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Former Director's Fellows Program Alumnus
LocationMIT Media Lab, 6th Floor DescriptionComedy Hack Day, an initiative by Director's Fellow Baratunde Thurston's company Cultivated Wit…
Baratunde Thurston in conversation with Media Lab Director Joi Ito.
Baratunde Thurston in conversation with Media Lab Director Joi Ito.
LocationChicago, IL DescriptionMedia Lab Director Joi Ito, Director's Fellows Shaka Senghor, Jeff Sturges, and Baratunde Thurston, and Advi…
LocationMIT Media Lab Description
LocationOnline Description
Video Producer
As part of a Google-sponsored Glass developer event, we created a Glass-enabled improv comedy show together with noted comedians from Impro…
XR technology is becoming increasingly important in a world where the need to know intersects with the need to experience.
This hackathon aims to explore how projection can tap into our personal life to allow us to be healthier, better versions of ourselves.
J. Wachman, Rosalind W. Picard
IdeaA lab is where unique ideas are generated and early prototypes are synthesized. A factory is where designs are mass produced and qualit…
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Artists, engineers, hackers, creative technologists, innovators, entrepreneurs. If you have a passion for art and want to see how technolog…
LocationMIT Media Lab, 6th Floor DescriptionKevin Hu and Alexis Hope on FOLD:Imagine reading about the 2008 housing crisis without knowing …
Learn how to get started on BioHacking, and how might we create a bio-digital system.
Recent advancements in autonomous and intelligent machines introduce an unprecedented opportunity to reimagine how people live, work, and p…
How one collaborative month has changed Labbers' views of making stuff.
Advertisers are beginning to explore ways to market products to people while they sleep. A group of scientists talked to NPR about the risks
LocationSan Francisco, CA Description
BARATUNDE THURSTONBaratunde Bureaucracy CorpFuturist comedian, activist, and best-selling "How to Be Black" author Baratunde Thurston gives…
Lessons from a month in a Chinese knitting plant.
Former Graduate Student
LocationMoonshine, 303 Red River DescriptionWhat if we could charge our phones while sitting in the park? What if wifi on the go was never …
LocationRoom 9ABC, Austin Convention Center Description#sxsw #HackAttn #MLSXSWSuperstorms, bombings and protests around the globe are chall…
Ruihan Zhang, a student in the Molecular Machines group, was lead organizer of this event in collaboration with MIT Film Makers Association
In this project we investigate how the process of building a circuit can be made more organic, like sketching in a sketchbook. We integrate…
Director of the Media Lab Joi Ito in conversation with the Director's Fellows.
Former Research Assistant
"When the Make the Breast Pump Not Suck! hackathon, a collection of roughly a hundred and fifty engineers, designers, midwives, and parents…
Thanks everyone for your contributions—we successfully concluded our event in Bangkok. We'll be back to Bangkok during the week of December…
Eric von Hippel, Joseph A. Paradiso,
Lederman, O. "Hacking Innovation - Group Dynamics in Innovation Teams"
You’re invited to the official launch of sAIpien—an exclusive program dedicated to translating moonshot AI research into tangible soci…
Joseph A. Paradiso, John Heidemann, Thomas G. Zimmerman
Director of the Media Lab Joi Ito in conversation with the Director's Fellows.
From improving your mood to focusing your creativity, scientists at MIT’s Dream Lab want to prove the power of dreams.
The Washington Post reports on research from the Media Lab’s Fluid Interfaces group & Harvard Medical School that naps could aid creativity.
The second iteration of this hackathon featured 66 films and 400 participants from local institutions, other states, and countries.
LocationMIT Media Lab, 6th Floor DescriptionJoin the Scratch Team at the MIT Media Lab to meet, share, learn, and celebrate Scratch Day wit…
K.C. Cheung, Stephen Intille, Kent Larson
We contributed 3 lesson plans to the Day of AI titled, "Data Science and Me", "Data Science and Decision Making", and "Data Activism".
Want the best Caprese salad or pesto you ever tasted? MIT researchers say they may be able to help.
LocationAll around the world Description
LocationAround the World! DescriptionScratch Day is a worldwide network of gatherings, where people will come together to meet other Scratc…
Join a global community of educators, researchers, and artists for the 4th Annual Day of AI celebration at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Scratch Day (day.scratch.mit.edu) is a network of face-to-face local gatherings, on the same day in all parts of the world, where people ca…
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Hosted by MIT RAISE, this event will introduce K-12 students to AI and its role in their daily lives through a curriculum developed at MIT.
Ariel Ekblaw speaks at Sónar+D
Day of AI is a free, hands-on curriculum of lessons and activities designed to introduce K-12 students to artificial intelligence (AI).
A group at MIT’s Media Lab known as the “Dream Team” thinks you can harness your unconscious mind with tech you can wear to bed.
On Sunday, February 18th we visited La Graciosa, another volcanic island on the Canary Islands, a Spanish archipelago.&…
This year, Scratch Day marks the 10th anniversary of the programming language and its worldwide community.