Below is a partial list of other software technology available
for licensing, with links to brief descriptions. Please contact
the corresponding Licensing Officer for more information.
pMapper: Automatic Parallelization Toolbox
Super-Tree Drawing Tool
MIT Case No. 14885L
Inventors:
Sam Feller, Barry Cavanaugh
Abstract
Super-Tree is an organizational tool for programs that
create hardware prototypes and companies that work with
structured models. It is based on the premise that the
physical organization of a product's hardware provides a
logical structure for organizing the requirements, analysis,
and other documentation that goes along with it. The
Super-Tree is a visual and intuitive depiction of the
organization of sub assemblies, fabricated parts,
requirements documents, assembly procedures, test plans,
analysis reports, design histories, etc. For example,
if all fabrication drawings are shown, it is possible to
quickly get a sense of the work that will go into creating
those drawings. The Super-Tree keeps track as each
part is modeled, detailed, released, fabricated and so on.
There are even options to include assembly procedures and
unit trial records to document that an assembly has been
built. Essentially, the tree leverages existing CAD software
and provides a fast, highly visual way to manage a large
amount of data, particularly with regards to data associated
with real hardware.
Contact Information:
Danny Dardani
Technology Licensing Officer
(617) 253-6966
ddardani@mit.edu
BioBuilder.org Model for
Education
MIT Case No. 14797
Inventors:
Natalie Kuldell, Isadora Deese, Jim Dixon
Abstract
BioBuilder is an open-access educational resource offering
informative animations and activities for anyone who wants
to teach or learn about biological engineering and synthetic
biology. Short animations show the interaction between
a lab scientist, Systems Sally, and excited young learner,
Device Dude. Their brainstorming sessions at the
whiteboard and in the laboratory teach relevant topics like:
science, engineering, technology, and community. The
animations also support a more formal curriculum.
One-page "bioprimers" frame and link to hands-on activities
suitable for advanced high school, community college, and
undergraduate programs. The activities themselves as
well as detailed lesson plans for teachers are hosted on a
world-readable wiki, OpenWetWare. The website also
provides a forum for teachers to communicate with one
another and for students to share the data they have
collected. In this way, BioBuilder hopes to educate,
train, and build a community around this new discipline.
Contact Information:
Danny Dardani
Technology Licensing Officer
(617) 253-6966
ddardani@mit.edu
Geo-Referenced Virtual
Collaborative Web Application
MIT Case No. 14592L
Inventors:
Laura J. Brattain, Ray Diciaccio, Jared Pullen and Andy
Vidan
Abstract
This technology allows
multiple users to collaboratively work together to solve a
problem (i.e., crowdsourcing) in an environment where all
information is exchanged in real-time. It is essentially a web
application that enables, an unlimited number of users, in
principle, at physically separated locations, to collaborate
using new web technologies. Users are able to conduct
geo-referenced (map-centric) virtual discussions through sharing
of drawings, sketches, icons, images, and other similar data on
a shareable map. Users can pan and zoom to specific locations on
the map, and the map of all other users will pan and zoom to the
same view. Users also have the ability to see who is online,
participate in the collaboration room, and use text chatting. In
general, this technology is useful for crowdsourcing and social
networking. For example, imagine thousands of citizens marking
location of events (e.g., crimes, cholera outbreaks, traffic,
etc.), which over time will build a data rich map display.
Another use is that of first responders using this application
to strategize and conduct a response in real time to an incident
such as a "controlled burn" fire event.
Contact Information:
Dan Dardani
Technology Licensing Officer
(617) 253-6966
ddardani@mit.edu
Portable Automated
Microburst Detection Algorithm (Portable AMDA)
MIT Case No. 12755L
Inventors: Betty J. Bennett, Michael F.
Donovan and Robert S. Frankel
Abstract
The ASR-9 Microbust Detection Algorithm (AMDA)
is based on the earlier TDWR Microbust Detection Algorithm,
but has substantially modified to better match the
particular strengths and weaknesses of the ASR-9
rapid-scanning fan-beam radar. The most significant
additions include a capability to detect overhead
microbursts, a reflectivity processing step used to help
detect velocity signatures that have been biased by
overhanging precipitation, and a modification to some of the
shear segment grouping and thresholding parameters to make
them a function of range. This is necessary to better
accommodate the ASR-9. In addition, AMDA has been
designed to be as efficient as possible to allow it to run
at the radar's 4.8 seconds/scan antenna rotation rate on a
single board computer. A detailed description of AMDA,
as well as the performance evaluation strategy and results,
are presented in this report.
Contact Information:
Dan Dardani
Technology Licensing Officer
(617) 253-6966
ddardani@mit.edu
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Portable Machine
Intelligent Gust Front Detection Algorithm (Portable MIGFA)
M.I.T. Case No. 12756L
Inventors: Betty J. Bennett, Michael F.
Donovan and Robert S. Frankel
Abstract
The Portable Machine Intelligent Gust Gront
Detection Algorithm uses sensor base data to detect gust
fronts in the airport terminal area. (The sensor must
be capable of providing constant elevation scans of polar
backscatter/reflectivity and Doppler base data, persistent
in time period.) Gust fronts present a strong danger
to aircraft at low altitudes, primarily on final approach or
shortly after departure, and have been the cause of several
fatal air carrier accidents. The Portable MIGFA
identifies regions of strongly spreading winds near the
ground, which are used for subsequent processing algorithms
to determine specific impact of these events to runway
approach and departure corridors.
Contact Information:
Dan Dardani
Technology Licensing Officer
(617) 253-6966
ddardani@mit.edu
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Forensic Audio Enhancement Toolbox
MIT Case No. 10701L
Inventors:
Robert B. Dunn and Thomas F. Quatieri, Jr.
Abstract
The Forensic Audio Enhancement Toolbox is a software toolbox
designed for the enhancement of single channel audio signals
corrupted by a variety of noise environments typically found
in forensic recordings. These are wideband noise, stationary
tones, and interfering pulses. As such, the toolbox contains
a tool for each type of noise: stationary tone suppression,
wideband noise reduction, and prototype pulse suppression.
This technology is only available for government use.
Contact Information:
Dan Dardani
Technology Licensing Officer
(617) 253-6966
ddardani@mit.edu
MIT Case No. 11336
Inventors:
Eric Feron and Mariya A. Ishutkina
Abstract
Since 1998, the MIT Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
has provided a laboratory facility with the 3 Degree-of-Freedom
(3DOF) helicopters for the students in control classes. The
3DOF helicopter is a complex system, which can be easily damaged
if it hits the table support or stresses its own joints. We
have designed a supervisory controller that reduces the hardware
damage and the maintenance costs while preserving the lab’s
functionality and providing a safe, educational and satisfying
laboratory experience for the students.
Contact Information:
Dan Dardani
Technology Licensing Officer
(617) 253-6966
ddardani@mit.edu
Data Viewer for Macintosh Software
MIT Case No. 11455L
Inventors:
Ross Anderson and Luke Skelly
Abstract
The Data Viewer software is used to visualize and manipulate
data from various input formats. These four-dimensional data
sets are comprised of three special dimensions plus an intensity
dimension. The software enables a user to navigate the data
set and view it from any angle. The data can be cropped to a
particular range in any dimension, as well as colored across
any range in any dimension. On-screen controls allow the user
to pan, zoom, spin, and rotate the data set, as well as take
distance measurements between data points. The software also
supports stereoscopic rendering with the appropriate hardware,
giving a true 3D perspective to the data.
Contact Information:
Danny Dardani
Technology Licensing Officer
(617) 253-6966
ddardani@mit.edu
NEXRAD Digital Graphic Weather Product
MIT Case No. 11640L
Inventors:
Greg Rappa and Oliver Newell
Abstract
The resampler translates and reformats two new weather products
from the National Weather Service (NWS) Next Generation Radar
WSR-88D (NEXRAD) from native polar representation into data
values within a Cartesian grid.
Contact Information:
Dave Sossen
Technology Licensing Officer
(617) 253-6966
dsossen@mit.edu
Path-Based Shear Detection (PSD)
MIT Case No. 11642L
Inventors:
Brian Martin, Richard DeLaura, Nicolas Yaros and Russell Todd
Abstract
Path-based Shear Detection (PSD) is an air traffic control
tool developed in response to terminal area wind-shear related
events. PSD addresses the issue of compression/expansion and
enroute turbulence by giving controllers the information they
need to make arrival and departure decisions. PSD is unique
in that there are no current operational tools available that
provide path-specific wind-shear information.
Contact Information:
Dan Dardani
Technology Licensing Officer
(617) 253-6966
ddardani@mit.edu
Mosaic Radar Data Merge
MIT Case No. 11644L
Inventors:
Evelyn Mann, Jim Evans and Bob Boldi
Abstract:
Merging Cartesian weather data from multiple radars into one
image. Specifically methods for merging VIL, Echo Top, Trend
and vector data. This version is unique in that it triggers
at regular intervals on a clock and time aligns the data. The
maximum plausible logic to merge VIL is unique.
Contact Information:
Dave Sossen
Technology Licensing Officer
(617) 253-6966
dsossen@mit.edu
Integrated Terminal Weather System (ITWS) Microburst Detection
Algorithm Software
MIT Case No. 12290L
Inventors:
Timothy J. Dasey, Steven D. Campbell, Michael P. Matthews and
Michael F. Donovan
Abstract
The Integrated Terminal Weather System (ITWS) Microburst Detection
Algorithm (MBD) uses TDWR base radar data to detect microbursts
in the airport terminal area. Microbursts present a strong danger
to aircraft at low altitudes, primarily on final approach or
shortly after departure and have been the cause of several fatal
air carrier accidents. The Microburst Detection algorithm identifies
regions of strongly spreading winds near the ground, which are
used for subsequent processing algorithms to determine specific
impact of these events to runway approach and departure corridors.
Contact Information:
Dan Dardani
Technology Licensing Officer
(617) 253-6966
ddardani@mit.edu
Tracking Resource Allocation Cognitive Strategies (TRACS)
MIT Case No. 12389L
Inventors: Sylvain Bruni and Mary L. Cummings
Abstract
The "Tracking Resource Allocation Cognitive Strategies"
tool (TRACS) allows for post-hoc visualization of the cognitive
steps exhibited by a human operator while interacting with a
multivariate resource allocation decision-support interface.
This tool was applied to both mission planning for multi-criteria
resource allocation for military strikes, and also multi-variable
geospatial path planning problems for astronaut moon traversals.
Both domains involve a human operator interacting with an automated
decision-support system in order to find a solution to a complex
planning problem involving multivariate and constrained optimization
for a cost function. With the help of TRACS, clear patterns
of behavior were identified that could be correlated to performance
in both applications.
Contact Information:
Dan Dardani
Technology Licensing Officer
(617) 253-6966
ddardani@mit.edu
pMaper: Automatic Parallelization Toolbox
MIT Case No. 12483L
Inventors: Nadya Bliss and Sanjeev Mohindra
Abstract
pMapper Automatic Parallelization Toolbox automatically parallelizes
annotated arrays and through the arrays, functions. The toolbox
requires a presence of an underlying global array library or
library that implements operations on parallel arrays. pMapper
finds efficient maps, or assignment of blocks of data to processing
elements. These maps could either be determined at program runtime
or returned for later use.
Contact Information:
Dan Dardani
Technology Licensing Officer
(617) 253-6966
ddardani@mit.edu
Test Harness for Collision Avoidance System Safety Assessment
Tool (CASSATT)
MIT Case No. 13263L
Inventors: John Daniel Griffith and James K.
Kuchar
Abstract
This Interface Control Document (ICD) provides specifications
to the Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) airspace integration community
so that appropriate models and software can be implemented in
the MIT Lincoln Laboratory Collision Avoidance System Safety
Assessment Tool (CASSATT). CASSATT runs fast-time encounter
simulations to quantify the performance of Collision Avoidance
Systems (CAS). These simulation tools have been used in prior
analyses for manned and unmanned aircraft (e.g TCAS) and have
been accepted as a valid and necessary means for evaluating
the robustness of CAS concepts.
Contact Information:
Dan Dardani
Technology Licensing Officer
(617) 253-6966
ddardani@mit.edu
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JSemcor 0.40 (MIT JSemcor Library)
MIT Case No. 13224
Inventors: Mark Alan Finlayson
Abstract
JSemcor was designed to be an easy-to-use, easy-to-extend
Java library for interfacting with the Semcor electronic concordance.
It features API calls to retrieve context object, paragraphs,
sentences, and tokens from the Semcor data files. It also
has classes that allow the user to interface to the taglist
index files (if available) and the 'detokenization' of the
texts back into human-readable form. The library includes
no GUI elements.
Contact Information:
Danny Dardani
Technology Licensing Officer
(617) 253-6966
ddardani@mit.edu
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IFERRET/QAINT
MIT Case No. 13503L
Inventors: Graham Baker, Vijay Ganesh, and
Timothy Leek
Abstract
IFERRET/QAINT is a system for tracing the flow
of information (also known as "taint") within a
program or virtual machine. It can be used to understand how
inputs affect a program by labeling them and watching what
they influence and control. This has applications to program
testing, malware analysis, and reverse engineering, as well
as intrusion and exfiltration prevention.
Contact Information:
Danny Dardani
Technology Licensing Officer
(617) 253-6966
ddardani@mit.edu
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TDWR Upgrade
MIT Case No. 13587L
Inventors: John Cho, Gabriel Elkin, Robert
S. Frankel, Walter S. Heath,
Nathan Parker, William Pughe and Jeffrey Simpson
Abstract
The TDWR Upgrade has both a hardware and software
component, but it is the software component that is the subject
of this license. (The hardware component essentially involves
a replacement of legacy TDWR hardware with modern COTS parts
that provide increased system performance.
The TDWR Upgrade software components provide
conversion from TDWR radar data at an early stage of receive-processing
(so-called "Inline/Quadrature," or I/Q data) to
a stage (so-called "Base Data") that is suitable
for processing by weather-sensing algorithms.The TDWR Upgrade
software contains modules that communicate with the new hardware
modules, and which have been tuned to a high degree of robustness
and efficiency.
Contact Information:
Danny Dardani
Technology Licensing Officer
(617) 253-6966
ddardani@mit.edu
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Scale-Cascaded Field Alignment
M.I.T. Case No. 14531L
Inventors: Timothy Langlois, Srinivas (Sai) Ravela
and Chris M. Yang
Algorithms to recognize animals and plants from their
photographs hold great promise for the study of migratory
behavior and for the development of conservation plans.
However, a vast number of animals and plants deform in
highly nonlinear ways, which makes recognizing them
difficult.
We present a new approach to deformation invariant image
matching. Our matcher (a) aligns templates to targets over a
broad range of nonlinear deformations, (b) factors the total
deformation into spectral categories, where low wavenumber
deformations are smooth and global and high wavenumbers are
turbulent and local, and (c) weighs the reduction in
template-target misfit within each category to differentiate
between relevant and irrelevant deformations. It
accomplishes this by aligning images in a scale-cascaded
fashion, with more complex, local deformations following
simpler, more global ones. Each step of the cascade involves
finding an iterative solution to a nonlinear optimization
problem using a Gabor deformation basis. Cascaded alignment
makes deformation invariant matching feasible and efficient.
Our approach is applied to recognize the flexible bodies of
salamanders from a large database; results indicate that the
method is very promising.
Contact Information:
Dan Dardani
Technology Licensing Officer
(617) 253-6966
ddardani@mit.edu
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Data-Driven Weather Tracker Using Scale
Cascaded Alignment
M.I.T. Case No. 14532L
Inventors: William Dupree, Timothy Langlois, Srinivas
(Sai) Ravela and Marilyn M. Wolfson
Abstract
CoSpa/CIWS relies on storm tracking for the deterministic
forecast. Storm tracking generates motion vectors, which are
used to advect the weather for forecasts. The current
tracking technology is based on cross-correlation, an image
processing technique which attempts to determine where
pixels have moved to from one image to the next. There are
several problems with this method: it does not inherently
place any constraints on the motion, so highly discontinuous
vector fields are possible; and it does not separate
different scales of motion. Field alignment is a new method
which is being evaluated for use as a storm tracker. It
approximates viscous alignment to produce continuous motion
fields, and separates motion by scale. Several cases are
examined, and while the results are preliminary, field
alignment shows great skill.
Contact Information:
Dan Dardani
Technology Licensing Officer
(617) 253-6966
ddardani@mit.edu
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