Event

MLTalks: Jillian York

Director for International Freedom of Expression Jillian York in conversation with Director for Center for Civic Media Ethan Zuckerman.

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MLTalks: Jillian York

Director for International Freedom of Expression Jillian York in conversation with Director for Center for Civic Media Ethan Zuckerman.

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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: JJ Abrams

Nov. 26, 2012
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Media Lab Conversations Series: Carroll Bogert

Sept. 10, 2012
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Media Lab Conversations Series: Guts and Genius

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

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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
Article

New York Times Features New Media Lab Director

Article

'Sleep No More,' Enhanced by the MIT Media Lab in New York

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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.

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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 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
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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MLTalks Series

Learn more about our MLTalks series, including upcoming events.

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Neri Oxman @ Architectural League of New York

LocationScholastic Auditorium, New York Description

Thursday
March 26, 2015
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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

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Media Lab Perspectives: Listening to Disrupt with Katherine Cramer

Thursday May 27, 2021 …

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Ekene Ijeoma Joins the MIT Media Lab

In January 2019, artist Ekene Ijeoma will join the MIT Media Lab as an assistant professor.

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Director's Fellows | New York Event

LocationLocation will be provided with RSVP. DescriptionMedia Lab community members are invited to join Director Joi Ito and the NYC-based …

Sunday — Saturday
November 24, 2013 —
November 23, 2013
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Media Lab @ NeurIPS | 2020

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

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MIT Media Lab Future Fellowship

As of November 16, 2022: Due to the recent bankruptcy filing of the FTX Cryptocurrency Exchange, and the resignation of the team that …

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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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Media Lab @ 2022 Lake Nona Impact Forum

"A conversation. Not a conference."

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…

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.

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Media Lab research response to COVID-19

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

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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…

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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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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

Article

Zach Lieberman joins MIT Media Lab

New adjunct associate professor combines fine arts and coding.

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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
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Media Lab Focus | November 2020: Telecreativity

The Media Lab Focus series for November 2020 will present research every week on the theme of Telecreativity.

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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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
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Media Lab hosts screenings with Boston Film Festival

The screenings highlight stories of the Black community in the US featuring innovation, tradition, and courage.

Saturday — Sunday
September 23, 2023 —
September 24, 2023
Event

Media Lab Perspectives: Can a lab be an undivided house? with Sara Hendren

In this session of the Media Lab Perspective Series, Future Sketches head Zach Lieberman will moderate a conversation with Sara Hendren.

Thursday
December 9, 2021
12:00pm — 1:00pm ET
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Media Lab Focus | July 2021: New Health

The Media Lab Focus series for July 2021 will be around the theme of New Health.

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Alex 'Sandy' Pentland

Professor of Media Arts and Sciences; Toshiba Professor

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Media Lab Focus | September 2021: Aging

The theme for the ML Focus series for September 2021 will be on Aging.

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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

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MIT Media Lab in the Media

Explore coverage of MIT in the MediaFor media inquiries, visit the Information for the Press page.

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Media Lab Spinoffs

For more than three decades, the people of the Media Lab have spurred progress and change not just through academia, but across startups an…

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Fast Company's 2023 World-Changing Ideas Awards: Media Lab Honorees

A number of Media Lab and MIT projects and spinoffs were recognized.

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Media Lab research at CHI 2019

The following Media Lab groups and projects are represented at CHI 2019

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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

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Teaching at the Media Lab

To me, teaching equals sharing while learning.

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Media Lab Focus | January 2021: Building the New Economy

The Media Lab Focus series for January 2021 will present research every week on the theme of Building the New Economy.

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Personality, Attitudes, and Bonding in Conversations

Jaques, N., Kim, Y. L., and Picard, R. W. "Personality, Attitudes, and Bonding in Conversations," In Proceedings of Intelligent Virtual Agents, California, USA, September 2016.

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Media Lab Focus | March 2021: Mobility

The Media Lab Focus series for March 2021 will present research on the theme of Mobility.

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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 Focus | September 2020: Technology and Social Equity

The Media Lab Focus series for September 2020 will present research every week on the theme of Technology and Social Equity.

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Media Lab @ SXSW 2024

See what the Media Lab community is bringing to SXSW 2024!

Friday — Saturday
March 8, 2024 —
March 16, 2024
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Media Lab announces 2017 Director’s Fellows

Announcing 10 new Director’s Fellows who'll bring their diverse experiences to the Media Lab.

Article

The most futuristic building in New York—currently on view at MoMA—wasn’t made by humans

To build a new pavilion in midtown Manhattan, the architect Neri Oxman employed 17,000 silkworms.

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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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Diversity Series

The MAS Diversity Series brings the Media Lab community together to develop skills and explore ideas of diversity and social justice t…

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Media Lab @ UbiComp 2023

A number of Media Lab researchers and alumni are participating in UbiComp 2023.

Sunday — Thursday
October 8, 2023 —
October 12, 2023