Congratulations to five groups with Media Lab members who have made it to the finals in The MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition.

The projects include:

All Cows Eat Grass (Mihir Sarkar, Robin Bose, Sean Leow), an online platform for real-time private music lessons. The system connects music instructors and students using a low-latency audio and video link, provides motivational support to practice between lessons, and lowers the barrier to learn music.

Barter (Dawei Shen, Marshall Van Alstyne, Joe Milton, Neel Madhvani), an information market for addressing organizational challenges, such as knowledge sharing and innovation creation.

BiDi Screen (Matt Hirsch, Tiago Wright), an example of a new type of I/O device that possesses the ability to both capture images and display them.

Convexic (Roarke Horstmeyer, Otkrist Gupta, Kamran Khan, Cameron Levy), a unique recommendation algorithm to help people find jobs where they are most likely to be happy and successful.

VisualizeMe (Matt Blackshaw, Tony DeVincenzi, Dávid Lakatos), a new perspective on your social life. By presenting your social graph as a moving picture, VisualizeMe breaks free from the text-centric interfaces of today's social networks by offering a fresh, holistic perspective. Unseen trends, before lost in mountains of text, can be better understood, providing an organic and evolving view of your relationships.