Course

Black Mobility and Safety: Learning to Loving in the US

In this seminar, we’ll listen, learn, reflect and respond to issues around mobility (physical, mental, socio-economical, political, etc) an…

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Jacqueline M Kory Westlund

Former Research Assistant

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Nadia Ustariz

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Chia Evers

Communications Specialist

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Lauren Fratamico

Former Research Assistant

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Black Mobility and Safety in the US I & II

Public Lecture Series: https://www.media.mit.edu/posts/public-guest-lectures-black-mobility-and-safety-in-the-us/In this seminar and s…

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Janine Liberty

Former Communications Manager

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Stacie Slotnick

Project

Using Shadows to See Behind Objects

The full text of our paper is available here.Sometimes the thing that we want to see is hidden behind something else. A neighboring vehicl…

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Lisa Freed

Former Research Scientist

Video

Media Lab Perspectives: Empowering End-Users through AI Transparency and Interpretability with Fernanda Viégas

Thursday May 13, 2021 …

Event

Media Lab Perspectives: Empowering End-Users through AI Transparency and Interpretability with Fernanda Viégas

We hope you'll join us for this segment of the Media Lab Perspective Series where Professor Hiroshi Ishii will welcome Fernanda Viégas

Thursday
May 13, 2021
12:00pm — 1:00pm ET
Project

Sojourner 2020 | An international art payload to ISS

Through the ages, artists, writers, and filmmakers have always been inspired by space. Artists’ visionary depictions of space as an environ…

Publication

A Lower Bound for Byzantine Agreement and Consensus for Adaptive Adversaries using VDFs

BibTeX Citation: @misc{dryja2020lower, title={A Lower Bound for Byzantine Agreement and Consensus for Adaptive Adversaries using VDFs}, author={Thaddeus Dryja and Quanquan C. Liu and Neha Narula}, year={2020}, eprint={2004.01939}, archivePrefix={arXiv}, primaryClass={cs.DC}

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Media Lab Perspectives: Empowering End-users Through AI Transparency and Interpretability with Fernanda Viégas

We hope you'll join us for this segment of the Media Lab Perspective Series where Professor Hiroshi Ishii will welcome Fernanda Viégas

Event

Space Has Arrived | Space Exploration Initiative at Ars Electronica 2020

We created a digital spaceship to share the diverse portfolio from the Initiative. Audiences are invited to immerse themselves.

Wednesday — Sunday
September 9, 2020 —
September 13, 2020
12:00am — 11:00pm ET
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Ramesh Raskar

Associate Professor of Media Arts and Sciences

Course

MAS.S68: Poetic Justice for Climate Crisis

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Publication

Accessible satellite data decision support systems for Yurok Tribe forest management

Lombardo, S., Kinney, J., Blake, D., Chase, S., Stovall, A., Siddiqi, A., ... & de Weck, O. (2023). Accessible satellite data decision support systems for Yurok Tribe forest management. Acta Astronautica, 213, 777-791.

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MIT Zero-G outreach initiative: Using experiment design and virtual reality to inspire the next generation of space scientists and engineers

Paige, C., Ward, F., Haddad, D. D., MacNeil, J., McGaffigan, P., Ekblaw, A., & Newman, D. (2023). MIT Zero-G outreach initiative: Using experiment design and virtual reality to inspire the next generation of space scientists and engineers. Acta Astronautica, 212, 152-159.

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Shriya Srinivasan

Former Research Assistant

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Invited Talks

Blockchain Symposium- Saudi Arabia (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 2018) link to the event: http://gulfchain.me/)2018 Winter Youth Assembly at …

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Sojourner 2020 | An international art payload to ISS

Nine groups of artists are selected to be on board Sojourner 2020, which will be launched into low Earth orbit for about 30 days.

Publication

Use of In-Game Rewards to Motivate Daily Self-Report Compliance: Randomized Controlled Trial

Taylor S., Ferguson C., Peng F., Schoeneich M., Picard R.W. "Use of In-Game Rewards to Motivate Daily Self-Report Compliance: Randomized Controlled Trial," Journal of Medical Internet Research, 21(1), e11683, 2019.

Publication

Diverse data selection via combinatorial quasi-concavity of distance covariance: A polynomial time global minimax algorithm

Diverse data selection via combinatorial quasi-concavity of distance covariance: A polynomial time global minimax algorithm, Praneeth Vepakomma, Yulia Kempner

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Updates

News and information from across MIT, MA, and beyond.

Publication

Capturing spontaneous trait inference with the modified free association paradigm

Orghian, D., Smith, A., Garcia-Marques, L., & Heinke, D. (in press). Capturing spontaneous trait inferences with the modified word association task. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2017.07.004

Publication

A New Model Based on the In-Plane Deformation for the Conformal Piezoelectric Systems for Characterization of Soft Tissue Modulus

Zhao, H., Dagdeviren, C., Liu, G., Cao, P., Wang, J., Sha, B., Wang, G., Cui, J., Su, Y., “A New Model Based on the in-plane Deformation for the Conformable Piezoelectric Systems for Characterization of Soft Tissue Modulus”, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eml.2022.101801, Extreme Mechanics Letter, 2022.

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Single fibre enables acoustic fabrics via nanometre-scale vibrations

Yan, W., Noel, G., Loke, G., Meiklejohn, E., Khiduyev, T., Marion, J., Rui, G., Lin, J., Cherston, J., Saharasbudhe, A., Wilbert, J., Wicaksono, I., Hoyt, R.W., Missakian, A., Zhu, L., Ma, C., Joannopoulos, J., and Fink, Y. Single fibre enables acoustic fabrics via nanometre-scale vibrations. Nature (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-04476-9

Publication

Inspiration from the Incomplete: The Role of Asynchronous Awareness in Digital Art Creation

Buza, K. "Inspiration from the Incomplete: The Role of Asynchronous Awareness in Digital Art Creation"

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Space Has Arrived: Space Exploration Initiative at Ars Electronica 2020

This year, SEI joined the Ars Electronica In Kepler’s garden online program and presented three workshops and an online lecture.

Publication

Flexible open-source automation for robotic bioengineering

Emma J Chory, Dana W Gretton, Erika A DeBenedictis, Kevin M Esvelt. "Flexible open-source automation for robotic bioengineering." bioRxiv 2020.04.14.041368; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.04.14.041368 [This article is a preprint and has not been certified by peer review]

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The large footprint of small-scale artisanal gold mining in Ghana

Abigail Barenblitt, Amanda Payton, David Lagomasino, Lola Fatoyinbo, Kofi Asare, Kenneth Aidoo, Hugo Pigott, Charles Kofi Som, Laurent Smeets, Omar Seidu, Danielle Wood, The large footprint of small-scale artisanal gold mining in Ghana, Science of The Total Environment, Volume 781, 2021, 146644, ISSN 0048-9697.

Project

Spatial Flux: Body and architecture in space

Structurally, zero gravity means that we do not have to contend with architecture's greatest arch-nemesis, gravity. This opens up a new wor…

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Project Us

“Us” aims to help people develop their sense of empathy. It uses machine learning to analyze interlocutors’ signals (e.g., choice of words,…

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Smart City Expo World Congress 2017. Andorra Pavilion

Events at the Andorra PavilionTuesday 11/1411:30 - 13:00 - Inauguration of the Andorra Pavilion15:00 - 15:30 - Apiumtech15:30 - 16:00 - FED…

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2D material-based field-effect-transistors and nano-electro-mechanical systems for sensing applications

S. Kajale*, S. Yadav*, Y. Cai, B. C. Joy, D. Sarkar (* co 1st authors), iScience (2021): 103513

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Kevin Esvelt @ Marsilius-Vorlesungen, Universität Heidelberg

Wisely Engineering Shared Ecosystems: Leveraging gene drive to ensure open and community-responsive genetic engineering research …

Thursday
June 1, 2017
4:00pm ET
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Member collaboration: Data USA

Putting the power of public data in your hands.

Article

Robots are already with us—how we treat them tells us a lot about ourselves, here's why

For BBC Science Focus, Media Lab research scientist Dr. Kate Darling considers the potential harms of mistreating robots.

Publication

Dust soiling effects on decentralized solar in West Africa

Isaacs, S., Kalashnikova, O., Garay, M. J., van Donkelaar, A., Hammer, M. S., Lee, H., & Wood, D. (2023). Dust soiling effects on decentralized solar in West Africa. Applied Energy, 340, 120993.

Publication

Multiple Instance Learning for Credit Risk Assessment with Transaction Data

Tao ZHANG, Wei ZHANG, Wei XU, Haijing, HAO. Knowledge-Based Systems, Volume 161, 1 December 2018, Pages 65-77.

Gallery

Polysense Examples

eTextile functionalization examples.

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Making Digital Tangible: Hiroshi Ishii's ACM SIGCHI Lifetime Research Award Lecture on May 6th, 2019 in Glasgow

Thanks to ACM SIGCHI for the SIGCIH Lifetime Research Award!

Project

Large-scale EEG-Based User-Identification Using Self-supervised Learning

EEG-based biometrics (user identification) has been explored on small datasets of no more than 157 subjects. Here we show that the accuracy…

Course

MAS.859: Space Technology for the Development Leader (Spring 2021)

This course and seminar series explore how rapid changes in space technology and policy influence work toward a sustainable society.

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Lifelong Learners: Insights from an intergenerational initiative

We believe that knowledge belongs to everyone.

Publication

Using Twitter Data to Understand Public Perceptions of Approved versus Off-label Use for COVID-19-related Medications

Hua, Yining*, Hang Jiang*, Shixu Lin, Jie Yang, Joseph M. Plasek, David W. Bates, and Li Zhou. "Using Twitter Data to Understand Public Perceptions of Approved versus Off-label Use for COVID-19-related Medications." Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (2022). *Equal Contribution.

Publication

Improving Attention Using Wearables via Haptic and Multimodal Rhythmic Stimuli

Whitmore, N., Chan, S., Zhang, J., Chwalek, P., Chin, S., & Maes, P. (2024, February 22). Improving Attention Using Wearables via Haptic and Multimodal Rhythmic Stimuli. https://doi.org/10.1145/3613904.3642256

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Improving Attention Using Wearables via Haptic and Multimodal Rhythmic Stimuli

Nathan Whitmore*, Samantha Chan*, Jingru Zhang, Patrick Chwalek, Sam Chin, and Pattie Maes. 2024. Improving Attention Using Wearables via Haptic and Multimodal Rhythmic Stimuli. In Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’24), May 11–16, 2024, Hon- olulu, HI, USA. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 14 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/ 3613904.3642256 (*equal contribution)

Project

Generative Land Use for Human-centric Communities

The Generative Land Use project aims to revolutionize urban planning by developing a cutting-edge algorithm that generates the ideal land u…

Publication

Speed Dating with Voice User Interfaces: Understanding How Families Interact and Perceive Voice User Interfaces in a Group Setting

Ostrowski, A. K., Fu, J., Zygouras, V., Park, H. W., & Breazeal, C. Speed Dating with Voice User Interfaces (VUIs): Understanding How Families Interact and Perceive VUIs in a Group Setting. Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 375.

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KinVoices: Using Voices of Friends and Family in Voice Interfaces

Chan, S. W. T., Gunasekaran, T. S., Pai, Y. S., Zhang, H., & Nanayakkara, S. (2021). KinVoices: Using Voices of Friends and Family in Voice Interfaces. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 5(CSCW2), 1-25.

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Rosalind Picard Keynote @ USI Paris

LocationParis, FR Description

Tuesday
June 26, 2012
Publication

The Abuse and Misogynoir Playbook

By Dr. Katlyn Turner, Prof. Danielle Wood and Prof. Catherine D'Ignazio. This article originally appeared in the January Issue of the Quarterly State of AI Ethics Report published by the Montreal AI Ethics Institute.

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Deblina Sarkar publications

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MIT engineers use kirigami to make ultrastrong, lightweight structures

Using kirigami techniques, researchers at the MIT Center for Bits + Atoms have created complex metal structures that are lighter than cork.