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Media lab complex
Video: Melanie Gonick; time-lapse photography: Guy Hoffman; still images: Andy Ryan; music: 'Flora' by Tod Machover
A peek into the new Media Lab complex which opened last month.
- A hologram of a butterfly, displayed on both a conventional, monochromatic holographic-video monitor (left) and the MIT researchers' new color monitor.
- Because a light-field camera captures information about not only the intensity of light rays but also their angle of arrival, the images it produces can be refocused later.
- The winning entry of the Infrastructural Monument competition commemorated one of the greatest infrastructural designers of the past decade: Manuel de Sola-Morales. Kinetic Infrastructure was designed by Erioseto Hendranata, with assistance from James Coleman and Andrew Manto.
- J. Meejin Yoon (left) created this light and sound installation in Phoenix, Ariz.
- The new version of SimCity introduces a whole new level of complexity to the game.
- Cameron talks about entrepreneurship with professor Fiona Murray and student entrepreneurs.
- Cameron, center, hears about student entrepreneurship at MIT from a group of students and alums, as MIT Sloan professor Fiona Murray, to his right, introduces the group.
- Media Lab professor Hugh Herr, a double amputee, demonstrates advanced prosthetics to Cameron during his tour.
- Doctoral student Kenton Williams explains his work on robotic driving systems.
- Media Lab professor Cynthia Breazeal describes her work on robotics to the prime minister.
