Ramesh Raskar presents femto-photography, a new type of imaging so fast it visualizes the world one trillion frames per second, so detailed it shows light itself in motion. This technology may someday be used to build cameras that can look “around” corners or see inside the body without X-rays.

"Friction in data sharing is a large challenge for large scale machine learning. Emerging technologies in domains such as biomedicine, health and finance benefit from distributed deep learning methods which can allow multiple entities to train a deep neural network without requiring data sharing or resource aggregation at one single place. The ...

Ramesh Raskar, an Associate Professor at MIT, argues that despite spending billions of dollars and creating vaccines in a record time, in western democracies we failed to tame the pandemic because we missed one critical element in the pandemic response: citizen engagement. Crowdsourced data is the most powerful tool in a pandemic to achieve self...