November 2011
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The Birth of a Word: Deb Roy
MIT researcher Deb Roy wanted to understand how his infant son learned language — so he wired up his house with videocameras to catch every moment (with exceptions) of his son’s life, then parsed 90,000 hours of home video to watch “gaaaa” slowly turn into “water.” Astonishing, data-rich research with deep implications for how we learn.
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Mount Rushmore
Here’s a quick video of our final Mount Rushmore tribute.
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Hacking the Kinect (Rushmore)
Here is a quick video showing our 3D models. This test was to see if we could adda bitmap to a mesh. We could! We are now thinking of taking it a step further and creating a Mount Rushmore style image of the group!