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Congratulations to Professor Ramesh Raskar and the Camera Culture Group  –
Winner of the 2016 Lemelson-MIT prize

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Ramesh Raskar and the Camera Culture team have been awarded the prestigious Lemelson-MIT Prize which honors outstanding mid-career inventors dedicated to improving our world through technological invention. The team creates radical imaging solutions including Femto-photography, an ultra-fast imaging camera that can see around corners, low-cost eye-care solutions for the developing world, and a camera that allows users to read pages of a book without opening the cover. 
The Lemelson-MIT Prize honors outstanding mid-career inventors improving the world through technological invention and demonstrating a commitment to mentorship in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.  The Lemelson-MIT Prize recognizes and funds younger, mid-career inventors with the goal of advancing inventive careers and providing role models for future generations of inventors.  The Lemelson-MIT Prize winner is determined from a field of nominees by two independent committees. One, composed of MIT faculty and alumni/ae, review the nominations and select finalists. The second, a national jury of experts from science, engineering, medicine, technology and business then selects the winner from the finalist pool, who must then be ratified by both committees.



Learn more:

Lemelson-MIT Prize Page, MIT NewsThe World is our Lab,

Raskar announced REDX.io
a peer to peer invention platform for young inventors innovating for billions

Raskar is using the prize to provide funding for REDX labs and clubs worldwide. Raskar’s REDX philosophy has resulted in six hubs including: REDX Mumbai at the We School, DISQ in Nashik, LVP MITra in Hyderabad, Emerging Worlds Special Interest Group at MIT Media Lab, REDx Kumbhathon, and Medhacker in Brazil.  He is making a platform now open and anyone can apply to start REDX co-innovation lab or a club. He considers this an ‘invented venture capital’ model for impactful tech inventions.

Apply to start your Club: REDX – Rethinking Engineering Design eXecution

 

Ramesh Raskar would like to thank the following collaborators for their support:

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September 13th, 2016

Ramesh Raskar Lemelson-MIT 2016 Winner

Congratulations to Professor Ramesh Raskar and the Camera Culture Group  – Winner of the 2016 Lemelson-MIT prize Ramesh Raskar and […]

September 8th, 2016

Can computers read through a book page by page without opening it?

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November 21st, 2018

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March 20th, 2018

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March 29th, 2017

Efficient Lensless Imaging with a Femto-Pixel

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September 28th, 2016

How to see through tissue

All Photons Imaging Through Volumetric Scattering Guy Satat, Barmak Heshmat, Dan Raviv, Ramesh Raskar We demonstrate a new method that […]

September 12th, 2016

The World is Our Lab

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March 27th, 2016

Handheld 3D Imager to visualize features in the throat like tonsils!

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February 24th, 2016

How to use computer vision to improve cities

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February 12th, 2016

Optical Brush

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December 3rd, 2015

Innovating for Billions – Ramesh Raskar’s UIST Keynote

28th ACM User Interface Software and Technology Symposium Charlotte, NC November 8-11, 2015 Watch the presentation on Youtube HERE Keynote […]

December 2nd, 2015

Making 3-D imaging 1,000 times better

Algorithms exploiting light’s polarization boost resolution of commercial depth sensors 1,000-fold. See MIT coverage here. Read more about the work […]

November 26th, 2015

Engineering Health Class Final Presentations on 4 Dec

Great projects and demos- wearables, 3D imaging, novel stethoscopes, imaging the eye, oral imaging.  Followed by health night with guest […]

November 2nd, 2015

Engineering Health Class featured in Medtech

Our Engineering Health class was featured in Medtech Boston. Read the full article here.

October 26th, 2015

OPEN POSITIONS: Technical Assistants

Technical Assistant # 1 Date: December-4-2015 The Camera Culture group at the MIT Media Lab focuses on making the invisible […]

October 15th, 2015

Time-of-Flight Microwave Camera to See Through Walls

New Camera Culture research in Nature Scientific Reports shows a prototype time of flight camera working at microwave frequencies. In […]

September 30th, 2015

How to Make a City Smart? The Indian Context

By: Pranav Chandrasekaran   Introduction – by Ramesh Raskar, Associate Professor Media Arts and Sciences, Head of the Camera Culture […]

September 11th, 2015

Kumbh Mela – The World’s Largest Moving City

Kumbh Mela in Nashik Article and Photography by John Werner   “The world’s largest city has no permanent address.”   […]

September 8th, 2015

Engineering Health Fall 2015 Course

MAS.S62: Join us for the first class on Friday, 11 Sept, 1-4 pm in E15-341(Click to go to class webpage)

June 26th, 2015

Vahe Tahmazyan Graduates with Best Thesis