Snapshots - Camera Culture News
New Camera Culture research in
Nature Scientific Reports shows a prototype time of flight camera working at microwave frequencies. In short, a camera using a WiFi level signal that can look through walls, produce multi spectral (pseudo color) images, and travel time (allows to separate objects based on depth and show effects such as creeping
waves).
Ramesh Raskar Answers Key Questions at the DARPA Wait? What? Conference
On Wednesday, September 9th, Ramesh Raskar presented his talk titled Extreme Computational Photography to a crowd of 1,400 at the DARPA Wait?
What? Technology Forum in St. Louis, Missouri. His talk focused on answering five questions for future technology innovation - Can we see around corners? Can we drive through fog as if it were a sunny day? Can we read through a book, page after page, without opening it? Can we detect circulating tumor cells through a blood pressure cuff? And finally, can we use Radio Frequency (RF) for imaging and user interaction?
Watch the full talk online.
The
Emerging Worlds SIG is an MIT Media Lab initiative focused on mega-opportunities and pressing challenges worldwide in areas such as health, education, financial inclusion, energy and environment, food and agriculture, housing, transportation, hyperlocal business and more.
The SIG was announced on Tuesday morning, October 27. The Nashik officials shared their success at the Kumbh Mela. In the afternoon we discussed Emerging Worlds with a wider audience of Media Lab members. Toward the end of the afternoon, we debated questions about 4 challenging questions related to food, digital citizenship, social media and health.
On Monday, October 26 a delegation including elected government officials, administrators, and innovation participated in a day long innovation field trip in Cambridge and Boston. For more information please visit
redx.io
.
View images of the event
HERE
REDX Mumbai Health Tech Cafe
Researcher, Rohan Puri, went to our the
REDX Innovation Center at the Welingkar Institute of Management in Mumbai last month. There, he worked with the 6 engineers to setup new growth metrics, interview new REDX candidates, and organize the first REDX Health Tech Cafe meetup event. The first event had over 30 people in attendance including doctors, engineers, patients, entrepreneurs, and venture capitalists!
Rohan Puri Presented at Google Toronto on Mobile UX
Rohan Puri was invited to give a talk at Toronto's
Firestarters event. The talk focused on how brands and businesses can optimize their mobile UX for better throughput by showcasing examples of companies who have used this to their advantage in the past.
MIT Media Lab's
Engineering Health group kicked-off the academic year with an exciting new innovation series as a part of the Engineering Health Class - Health Night! Health night is a monthly event where guests can learn the Media Lab's approach to rapid prototyping medical technology and meet fellow physician-innovators in the Boston community. The first health night of the season welcomed local doctors and health professionals and featured presentations from students in the Engineering Health Class.
Check
meet-up to learn about the next Health Night.
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Mrinal Mohit joins us as a Research Assistant this fall and is very excited about making the invisible, visible. Having just graduated and moved from India, he is keen on working on the next generation of imaging and health technologies, applying paradigms of computer vision and machine learning to these fields.
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Tristan Swedish joins us as a Research Assistant after being a part of the lab for the last year working on eye diagnostic projects. At the MIT
Media Lab, Tristan is excited about building new interactive health care technologies made possible at the intersection of device design and machine learning.
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