There are more than many factor that crowns Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA as an institute that leads the world into future for last 160 years . The systematic foresight on cross pollinating science, technology , arts and engineering mastered by the institute’s faculties , students and associates is a latent capability. It is evident from numerous bleeding edge technologies introduced in hashtag#MIT professors inside campus and alumni is still active or is a precursor to similar things. Sharing a short range of things that led the world into future which yet holds good today , from our modern-day computer optical mouse (disc 1990), Humanoid robots in the form of Atlas robots (2013 – Boston Dynamics) , linux operating system -a freeware(1983) to even a precursor to Siri, Alexa and ChatGPT in the year 2006/2007 with a mobile personal assistant app -StartMobile.
I have had a chance to be in MIT for a special purpose ( that detail later) and got a chance to participate & present Motion Imager’s technology to scientists ,engineers ,architects and pioneers in the field including distinguished scholar and Prof Markus J. Buehler in a workshop mode. The theme was to understand various tools and methods of understanding Material- Structure-Process relationship at multiscale that matters for better material property engineering.
Our computational camera and imaging tool doing the part of same and beyond was presented as it meets the theme. The feedback and reactions received on our imaging technology tool’s capabilities were quite encouraging and endorsing of both the frontier capabilities and muchneeded- tool to solve the many unknowns of material mechanics & structural dynamics in multicoupled and interactive complex physical scenes. As a part of futureproofing and technology foresight assessment work of ours, it was a remarkable opportunity with a takeaway and would like to thank all the members present. I gained some insights of exceptional work being done by many during this workshop session and Massachusetts Institute of Technology in particular.
Do you know that Spider silk has more tensile strength than steel – which in other words, for a given weight Spider silk is five times stronger than Steel of same weight. Imagine how much less weight the aircraft and car can be if such spider silk kind structure can be synthetically mimicked and assembled replacing some existing steel-based part, saving lot of fuel and many more advantages. This is one of the pioneering work being done in MIT.
