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Ayah Bdeir

Former Research Assistant

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Ayah Bdeir of LittleBits

LocationMIT Media Lab, LEGO Lab, E14-4th floor DescriptionMedia Lab alumna Ayah Bdeir will discuss how she started littleBits, an open-sour…

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April 6, 2012
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Ayah Bdeir on design, engineering and activism

Ayah Bdeir on her journey from Lebanon to MIT Media Lab, and why she started littleBits.

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LittleBits CEO talks new Disney partnership, girls in STEM & immigrant entrepreneurship

Alum Ayah Bdeir talks about spinoff littleBits and Snap the Gap, a program to support girls excited about science and technology.

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Alumna Ayah Bdeir a TED2012 Fellow

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MakeyMakey, littleBits, Arduino and More Added to MOMA Collection

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Media Lab speakers at the 2017 Forbes Under 30 Summit

The 2017 Forbes Under 30 Summit will take place October 1-4 at venues throughout the Boston area. The event will feature more than 200 spea…

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littleBits' new modular electronics kit lets kids booby-trap their rooms

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BBC 100 Women 2019: Who is on the list this year?

Meet 100 inspiring, influential women from around the world, including Labbers Ayah Bdeir and Rana el Kaliouby.

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Walt Disney Co. reveals 9 new startups in the Disney Accelerator spanning robotics, cinematic VR and AI

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Making Science Fun with High-Tech Popsicle Sticks and Pipe Cleaners

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Out of the lab and into the world

E14 Venture Summit celebrates the diversity of spinoff companies from the Media Lab.

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Bdeir, Ayah. “<random> Search.” Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006. http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/36152.

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Media Lab to MoMA: A Complicated Reality of Dreams Coming True

This is a story of dreams coming true in roundabout ways. How things inside are often not at all what they appear to be on the outside.

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30th Anniversary fund

WE DID IT! $108,822.73 raised toward $100,000 goal as of August 15, 2016Fourteen Media Lab alums have pitched in to bootstrap the IF30–the …

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Engaging All Learners in Physical Tinkering

To engage all learners in physical tinkering, we must design more ways to tinker with electronics beyond the computer science curriculum.

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ML @ Tokyo 2018: Speakers (Japanese)

落合陽一氏:1987年生まれ。メディアアーティスト。東京大学大学院学際情報学府博士課程修了(学際情報学府初の早期修了)、博士(学際情報学)。筑波大学学長補佐・准教授・デジタルネイチャー推進戦略研究基盤代表、大阪芸術大学客員教授、デジタルハリウッド大学客員教授を兼務。ピクシーダス…

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MLTalks: Challenges in the Fight Against Ebola

Ophelia Dalh and Dr. Megan Murray of Partners in Health in conversation with David Moinina Sengeh and Joi Ito.

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ML @ Tokyo 2018: Speakers (English)

Yoichi Ochiai was born in 1987 and received his PhD in applied computer science at the University of Tokyo within two years, Tokyo Universi…

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PsycheTelic Interfaces (Synthetic Dream, Psychedelic Interfaces, and Telepathic Interfaces Group)

The human saga of psychedelic use is a long trip across history, evidenced by Olmec burials with bufo toads in Central America.

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Forbidden Research: speaker bios

HostsJoi ItoJoichi "Joi" Ito has been recognized for his work as an activist, entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and advocate of emergent de…

Thursday
July 21, 2016
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Defiance: speaker bios

Speakers from varied fields—activism, politics, law, health, religion, media, tech, and more—all focused on responsible disobedience.

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Beyond the Cradle 2017 Speaker Bios

Salome Asega is a Brooklyn-based artist and researcher whose practice celebrates dissensus and multivocality. Through participatory researc…