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
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:
Danny Dardani
Technology Licensing Officer
(617) 253-6966
ddardani@mit.edu
Supervisory Safety Controller for a 3DOF Helicopter
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:
Ben Palleiko
Technology Licensing Officer
(617) 253-6966
benp@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:
Ben Palleiko
Technology Licensing Officer
(617) 253-6966
benp@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:
Ben Palleiko
Technology Licensing Officer
(617) 253-6966
benp@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:
Ben Palleiko
Technology Licensing Officer
(617) 253-6966
benp@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:
Ben Palleiko
Technology Licensing Officer
(617) 253-6966
benp@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:
Ben Palleiko
Technology Licensing Officer
(617) 253-6966
benp@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:
Danny 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:
Danny 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:
Ben Palleiko
Technology Licensing Officer
(617) 253-6966
benp@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:
Ben Palleiko
Technology Licensing Officer
(617) 253-6966
benp@mit.edu
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