Six women, all undergraduate students at MIT, have invented a text to braille scanner that significantly advances the state of the art for text scanners, most of which convert text to speech. The patent-pending device is not yet available in the marketplace, but the inventors are committed to the project, called Tactile, full time upon graduation in the spring. (Disclosure: My wife owns fewer than 100 shares of Microsoft.)
The team comprises three students in Mechanical Engineering, Jialin Shi, Charlene Xia and Grace Li; two students in Electrical Engineering, Tania Yu and Chandani Doshi; and Bonnie Wang, who studies Materials Sciences.
Jessica (Jialin) Shi, from Durham, New Hampshire, also a mechanical engineering student, has been an intern at Saint-Gobain in Northborough, Mass., the Colder Products Co. of Minneapolis, Minn., and MIT’s Kolpack Group, which emphasizes computation materials design for sustainable energy. She’s also been an undergraduate researcher at MIT’s Laboratory for Bio-Inspired Interfaces as well as a Microsoft Student Partner, teaching workshops and leading demonstrations on emerging technologies for her peers. She serves as systems integrator for Tactile, working closely with teammates on the device’s refreshable display and its image-processing capabilities.
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