Participants:

Fall 2010 visiting faculty

> Prof. Charles Sodini is hosting Prof. Edmund Lam from the University of Hong Kong. Prof. Lam will be a recitation instructor for 6.003 for Fall 2010 and is hosted as a Visiting Professor in the Microsystems Technology Laboratories, MTL. Read more below.

Prof.Edmund Lam, from Hong Kong University, hosted by EECS Professor Charles Sodini

Edmund Lam received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Stanford University. After working in the industry for several years, he joined the Electrical and Electronic Engineering Department at the University of Hong Kong, where he is now an associate professor.

He has broad research interests around the theme of computational optics and imaging, particularly its applications in semiconductor manufacturing and biomedical systems. He received the Outstanding Young Researcher Award from the University of Hong Kong in 2008 as the only recipient in engineering that year. Besides his involvement within the university, he is also a topical editor of the Journal of the Optical Society of America A, an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems, and has been guest editors for a couple of journals.

In the Fall Semester of the 2010-11 academic year, he is a recitation lecturer for 6.003 in the MIT EECS department.

photo above: First Asian MIT iCampus Conference held at Tsinghua University, Beijing, June 2006. The photo includes MIT faculty and staff: Philip Bailey, Senior Project Manager of the MIT Computing Initiatives; EECS Prof. Jesús del Alamo; Sean Gilbert, Managing Director, MIT China Program; MIT Libraries assistant, Rebecca Bisbee; Visiting Scientist at the MIT Center for Educational Computing Initiatives, Philip Long; Paul Oka, Research Affiliate at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab, EECS Prof. Hal Abelson; Research engineer at the MIT Center for Educational Computing Initiatives, Jim Hardison; Assoc. Director of the MIT Center for Educational Computing Initiatives Jud Harward; Steven Lerman, MIT Vice Chancellor and Dean for Graduate Education.

Empower the Teachers

Guided by the synergy between education and research, EECS faculty will share their curriculum and teaching methods with selected partners from around the world. A truly global education program, Empower the Teachers will enable foreign faculty to work side by side with EECS faculty and EECS TAs teaching core level EECS undergraduate classes. Participants will also conduct research during their stay at the Institute — aided by EECS UROP students and/or EECS graduate students.

Participants will return to their host institutions with greater confidence in their teaching and familiarity with the MIT EECS undergraduate teaching methods and philosophy — and an enhanced ability to link the laboratory with the classroom. Following their experience at the Institute, participants will host MIT students, professors, and researchers at their home university. Resulting partnerships will build long-term engagements in global teaching and research.

Announcements:

NEW! Summer 2011 Internship for Undergraduates in Computational Photography at the University of Hong Kong under Prof. Edwin Lam (who was a visiting EECS faculty member Fall 2010).

The work involves programming a Nokia camera phone for imaging goals beyond the normal capability of a point-and-shoot camera. Using: Nokia N900 with the FCam API (http://graphics.stanford.edu/papers/fcam/html/), providing full access to the functionality of the camera. Possible applications? gesture recognition, high dynamic range imaging, high frame rate imaging, and other new ideas.

Summer 2011 Internships at ASTRI (Applied Science and Technology Research Institute) in Hong Kong

Over 12 exciting internships are available for summer 2011 at ASTRI in Hong Kong. Read about them here (pdf).

Madrid-MIT Consortium Seeking Applicants for Biomedical Imaging Program

The Madrid-MIT M+Visi�n Consortium, formed in Sept. 2010, is a global initiative dedicated to helping Madrid, Spain, strengthen and expand its position as an emerging global center for biomedical research. The consortium--including the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, La Suma de Todos - Comunidad de Madrid, and the European Union--is launching a new Fellowship program this coming summer (2011) that is designed to accelerate cutting-edge research in translational biomedical imaging and establish new enterprises in Madrid. For more information see the M+Vision website: http://mvision.madrid.org/.

EECS students new to MISTI. Did you know that 85 EECS students went abroad this past summer? Come to the Global Opportunities Lunch on Thursday, Nov. 4 at noon in 34-401 to find out about the amazing international experiences open to YOU in 2011! Poster (pdf).

EECS Professor Daniela Rus with students faculty at the Tokyo Institute of Technology involved in a joint experiment involving the robot AnchorBot which is connected to the MIT underwater sensor network node providing localization information for the robot.

EECS Professor Daniela Rus, front center, with members of a team including Prof. Shigeo Hirose from the Tokyo Institute of Technology working on a joint experiment involving the robot 'AnchorBot' which is connected to the MIT underwater sensor network node providing localization information for the robot. Summer, 2008 at the Gump Moorea Research Station, 9.5 miles nw of Tahiti in the South Pacific.

See more about Prof. Rus' work in the Distributed Robotics Lab, DSL, a part of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, CAIL at MIT.