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Presenters at MIT’s Aging Brain Initiative Symposium delivered a rich and diverse sampling of the university’s research to address neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s and ALS.
MIT’s Aging Brain Initiative has awarded five seed grants after a competition among labs across the Institute. Awardees include Ann Graybiel, Thomas Heldt, Gloria Choi, Ritu Raman and Peter Dedon.
Credits: Image: Lillie Paquette/MIT School of Engineering Previous image Next image Not so long ago, watching a movie on a smartphone seemed impossible. Vivienne Sze was a graduate student at MIT at the time, in the mid 2000s, and she was drawn to the challenge of compressing video to keep image quality high without draining the phone’s battery. The solution she hit upon called for co-designing energy-efficient circuits with energy-efficient algorithms. Sze would go on to be part of the team that won an Engineering Emmy Award for developing the video compre...