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A Brief History of Music and Invention Over the Years
July 01, 2009

July 2009 - In this month's newsletter from The Lemelson Center at the Smithsonian Institute, center director Arthur Molella explores the symbiosis between music and invention – from the early days of synthesized music nearly a 100 years ago to the ubiquitous iPod and musical "mashups" of today.

Read the full Lemelson Center newsletter here: http://invention.smithsonian.org/downloads/e-prototype_jul09.pdf

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Inventors Digest Extends Essay Deadline
June 01, 2009

To celebrate National Inventors Month in August, Inventors Digest announced a contest giving away a laptop computer to a US middle and high school student for an 500 word or less essay on what technology, tool, product or services will shape our lives in 50 years (and why).

While the original deadline was the end of August, Inventors Digest has extended the deadline to September 31, 2009. A full list of rules and forms can be found at http://www.inventorsdigest.com/?p=838

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Profiles of 2009 Lemelson-MIT winners and more on MIT TechTV
June 01, 2009

MIT TechTV, a video-sharing website for the MIT community, features a variety of videos about the Lemelson-MIT program, including this Program Overview:

 

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Geoffrey von Maltzahn Awarded $30,000 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize
April 27, 2009
Identifying problems and creating solutions exemplifies the core of invention; putting this into practice won Geoffrey von Maltzahn the 2009 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize. Credit: Lemelson-MIT

MIT student's innovations selectively kill cancer cells

Cambridge, Mass. (March 3, 2009) – When it comes to solving complex problems, Geoffrey von Maltzahn, MIT graduate student and biomedical engineer, looks to nature for solutions. Finding inspiration in systems that evolution has produced, von Maltzahn is currently helping to tackle one of society’s biggest challenges: improving tumor detection and therapeutic delivery in order to boost the survival rate of cancer patients.

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