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Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. Chief Creative Officer Rob Pardo in conversation with Media Lab Director Joi Ito.
LocationMIT Media Lab, Third-Floor Atrium Description This talk has been postponed. We look forward to following Geetha Narayanan later in …
Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. Chief Creative Officer Rob Pardo in conversation with Media Lab Director Joi Ito.
Damien Echols and Shaka Senghor in conversation on injustice, compassion, and redemption in relation to their prison memoirs.
David Sun Kong, Kevin Slavin, and special guests in conversation with Media Lab Director Joi Ito.
Faculty Perspectives is a new series inviting thoughtful speakers and innovators to inspire the Media Lab community and beyond.
LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-633 DescriptionMore than 30 million adults in the United States suffer from depression. Many more meet the diagn…
The Challenge: To harness AI for humanity's leap forwardMachines are becoming more intelligent and more powerful every day. But, like all t…
The July edition of the Media Lab Focus series for member companies starts next week! The theme is New Health, and wil…
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Co-founded by Professor Rosalind Picard, Empatica develops medical-grade wearables and algorithms for health monitoring and diagnostics.
Recognizing and interpreting group behaviors is much more challenging than that of individual behaviors. Firstly, the system must perform w…
Kate Darling, Cynthia Breazeal, and Pattie Maes of the Media Lab join Patricia Henderson for a conversation about extended intelligence.
Join us remotely as we go on curated research journeys focused on a monthly theme.
Listening to DisruptIn this session of the Media Lab Perspectives series, Deb Roy will engage his collaborator Kathy Cramer in co…
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…
The Media Lab community brings creativity, expertise, and research to the pandemic
Learn more about our MLTalks series, including upcoming events.
The following Media Lab groups and projects are represented at CHI 2019
The theme for the ML Focus series for September 2021 will be on Aging.
IEEE Pulse: From The Lab Episode 1: Canan Dagdeviren
Thursday May 27, 2021 …
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The Challenge: To Transform Mental + Physical WellbeingAs mental health and physical ability challenges surge worldwide, driven by ine…
The Challenge: To ignite creativity in the face of global challengesThe accelerating crises, disruptions, and disconnections in today’s soc…
The following Media Lab community members participated in the thirty-fourth virtual conference on Neural Information Processing Systems.
We're thrilled to welcome our friends at the Museum to Kendall Square!
The Fellowships are aimed at helping students from underrepresented backgrounds establish careers in robotics, engineering, computer science
Cynthia Breazeal has been promoted to full professor and named associate director of the Media Lab. Both appointments are effective July 1.
In January 2024, members of the Media Lab traveled to Fribourg, Switzerland to conduct a workshop on sensing, interactions, and augmentation
The following Media Lab researchers participated in NeurIPS 2022, the thirty-sixth hybrid conference on Neural Informat…
In this session of the Media Lab Perspective Series, Media Lab director Dava Newman will moderate a conversation with Nicole Stott
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
"A conversation. Not a conference."
LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-633 DescriptionTalks in the Advancing Wellbeing Seminar Series are free and open to the public.Poor diet and obe…
The following Media Lab researchers participated in NeurIPS 2023, the 37th conference on Neural Information Processing Syste…
LocationE14-633, MIT Media Lab DescriptionAbout a year ago, knowing nothing about robotics, Tessa Lau joined Willow Garage with one mission…
A variety of Media Lab community members will be participating in the virtual 2021 ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.
The Media Lab Focus series for March 2021 will present research on the theme of Mobility.
A variety of Media Lab community members will participate in the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Expert panelists discuss lessons learned from COVID-19 and progress made to better prepare our public health systems.
The Fall Meeting will be held on-site at the MIT Media Lab with sessions livestreamed on Tuesday, October 24 - Thursday, October 26, 2023.
When South by Southwest 2020 convenes in Austin, TX March 13-21, many of the speakers taking the stage will be members of the Media Lab.
Explore the Media Lab research presented at UbiComp 2021!
Co-founded by Media Lab alum Alex Westner, Xander will introduce its first product, XanderGlasses, at CES 2023.
The Challenge: To shape the future with decentralized technologiesOur world faces a range of complex challenges across multiple sector…
As the presence of artificial intelligence expands significantly in children’s lives of learning and play, it is critical that students lea…
The Media Lab Focus series for November 2020 will present research every week on the theme of Telecreativity.
The project pairs local poets of color with local scientists of color to create original poetry about the scientists’ work and experiences.
This event will explore the intersections of health, wellness, scientific innovation, and strategies to optimize human performance.
We introduce SociaBowl, a dynamic table centerpiece to promote positive social dynamics in 2-way cooperative conversations. A centerpiece s…
In this session of the Media Lab Perspective Series, Future Sketches head Zach Lieberman will moderate a conversation with Sara Hendren.
The Media Lab Focus series for July 2021 will be around the theme of New Health.
Cambridge Science Festival (CSF) is an annual celebration of science, technology, engineering, art, and math (STEAM)
Explore coverage of MIT in the MediaFor media inquiries, visit the Information for the Press page.
For more than three decades, the people of the Media Lab have spurred progress and change not just through academia, but across startups an…
The virtual Cambridge CHI event, which is student-run and open to the public, is happening May 14-15th from 11am–2pm EDT.
A number of Media Lab and MIT projects and spinoffs were recognized.