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05 Oct 23

Your Guide to the Newest Nobel Prize: Quantum Dots

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

Today, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the 2023 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to scientists from MIT, Columbia University, and the New York–based company Nanocrystals Technology for “the development of quantum dots, nanoparticles so tiny that their size determines their properties.”It’s a welcome development. IEEE Spectrum has been following…

15 Sep 23

MIT Makes Low-Power Underwater Communication Practical

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation

Underwater sensor networks could prove invaluable for applications as diverse as monitoring fish farms, hurricane forecasting, and detecting enemy submarines. Transmitting data through liquids is much trickier than sending it through air, however. Engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have come up with a solution that could enable…

19 Jun 23

MIT Unveils a Megawatt Motor for Electric Aircraft

Aerospace & Aeronautical

Aviation aims to slash some of its substantial carbon emissions by electrifying aircraft, but the industry’s stringent weight restrictions make this difficult. Building electric motors that match the power-to-weight ratios of jet engines has proven especially challenging, so most efforts have been restricted to smaller aircraft. A new compact lightweight…

30 Mar 23

MIT Turbocharges Python’s Notoriously Slow Compiler

Computer & Information Technology

Python has long been one of—if not the—top programming languages in use. Yet while the high-level language’s simplified syntax makes it easy to learn and use, it can be slower compared to lower-level languages such as C or C++.Researchers from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) hope to…

07 Feb 22

Atomically Thin Materials Significantly Shrink Qubits

Metallurgy & Material Science

Quantum computing is a devilishly complex technology, with many technical hurdles impacting its development. Of these challenges two critical issues stand out: miniaturization and qubit quality.IBM has adopted the superconducting qubit road map of reaching a 1,121-qubit processor by 2023, leading to the expectation that 1,000 qubits with today’s qubit…