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MIT TechTV Expo cheers winners, offers lessons

May 15, 2007

Students from the Umana Barnes Middle School in East Boston (l-r Bonnie Ramos, Roberto Paredes and Kayla Bishop) participating in one of a series of Scratch software workshops held at the MIT Media Lab.

Creating from Scratch

New software from the MIT Media Lab unleashes kids' creativity online

May 14, 2007

Drawing of the contest table on which contestants' robots will compete during the 2.007 Robotic Competition to be held May 15-16.

Mechanical engineering robo-fest starts May 15

May 14, 2007

Neurologist and author Oliver Sacks gave the keynote speech at an MIT Media Lab conference on May 9 that examined the scope of human ability. Sacks gave vivid examples of the brain's amazing adaptability. <a onclick="MM_openBrWindow('h20-sacks-enlarged.html','','width=509, height=583')">
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Creative technology meets quiet humanity in Media Lab's adaptive device event

Mission is 'hacking the human,' says director Frank Moss

May 11, 2007

Twelve MIT faculty are elected to AAAS

May 8, 2007

Systems biology, in search of a metaphor, tries out language of machines, intestines

May 2, 2007

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

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