So Jewitt and Luu carried out two parallel surveys: they used the Palomar Observatory's Schmidt telescope equipped with conventional glass photographic plates to scan large areas of the sky for the very faintest objects, while also watching a narrow field of view in the plane of the planets for rare but slightly brighter
objects using MIT's 1.3 - metre telescope fitted with a CCD.
Not exact matches
In a paper appearing in a forthcoming issue of the International Journal of Robotics Research, the
MIT researchers show that a system
using an off - the - shelf algorithm to aggregate different perspectives can recognize four times as many
objects as one that
uses a single perspective, while reducing the number of misidentifications.
In January independent teams at
MIT and the University of Birmingham showed how to
use calcite (a common crystal) to make paperclip - size
objects disappear.
Now, researchers at the Wyss Institute at Harvard University and
MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) have created origami - inspired artificial muscles that add strength to soft robots, allowing them to lift
objects that are up to 1,000 times their own weight
using only air or water pressure.
The work on view reflects Jackson's curiosity with aspects of
MIT's research, as well as his own while in residency at the institution — particularly the Energy Initiative, since the Brooklyn - based sculptor has historically employed the
use of recycled and repurposed
objects in much of his work.
Her work has been included in the publications By Hand: The
Use of Craft in Contemporary Art (Princeton Architectural Press, 2010); The
Object of Labor: Art, Cloth, and Cultural Production (
MIT Press, 2007); and Contemporary Textiles (Black Dog Press).