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2007 MIT TechFair

Fifty-six companies attended TechFair 2007:
Analog Devices, IBM, Schlumberger, Shell Oil, Power Systems Manufacturing, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Natic Soldier Research Development & Engineering Center, Aurora Flight Services, Boeing, Wilson TurboPower, Amgen, Air Products & Chemicals, 454 Life Sciences, Draper Laboratory, Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Pulmatrix, General Electric Microwave Data Systems, General Electric Healthcare, Integrated DNA Technologies, Medtronic, Merck Research Laboratories, Angstrom Medica, Roland Corporation, Intact Labs, BioDefense Corporation, Bose, Infinity Ward, Sun Microsystems, Sensata Technologies, Nokia, Google, KLA-Tencor, Thomson, Pfizer Global R&D, Lucasfilm/Industrial Light & Magic, Streambase, Vanu, Yahoo!, Clearpoint Metrics, Holosonics, Hillcrest Laboratories, Electro Standards Laboratories, Autodesk, Aleri Labs, Nortel, Cisco Systems, BAE Systems Advanced Information Technology, The Mathworks, Oracle, ASML, Microsoft, Motorola, Seagate Technology, Texas Instruments.

Eight academic labs attended TechFair 2007:
Space Systems Laboratory, Mars Gravity Biosatellite, Mertz Humanoid Robotics Group, Sloan Automotive Lab, D-Lab, Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Langer Lab, MIT Data Center.

One student group presented research at TechFair 2007:
Alan Touring, the Campus Tourbot.

Over 2200 students attended TechFair '07, with roughly 80% consisting of undergraduates, and 20% consisting of graduate students and other attendees.
Top majors represented include EECS, MechE, Aero/Astro, ChemE, and Physics.

List of 2007 Organizers

2006 MIT TechFair

Thirty-eight companies attended the 2006 MIT Techfair:
MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Sun Microsystems, Demiurge Studios, Bose, Apple, Texas Instruments, Microsoft, iRobot, Electro Standards Laboratory, Nokia, Autodesk, RallyPoint, ClearPoint Metrics, Broadcom, Analog Devices, Industrial Light and Magic, The Mathworks, Intel, Grandstream Networks, Vision Robotics, Schlumberger, Creare, Medtronic, Air Liquide America, Air Products & Chemicals, Organon Pharmaceuticals, Johnson & Johnson, Amgen, Merck, Integrated DNA Technologies, Invitrogen, Pfizer, Wyeth, US Army Natick Soldier Center.

1400+ students attended Tech Fair '06:
Two-thirds of them consisting of undergraduates, and
One-third of them consisting of graduate students and alumni.
Top majors represented included EECS, MechE, ChemE, and Physics.

 

List of 2006 Organizers

2005 MIT Tech Fair

On January 31st, 2005, over 700 students went to Walker Memorial on the MIT campus to attend MIT's first ever Tech Fair. Ten industry-leading companies presented in a trade show format some of their most innovative science and technologies. Everything from technologies protecting the soldier of the future to automating carpet vacuuming was displayed. See pictures of the 2005 exhibition.

The following companies attended the 2005 MIT Tech Fair:

The success of the first ever Technology Fair is only the start of hopefully many more fairs to follow.

 

List of 2005 Organizers

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