Patent Granted for Nanotechnology Work
August 2008
MITRE researchers and their partners at Penn State have started down the road to unlocking the key to mass production of carbon nanomaterials—a breakthrough recognized by a recent U.S. Patent.
Sense and Avoid: Flying Small UASs in Civil Airspace
July 2008
Soon, the sight of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) overhead may become common as they take on tasks such as homeland security and border surveillance. But first, MITRE researchers must help the FAA find ways to use sensors to avoid collisions between UAS and everything else in the sky.
A 3D-SLAM Dunk in Urban Situation Analysis
June 2008
Soldiers will someday use 3D-Simultaneous Localization and Mapping to build a 3D real-time video of an unknown environment before entering it. Used for urban situation analysis, 3D-SLAM uses video sensors on unmanned ground vehicles and hovering unmanned aerial vehicles, along with visual odometry, to improve the safety of our soldiers.
Helping
Organizations Manage Transformations
May 2008
Change can be daunting for organizations as well as people. MITRE
researchers are smoothing the pathways to organizational change
by developing models to help government agencies, businesses, and
other large groups predict how people will react to major transformations.
Unknown
Inside: MITRE's Insights into the Human Brain
May 2008
Technological advances that allow researchers to "see" into the
brain have flooded the field of neuroscience with a bright new light
of understanding. MITRE's Neurotechnology Thrust aims to focus that
light on a host of sponsor problems involving intelligent information
processing that have resisted solution by conventional approaches.
Unlocking
Medical Secrets While Safeguarding Patient Privacy
March 2008
Patients' medical records contain a wealth of health-related information,
but privacy concerns prevent medical researchers from mining the
data. Emerging MITRE research into new methods for stripping personal
data from electronic medical records could help open up this information
to the research community.
Nano
World: Say "Hello" to Classical Rules
March 2008
Research by MITRE's Nanosystems Group shows that the rules of classical
physics also apply to the world of nanotechnology, or the science
of the very small, which draws from applied physics, materials science,
and mechanical and electrical engineering.
MITRE
and Princeton Go Quantum Together
February 2008
When Princeton University was organizing its new Center for Theoretical
Physics, the leaders needed complementary expertise in quantum computing—and
they approached MITRE. In the bargain, MITRE's Quantum Information
Science Group positioned itself to help the company and its sponsors
benefit from worldwide interest in the long run-up to the quantum
revolution.
Mashing
Up the Web Creates New Resources
January 2008
"Mashups" are a new breed of Web application consisting of interactive
programs that draw content from multiple data sources and allow
for software applications that are often richer and more useful
than the sum of their parts. Part video, part satellite imagery,
they're transforming the Web—and hold the promise for an innovation
explosion that MITRE is prepared to harness.
Aircraft
Biosensor Detects Pathogens in Flight
January 2008
With aircraft crossing the globe every minute of the day, it's
not surprising that infectious disease crosses the globe with equal
ease. That's why MITRE researchers are running a feasibility study
on an innovative biosensor that detects infectious diseases in an
aircraft while it's en route to the U.S.
