tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/185233180 2008-06-19 13:47:13 -0400 School of Engineering <p>MIT Institute Professor Robert Langer has won the Millennium Technology Prize, the world's largest award for technology innovation.</p><p>Langer was chosen "for his inventions and development of innovative biomaterials for controlled drug release and tissue regeneration that have saved and improved the lives of millions of people," according to Technology Academy Finland, which gives the award every other year.</p><p><a href="http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/langer-millennium-0611.html" target="_blank">More info</a></p> 523 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/185209060 2008-01-03 17:04:06 -0500 MIT Video Productions Elizabeth Goldring is an artist, poet and Senior Fellow at MIT's Center for Advanced Visual Studies. Her collaborative research at CAVS includes visualizing her own vision loss and developing both a visual language and "seeing machine" for people who are blind or visually challenged. This video was produced in collaboration with the MIT News Office in April 2006 as a video news release about Goldring's Seeing Machine Prototype.The video includes excerpts from an earlier documentary produced by Goldring and Ellen Sebring, as well as video art collaborations with Vin Grabill. 270