Latest MIT Media Lab Stories
'Power-Curve Society' examines rising economic inequality, challenges to existing institutions and conceptions of value, and an imminent "personal data revolution" WASHINGTON, Feb. 11, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Aspen Institute Communications and Society Program today released a report that offers a sweeping look at how technological innovation is restructuring productivity and lays out the social and economic impact resulting from these changes. "Power-Curve Society: The...
[ Watch the Video ] Lee Rannals for RedOrbit.com Researchers at MIT Media Lab are experimenting with giving a camera the ability to shoot pictures of objects that are not in its line-of-sight. The team wrote in the journal Nature Communications that they have developed a way to produce 3D images of a wooden figurine that was standing around the corner, in another model room. The system fires a "femtosecond laser" to send bursts of light to reflect off surfaces like walls in order...
LONDON, October 3, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- MIT Media Lab research reveals influence of social networks on financial trading eToro, the world's largest investment network, announced today that Dr. Yaniv Altshuler presented eToro sponsored research on social trading at WIN (Workshop on Information in Networks) at NYU Stern School of Business September 30 - October 1. Dr. Altshuler, associate researcher at MIT Media Lab presented how social trading enables the viral...
3D Hologram-like and Other Digital Effects Enhance Content from Clayton Christensen, Gary Hamel and Nicholas Negroponte PHOENIX, Sept. 8, 2011 /PRNewswire/ --University of Phoenix, the nation's largest private university, today introduced The Phoenix Lecture Series, a video series that captures the insights from three of the most influential business thinkers of our generation - Professor at the Harvard Business School Clayton Christensen, London Business School's Gary Hamel, and co-founder...
MIT researchers have developed a device that can clip on to any smartphone and provide a diagnosis of cataracts within a few minutes. The standard test to detect cataracts requires a $5,000 piece of equipment called a slit lamp, as well as a trained physician to interpret its results. The new-inexpensive device scans the lens of the eye and creates a map showing its position, size, shape and density of cataracts, according to the researchers. Ramesh Raskar, the NEC Career Development...
CANNES, France, June 24, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Mediabrands' IPG Media Lab and Affectiva today announced, at the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival, the results of the first annual Neuromarketing Awards. Utilizing technology derived by MIT, Affectiva is able to record and measure viewers' tacit, non-verbal response to content. Feature points, correlating to an individual's facial features are established and are then measured and analyzed. The following categories were tested...
NEW YORK, June 7, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- People the world over are flocking to connect and share news and views via social media sites, and investor interest in them is at a fever pitch. However, according to entrepreneur, technologist and author Frank Moss, "We can do much better. Meaningful innovation is stagnating in America. Yes, we can access any information, and connect with anyone, anytime from our mobile devices. But if we are to thrive, and not just survive, in the 21st century, we...
TOKYO, May 17, 2011/PRNewswire/ -- Dentsu Inc. (Tokyo: 4324; ISIN: JP3551520004; President & CEO: Tadashi Ishii; Head Office: Tokyo; Capital: 58,967.1 million yen; hereinafter "Dentsu") announced on May 17 the launch of the "Finding Gifts with Sasha" (http://sasha.nadya.jp) site as the third step of its collaborative project with Nihon Unisys Ltd. (Tokyo: 8056; President & CEO: Katsuto Momii; Corporate Headquarters: Tokyo; hereinafter "Nihon Unisys" and...
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Feb. 2, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Bluefin Labs (www.bluefinlabs.com) unveiled technology today to discover and analyze what people say via social media about the shows and ads they watch on television in real time. The technology, currently in pilot with several global brands, agencies and media companies, lets marketers see audience response to mass media, providing insight to develop measurably more targeted and responsive campaigns. To view the multimedia assets associated...
Affectiva, an MIT. Media Lab spin-off that makes technologies to measure emotion, today announced that it has won a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to develop an online version of its technology that enables computers to recognize human expressions and deduce emotional and cognitive states. Waltham, MA (PRWEB) January 31, 2011 Affectiva, which makes technologies to measure emotion, today announced that it has won a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to develop an online version...
