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Seeing Through Walls
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Seeing Through Walls

Fadel Adib
World.Minds, 2017
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Seeing through walls is no longer a fictional superpower. Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed a wireless device that can detect and identify people in adjacent rooms – and that’s just the start. In an engaging presentation, MIT researcher Fadel Adib explains how this cutting-edge technology works and how it could solve societal problems. getAbstract believes that you don’t have to be a fan of science, or even science fiction, to find this breakthrough fascinating. 

Take-Aways

  • MIT researchers have created a device that can detect, track and identify people through walls. Moreover, the technology can read vital signs and emotions.
  • The device sends out wireless signals, which bounce off people’s bodies and return for analysis. Artificial intelligence translates the signals into computer images.  
  • By registering differences in people’s heights and builds, the device can recognize who is beyond the wall.

About the Speaker

Fadel Adib is an assistant professor of computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the founding director of Signal Kinetics Research Group.

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