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MLTalks: Jaron Lanier

How to Love and Criticize Technology at the Same Time: Jaron Lanier in conversation with Ken Perlin, Hiroshi Ishii, and Pattie Maes.

Wednesday
March 5, 2014
Video

MLTalks: Jaron Lanier

How to Love and Criticize Technology at the Same Time: Jaron Lanier in conversation with Ken Perlin, Hiroshi Ishii, and Pattie Maes.

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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
Video

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
Event

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
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MLTalks Series

Learn more about our MLTalks series, including upcoming events.

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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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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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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…

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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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

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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…

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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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 Focus | September 2021: Aging

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

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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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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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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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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 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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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
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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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Roundglass + the MIT Media Lab

At the MIT Media Lab, we imagine, design, and invent a future filled with possibilities giving everyone the opportunity to thrive…

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MLTalks: Carroll Bogert "Look Who's Talking: Non-Profit Newsmakers in the New Media Age"

LocationMIT Media Lab, Third-Floor Atrium DescriptionChanges in the media world have been hard on journalists and unsettling for news consu…

Monday
September 10, 2012
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MIT Media Lab graduates share their entrepreneurial journey during 2022 Newhall Lecture

Alumni Nan-Wei Gong and Anirudh Sharma will deliver the 2022 C. Ashton Newhall Endowed Lecture at Elon University.

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Media Lab @ UIST 2023

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

Sunday — Wednesday
October 29, 2023 —
November 1, 2023
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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…

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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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MIT Media Lab Fall Meeting 2023

The Fall Meeting will be held on-site at the MIT Media Lab with sessions livestreamed on Tuesday, October 24 - Thursday, October 26, 2023.

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Media Lab Research Theme: Decentralized Society

The Challenge: To shape the future with decentralized technologiesOur world faces a range of complex challenges across multiple sector…

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Media Lab @ Natura

LocationNatura Campus, São Paulo, Brazil DescriptionHow will innovation and technology transform our lifestyle and consumer experience? A c…

Wednesday
August 6, 2014
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Media Lab @ CHI 2023

A variety of Media Lab community members will participate in the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Sunday — Friday
April 23, 2023 —
April 28, 2023
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Media Lab Tour Requests

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