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Alum 'zaps' Museum of Science April 27

April 25, 2007

MIT innovations fuel Science Festival

April 23, 2007

The stucco-like surface on the right looks darker and glossier than the one on the left even though the mean luminance of both images is equal. The luminance histogram of the image on the right is positively skewed and the one on the left is negatively skewed.

MIT shows how brain tells glossy from grainy surfaces

Work could let robots see better

April 19, 2007

MIT hosts events for Cambridge Science Festival

April 11, 2007

MIT postdoctoral associate Aaron Edsinger gets some help from Domo, an assistive robot he has been developing for the last three years.

Assistive robot adapts to people, new places

April 9, 2007

Researchers at the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology (HST) have developed a device that allows them to control the distance between cells. The cells are placed on combs, which can be fully separated (top), slightly separated (middle) or locked together with combs in contact (bottom).

HST device draws cells close--but not too close--together

April 4, 2007

Swager, of chemistry, wins $500K Lemelson-MIT Prize

April 2, 2007

Maggie Fermental, a stroke survivor and study participant, regained full motion at the elbow after 18 hours using the device and has maintained her progress to date. <a onclick="MM_openBrWindow('brace-standing-enlarged.html','','width=509, height=583')">
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Robotic brace aids stroke recovery

Worn on the arm, NeuroRobotic device is lightweight, portable

March 20, 2007

Annette Kim, assistant professor, urban studies and planning, left, Elliot Hui, postdoc, Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, and Troy van Voorhis, assistant professor, chemistry, discussed faith and development.

Panel explores links among faith, academia and aid in the developing world

March 7, 2007

Joseph F. Coughlin, founder and director of the MIT AgeLab, explains how older adults are the leading adopters of new technology during a lecture on Feb. 26.

AgeLab founder outlines new lives for elders

Boomers' whining already brings huge changes

March 1, 2007

An MIT model for object recognition takes as input the unlabeled images of digital photographs from the street scene database (top) and generates automatic annotations (bottom row). The orange bounding boxes are for pedestrians ("ped") and cars ("car"). The system would have also detected bicycles if present. For sky, buildings, trees and road, the system uses color coding (blue, brown, green and ...

Computer model mimics neural processes in object recognition

Applications include surveillance, visual search engines, biomedical imaging analysis and robots with realistic vision

February 23, 2007

Miranda Knutson, who graduated from the history program at MIT last spring, pins a hood being fitted for Tim Abbott, a senior in mathematics and electrical engineering and computer science. The two were participants in an MIT IAP class on the technology of medieval clothes creation. <a onclick="MM_openBrWindow('medieval-hood-enlarged.html','','width=509, height=583')">
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IAP 'Distaff Arts' students learn production, politics of medieval wool clothing

January 30, 2007

Mike Fabio and Steve Pliam's sonitronic chandelier will help 'wash' the Music Library in sound. Instrumentalists can tickle or pluck the resonant 'strings.'

Media Lab plans 'sonic bath' for Lewis Music Library

January 10, 2007

Innovative production designer Alex McDowell views the movie, gaming and publishing fields as a multilayered, mandala-like production world. He is currently designing sets for Tod Machover's robotic opera, 'Death and the Powers.'

Hollywood designer urges focus, creativity before technology

Media lab artist: 'All bets are off in pop culture'

December 20, 2006

Hayes Raffle, a grad student at the Media Lab, demonstrates an iCampus project -- a programmable moose. Twisting its extremities generates both action and 'learning.'

Virtual lab partners and plush robo-pet are fruits of iCampus

December 8, 2006

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