Thank an MIT Community Member: Submission #294

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Submission Number: 294

Submission ID: 24360

Submission UUID: ce2cfbf7-a67c-4dd3-943d-4558d5515ea4

Submission URI: /form/webform-10058

Created: Wed, 03/18/2020 - 12:48

Completed: Wed, 03/18/2020 - 12:48

Changed: Wed, 03/18/2020 - 17:48

Remote IP address: 18.21.163.245

Submitted by: Anonymous

Language: English

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Webform: Thank an MIT Community Member

Submitted to: Thank an MIT Community Member

Your Name Pat Pataranutaporn

Your DLCI or Other Affiliation with MIT {Empty}

Person or Group You Would Like to Recognize Kevin Esvelt and Camilo Rojas

Department, Lab, or Center, or Other Affiliation with MIT {Empty}

Email Address {Empty}

Tell Us About It Kevin Esvelt and Camilo Rojas have been the leaders that help educate and organize taskforces at MIT Media Lab to handle the situation of COVID 19. They had done tremendous work even before the pandemic to ensure the safety of our community through various online sessions, hackathon, as well developing the guidelines for the Media Lab community. One of the projects that the lead is Saving Face, an initiative that aim at creating a suite of easily scaled technologies to help people fight the pandemic by warning them when they’re about to touch their faces (https://www.media.mit.edu/projects/saving-face/overview/)