Event

Dr. Temple Grandin: "Helping Different Kinds of Minds to Succeed"

LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-674 DescriptionThis event is co-sponsored by the Media Lab and the Simons Center for the Social Brain and is ope…

Event

MLTalks: Dr. Temple Grandin

Dr. Temple Grandin in conversation with founder and director of the Media Lab's Affective Computing Rosalind Picard.

Tuesday
March 17, 2015
Event

Special Events: Dr. Temple Grandin

LocationMIT Media Lab DescriptionThese events are open to the public.Film ScreeningMarch 11, 7:30pm, Bartos Theatre, MIT Media Lab, E15-070…

Wednesday — Tuesday
March 11, 2015 —
March 17, 2015
Video

MLTalks: Dr. Temple Grandin

Dr. Temple Grandin in conversation with founder and director of the Media Lab's Affective Computing Rosalind Picard.

Event

Film Screening: Temple Grandin

LocationBartos Theater, MIT Media Lab, E15-070 Descriptionhttp://www.hbo.com/movies/temple-grandin#/Staring Claire Danes, Julia Ormond, Cat…

Wednesday
March 11, 2015
Article

Temple Grandin: Look at What People Can Do, Not What They Can't

Article

Dr. Dava Newman: Leading Innovative Minds at the MIT Media Lab

Dava Newman talks to the Seneca Women’s Podcast Network about diversity, interdisciplinary research, and transforming ideas into reality.

Project

Miniaturized Neural System for Chronic, Local Intracerebral Drug Delivery (MiNDS)

Recent advances in medications for neurodegenerative disorders are expanding opportunities for improving the debilitating symptoms suffered…

Article

Why an MIT professor says we should all learn like kindergartners if we want to succeed

“We need to make the rest of school, the rest of life, more like kindergarten,” Resnick said, “to playfully create things with each other.”

Event

MLTalks: Curious Minds

What is curiosity? How does it work? And where does its seemingly limitless power to shape the mind and reshape society come from?

Tuesday
May 15, 2018
3:00pm — 4:30pm ET
Post

"MiNDS" technology named to Top 100 Science Spinoffs

The Conformable Decoders group's new method to deliver drugs directly to the brain was selected to the Top 100 Science Spinoffs according t…

Article

Helping computers perceive human emotions

Personalized machine-learning models capture subtle variations in facial expressions to better gauge how we feel

Article

Inside your dreamscape

Dream-hacking techniques can help us create, heal and have fun. They could also become tools of commercial manipulation.

Article

Researchers studying electrical signals in human brains are getting a little closer to reading our minds

On The World by PRX and WGBH, researcher Nataliya Kosmyna talks about advances in and potential applications for brain-computer interfaces.

Event

Kent Larson @ Meeting of the Minds 2011

LocationBoulder, CO Description

Thursday — Friday
September 22, 2011 —
September 23, 2011
Project

The Helping Hands

Two robot arms are in constant motion and hard at work. From a distance, they can be seen considering their tasks, communicating with each …

Project

DeepABM: Data-driven public policy with differentiable simulators

Abstract:We introduce DeepABM, a framework for agent-based modeling that leverages geometric message passing of graph neural networks for s…

Article

Helping dairy farmers raise healthy cows

Labby has developed an optical milk scanner based on materials-sensing technology that dairy farmers can use to measure their cows' health.

Article

The Human Founder: Building 2 successful startups and the significance of your mindset and desire play

On a recent episode of The Human Founder podcast with Gali Bloch Liran, Media Lab alum Natan Linder recounts his path to MIT.

Event

h2.0: new minds, new bodies, new identities

LocationKresge Auditorium, MIT DescriptionA one-day symposium exploring the innovative research focused on human 2.0—the new science of hum…

Wednesday — Thursday
May 9, 2007 —
May 10, 2007
Event

MLTalks—Inventive Minds: Marvin Minsky on Education

Xiao Xiao and Cynthia Solomon in conversation with Hal Abelson

Friday
May 31, 2019
1:00pm — 2:00pm ET
Article

How AI is helping patients with prosthetics

Alicia Lakey receives the Ewing Amputation procedure developed by the Biomechatronics group and Brigham and Women’s Hospital.

Event

Thinking Differently About Aging

Wednesday
June 9, 2021
11:00am — 12:00pm ET
Project

Empowering Minds

Empowering Minds proposes a constructionist, networked model for teacher learning. The focus of the work will be to explore a new construct…

Article

These Companies Are Helping Put Chicago on the Cutting Edge of Emerging Tech

Member company Isobar's collaborative research innovating in VR.

Video

MLTalks: Curious Minds

Tuesday May 15, 2018 …

Publication

Helping Addicts: A Scenario from 2021

Rosalind W. Picard

Project

WorldBeat: Hearing the world differently

Can we modulate the way we hear the world around us to make it more calming or to induce focus? While technology is usually associated with…

Article

Optimus Ride’s autonomous system makes self-driving vehicles a reality

MIT startup’s unique approach to improving human mobility is helping it gain traction in a competitive landscape.

Event

Dr. Dagdeviren to deliver a talk at the Center for Systems Neuroscience Symposium

The Center for Systems Neuroscience provides an interdisciplinary and interdepartmental structure to promote research, foster col…

Event

The New Era of Human 2.0: New Minds, New Bodies, New Identities

LocationMcCosh 50, Princeton University DescriptionSociety is at the threshold of a new age when machines will no longer be separate, lifel…

Tuesday
November 11, 2014
Article

How different types of knowledge impact the growth of new firms

Study explores the micromechanisms underlying regional economic diversification.

Event

Dr. Nataliya Kosmyna speaks at Config 2023 - Figma's design conference

MIND-CONTROLLED AT MIT: DESIGNING THE NEXT GENERATION OF BRAIN COMPUTER INTERFACESWhile everyone marvels over ChatGPT, a much more importan…

Wednesday — Thursday
June 21, 2023 —
June 22, 2023
8:00am — 8:00pm ET
Article

How a competitive swimmer is helping perfect a new amputation procedure

Cristina Quinn profiles Morgan Stickney, an elite swimmer who's the first person to undergo a bilateral Ewing amputation.

Event

"Curious Minds: The Power of Connection" with Perry Zurn, Dani Bassett, and Kristy Johnson

This event is free and part of Harvard Book Store's Virtual Event Series.

Friday
September 16, 2022
12:00pm ET
Publication

Shaping minds musically

Machover, T.

Publication

Inventive Minds: Marvin Minsky on Education

Minsky, Marvin, Mike Travers, Alan Kay, Harold Abelson, Gary Stager, Brian Silverman, Walter Bender, Patrick Henry Winston, and Margaret Minsky. Inventive Minds: Marvin Minsky on Education. Edited by Cynthia Solomon and Xiao Xiao. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2019.

Article

3Q for Dr. Katlyn Turner: Fighting racism in the nuclear community

MIT’s Katlyn Turner and four other nuclear scientists issue a call for antiracist actions within their profession.

Article

Meet 'Huggable,' the robot bear who's helping hospitalized kids

Cynthia Breazeal, head of the Personal Robots group, and her collaborators talk to US News about Huggable.

Article

Helping libraries keep pace with the demands of the digital age

The MIT Media Lab | $250,000 | To build a library residency program in which librarians and Media Lab technologists can collaborate

Project

Helping Emergency Care Physicians Diagnose Sepsis and Bacterial Infections with Machine Learning and Vision

General overview:Sepsis, a life-threatening complication of bacterial infection, leads to millions of worldwide deaths requires significant…

Post

Helping Physicians via Novel AI and Machine Learning Methods

Assisting physicians and patients by novel computational processes at the point-of-care.

Person

John S. Driscoll

Former Visiting Scholar

Publication

AutoEmotive: Bringing Empathy to the Driving Experience to Manage Stress

Hernandez J., McDuff D., Benavides X., Amores J., Maes P., and Picard R. W., "AutoEmotive: Bringing Empathy to the Driving Experience to Manage Stress," In work-in-progress/provocative work in Designing Interactive Systems (DIS), Vancouver, Canada, June 2014.

Article

Designing Around Little Minds

Publication

Telling Stories with Green the DragonBot: A Showcase of Children's Interactions Over Two Months

Kory Westlund, J. (2015). Telling Stories with Green the DragonBot: A Showcase of Children's Interactions Over Two Months. In J. A. Adams, W. Smart, B. Mutlu, & L. Takayama (Eds.), Proceedings of the Tenth Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction: Extended Abstracts (p. 263).

Article

MIT’s FutureMakers programs help kids get their minds around — and hands on — AI

The programs are designed to foster an understanding of how artificial intelligence technologies work, including their social implications.

Person

Alex Dreyfoos

Dreyfoos Group; Advisory Council Member

Article

Helping students of all ages flourish in the era of artificial intelligence

Responsible AI for Social Empowerment and Education (RAISE) seeks to empower more people to participate in, and benefit from, AI.

Video

MLTalks—Inventive Minds: Marvin Minsky on Education

Inventive Minds: Marvin Minsky on Education is a collection of six essays by artificial intelligence pioneer Marvin Minsky.

June 11, 2019
Publication

My Automated Conversation Helper (MACH): Helping People Improve Social Skills

M. Ehsan Hoque

Article

He quit Google to work on climate change. Now, he’s helping others do the same thing

In July 2020, Eugene Kirpichov + Media Lab alum Cassandra Xia started a Slack workspace called Work On Climate—today, it has 8,500+ members.

Publication

From swimming to walking: Examples of how biology is helping us design better machines

H. Herr, G. Pratt, R. Dennis, N. Rosenthal, and R. Marsh. From swimming to walking: Examples of how biology is helping us design better machines, Second International Congress on Motion Systems, Jena, Germany, Jul. 2001.

Person

Ben Draper

Former Director's Fellow

Publication

Persuasive Robotics: How Robots Change our Minds

Siegel, M. "Persuasive Robotics: How Robots Change our Minds"

Article

Computing Careers: Advice from Rosalind Picard on succeeding in the fast-growing field of "affective computing"

Affective Computing head Rosalind Picard talks to IEEE Computer Society for their series on careers in computing.

Article

Classes Focus on Helping Haiti

Event

WORLD.MINDS SYMPOSIUM 2017

 Fadel Adib recently presented at WORLD.MINDS  invitation-only event about using WiFi to track people's movements through wa…

Wednesday — Sunday
December 6, 2017 —
December 10, 2017
Publication

Dynamic Drawing: Broadening Practice and Participation in Procedural Art

Thesis: Jennifer Jacobs. Dynamic Drawing: Broadening Practice and Participation in Procedural Art. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. September 2017.