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reThink Food

LocationNapa Valley, CA DescriptionThe reThink Food Annual Leadership Conference brings together a diverse group of thought leaders and inn…

Friday — Sunday
November 6, 2015 —
November 8, 2015
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reThink Food

Radically changing food markets, systems, and our understanding of consumer choices.

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reThink Food Conference

LocationCIA campus, Napa Valley, CA Description

Friday — Sunday
November 7, 2014 —
November 9, 2014
Article

reThink Food 2016 Webcast

Article

reThinking Food: Agriculture Data as a Platform

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RADICAL ATOMS: Rethinking Materials

A fresh update from the Tangible Media Group at the Ars Electronica Center.

Thursday — Friday
September 7, 2017 —
June 1, 2018
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Leah Buechley on Rethinking Cultural and Material Contexts for Computation

LocationMIT, Room 3-133 DescriptionPeople knit scarves, build furniture, sew clothing, and solder radios together in their homes and garage…

Friday
May 8, 2009
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Okawa Center Talk: Rethinking Education in the Age of Technology

LocationE14-633 DescriptionAll around us people are learning with the aid of new technologies: children are playing complex video games, wo…

Friday
April 9, 2010
Article

ETH Zurich at the WEF – RETHINKING Creativity

KnittedKeyboard at ETH Rethinking Creativity Pavilion

Article

Radical Atoms: Rethinking Materials

A fresh update from the Tangible Media Group is the latest attraction of the RADICAL ATOMS exhibition in the Ars Electronica Center

Publication

Rethinking Learning in the Digital Age

Mitchel Resnick

Project

Food Server

The OpenAg™ Food Server is a shipping container-sized, controlled environment agriculture technology that can be built to utilize hydroponi…

Course

Rethinking Diagnostics

Six credit course offered by MIT Media Arts and Sciences for developing the infectious disease modality of “Tricorder”.

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Inequalities and effects of food environments

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Autonomous micro-mobility for food deliveries

Could we substitute cars by shared autonomous lightweight vehicles for food delivery? We have developed an agent-based simulation model tha…

Project

Computational Food

Computational Food is a series of experiments around the shape-changing nature of food and its associated unique sensory experiences. We us…

Publication

DakNet: Rethinking Connectivity in Developing Nations

Alex Pentland, Rich Fletcher, Amir Hassan

Publication

Rethinking Robotics: Engaging Girls in Creative Engineering

Natalie Rusk, Robbie Berg, Mitchel Resnick

Article

To Stay Relevant, Newsrooms Rethink Campaign Coverage

Project

Personal Food Computer

The OpenAg™ Personal Food Computer is a tabletop-sized, controlled environment agriculture technology platform that uses robotic systems to…

Post

Andorra WIP: Food Waste Model + Sensorized Biosphere

City Science and Andorra Research + Innovation teams are currently working on two research directions: Food Waste in Andorra, Insight …

Post

Build a Personal Food Computer

OpenAg is committed to changing the way the world thinks about farming and food—and we need your help! As an open source project, we believ…

Article

Rethinking Transportation

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Food Attack

The rise in wearable devices and the desire to quantify various aspects of everyday activities has provided the opportunity to offer just-i…

Event

reThinkFood

LocationCulinary Institute of America: Greystone Campus in Napa, California DescriptionreThink Food, a unique collaboration between The Cul…

Friday — Sunday
November 4, 2016 —
November 6, 2016
Article

A Complete Rethink

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AgriTech's Promise: Food For 10 Billion and Beyond

LocationBlackheart, 86 Rainey St. (21+) Description

Saturday
March 8, 2014
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Food sensing on smartphones

We demonstrate a smartphone based spectrometer design that is standalone and supported on a wireless platform. The device is inherently low…

Publication

Rethinking Machine Vision Time of Flight With GHz Heterodyning

Kadambi, Achuta and Raskar, Ramesh, Rethinking Machine Vision Time of Flight with GHz Heterodyning, IEEE Access 2017

Publication

Artisanal food microbiology

Johnson, Arielle J. "Artisanal food microbiology." Nature microbiology 1 (2016): 16039.

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The Foodome: Building a Comprehensive Knowledge Graph of Food

The Foodome addresses how to create deeper understanding and predictive intelligence about the relationships between how we talk and learn …

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Ramesh Srinivasan— "Whose Global Village? Rethinking How Technology Reshapes Our World"

Join Ramesh Srinavasan for an evening of discussion surrounding "Whose Global Village?" Q&A to follow, moderated by Ethan Zuckerman.

Publication

Rethinking Learning in the Digital Age (Repensando a aprendizagem na Era Digital)

Mitchel Resnick

Article

Where does your food really come from?

On the BBC’s Follow the Food, OpenAg head Caleb Harper and other experts discuss how technology is transforming our food systems.

Article

A decade into experiments with gamification, edtech rethinks how to motivate learners

Created by Media Lab PhD students Shruti Dhariwal and Manuj Dhariwal, CoCo is a digital learning platform that fosters collaboration.

Article

RFID stickers could signal contaminated food

MIT researchers have found a way to check many items instantly, non-invasively, and from a distance—using the RFID tags.

Article

Rethinking the approach: Sandy Pentland on Big Data

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This computer will grow your food in the future

Caleb Harper's TED Talk

Publication

Learning Food Quality and Safety from Wireless Stickers

Learning Food Quality and Safety from Wireless Stickers. Unsoo Ha, Yunfei Ma, Zexuan Zhong, Tzu-Ming Hsu, Fadel Adib. ACM HotNets 2018

Article

Byte-sized: how tech is revolutionizing food production

"Food computers" can tell us everything we need to know about what we grow and eat.

Publication

Food and Liquid Sensing in Practical Environments using RFIDs

Food and Liquid Sensing in Practical Environments using RFIDs. Unsoo Ha, Junshan Leng, Alaa Khaddaj and Fadel Adib. Usenix NSDI 2020

Project

Smartphone spectrometer for food sensing

A smartphone based spectrometer design that is standalone and supported on a wireless platform. The device is low-cost and the power consum…

Event

Gathering 'round the connected table: Crafting tools for a 21st century food system

Building a future food system for everyone takes more than just another food conference.  At this one-day event, we'll dig in to …

Monday
December 10, 2018
8:00am — 5:00pm ET
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E14 Fund Startups: Health, Synthetic Biology, and Food Tech

Article

Putting food-safety detection in the hands of consumers

Simple, scalable wireless system uses the RFID tags on billions of products to sense contamination.

Article

This compostable packaging can tell you when your food is going bad

Who needs best-by labels when your package is sensing the food inside it?

Article

AI-powered food computers designing new ways of growing crops

MIT initiative is producing climate recipes for tastier crops.

Publication

DinnerWare: Why Playing With Food Should Be Encouraged

Marcelo Coelho

Project

RFIQ: Food quality and safety detection using wireless stickers

​We have developed a wireless system that leverages the inexpensive RFID tags already on hundreds of billions of products to sense potentia…

Article

Surprising climate change effects: more fatal crashes, less food safety

Add deadly car crashes and food safety risks — and the officials overseeing them — to the list of things affected by climate change.

Publication

Personal Food Computer: A New Device for Controlled-Environment Agriculture

Castelló Ferrer E. et al. (2019) Personal Food Computer: A New Device for Controlled-Environment Agriculture. In: Arai K., Bhatia R., Kapoor S. (eds) Proceedings of the Future Technologies Conference (FTC) 2018. FTC 2018. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 881. Springer, Cham

Article

WFP brings MIT-developed ‘food computer’ technology to Jordan

The Jordan Times says Caleb Harper's "vision is to provide farmers with knowledge of food, rather than simply the product."

Article

Sam Kass Dishes on the State of Food Policy

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Engage Teacher Leaders to Design Inclusive and Inquiry-Based Practices: Rethinking the Use of Artificial Intelligence

Du, X., & Breazeal, C. (2022). Engage Teacher Leaders to Design Inclusive and Inquiry-Based Practices: Rethinking the Use of Artificial Intelligence. In C. Webb, & A. Lindner (Ed.), Preparing Pre-Service Teachers to Integrate Technology in K-12 Classrooms: Standards and Best Practices (pp. 93-113). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-6684-5478-7.ch006

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RF-EATS: Food and liquid sensing in practical environments using RFIDs

RF-EATS is a new system that can verify the authenticity of food and liquids in closed containers without opening them or requiring an…

Article

Unexpected effects of climate change: worse food safety, more car wrecks

On excessively hot days, there are more likely to be fatal car accidents and food safety problems, and police officers and government food …

Event

Pratik Shah invited to speak at the Food and Drug Administration-Project Data Sphere Symposium VIII

Talk title: Machine learning methods for biomedical image analysisAbout the event:Five years ago the CEO Roundtable on Cancer's Projec…

Monday
November 11, 2019
7:30am — 5:15pm ET
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These food computers use AI to make “climate recipes” for the best-tasting crops

The tech-filled greenhouses can adjust growing conditions over and over again until they find the combinations

Article

At the Food + Future coLAB, Dreaming Big About Changing the World

When Greg Shewmaker was living in Hong Kong, working as a purchaser for retail giant Tesco, he had a problem: He didn’t know Cantonese. Whe…

Article

MIT OpenAg releases the Personal Food Computer 3.0, a STEM-friendly collaboration with educators

An active and passionate community of over 2,500 people spread across 62 countries have rallied around the open source platform.

Publication

Smoke and Mirrors to Modern Computers: Rethinking the Design and Implementation of Interactive, Location-Based Entertainment Experiences

Strickon, J. "Smoke and Mirrors to Modern Computers: Rethinking the Design and Implementation of Interactive, Location-Based Entertainment Experiences"