CSAIL have developed a handheld device that can adjust its position to precisely follow a digital plan when a user moves a router roughly around the shape to be cut.
Modeling the Arctic Ocean - MITgcm on Ice
Modeling the Arctic Ocean - MITgcm on Ice
The Arctic Ocean halocline, a layer of high vertical salinity gradient and near-freezing temperature, insulates the surface sea-ice from heat stored in Atlantic water with a significant impact on sea-ice growth and melt. An understanding of its role in the general ...
Metamorphosis of the Cube
Metamorphosis of the Cube
Various foldings of polygons into convex polyhedra, and the reverse, unfoldings of convex polyhedra into polygons.
Sarma: Enabling Device-Level RFID with "the Cloud"
Sarma: Enabling Device-Level RFID with "the Cloud"
Sanjay E. Sarma Professor of Mechanical EngineeringDorector, MIT/SUTD Collaboration OfficeFormer Chairman of Research and Co-Founder of The Auto-ID Center at MIT Dr. Sarma is a Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department. He graduated from the Indian Institute ...
Sarma: RFID, SENSEable Cities and City Scanning
Sarma: RFID, SENSEable Cities and City Scanning
Sanjay E. Sarma Professor of Mechanical EngineeringDorector, MIT/SUTD Collaboration OfficeFormer Chairman of Research and Co-Founder of The Auto-ID Center at MITDr. Sarma is a Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department. He graduated from the Indian Institute of ...
Daily Patterns of Human Activities in the City
Daily Patterns of Human Activities in the City
This is an animation visualizing the movement and activities (differentiated by nine colors in the legend) of the surveyed individuals in the Chicago metropolitan area for an average weekday in 2008. Data source: Chicago Travel Tracker Household Travel Inventory ...
Simulating Bus Rapid Transit Scenarios in Chicago, IL
Simulating Bus Rapid Transit Scenarios in Chicago, IL
Simulating Bus Rapid Transit Scenarios on Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, IL. Modeled by Shan Jiang and recorded by Shan Jiang and Mikel Murga in 2007.
Shifting sands
Shifting sands
Sand in an hourglass might seem simple and straightforward, but such granular materials are actually tricky to model. Ken Kamrin of MIT MechE has come up with a model that predicts the flow of granular materials under a variety of conditions.
A Creation Myth for the Computer Age
A Creation Myth for the Computer Age
Historian of technology George Dyson discusses the remarkable story that inspired his latest book, Turing's Cathedral.Read more at: http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/39669/
Modeling of turbulent flow
Professor Emilio Baglietto: Modeling of turbulent flow in a reactor fuel ...
Over the last 15 years, computational techniques for modeling reactor behavior on both macro and micro scales have emerged as central tools in this effort, and NSE students will have the opportunity to learn about them from a growing faculty group that includes new ...
The Mercury Game
The Mercury Game
The Mercury Game is a negotiation simulation that is designed to teach people about the role of science in international environmental policy making. To download the game go to: http://mit.edu/mercurygame
Profile: Matt Rigby
A Brit, his computer and prepping for a greenhouse whodunnit
Matt Rigby is a Research Scientist in the Center for Global Change Science. An atmospheric chemist by training, his particular interest is in determining the sources and sinks of greenhouse gases. To determine their sources and sinks, Rigby uses measurements of the ...
Meet 2011 TR35 Winner Jernej Barbic
Meet 2011 TR35 Winner Jernej Barbic
Barbic presents his work at EmTech 2011: Speeding up simulations of complex objects University of Southern California Read more: http://techre.vu/yfxuh8
TR35: Noah Snavely
Meet 2011 TR35 Winner Noah Snavely
Snavely present his work at EmTech 2011: Synthesizing 3-D models from 2-D photographs
Meet 2011 TR35 Winner Dan Berkenstock
Meet 2011 TR35 Winner Dan Berkenstock
Berkenstock describes his work at EmTech 2011: Cheaper satellite pictures. Skybox Imaging Dan Berkenstock, cofounder and chief product officer of Skybox Imaging, wants to let "anyone know what's happening anywhere in the world at any time." Nex
Printing Parts
Printing Parts
Systems that print mechanical components with metal Âpowder could be used to build lighter, more efficient airplanes.
Making 3-D Models From Your Photos
Making 3-D Models From Your Photos
See how free software can recreate an object in detailed 3-D using photos of it taken from different angles.