It’s relatively easy to understand how optical microscopes work at low magnifications: one lens magnifies an image, the next magnifies the already-magnified image, and so on until it reaches the eye ...

William T. Freeman is the Thomas and Gerd Perkins Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT. His research spans mid-level vision, audio, and computational photography.

Eduardo Hirata Miyasaki, who performed the research in Sara Abrahamsson’s research lab while at the University of California Santa Cruz and is now at the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub, is pictured building ...