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Ayush Bhandari receives 2021 President's Award for Excellence in Research from Imperial College London

The President's Awards for Excellence in Research recognize staff members who have made outstanding contributions in early career research.
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Ramesh Raskar awarded Scientist of the Year by the Society for Imaging Science and Technology

The award is given to a member of the electronic imaging community who has made significant and substantial contributions to the field.
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Caitlin Morris and Praneeth Vepakomma recognized in 2021 Facebook Fellowship Awards

The Fellowship program provides awards to PhD candidates conducting research on important topics across computer science and engineering.
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Reimagining vaccination records with a paper-based, privacy-protecting prototype

Can a new vaccination card simplify the user vaccination journey and create data-rich monitoring of the progress in vaccination?
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ACM ByteCast: Ramesh Raskar

Camera Culture head Ramesh Raskar talks to Rashmi Mohan about his interdisciplinary research and entrepreneurial endeavors.
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Media Lab Focus | March 2021: Mobility

The Media Lab Focus series for March 2021 will present research on the theme of Mobility.
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Camera Culture researchers and collaborators win Baidu Best Paper Award at NeurIPS-SpicyFL 2020

A multi-institutional team, including members of the Camera Culture research group, has won the Baidu Best Paper Award at NeurIPS-SpicyFL'20
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Paper cards and digital codes target vaccination chaos

An MIT-developed vaccination card aims to cut through vaccine distribution chaos while preserving patient privacy.
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Alum Ayush Bhandari receives IEEE 2020 Best PhD Dissertation Award

This award recognizes the impact of PhD research on the scientific discipline and practice in the field of signal processing.
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Safe Paths update—September 3, 2020

The project is a multi-faculty, cross-MIT effort, with input and expertise from multiple institutes.
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Responsible Data in the Time of Pandemic: GAEN-based Contact Tracing and Challenges

Thursday August 20, 2020 ...
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Responsible Data Summit: GAEN-based Contact Tracing and Challenges

These sessions will focus on tools for privacy-aware contact tracing.
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Media Lab researchers awarded RAPID grants from NSF for research related to Covid-19

To date, two Media Lab projects have received RAPID grants for work related to the Covid-19 pandemic.
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AI Influencer Awards 2020 | Ramesh Raskar wins Better World Award

Recognizing individuals who demonstrate a real commitment to building a diverse and inclusive tech community and making a Better World
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Four Labbers receive AI Influencer Awards

These awards recognize outstanding achievement and innovation in the field.
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Safe Paths update—June 3, 2020

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Safe Paths update—May 27, 2020

These are public talks via webcast every Wednesday at 10am. Safe Paths—an MIT-led, free, open source technology that enabl...
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Safe Paths update—May 20, 2020

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Ramesh Raskar receives 2020 Frank E. Perkins Award for Excellence in Graduate Advising

This award is given out annually by the MIT Graduate Student Council and presented at the Awards Convocation ceremony.
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Safe Paths weekly update—May 8, 2020

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Safe Paths weekly update—April 29, 2020

Ramesh Raskar gives an update on his nonprofit’s progression in developing the Safe Paths mobile app and Safe Places web tool.
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Ramesh Raskar discusses Safe Paths

Ramesh Raskar details these tools and discusses the advantages and disadvantages of different contact tracing methods.
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Latest weapon in tracing and tracking coronavirus infections: your smartphone

Your phone soon might know if you have spent time near someone with the COVID-19 virus.
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Clever cryptography could protect privacy in Covid-19 contact-tracing apps

Researchers are racing to achieve the benefits of location-tracking without the surveillance.
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WATCH: Can my phone tell if I’ve been near someone with COVID-19?

To help explain how this works is Ramesh Raskar, an associate professor at MIT’s Media Lab.
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Local governments warm to MIT coronavirus-tracking app

The app is designed to let people discover if they've crossed paths with someone who's been infected with COVID-19.
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Safe Paths: A privacy-first approach to contact tracing

A multinational team develops new tools to slow the spread of pandemics.
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Bluetooth signals from your smartphone could automate Covid-19 contact tracing while preserving privacy

A system that enables smartphones to transmit “chirps” to nearby devices could notify people if they have been near an infected person.
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A new app would say if you’ve crossed paths with someone who is infected

Private Kit: Safe Paths shares information about your movements in a privacy-preserving way—and could let health officials tackle COVID-19.
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Phones could track the spread of Covid-19. Is it a good idea?

China, South Korea used smartphone apps to monitor people with the disease. Americans have different views of privacy and data collection.
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Media Lab research response to COVID-19

The Media Lab community brings creativity, expertise, and research to the pandemic
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MIT Media Lab at 25 on NPR's Science Friday

The MIT Media Lab, a hallowed digital playground and research center into media technologies, is celebrating its 25th anniversary. We'll ...
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Seeing Through Fog wins Most Influential Research at 2019 AutoSens Awards

"The research is…unique in its approach to enable seeing through dense fog for self-driving cars and augmented driving."
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UNC Chapel Hill - Doctoral Hooding Ceremony Keynote Address

On May 11, 2019 Ramesh Raskar was the doctoral hooding ceremony keynote speaker at UNC Chapel Hill Commencement. He shared the ...
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Fresh off the (MIT Media) lab

MIT Media Lab fosters innovation with its motto of 'imagine and realise.'
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Capturing Challenges

MIT Media Lab professor Ramesh Raskar talks about how his high-tech inventions and initiatives can help solve real-world problems.
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Congratulations to the 2019 Forbes 30 Under 30 honorees

The 2019 Forbes 30 Under 30 list includes at least three members of the Media Lab community.
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Novel optics for ultrafast cameras create new possibilities for imaging

Technique can capture a scene at multiple depths with one shutter click—no zoom lens needed
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Three MIT graduate students awarded Lemelson-MIT Student Prize for Invention

Media Tyler PhD students among 14 collegiate inventors awarded the 2018 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize
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Two Media Lab researchers awarded Lemelson-MIT Student Prizes

Guy Satat and Tyler Clites won in the "Drive It!" and "Cure It!" categories, respectively
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This new system can see through fog far better than humans

Developed by MIT researchers, the technology could be a boon for drivers and driverless cars
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Camera Culture research appears in best papers issue of ICCV

New 3D camera research from the Media Lab’s Camera Culture group was selected for the Best Papers Special Issue of the ICCV.
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Drive It! Guy Satat wins Lemelson-MIT Student Prize for All Photons Imaging and FemtoPixel technologies

He is passionate about developing imaging technologies that solve great challenges in society, science, and health
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Ultra-high-contrast digital sensing

Technique could lead to cameras that can handle light of any intensity, audio that doesn’t skip or pop.
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New depth sensors could be sensitive enough for self-driving cars

Computational method improves the resolution of time-of-flight depth sensors 1,000-fold.
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Mit Media Lab Uses Machine Learning to Analyze How Neighborhoods Improve

Tested with five American cities, Streetchange quantifies the physical improvement or deterioration of neighborhoods.
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AI is reshaping what we know about cities

Machine learning is helping urbanists confirm–or disprove–long-standing theories about cities.
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Depth-sensing imaging system can peer through fog

MIT researchers have developed a system that can produce images of objects shrouded by fog so thick that human vision can’t penetrate it.
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Kinect Scans of T. Rex Skull Shed Light on Mysterious Holes

When a group of forensic dentistry experts set out in 2016 to investigate what may have caused some peculiar holes in a T. rex jaw, they ...
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Giant dino skull gets full dental scan thanks to Kinect

One day, you're a terrible killing and eating machine. Flash forward 65 million years, and you're being conquered by a $150 gaming access...
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Ramesh Raskar receives the ACM SIGGRAPH Achievement Award

Ramesh Raskar receives award at ACM SIGGRAPH 2017Raskar, who directs the Camera Culture research group at the MIT Media Lab, is this...
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Researchers use Google Street View to see the future of cities

Streetchange uses computer vision and Google Street View to understand urban transformations over time.
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Impact Innovation

The point isn’t to create a new startup, the point is to create a culture of innovation.By Tobi AmosMIT Media Lab