At Ayar Labs, Optical Chips Borne of MIT Research
from MIT Sloan News by Dylan Walsh In 1965, Gordon Moore noticed that computer chips were roughly doubling in power every year, following an exponential curve. The trend held with such reliability that the observation was codified into Moore’s law. “But the speed at which we take data in and ...
AI-Enabled Klarity Helps Companies Identify Risks in Contracts
from MIT Sloan News by Brian Eastwood New software out of MIT uses artificial intelligence to speed up and reduce the cost of contract review for companies. Klarity is taking on nondisclosure agreements first, part of a strategy to build customer trust and expand its offerings. In a usual scenario today, a ...
This MIT Startup is Using Mechanical Engineering to Recycle Water in Power Plants
from BostInno by Lucia Maffei At the end of the movie The Big Short, viewers are informed that Michael Burry – the man who predicted the 2008 worldwide financial crisis years before anyone else – is now focused on investing in one commodity: water. Nowadays, the signals that water is becoming ...
MIT’s William Aulet on teaching entrepreneurship and beachhead marketing
from Venture Capital Journal by Mark Boslet Can entrepreneurship be taught in a classroom setting, or is it a set of skills learned only by doing? MIT professor William Aulet clearly comes down on the taught side of the debate. But instruction has to be done in the right way. ...
Woobo, the Cambridge-Born Talking Robot for Children, is Here
from BostInno by Lucia Maffei Cambridge-based startup Woobo has launched the first edition of its educational toy for children – a talkative, furry round animal with a high-pitched voice, a variety of gender-neutral activities for kids, a short USB port-shaped tail and a planned retail price of $199. According to the company’s co-founder ...
Meet the MIT-Born Software That’s the “Grammarly for Legal Contracts”
by Lucia Maffei, BostInno Full disclosure: I’m not writing this story by myself. While I’m typing on the keyboard, Grammarly – a free extension for Chrome – works on background checking grammar, spellings and punctuation. Typos are underlined in red: for each mistake I make, “Did you mean” windows appear with a ...
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