Sentences with phrase «mit aeronautics»

All that's in the works, according to Mary «Missy» Cummings, a former F / A -18 fighter pilot who is an MIT aeronautics professor focusing on human interfaces for UAVs.

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«As a science fiction idea, it clearly works, but as a business, I'm not sure,» John Hansman, a professor of aeronautics and astronautics at MIT, told Inc. in January.

«As a science fiction idea, it clearly works, but as a business, I'm not sure,» says John Hansman, a professor of aeronautics and astronautics at MIT.

David Darmofal, associate professor in the aeronautics and astronautics department at MIT does his share of grocery shopping, meal cooking, and kid - transporting.

Olivier de Weck, a professor of aeronautics and astronautics and of engineering systems at MIT, says the plan deviates from NASA's more direct «carry - along» route.

An aeronautics expert with a Ph.D. from MIT, he has developed his own plan to take us back to the moon, to the asteroids, to Mars, and beyond.

«A single computer has a very difficult optimization problem to solve in order to learn a model from a single giant batch of data, and it can get stuck at bad solutions,» says Trevor Campbell, a graduate student in aeronautics and astronautics at MIT, who wrote the new paper with his advisor, Jonathan How, the Richard Cockburn Maclaurin Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics.

«We're really focusing on mild traumatic brain injury, where we know the least, but the problem is the largest,» says Raul Radovitzky, a professor of aeronautics and astronautics and associate director of the MIT Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies (ISN).

«You can think of each nanotube in the forest as being concentrically coated with different layers of polymer,» says Brian Wardle, professor of aeronautics and astronautics at MIT.

Now MIT researchers are one step closer to engineering such an active, «second - skin» spacesuit: Dava Newman, a professor of aeronautics and astronautics and engineering systems at MIT, and her colleagues have engineered active compression garments that incorporate small, springlike coils that contract in response to heat.

«We wanted to show that these vehicles could plan their own missions, and execute, adapt, and re-plan them alone, without human support,» says Brian Williams, a professor of aeronautics and astronautics at MIT, and principal developer of the mission - planning system.

«In this work, we were looking at whether we could augment a machine - learning technique so that it supported people in performing recognition - primed decision - making,» says Julie Shah, an assistant professor of aeronautics and astronautics at MIT and a co-author on the new paper.

Amadei, as a member of Professor Chad Vecitis» lab at Harvard University, had been working with graphene oxide for water purification applications, while Stein was experimenting with carbon nanotubes and other nanoscale architectures, as part of a group led by Brian Wardle, professor of aeronautics and astronautics at MIT.

«We wanted to show that these vehicles could plan their own missions, and execute, adapt, and re-plan them alone, without human support,» says Brian Williams, a professor of aeronautics and astronautics at MIT, and principal developer of the mission - planning system.