Raising VC in Silicon Valley as a female POC
“Despite the fact that I went to MIT, despite the fact that I managed a billion-dollar product at JPMorgan Chase and even built a huge digital product, I was still a Silicon Valley outsider." ...
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New MIT system extracts hidden videos from visible footage by analyzing how light reflects on a pile of clutter
MIT CSAIL researchers have found a way to reconstruct hidden videos that are being displayed outside a camera's field of view by analyzing how reflections and shadows change in scenes that are visible to the ***** eye. Once refined, this method could... ...
Reinventing the relationship between workers and tech
Rachel Kornberg Contributor Share on Twitter Rachel Korberg is a program officer with the Ford Foundation’s Future of Work(ers) initiative, which seeks to build a more just and inclusive future for workers in our rapidly changing economy. A young father and kitchen worker in Pittsburgh was thrilled to get a job with a big restaurant ...
This robot scientist has conducted 100,000 experiments in a year
Science is exciting in theory, but it can also be dreadfully dull. Some experiments require hundreds or thousands of repetitions or trials — an excellent opportunity to automate. That's just what MIT scientists have done, creating a robot that performs a certain experiment, observes the results, and plans a follow-up... and has now done so ...
MIT researchers develop a much better way to optimize the control of soft robots
MIT researchers have developed a new way to optimize how soft robots perform specific tasks – a huge challenge when it comes to soft robotics in particular, because robots with flexible bodies can basically move in an infinite number of ways at any given moment, so programming them to do something in the best way ...
The man behind Bezos’ next lunar guidance system talks future tech
Draper, the MIT spin-off engineering lab, is famed for developing the Apollo 11 Guidance Computer (not Draper Esprit, I hasten to add). Ken Gabriel, President and CEO, also recently made a major announcement. Blue Origin has now partnered with Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman to build elements of the company’s human-rated lunar lander, and Draper ...
MIT releases eerie video of their robot army training
The robots, or Mini Cheetahs, played soccer as well as "Simon Says." Read more...More about Tech, Robots, Mashable Video, Mit, and Training ...
A chat about UK deep tech and spin-out success with Octopus Ventures
New research commissioned by UK VC firm Octopus Ventures has put a spotlight on which of the country’s higher education institutions are doing the most to support spin outs. The report compiles a ranking of universities, foregrounding those with a record of producing what partner Simon King dubs “quality spin outs”. The research combines and ...
MIT’s robot army trains together in a video that will mess you up
What's more disconcerting than watching MIT's dog-like Mini Cheetah robot cavort around? Nine of them doing it in unison. We've had concerns about MIT's robots for some time now, but a new video from the school's biomimetic robotics lab opens into ne... ...
Neural Magic gets $15M seed to run machine learning models on commodity CPUs
Neural Magic, a startup founded by an MIT professor, who figured out a way to run machine learning models on commodity CPUs, announced a $15 million seed investment today. Comcast Ventures led the round with participation from NEA, Andreessen Horowitz, Pillar VC and Amdocs. The company had previously received a $5 million pre-seed, making the ...