Cate McQuaid of The Boston Globe writes about artist Sergei Tcherepnin’s multi-sensory installation at the MIT List Visual Arts Center. The exhibit features copper sculptures that emit sound and can be interacted with.
Boston Globe reporter Michael Farrell writes about Smart Scheduling Inc., an MIT startup formed during a health care hackathon at MIT in 2012. The company aims to use data science to predict which patients are the most and least likely to show up for an appointment.
Kate Tuttle of The Boston Globe reviews “Enchanted Objects: Design, Human Desire, and the Internet of Things,” by David Rose of the MIT Media Lab. The book focuses on how we will interact with technology in the future. “As inventors we should take a lesson from the magicians of the world,” says Rose.
Ben Coxworth of Gizmag writes about the new system developed by MIT researchers that allows photographers to achieve rim lighting during photo shoots. “Their system not only does away with light stands, but the light-equipped aircraft automatically moves to compensate for movements of the model or photographer,” writes Coxworth.
In a piece for National Geographic, Ed Yong writes about how a team of scientists from MIT has found a corresponding rhythm of behavior amongst marine bacteria. “The study reveals the power of sophisticated sampling devices for studying ocean features that were heretofore inaccessible,” says MIT Prof. Penny Chisholm.
Andrea Shea reports for NPR on the MIT Media Lab’s Camera Culture group and its collaboration to restore damaged paintings by the postwar abstract artist Mark Rothko. The project for the Harvard Art Museum is intended to repair five works damaged by sunlight, as well as food and drink.
Neel V. Patel interviews Professor Srini Devadas for Popular Science about the future of computer chip design. Devadas contends that there is still room for innovation of chips using existing materials.
Ashley Esqueda and Tom Merritt discuss the FingerReader audio reading device developed by researchers at the MIT Media Lab on the CNET show “Tomorrow Daily”. The device could be used by people who are visually impaired or for translating foreign languages.
Guardian reporter Oliver Wainwright reports on the new remote-controlled contraceptive chip developed by MIT researchers. “Someone across the room cannot reprogramme your implant,” says Dr. Robert Farra. “Communication with the implant has to occur at skin contact-level distance. Then we have secure encryption. That prevents someone from trying to interpret or intervene between the communications.”
In a piece for Fortune, Benjamin Snyder writes about how MIT researchers have developed a new system to help achieve the perfect lighting for photo shoots. Flying robots are programmed to produce rim lighting, which illuminates the edge of the subject in a photograph.
Lauren Hitchings of New Scientist reports on findings showing that marine microbes exhibit daily patterns of behavior. “The researchers think this might be a result of the low nutrient levels in the open ocean, and the need for organisms to rely on one another for metabolic functions,” writes Hitchings.
The Associated Press reports on a new soft robotic fish developed by MIT researchers. The video features footage of the fish, which the researchers developed in an effort to make more lifelike robots.
"You're going to swallow a pill and know English,” said Nicholas Negroponte of the MIT Media Lab in a TedTalk video reviewed by Sara Gates of The Huffington Post. Negroponte discussed the possibility of being able to learn information by ingesting pills in the future.
Katie Collins writes for Wired that MIT researchers have developed a system that allows people to choose exactly what information they share online. “The primary benefit of this is that you as an individual would not be able to be identified from an anonymised dataset,” writes Collins.
“They've created an app which recasts mediocre headshots in the styles of famous portrait photographers like Richard Avedon and Diane Arbus- and in the process reveals how subtle shifts in lighting can completely change the way we perceive a face,” writes Boston Globe reporter Kevin Hartnett.