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POSTPONED Media Lab Conversations Series: Geetha Narayanan

LocationMIT Media Lab, Third-Floor Atrium Description This talk has been postponed. We look forward to following Geetha Narayanan later in …

Friday
March 15, 2013
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Media Lab Conversations Series: Damien Echols and Shaka Senghor

Damien Echols and Shaka Senghor in conversation on injustice, compassion, and redemption in relation to their prison memoirs.

Thursday
May 16, 2013
Video

Media Lab Conversations Series: Guts and Genius

David Sun Kong, Kevin Slavin, and special guests in conversation with Media Lab Director Joi Ito.

Video

Media Lab Conversations Series: JJ Abrams

Nov. 26, 2012
Video

Media Lab Conversations Series: Carroll Bogert

Sept. 10, 2012
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MLTalks: Tim O'Reilly

Towards a Global Brain: Tim O'Reilly in conversation with Director of Center for Civic Media Ethan Zuckerman.

Wednesday
April 18, 2012
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Media Lab Perspectives Speaker Series

Faculty Perspectives is a new series inviting thoughtful speakers and innovators to inspire the Media Lab community and beyond.

Thursday
April 14, 2022
12:00pm — 1:00pm ET
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Media Lab @ O'Reilly Solid Conference

LocationSan Francisco, CA DescriptionSpeaker ScheduleJoi Ito: Co-host and keynote speakerMay 21, 9:45am | Nadya Peek: Making Machines that …

Wednesday — Thursday
May 21, 2014 —
May 22, 2014
Person

Yen-Ju (Tim) Tai

Former Research Assistant

Person

Tim Savas

Former Visiting Scientist, Harman

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TIME's Best Inventions of 2024: Media Lab honorees

The companies were selected in the following categories: Consumer Electronics, Manufacturing + Materials, Agriculture, and Medical Care.

Group

Media Lab Research Theme: Life with AI

The Challenge: To harness AI for humanity's leap forwardMachines are becoming more intelligent and more powerful every day. But, like all t…

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Conformable Decoders Group presents on New Health at the Media Lab Focus series for July 2021

The July edition of the Media Lab Focus series for member companies starts next week! The theme is New Health,  and wil…

Article

Media Lab spinoff Empatica receives new FDA clearance for its Health Monitoring Platform and announces Series B financing

Co-founded by Professor Rosalind Picard, Empatica develops medical-grade wearables and algorithms for health monitoring and diagnostics.

Event

Media Lab @ NeurIPS | 2020

The following Media Lab community members participated in the thirty-fourth virtual conference on Neural Information Processing Systems.

Publication

SociaBowl: A Dynamic Table Centerpiece to Mediate Group Conversations

Joanne Leong, Yuehan Wang, Romy Sayah, Stella Rossikopoulou Pappa, Florian Perteneder, Hiroshi Ishii. 2019. SociaBowl: A Dynamic Table Centerpiece to Mediate Group Conversations. In CHI’19 Extended Abstracts, May 4–9, 2019, Glasgow, Scotland Uk. https://doi.org/10.1145/3290607.3312775

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Welcome to the MIT Media Lab, HCLTech

We’re happy to welcome HCLTech as the newest member of the MIT Media Lab—joining a global network of organizations working together to shap…

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Media Lab Perspectives: Listening to Disrupt with Katherine Cramer

Listening to DisruptIn this session of the Media Lab Perspectives series, Deb Roy will engage his collaborator Kathy Cramer in co…

Thursday
May 27, 2021
12:00pm — 1:00pm ET
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NanoBio Seminar Series Fall'24

Please join us for an exciting journey in recent advances in nanotechnology and bioengineering.

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MLTalks Series

Learn more about our MLTalks series, including upcoming events.

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Media Lab Immersion Session + MuRata Facility Visit

A group of Media Lab community members traveled to Japan in late January 2025 to host a series of presentations for current and prospective…

Project

Data Portrait Study Series: Social Maps of Time and Space

We study different methods to depict the ways that people are spending their time in their lived environments. We look at people's relation…

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Media Lab Focus

Join us remotely as we go on curated research journeys focused on a monthly theme.

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Media Lab spinoff Xander honored at CES 2023

Co-founded by Media Lab alum Alex Westner, Xander will introduce its first product, XanderGlasses, at CES 2023.

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Media Lab @ CHI 2025

A number of Media Lab community members will showcase their work.

Saturday — Thursday
April 26, 2025 —
May 1, 2025
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From Lab to Industry: MIT Media Lab and Honeywell Explore the Future of Technology

Honeywell + MIT Media Lab unite to shape future tech, merging academic insight with industry in AI, aviation, energy, and more.

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Advancing Wellbeing Seminar Series: Timothy Bickmore

LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-633 DescriptionOne third of US adults have low health literacy, the ability to obtain, read, and use healthcare …

Video

Media Lab Perspectives: Listening to Disrupt with Katherine Cramer

Thursday May 27, 2021 …

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Canan Dagdeviren is interviewed by IEEE's Pulse “From the Lab” podcast series

IEEE Pulse: From The Lab Episode 1: Canan Dagdeviren

Video

MLTalks: Tim O'Reilly

Towards a Global Brain: Tim O'Reilly in conversation with Director of Center for Civic Media Ethan Zuckerman.

Article

Lessons Learned on the Road to Pandemic Preparedness | Pandemic Response Catalyst Conversations

Expert panelists discuss lessons learned from COVID-19 and progress made to better prepare our public health systems.

Group

Media Lab Research Theme: Future Worlds

The Challenge: To secure a sustainable future for all living thingsHow can we reduce harm to our planet and the future prospects of life on…

Article

How the Media Lab Gave Birth to Guitar Hero and Hyperviolins

"If there were no business concerns, Eran would actually have created Clarinet Hero."

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AI & Us: A Series from Dell Technologies featuring expert voices from MIT

Dell Technologies and MIT explore AI’s evolving business impact—offering insights and advice from top industry thought leaders.

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MIT Media Lab x Smart Living Lab

In January 2024, members of the Media Lab traveled to Fribourg, Switzerland to conduct a workshop on sensing, interactions, and augmentation

Project

Modeling Contingent Behaviors in Multiparty Conversations

Recognizing and interpreting group behaviors is much more challenging than that of individual behaviors. Firstly, the system must perform w…

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Media Lab research response to COVID-19

The Media Lab community brings creativity, expertise, and research to the pandemic

Event

Media Lab Perspectives: Back to Earth with Nicole Stott

In this session of the Media Lab Perspective Series, Media Lab director Dava Newman will moderate a conversation with Nicole Stott

Thursday
February 17, 2022
12:00pm — 1:00pm ET
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Media Lab @ 2022 Lake Nona Impact Forum

"A conversation. Not a conference."

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MIT Media Lab Spring Meeting 2022

We’re looking forward to welcoming our members and special visitors back to the Lab in person April 12–13 for a variety of research updates!

Tuesday — Wednesday
April 12, 2022 —
April 13, 2022
Event

Media Lab @ World Economic Forum 2025

The following Media Lab community members are participating in the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting this year.

Monday — Friday
January 20, 2025 —
January 24, 2025
Group

Media Lab Research Theme: Cultivating Creativity

The Challenge: To ignite creativity in the face of global challengesThe accelerating crises, disruptions, and disconnections in today’s soc…

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Early methods for studying affective use and emotional wellbeing in ChatGPT: An OpenAI and MIT Media Lab Research collaboration

Editor’s Note: This blog was written jointly with OpenAI and the MIT Media Lab. It also appears here. 

Group

Media Lab Research Theme: Connected Mind + Body

The Challenge: To Transform Mental + Physical WellbeingAs mental health and physical ability challenges surge worldwide, driven by ine…

Event

Leading Conversations in AI: Extended intelligence & humans with machines

Kate Darling, Cynthia Breazeal, and Pattie Maes of the Media Lab join Patricia Henderson for a conversation about extended intelligence.

Friday
October 8, 2021
12:00pm — 1:00pm ET
Project

SociaBowl: A Dynamic Table Centerpiece to Mediate Group Conversations

We introduce SociaBowl, a dynamic table centerpiece to promote positive social dynamics in 2-way cooperative conversations. A centerpiece s…

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We Are Going to the Moon – But This Time, to Stay: A panel at Dell Technologies World featuring MIT Media Lab

A panel from MIT Media Lab and Dell highlights a lunar mission using AI and XR to advance human-centered, sustainable space exploration.

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Festival of Learning 2022 at the MIT Media Lab

Festival of Learning is always a time of meeting new people while reconnecting with friends I haven't seen in a while, which has been espec…

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Media Lab Brain Study on ChatGPT Sparks Global Media Coverage

From CNN to The New Yorker, international outlets spotlight Nataliya Kos’myna’s research on how AI tools affect cognitive function.

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Media Lab researchers take second place in MIT AI Pitch Competition

The theme for this year's competition was Generative Voice AI Solutions.

Project

SeqCLR: Self-supervised learning of features for time-series data

Interpreting human electroencephalogram (EEG) is a challenging task and requires years of medical training. We present a framework for lear…

Event

MIT Media Lab sAIpien Program | Session and Workshop | April 8, 2025

Join the {sAIpien} Program Information Session and workshop on April 8 for an exclusive session empowering corporate leaders to strategical…

Tuesday
April 8, 2025
2:00pm — 4:00pm ET
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Recordings: Pandemic Response Catalyst Conversations

Part of a collaboration between the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence, the Lab’s Community Biotechnology Initiative, and MilliporeSigma