Gauging seizures’ severity
Simple wrist sensors let neurologists collect better data about patients with epilepsy — and could alert patients that they need to seek medical care.
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Institute faculty share prestigious neuroscience prize
Ed Boyden and Feng Zhang awarded the Perl/UNC Neuroscience Prize
A camera that peers around corners
A new imaging system could use opaque walls, doors or floors as 'mirrors' to gather information about scenes outside its line of sight.
Video: The Paradiso Synthesizer
Media Lab associate professor’s massive modular synthesizer now on exhibit in the MIT Museum.
Visiting Artist Ben Houge leads lively 'Sound and Real-Time Systems' panel
Artists discuss the convergence between video games, digital media and music composition.
Boyden named inaugural recipient of IET’s Harvey Engineering Research Prize
Honored for his pioneering research contributions to the field of optogenetics, in which neurons are genetically modified to respond to light.
Trillion-frame-per-second video
By using optical equipment in a totally unexpected way, MIT researchers have created an imaging system that makes light look slow.
Searching for balloons in a social network
The key to mobilizing large numbers of people is incentives, study finds.
September news flashes from SA+P
Updates on faculty, students and alumni from the School of Architecture + Planning
Take control of your phone’s sensors
A Media Lab group that has done groundbreaking work using cellphones to gauge human social interactions releases its technology to the public.
Resnick awarded McGraw Prize in Education
Media Lab professor is one of three honored for work in digital education.