Before President Obama’s speech at MIT on Friday afternoon, he toured some of the school’s labs and met with researchers. Among the “neat stuff” the president saw was the 2005 MHT Woman to Watch Angela Belcher, who’s developing a battery grown from a virus. It was the second time Obama met the battery, which made a trip to Washington D.C. with MIT president Susan Hockfield last spring.
Obama also met with mechanical engineering professor Alex Slocum, and Marc Baldo and Vladimir Bulovic, from MIT’s Research Laboratory of Electronics.
In the Spring, MIT announced Baldo will direct a new Center for Exitonics, funded by $19 million from the Department of Energy.
Watertown-based QD Vision’s display technology is based on Bulovic’s research. The company has received funding from, among others, In-Q-Tel, the venture arm of the CIA. Bulovic last turned up making an OLED pixel out of a pickel.
After the jump, watch the video of President Obama’s full speech. (more…)
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