Frontiers 5 Strategic mit technology Thrusts

Frontiers

5 Strategic MIT Technology Thrusts

• Information Technologies = Ever more sophisticated computation & communication, leveraging mind & media.

• Biomedical Technologies = Medical engineering, perfecting the health & life sciences.

• Tiny Technologies = Investigating and fabricating ever smaller systems, at scales from micro thru nano

• Complex Systems = Large scale, socio-political & econo-technological systems.

• Developmental Innovations = Appropriate and leapfrog technologies for tackling challenges in developing & emerging regions

1. Information Technologies

• Computation

• Communication

• Intelligence

• Automation

• Encryption

• Media

Pervasive Computing

Project Oxygen

• Human Centered Computing

• Acer, Delta, HP, NTT, Nokia, Philips, darpa

MIT Media Lab Wearables

Media Lab Smart Nametags

Pervasive Implications

• Immersive Info – Remembrance agents, face reminders, seamless PDAs

• Premier Digital Infospace – Next generation libraries, info databases & visualization environments

• Evocative Architectural Innovations – Digital Glass, Organic HVAC controls

2. Biomedical Technologies

• Applied Biology, Biotechnology

• Diagnostics, imaging

• Therapeutics, pharmaceuticals

• Invasive or Non-Invasive Devices

• Instrumentation

Neurotechnology

Brain & Cognitive Sciences; Increasingly, Neurotechnology

Neurodiagnostic Imaging & Probes

Decision, Emotion, Addiction, & Habit Analysis

Artificial Senses

Nerve Regeneration

3. Tiny Technologies

• MicroPhotonics

• Materials: smart, active, living, rugged

• MEMS: micro-electro-mechanical

• NEMS: nanotechnology, NanoStructures

• NanoMedia

• Quantum Dots, Computing

• Fabrication techniques

Nanobiotechnology

Engineering at Different Scales: Dimensions in Silicon and in Biology

Active Materials

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• http://amsl.mit.edu/

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Prostheses & Exo- Skeletons

Drawing Inspiration & More from Biology

• Ribosomes

• Flagellar Motors

• Muscles

• …

Institute for Soldier Nanotechnology

Protective Suits, Living Suits

Life-Like Automata

4. Complex Systems

• Environmental

• Big Systems: space, air traffic, 777, power grid, internet

• Social: Organizational, entrepreneurial, business, cultural

Sociotechnology

Sensing, Modeling & Understanding Social Systems…

• Supply Chains

• Business Cycles

• Economies

• Urban Dynamics

• World Dynamics

Social Net Analysis & Facilitation

• Understanding social relationshiops

• Guiding flows of information

• Real knowledge management

• Orchestrating Serendipity

Predictive Microcosms

Supply Chain Volatility Amplification: “The Bullwhip Effect”

Management “Flight Simulators”

Components of MIT’s Interwoven Technology Roadmapping Effort

• Business cycle dynamics (e.g., systems dynamics-like models of the bullwhip effect)

• Industry structure dynamics (e.g., rigorous version of the double helix in Fine’s Clockspeed book)

• Corporate strategy dynamics (e.g., dynamicize Porter-like analyses for players in the value chain)

• Technology dynamics (e.g., the Semiconductor Industry Association's roadmap built around Moore's law)

• Regulatory Policy Dynamics (e.g. Cross-National, Cross Sector

Performance in Organizations

5. Developmental Innovations

• Development Technologies

• MicroFinance

• Developmental Entrepreneurship

• Sensible Policy

Exponential Technologies

Exponential Technologies Hi-Leverage & Transformative e.g. Portable Computers for the people e.g. Cellphones per village e.g. Intellectual capital development via school or innovator network system e.g. Financial & Legal infrastructure

Two Dimensions

• PERFORMANCE

• Functionality goes exponential for a given amount of money

• Price plummets exponentially for a given amount of functionality or performance

Infocom: Webios

• Web analog to transistor radio

• Simputer http://www.simputer.org/

• http://www.picopeta.com/

Infocom: Universal Translator

• Reduce misunderstandings

• Increase flow of trade

• Teaching tool

Infocom: Printed Electronics

• Printed PCs?

• Printed PDAs?

• Electronic Ink applications

Health: Penny Diagnostics

Finance: MicroCredit, MicroFinance, MicroVC

• Credit = loans and lines of credit, debt

• Finance = more general financial services

• VC = risk capital, equity

• Monetizing Social Capital

Education: OpenSource Ideation & Training e.g.OpenCourseWare / Distance Learning

• Bringing MIT to the world instead of the world to MIT

• Generalizing

• Talent identification

Richly Interwoven MIT Themes

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