Event

Jonathan Ledgard: Future Africa

LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-633 DescriptionThe technology choices Africa makes in the next decade will help to determine whether it becomes …

Monday
April 29, 2013
Person

Jonathan Merrin

AI Augmented Learning System Developer

Person

Jonathan Richards

Administrative Assistant

Person

Jonathan Cohen

Research Affiliate

Person

Jonathan Askin

Former Visiting Professor

Person

Jonathan Zittrain

Former Visiting Professor

Person

Jonathan Bobrow

Former Research Assistant

Person

Jonathan Fanton

President Emeritus, American Academy of Arts & Sciences; Advisory Council Member

Person

Jonathan Dyssel Stets

Former Research Assistant

Event

Special Talk: Edinburgh Festival Director Jonathan Mills

LocationMIT Media Lab, Building E14, 6th Floor Lecture Hall DescriptionThe Edinburgh International Festival has been connecting artists and…

Tuesday
November 13, 2012
Post

Minoo Rathnasabapathy Keynotes at Conferences in South Africa

Dr. Minoo Rathnasabapathy spoke at the 1st IAA African Symposium on Small Satellites and the 5th African Space Generation Workshop.

Project

Creative Learning Africa

The Lifelong Kindergarten group develops technologies and activities that engage people in creative learning. We’re exploring a few directi…

Event

Jonathan Bobrow @ Tech Poetics Meetup

LocationBocoup, Boston, MA Description

Friday — Thursday
December 18, 2015 —
December 17, 2015
Event

Minoo Rathnasabapathy Participates at NewSpace Africa 2022

NewSpace Africa includes industry leaders, commercial space companies, investors, and key stakeholders in the African space industry.

Monday — Wednesday
April 25, 2022 —
April 27, 2022
Post

Danielle Wood Speaks at GEO Week in Cape Town, South Africa

Dannielle Wood spoke at GEO Week in South Africa, held this year November 6-10 in Cape Town, South Africa.

Publication

Discovering Southern and East Africa's Industrial Opportunities

CA Hidalgo

Article

Educators gather for first Scratch Africa Conference

Educators from across Africa are gathering in Nairobi, Kenya for the first Scratch Africa Conference.

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.

Event

Danielle Wood Speaks at ASLI's First U.S.-Africa Space Partnership Roundtable

Danielle Wood will be a speaker at the first US-Africa Space Partnership Roundtable, hosted by the African Space Leadership Institute.

Thursday
November 3, 2022
Post

Dr Minoo Rathnasabapathy contributes to Via Satellite November feature: Africa United its Diverse and Rapidly Growing Space Industry

Dr Minoo Rathnasabapathy contributes to Via Satellite's November feature on Africa's space industry.

Article

3 Questions: Claude Grunitzky MBA '12 on launching TRUE Africa University

CIS research affiliate describes his goals in creating a webinar series exploring sustainable development in Africa.

Post

Minoo Rathnasabapathy & Danielle Wood Participate in White House U.S.-Africa Space Forum

Wood and Rathnasabapathy were invited to the White House's US-Africa Leaders Summit held in Washington, DC from December 13-15.

Article

Opportunity within the unknown: Amazing women making their mark in the South Africa space industry

BBQ magazine was fortunate to chat two remarkable women in the South African space industry—Carla Sharpe and Dr Minoo Rathnasabapathy

Article

Danielle Wood's Leadership of African and African Diaspora Studies Featured in MIT News

MIT's undergraduate African and African Diaspora Studies major, advised by Danielle Wood, was recently highlighted in the MIT News.

Article

Interview with Jonathan Taplin and Cesar Hidalgo

Event

Minoo Rathnasabapathy gives keynote at 3rd African Space Generation Workshop and 8th African Leadership Congress

Dr. Minoo Rathnasabapathy gave a keynote presentation on utilizing space technologies for the sustainable development goals, and joined the

Saturday — Wednesday
November 30, 2019 —
December 4, 2019
Publication

Liberatory Computing for African American Students (Awarded Best Position Paper)

Walker, R., Sherif, E., & Breazeal, C. (2022). Liberatory computing education for African American students. 2022 Conference on Research in Equitable and Sustained Participation in Engineering, Computing, and Technology (RESPECT), 85–89.

Project

Liberatory Computing for African American Students

The underrepresentation of minoritized groups, particularly African Americans, is the longstanding reality of computing fields. Computing h…

Article

Ufuoma Ovienmhada of MIT Media Lab Space Enabled group is using satellite data to curb the effects of invasive species in Africa

Ufuoma Ovienmhada discusses her work using satellite data to help manage invasive water hyacinth in Benin.

Publication

Liberatory Computing for African American Students (Awarded Best Position Paper)

Walker, R., Sherif, E., & Breazeal, C. (2022). Liberatory computing education for African American students. 2022 Conference on Research in Equitable and Sustained Participation in Engineering, Computing, and Technology (RESPECT), 85–89.

Article

MIT Legal Forum 2017: The future of lawyers and technology

This October, MIT celebrated the inaugural MIT Legal Forum on AI & Blockchain which aimed to provide a space in which legal professiona…

Post

Yiyun Zhang and Ufuoma Ovienmhada Featured in "Future Leaders in Aerospace"

Zhang and Ovienmhada were featured in "Future Leaders in Aerospace," hosted by the MIT Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics.

Article

The data-driven future of storytelling: MIT’s Deb Roy on the message and the medium

Deb Roy talks to McKinsey about the many ways audience, voice, and medium combine to create compelling stories.

Event

Danielle Wood Speaks at the Smithsonian's Afrofuturism Series "Claiming Space: A Symposium on Black Futures"

Danielle Wood will speak at the session "Outer Space: Projecting Histories and Futures onto the Stars."

Saturday
January 29, 2022
2:00pm ET
Event

Future Futures Demos

LocationMoonshine, 303 Red River DescriptionMonday is the last day for the MIT Media Lab Future Futures Lounge! Stop by to check out new wo…

Monday
March 10, 2014
Event

#MLSXSW: Future Futures Lounge

LocationMoonshine Restaurant, 303 Red River Description#MLSXSWDates: Friday March 7 thru Monday March 10 (11am - 5:30pm daily)Science ficti…

Friday — Monday
March 7, 2014 —
March 10, 2014
Group

Future Sketches

The Future Sketches group explores software as a medium for art and design, as well as how toolkits and pedagogical approach…

Publication

African voters indicate lack of support for climate change policies

Group

Opera of the Future

The Opera of the Future group (formerly known as Hyperinstruments) explores concepts and techniques to help advance the future of musical c…

Video

Future Worlds

Our goal is for society to work for 100% of humanity and for all living beings, so they can thrive—here on Earth and in worlds beyond.

Event

Future Futures Workshop: Make Your Own Robot Head!

LocationMoonshine Lounge DescriptionMake your own robot head with Sputniko! in preparation for the evening's Cosmodrome party!We'll provide…

Friday
March 7, 2014
Event

FAST Future

LocationMIT Media Lab, E14, Sixth Floor Description

Saturday — Sunday
April 16, 2011 —
April 17, 2011
Event

Future of Mobility

How can we work together to build a better mobility future?The MIT Media Lab is working with Toyota Research Institute and other industry c…

Wednesday
August 23, 2017
9:00am — 1:00pm ET
Event

Future of Interfaces

LocationStuttgart, Germany Description

Wednesday
May 5, 2010
Article

Bitcoin’s rise in African markets is driven by an old Russian ponzi scheme

“Welcome to the System! Together we will change the world!”These are the words I found scrawled at the bottom of a web page, right next to …

Group

Future Storytelling

The Future Storytelling working group at the Media Lab is rethinking storytelling for the 21st century. The group takes a new and dynamic a…

Group

Future Storytelling

The Future Storytelling working group at the Media Lab is rethinking storytelling for the 21st century. The group takes a new and dynamic a…

Project

Two Mobility Futures 0∞

Two Mobility Futures 0∞ is a research project that encompasses storytelling, a democratic decision making platform, a city model, and an im…

Project

Future Sketches at Artechouse

Future Sketches installed a group exhibition as part of Zach Lieberman's Future Sketches / Code Poems show at Artechouse, which opened duri…

Group

Future of Learning

(For more Future of Learning projects, see Seymour Papert.) The world resonates with rhetoric about new needs and new opportunities for lea…

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…

Person

Juliet Wanyiri

Former Research Assistant

Event

3D: Printing the Future

LocationScience Museum, London DescriptionExplore this exhibition to discover how innovators are using 3D printers to turn computer data in…

Wednesday — Thursday
October 9, 2013 —
July 10, 2014
Event

AI Futures Panel

As part of the AI Alchemy series the  AI Futures panel brings experts in computational creativity and generative AI from 4 time z…

Monday
October 10, 2022
12:00am ET
Series

ML Research Theme: Future Worlds

We’ll create transformative technologies, experiences, and systems that address the dual challenge of climate change and energy.

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Article

The future of intelligence (artificial and otherwise)

Media Lab Professor Alex 'Sandy' Pentland, MIT CSAIL Director Daniela Rus, and Prof. Josh Tenenbaum discuss the future of intelligence.

Group

Communications Futures Program

The Communications Futures Program conducts research on industry dynamics, technology opportunities, and regulatory issues that form the ba…

Article

Are brain implants the future of computing?

The Economist reports on the future of brain-computer interfaces, including work being done by researcher Nataliya Kosmyna.

Event

#MLSXSW: The Future of Making

LocationAustin Convention Center, Ballroom D Description#sxsw #SxSWMake #MLSXSWThe idea of making isn’t just reserved for handmade bikes, a…

Friday
March 7, 2014
Event

Rosalind Picard @ Future of Storytelling

LocationNew York, NY DescriptionRosalind Picard is the foremost expert on “affective computing.” Her groundbreaking research uses computers…

Wednesday — Thursday
October 1, 2014 —
October 2, 2014
Event

Natan Linder @ Future Forward

LocationWellesley College Club, Wellesley MA Description

Thursday
November 10, 2011
Project

Future of batteries and future with better batteries

This is the 3rd concept exhibition of imaginarium of technology which explores the future with advancement of batteries and how battery tec…

Event

Future of Health Technology Summit

LocationMIT Faculty Club Description Additional Featured Research ByCamera Culture (Unpublished) Software Agents (Unpublished) Society of M…

Monday — Tuesday
September 26, 2011 —
September 27, 2011
Event

The Future of Homo Sapiens

Media Lab faculty speak at Xapiens kickoff event

Thursday
March 7, 2019
4:00pm — 8:00pm ET