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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

From left, Ray Kurzweil, Rodney Brooks and David Gelernter speak at 'Creativity: The mind, machines and mathematics' held at MIT Nov. 30.

Hard drives will evolve into soft hearts ... or not

CSAIL debate on machine consciousness ends in a draw

December 5, 2006

Marshall winner Finale Doshi sits beside a wheelchair equipped with a voice-activated command system she designed.

Marshall winner has dual focus: technology and altruism

Tendonitis inspired MIT grad student

December 5, 2006

Sherry Turkle worries the 'killer app' of sociable robots is that they elicit human care.

Robotic pets may be bad medicine for melancholy

Sherry Turkle finds human-machine love unsettling

November 29, 2006

CSAIL hosts debate on robotic 'nature' and future

Event will celebrate Turing's 'Computable Numbers' paper

November 28, 2006

Researchers present a graphic illustrating how magnetism can transmit energy wirelessly. Marin Soljacic, left, assistant professor of physics, Aristeidis Karalis, G, and John Joannopoulos, professor of physics, use theoretical calculations and computer simulations to find ways to recharge electronics wirelessly.

Wireless energy could power consumer, industrial electronics

Dead cell phone inspired researcher's innovation

November 14, 2006

Robots headed for deepwater oil, gas operations

November 8, 2006

Irene Porro demonstrates how to use a 'sunspotter' to safely show the sun and sun spots on it to a group of Somerville schoolchildren in 2001. Porro, education and public outreach scientist at the MIT Kavli Institute, has recently helped secure a grant to develop a youth astronomy apprenticeship program at MIT.

Astronomer develops youth apprenticeship program

November 7, 2006

Machinima group animates life 'in-world'

Technique harnesses 3-D game engines

October 27, 2006

Noboru Tsubaki, Ely Rubin Artist-in-Residence, has described his artistic goal as saying 'something constructive' in the face of destructiveness caused by humans or nature. Once a minimalist, he turned to macroscale work that blends elements of innocence with those of menace. Here, a giant teddy bear is force-fed 'depleted uranium.'

Media artist Tsubaki plans 'Soul'-ful talk

October 25, 2006

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