U.S. News & World Report reporter Cole Claybourn spotlights Amar Gopal Bose '51, SM '52 ScD '56, a former MIT faculty member, as one of fifteen famous Fulbright scholars. Bose, founder of Bose Corporation, “studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on a full scholarship, earning his bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees in electrical engineering,” writes Claybourn.
USA Today reporter Karen Weintraub spotlights Prof. Li-Huei Tsai’s work studying a potential new approach to treating Alzheimer's disease and “whether certain tones of sound and frequencies of light can help regulate brain waves and help clear our cellular trash, including toxic proteins.” Tsai explains that: “The major difference between this approach and all other approaches is that this approach doesn’t just target one molecule or one pathway or one cell type. This is a holistic approach to take care of the whole system.”
MIT scientists have mapped out the web of a tropical tent-web spider and assigned each strand a tone audible to humans reports, Hicks Wogan for National Geographic. “We’re trying to give the spider a voice, and maybe someday, communicate with the arachnid via vibrations,” explains Prof. Markus Buehler.
Prof. Alex “Sandy” Pentland emphasizes the need for improving speaking/hearing systems on laptops by incorporating better microphones in an article for The Wall Street Journal. “Research shows that the audio quality is just as important as video quality when judging the overall “quality” and “presence” of the conference experience,” Pentland writes.
Popular Mechanics reporter Jim Allen explores what inspired Amar Bose ’51, SM ’52, ScD ’56, a former member of the MIT faculty and the founder of Bose Corporation, to develop noise cancelling headphones.
CSAIL researchers have created a deep learning system that can isolate individual musical instruments in a video by clicking on the specific instrument, writes Andrew Liszewski for Gizmodo. The researchers suggest the system, “could be a vital tool when it comes to remixing and remastering older performances where the original recordings no longer exist,” explains Liszewski.
Yobe, a company co-founded by alumnus S. Hamid Nawab, uses a signal processing device to make it easier for machines to identify a specific voice in noise or among other voices. This technology has potential applications for “law enforcement, hearing aid manufacturers and meeting transcription services,” writes Ron Miller for TechCrunch.
Mouse on Mars, a music duo featuring former MIT guest lecturer Jan St. Werner, premiered their new album “Dimensional People” through a spatial installation that allowed guests to hear “more or less of certain instruments depending on their location,” writes Terence Cawley for The Boston Globe. The premiere was part of Dissolve Music @ MIT, a conference and sound festival organized by Prof. Ian Condry, St. Werner and DJ Rekha.