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Rob Pardo

Former Director's Fellow

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MLTalks: Rob Pardo

Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. Chief Creative Officer Rob Pardo in conversation with Media Lab Director Joi Ito.

Wednesday
May 7, 2014
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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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MLTalks: Rob Pardo

Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. Chief Creative Officer Rob Pardo in conversation with Media Lab Director Joi Ito.

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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
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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
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Advancing Wellbeing Seminar Series: Rob Morris

LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-633 DescriptionMore than 30 million adults in the United States suffer from depression. Many more meet the diagn…

Wednesday
October 8, 2014
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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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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…

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Rob Baynes

Former Lead Back End Developer

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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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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…

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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

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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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 research response to COVID-19

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

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MLTalks Series

Learn more about our MLTalks series, including upcoming events.

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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 Focus | September 2021: Aging

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

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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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Proto-conversations with an anthropomorphic robot

C. Breazeal

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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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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 @ NeurIPS | 2020

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

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The Media Lab @ the MIT Museum

We're thrilled to welcome our friends at the Museum to Kendall Square!

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Two Media Lab Students Among the Recipients of the Inaugural Amazon Robotics Fellowships

The Fellowships are aimed at helping students from underrepresented backgrounds establish careers in robotics, engineering, computer science

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Cynthia Breazeal Assumes New Media Lab Role

Cynthia Breazeal has been promoted to full professor and named associate director of the Media Lab. Both appointments are effective July 1.

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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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Media Lab @ NeurIPS | 2022

The following Media Lab researchers participated in NeurIPS 2022, the thirty-sixth hybrid conference on Neural Informat…

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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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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."

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Advancing Wellbeing Seminar Series: Christina A. Roberto, PhD

LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-633 DescriptionTalks in the Advancing Wellbeing Seminar Series are free and open to the public.Poor diet and obe…

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Media Lab @ NeurIPS | 2023

The following Media Lab researchers participated in NeurIPS 2023, the 37th conference on Neural Information Processing Syste…

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Tessa Lau @ Media Lab

LocationE14-633, MIT Media Lab DescriptionAbout a year ago, knowing nothing about robotics, Tessa Lau joined Willow Garage with one mission…

Friday
November 22, 2013
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Media Lab @ CHI 2021

A variety of Media Lab community members will be participating in the virtual 2021 ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.

Thursday — Saturday
May 6, 2021 —
May 15, 2021
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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 @ 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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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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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 @ SXSW 2020

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.

Friday — Saturday
March 13, 2020 —
March 21, 2020
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Media Lab @ UbiComp 2021

Explore the Media Lab research presented at UbiComp 2021!

Tuesday — Sunday
September 21, 2021 —
September 26, 2021
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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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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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ML Focus Series | Extended Intelligence—Q+A with Personal Robots

As the presence of artificial intelligence expands significantly in children’s lives of learning and play, it is critical that students lea…

Tuesday
May 18, 2021
1:00pm — 2:00pm 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.

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The Poetry of Science project highlights two Media Lab students

The project pairs local poets of color with local scientists of color to create original poetry about the scientists’ work and experiences.

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Media Lab @ 2024 Lake Nona Impact Forum

This event will explore the intersections of health, wellness, scientific innovation, and strategies to optimize human performance.

Wednesday — Friday
February 28, 2024 —
March 1, 2024
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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: 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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Media Lab @ 2023 Cambridge Science Festival

Cambridge Science Festival (CSF) is an annual celebration of science, technology, engineering, art, and math (STEAM)

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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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Media Lab @ CHI 2020

The virtual Cambridge CHI event, which is student-run and open to the public, is happening May 14-15th from 11am–2pm EDT.

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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.