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MLTalks: Sarah Parcak

Archaeologist Sarah Parcak in conversation with Media Lab Director Joi Ito.

Thursday
September 11, 2014
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MLTalks: Sarah Parcak

Archaeologist Sarah Parcak in conversation with Media Lab Director Joi Ito.

Sept. 11, 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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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
Video

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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Sarah Summers

Former Program Assistant

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Sarah Ornellas

Research Assistant

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Sarah Cao

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Sarah Beckmann

Communications and Marketing Associate

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Sarah Ballinger

Former Head of Program Management

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Sarah Sclarsic

Former Research Assistant

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Sarah Otts

Former Online Community Developer, Scratch

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Sarah Hoffmann

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Sarah Otts

Former Online Community Developer, Scratch

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Sarah Platte

Former Research Assistant

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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
Video

MLVoices: Sarah Beckmann

Sarah Beckmann, a communications coordinator, writes and edits content with the goal of promoting the Media Lab's unique research agenda.

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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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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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Forbes "30 Under 30" North America 2024: Media Lab Judges

Former Labbers Honghao Deng and Sarah Sclarsic served as judges in the Manufacturing & Industry and Energy categories.

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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 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 Focus

Join us remotely as we go on curated research journeys focused on a monthly theme.

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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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Sarah Cao of Nano-Cybernetic Biotrek wins the Outstanding UROP Student Award

Sarah joined Prof. Sarkar’s research group in September 2022 through the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program.

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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…

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MIT Media Lab Spring Meeting 2022

We’re looking forward to welcoming our members and special visitors back to the Lab in person April 12–13 for a variety of research updates!

Tuesday — Wednesday
April 12, 2022 —
April 13, 2022
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Media Lab @ 2022 Lake Nona Impact Forum

"A conversation. Not a conference."

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Tangible Media

We live on the border between two worlds: our physical environment and cyberspace. People have developed sophisticated skill…

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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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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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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 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
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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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Announcing the winners of the 2018 MIT Media Lab Disobedience Award

#MeToo and #MeTooSTEM leaders recognized with $250,000 award

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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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Sarah Ballinger wins 2021 MIT Excellence Award

Sarah Ballinger, a staff member within MIT CCC, has been selected as a winner of the 2021 MIT Excellence Awards, for Innovative Solutions.

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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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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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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 Focus | September 2021: Aging

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

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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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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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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 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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Teaching at the Media Lab

To me, teaching equals sharing while learning.

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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 | 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.