Wind energy and health + speedy space comms + new era of computing

Lincoln Laboratory’s TeraByte InfraRed Delivery system sent data from a satellite to Earth at 100 Gbps — a rate that will transform future science missions.

“We want to harness the forefront of results in computing and infuse them with the other disciplines,” says Professor Dan Huttenlocher, dean of the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing.

VulcanForms, founded by an MIT alumnus and professor, has created digital production systems to manufacture complex metal parts at scale.

Researchers from MIT, Caltech, and elsewhere have found that “quantum systems can imitate wormholes, theorized shortcuts in spacetime, in that the systems allow the instantaneous transit of information between remote locations.” Graduate student Alexander Zlokapa explains: “We performed a kind of quantum teleportation equivalent to a traversable wormhole in the gravity picture. To do this, we had to simplify the quantum system to the smallest example that preserves gravitational characteristics so we could implement it.”