Real-Time Videorealistic Avatar for Spoken Interaction
Real-Time Videorealistic Avatar for Spoken Interaction
This demo shows a spoken dialog system combined with an avatar that is generated in real-time.
Real-time Enveloping with Rotational Regression
Real-time Enveloping with Rotational Regression
This is a new method for mapping skeletal controls to the skin of a 3D character. Our method accurately simulates deformations such as skin sliding and muscle bulging, yielding more realistic animations. Published in SIGGRAPH 2007 More info (PDF): ...
Real-time Edge-Aware Image Processing with a Bilateral Grid
Real-time Edge-Aware Image Processing with a Bilateral Grid
The bilateral grid is a new data structure that allows users to quickly and easily edit images and videos while respecting edges in the image. Published in SIGGRAPH 2007. More info: http://groups.csail.mit.edu/graphics/bilagrid/
Real-life Transformers?
Real-life Transformers? MIT researchers unveil (tiny) reconfigurable robots
This minuscule robot may be a harbinger of future devices that could fold themselves up into almost any shape imaginable.
Ramesh Raskar: Super-human vision
Ramesh Raskar: Super-human vision
Associate professor Ramesh Raskar speaks about his work pioneering innovative imaging platforms in the MIT Media Lab. Read more about Raskar's work at http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2011/profile-raskar-0929.html
Public-health networks
Public-health networks
Assistant professor at MIT Sloan Damon Centola describes research in which he compared the dissemination of public-health information through social networks with two different structures.
Profile: Ashley Finan
Profile: Ashley Finan
Meet Finan, a PhD candidate in MIT's Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering.
Procedural Modeling of Structurally-Sound Masonry Buildings
Procedural Modeling of Structurally-Sound Masonry Buildings
For more info: http://people.csail.mit.edu/ewhiting/projects/siggasia09.html
Press conference: MIT, Harvard announce edX
Press conference: MIT, Harvard announce edX
MIT President Susan Hockfield and Harvard University President Drew Faust, accompanied by top officials from both institutions, announced on Wednesday a new collaboration that will unite the Cambridge-based universities in an ambitious new partnership to deliver online ...
Presidential Energy Debate highlights video
Presidential Energy Debate highlights video
In this highlight video of an Oct. 6, 2008 debate at MIT, representatives of the John McCain and Barack Obama presidential campaigns speak to the differences between their candidates' approaches to solving the nation's energy problems. View full debate. Read news ...
President Obama visits MIT
President Obama visits MIT
President Barack Obama, in a historic visit to the MIT campus on October 23, 2009, praised the Institute's commitment to energy research and issued a strong call for the nation to lead the world in the development of new, efficient and clean energy t
President Obama Speaks at MIT: Speech Highlights and Lab ...
President Obama Speaks at MIT: Speech Highlights and Lab Visits
Highlights of the visit to MIT by President Barack Obama on October 23, 2009. Speakers are MIT President Susan Hockfield, Professor Ernest Moniz (director of the MIT Energy Initiative), and President Obama. This video includes footage of the president's visit to two ...
President Obama Speaks at MIT: American Leadership in Clean ...
President Obama Speaks at MIT: American Leadership in Clean Energy
Obama delivers a speech at MIT titled, "American Leadership in Clean Energy," on Oct. 23, 2009.
Practical Motion Capture in Everyday Surroundings
Practical Motion Capture in Everyday Surroundings
THIS IS NOT A COMMERCIALLY AVAILABLE PRODUCT This self-contained motion capture suit uses ultrasound to allow the recording of motions in any setting, as opposed to traditional motion capture systems that are confined to a studio. Published in SIGGRAPH 2007. More info ...
Powering a New Way of Life
Powering a New Way of Life
A non-profit in Myanmar (Burma) is using off-grid renewable energy technologies to supply electricity to remote communities.
Position-Correcting Router
Position-Correcting Router
Researchers at CSAIL have developed a handheld device that can adjust its position to precisely follow a digital plan when a user moves a router roughly around the shape to be cut.
Profile: Polina Golland
Polina Golland - The quantifier
By helping biologists turn their hunches into rigorous mathematical models, Polina Golland builds software that interprets medical images. Read more about Golland's work at http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2012/profile-golland-0112.html
Plasma turbulence
Plasma turbulence
This computer simulation shows a cross-section of the plasma inside a tokamak reactor. In this simulation, only the large-scale turbulence effects are modeled — which is adequate for some cases
Plasma Rocket (coke bottle)
Plasma Rocket (coke bottle)
The testing of a prototype plasma rocket being developed at MIT that is much smaller than other rockets of its kind.
Plasma rocket
Plasma rocket
The testing of a prototype plasma rocket being developed at MIT that is much smaller than other rockets of its kind.