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IAP 2018 Activities by Category - Computers: Hardware and Devices

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Advanced X-ray Instrumentation Build 2018

Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions
Prereq: Solidworks and LABview experience not necessary

Let’s commission and build new instrumentation with older X-ray equipment!

CMSE X-ray Facility has X-ray generators, sources, optics, goniometers, chillers, and detectors that could be potentially utilized for a variety of analytical purposes. We will spend IAP 2018 salvaging and re-designing older components into a useful instrumentation using Solidworks and LabView.

Three projects for new equipment are (1) a hard radiation diffractometer for atomic pair distribution function analysis (atomic PDF) of disordered or amorphous materials (2) a lab based X-ray Absorption Near Edge Spectrometer (XANES) for local coordination and valence state of 3d transition metal complexes (3) a Bonse-Hart ultra small angle X-ray scattering (uSAXS) instrument for particle sizing from 100 nanometers - 10 microns.

This workshop gives people with a diverse variety of skill sets the availability to tinker and design an X-ray instrument that would be beneficial to the research effort at MIT!

Contact: Charles Settens, 13-4009A, 845 430-2584, SETTENS@MIT.EDU


Design and Build

Add to Calendar Jan/11 Thu 10:00AM-02:00PM 13-4041

Inventory / Discussion / Planning / Solidworks / Labview / Troubleshooting


Design and Build

Add to Calendar Jan/12 Fri 10:00AM-02:00PM 13-4041

Inventory / Discussion / Planning / Solidworks / Labview / Troubleshooting


Design and Build

Add to Calendar Jan/18 Thu 10:00AM-02:00PM 13-4041

Inventory / Discussion / Planning / Solidworks / Labview / Troubleshooting


Design and Build

Add to Calendar Jan/19 Fri 10:00AM-02:00PM 13-4041

Inventory / Discussion / Planning / Solidworks / Labview / Troubleshooting


Design and Build

Add to Calendar Jan/25 Thu 10:00AM-02:00PM 13-4041

Inventory / Discussion / Planning / Solidworks / Labview / Troubleshooting


Design and Build

Add to Calendar Jan/26 Fri 10:00AM-02:00PM 13-4041

Inventory / Discussion / Planning / Solidworks / Labview / Troubleshooting


Design and Build

Add to Calendar Feb/01 Thu 10:00AM-02:00PM 13-4041

Inventory / Discussion / Planning / Solidworks / Labview / Troubleshooting


Design and Build

Add to Calendar Feb/02 Fri 10:00AM-02:00PM 13-4041

Inventory / Discussion / Planning / Solidworks / Labview / Troubleshooting


Assistive Technology Info Center (ATIC) Open House

Kathy Cahill, Associate Dean, Accessibility and Usability

Add to Calendar Jan/31 Wed 12:00PM-02:00PM 7-143

Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Prereq: None

The Assistive Technology Information Center, which serves the MIT community, opens its doors to show commercially available assistive technology available to MIT students and staff with disabilities, and other interested people.  We will demonstrate

 Learn about ways to make your website and documents more accessible to people with disabilities.  See examples of tactile diagrams and other ways to make information accessible. 

 

Sponsor(s): ATIC Lab
Contact: Kathleen Cahill, 7-143, 617 253-5111, KCAHILL@MIT.EDU


Build a Small Radar System IAP 2018

Kenneth Kolodziej

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/05
Limited to 24 participants
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions

MIT Lincoln Laboratory is offering a course focusing on the design, fabrication and test of a laptop-based radar capable of forming Doppler, range, and synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images.  Teams of three will receive materials to build a radar and will be given instructions to watch prerecorded lectures spanning topics from fundamentals of radar to SAR imaging.  Instructors will be on-hand to answer questions and debug issues.

Sponsor(s): Lincoln Laboratory
Contact: Kenneth Kolodziej, radar.course@ll.mit.edu


Build A Small Radar IAP

Add to Calendar Jan/24 Wed 01:00PM-05:00PM Beaver Works NE45, bring your laptop
Add to Calendar Jan/29 Mon 01:00PM-05:00PM Beaver Works NE45, bring your laptop
Add to Calendar Feb/02 Fri 01:00PM-05:00PM Beaver Works NE45, bring your laptop

Kenneth Kolodziej


Cybersecurity: Needs a 5th Generation of Security

Everardo Ruiz SM '00, Energy Transition Partners, COL (R) Robert Banks

Add to Calendar Jan/23 Tue 10:00AM-11:30AM E62-250

Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required

Cybersecurity continues to shift towards a Fourth Generation of Security ─ Moving Target Defenses - as Tolerance and Survivability (A.K.A. Hope and Pray) tools are not adequate! Is Cybersecurity simply a technology discussion? Or does Time to Market supersede the shortfalls of compliance, monitoring and information sharing partnership? Will a 5th Generation of Security ─ in microsecond ─ better serve anomaly detection and insider threat for Intellectual Property? Is individual data protection useful for institutions that has little or no change by their experts? Will International cyber policies address cyber challenges of Misaligned Incentives, Information Asymmetries and Externalities? What can business do till then? The presentation is based on several decades of industry, telecom and government perspectives.

The presentation is based on several decades of industry, telecom and government perspectives.

Register for this free event: http://alumic.mit.edu/cybersecurity_IAP_2018

Sponsor(s): Alumni Association
Contact: Elena Byrne, W98-206C, 617 252-1143, EBYRNE@MIT.EDU


DIYDx: Crowdsourced Biosensor Design @ Little Devices Lab

Jose Gomez Marquez, Instructor/Research Specialist, IMES

Add to Calendar Jan/29 Mon 10:00AM-12:00PM IDC, N52-391
Add to Calendar Jan/30 Tue 10:00AM-12:00PM IDC, N52-391
Add to Calendar Jan/31 Wed 10:00AM-12:00PM IDC, N52-391
Add to Calendar Feb/01 Thu 10:00AM-12:00PM IDC, N52-391
Add to Calendar Feb/02 Fri 10:00AM-12:00PM IDC, N52-391

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/22
Limited to 20 participants
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
Prereq: Curiosity and hands on energy + Application Email

Can we design devices that enable everyone to have a lab in their pocket for infectious disease?  How can we make new types of health hardware for infectious diseases from Chile to Connecticut? How do we move away from black box instrumentation that is expensive and unaffordable to one that is open and crowdsourced? Learn in a hands-on studio about these issues in DIYDx over IAP, brought to you by Little Devices Lab and HST MakerLab.

You will design and prototype the next generation of crowdsourced biosensors for infectious diseases for ebola, dengue, and Lyme disease. This fast paced design workshop and studio will explore the design of field ready biosensors, sample processing and on site analysis from vector to DNA & antibody signatures using multiplexed, paper based analytical devices that you can build. Teams will work in 4 design sprints and user the HST MakerLab and Little Devices Lab facilities that includes 3-D printing, laser cutters, CNC, physical computing, bio lab and 10,000 square feet of prototyping space.

In addition to scheduled meeting times, afternoon freeform lab and prototyping time will be available.

 

To Enroll, email littledevices@mit.edu. Open to undergraduates. Graduate students + staff with permission of instructors.

Sponsor(s): MIT-SUTD International Design Center
Contact: Jose Gomez Marquez and Anna Young, littledevices@mit.edu


Hardware Hacking and Rapid Prototyping

Kurt Keville

Add to Calendar Jan/16 Tue 02:00PM-03:00PM NE47-189
Add to Calendar Jan/18 Thu 02:00PM-03:00PM NE47-189
Add to Calendar Jan/23 Tue 02:00PM-03:00PM NE47-189
Add to Calendar Jan/25 Thu 02:00PM-03:00PM NE47-189
Add to Calendar Jan/30 Tue 02:00PM-03:00PM NE47-189
Add to Calendar Feb/01 Thu 02:00PM-03:00PM NE47-189

Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Attendance: Repeating event, participants welcome at any session

Compete in this year's Soldier Design Contest. Attend sessions for a foundation in the fundamental processes of Rapid Prototyping and build a winning design for prizes. Prototype development will be funded through lab resources and teams will compete to win a portion of $15K.

Jan 16: SDC Contest Overview, project descriptions, interest statements and scheduling.

Jan 18: Lab equipment introduction. Partial equipment list; Various Microscopy (AFM, SEM, TEM), assorted chromatography, basic metal and wood shop, 3-D printing, etc. 

Jan 23Build your own LoRaWAN router (MOVED to NEXT WEEK)

Jan 25: NVidia Jetson hackathon

Jan 30: Build your own LoRaWAN router 

Feb 1: Final Project (Powerpoint) Presentations

Web: http://mit.edu/isn/sdc

Sponsor(s): Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies
Contact: Kurt Keville, 4-6424, kkeville@mit.edu


Introduction to Autosec

Matthew Alt, Associate Staff - Cyber System Assessments Group

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/01
Limited to 20 participants
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
Prereq: Python / Bash scripting (optional)

Have you ever wondered how the components in modern automobiles communicate with one another? More importantly, have you ever considered how secure (or insecure, as we'll learn) these networks are? During this IAP course we will cover various topics in automotive cybersecurity ranging from network analysis to replay and spoofing attacks over CAN (the Controller Area Network, a commonly used vehicle bus), all utilizing open source tools and resources.

 

Day 1 - Automotive Architecture Overview

Day 2 - Lab / Hands On

 

***REQUIREMENTS***

Laptop running a recent version of a Linux-based operating system (capable of utilizing socketCAN drivers), Ubuntu 16.04 recommended

 

Sponsor(s): Lincoln Laboratory
Contact: Matthew Alt, Lincoln Laboratory, 781-981-4905, matthew.alt@ll.mit.edu


Introduction to Autosec

Add to Calendar Jan/17 Wed 09:00AM-04:00PM Beaver Works, Laptop Required
Add to Calendar Jan/19 Fri 09:00AM-04:00PM Beaver Works, Laptop Required

MIT Beaver Works

Second Floor

300 Tech Square


Preserving long term digital content: strategies, challenges, and solutions

Dr. Sam Fineberg, Principal Architect, Akamai, Co-Chair, SNIA Long Term Retention Working Group

Add to Calendar Jan/18 Thu 02:00PM-04:00PM 34-301

Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up

If digital artifacts are to serve as the basis for cultural and personal memories, it is essential that their lifetimes exceed those of memories in the human mind, and of the physical objects found in museums. Preservation involves timescales that exceed the maximum lifetime of any single storage device or any single storage technology.  If the computer industry continues to ignore these issues, it is likely that much of the content generated over recent years will be lost for future generations.


Cloud storage, when implemented correctly, will help achieve this timelessness, abstracting storage from physical devices and enabling migration to new technologies. However, these systems lack the key metadata needed to preserve meaning of the data into the far future.  For example, an application level hash can be used to ensure that the bits have not changed, and information about data formats can be used to facilitate migration to new formats.  An even bigger issue is to retain the semantic information needed to understand what the metadata means.   

 

In this session, Dr. Fineberg will present the issues and unique challenges facing long term content, drawing on real world examples as well as the results of the 2017 SNIA archive study.  He will also describe emerging solutions that address these issues, and demonstrate the need for future work and adoption of preservation technology.

 

Dr. Fineberg is a principal architect at Akamai Technologies.  

Contact: Sam Finebefrg, sfineber@akamai.com


RACECAR (Rapid Autonomous Complex-Environment Competing Ackermann-drive Robotics

Sertac Karaman, Professor, Aeronautics and Astronautics, Michael Boulet, Assistant Group Leader, Lincoln Lab, Ken Gregson, Senior Staff, Lincoln Lab

Add to Calendar Jan/10 Wed 02:00PM-04:00PM 32-081
Add to Calendar Jan/12 Fri 02:00PM-04:00PM 32-081
Add to Calendar Jan/17 Wed 02:00PM-04:00PM 32-081
Add to Calendar Jan/19 Fri 02:00PM-04:00PM 32-081
Add to Calendar Jan/22 Mon 02:00PM-04:00PM 32-081
Add to Calendar Jan/24 Wed 02:00PM-04:00PM 32-081
Add to Calendar Jan/26 Fri 02:00PM-04:00PM 32-081

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/05
Limited to 30 participants
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
Prereq: None

Modern robots tend to operate at slow speeds in complex environments, limiting their utility in high-tempo applications. In the RACECAR course, you will be tasked with pushing the boundaries of unmanned vehicle speed. Participants will work in teams of 4-5 to develop dynamic autonomy software to race a converted RC car equipped with LIDAR, a stereo camera, an inertial measurement unit, and embedded processing around a large-scale, "real-world" course. Working from a baseline autonomy stack, teams will modify the software to increase platform velocity to the limits of stability. The course culminates with a timed competition to navigate a racecourse. Classes will provide lecture overviews of relevant algorithms and lab time with instructor-assisted development. Participants must attend every class and should plan on 4-10 hours per week of self-directed development. Students must have experience with software development. Past exposure to robotics algorithms and/or embedded programming will be useful.

To sign up, preregister on websis and send an e-mail by Jan 5 to racecar-iap-course-subscribe@mit.edu with a brief description of your programming/robotics experience.

Also offered for credit as 6.S184.

Sponsor(s): Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Contact: Michael Boulet, boulet@mit.edu


Think Security by (IC)3 with Kaspersky Lab

Keri Pearlson, Executive Director of (IC)3

Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions

The event will be organized by MIT (IC)³ with Kaspersky Lab

Our 2018 IAP activity is an ideal opportunity to learn more about the actual cyber threat landscape, especially about rapidly evolving cyberthreats for industrial environments, and to find out why we need to keep one step ahead of the threat actors.

Our activity is split into two workstreams:

Days 1 and 2 are dedicated to Industrial Cybersecurity, specifically to forensic analysis of incidents and the advantages of using YARA rules to detect cyberattacks.

On days 3 and 4, the sessions will focus on the managerial, strategic and organizational aspects of cybersecurity.  Participants will learn about the NISF Framework for Policy and Management, experience a demonstration of the types of decisions cybersecurity leaders make and the consequences of those decisions, and create a cybersecurity plan of action.  The latest research from the Cybersecurity at MIT Sloan will be included.

Our agenda is designed to ensure that participants have sufficient time for informal communication and networking. We promise an interactive and fun event.

There will also be a Capture the Flag (CTF) challenge that requires you to think out of the box and be one step ahead of your fellow competitors.

 

More information on this IAP and and registration for the course can be found here.

Sponsor(s): Sloan School of Management
Contact: Kathryn Means, E62-571, (617) 324-4253, kmeans@mit.edu


Industrial Cybersecurity Sessions

Add to Calendar Jan/23 Tue 10:00AM-04:30PM E51-057
Add to Calendar Jan/24 Wed 10:00AM-04:30PM E51-057

Days 1 and 2 are dedicated to Industrial Cybersecurity, specifically to forensic analysis of incidents and the advantages of using YARA rules to detect cyberattacks.


Cybersecurity Management Sessions

Add to Calendar Jan/25 Thu 09:30AM-04:30PM E51-057
Add to Calendar Jan/26 Fri 09:30AM-04:30PM E51-057

On days 3 and 4, sessions will focus on the managerial, strategic and organizational aspects of cybersecurity.  Participants will learn about NISF Framework for Policy and Management, experience a demonstration of the types of decisions cybersecurity leaders make and the consequences of those decisions, and create a cybersecurity plan of action.  The latest research from the Cybersecurity at MIT Sloan will be included.


Wi-Fi 101: build an IoT weather station using the Cypress Wi-Fi eval kit

Alan Hawse, Greg Landry, Patrick Kane, Steven Leeb

Add to Calendar Jan/29 Mon 09:00AM-05:00PM 38-501
Add to Calendar Jan/30 Tue 09:00AM-05:00PM 38-501
Add to Calendar Jan/31 Wed 09:00AM-05:00PM 38-501

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/09
Limited to 30 participants
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
Prereq: Some experience with C is recommended

Wi-Fi-101 is an in-depth class on creating an IoT device using a Cypress WICED Wi-Fi development kit. Students will receive instruction and will complete exercises related to:

The WICED Wi-Fi Ecosystem

WICED Studio software

The basics of Wi-Fi and the TCP/IP Network Stack including TLS security

Interacting with the outside world using buttons, LEDs, displays, and analog sensors such as temperature, humidity, and ambient light.

Several common cloud application protocols.

 

As a final project, each student will build an IoT weather station that senses local weather conditions (temperature, humidity, and ambient light) and publishes them to the web.

Limited enrollment.

Register at http://bit.ly/2zlzIyY

 

Sponsor(s): Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Contact: Patrick Kane, cua@cypress.com