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Open House for Prospective Students

This virtual event is an opportunity to hear from staff, faculty, and current students, as well as familiarize yourself with our academic p…

Event

Virtual Open House Beta

The City Science group is currently experimenting with new forms of virtual learning and co-working.  As part of the City Science Summ…

Wednesday — Saturday
October 7, 2020 —
October 10, 2020
12:00am — 11:00pm ET
Event

2020 MAS Open House for Prospective Students

The MAS Open House is going virtual this year! This is an opportunity to hear from staff, faculty, and current students, as well as familia…

Tuesday
September 15, 2020
1:00pm — 5:00pm ET
Event

2022 MAS Open House for Prospective Students

The virtual MAS Open House is an opportunity to hear from MAS staff, faculty, and current students, as well as familiarize yourself with ou…

Monday
October 3, 2022
1:00pm — 5:00pm ET
Event

2023 MAS Virtual Open House for Prospective Students

The virtual Open House is an opportunity to hear from staff, faculty, and current students, and familiarize with the MAS academic program.

Monday
October 2, 2023
1:00pm — 5:00pm ET
Event

2021 MAS Open House for Prospective Students

The event will give you some insight into what it is like to be an MAS student, how to prepare your application materials, etc.

Monday
October 4, 2021
1:00pm — 5:00pm ET
Article

The complete transcript of President Obama’s 2016 White House correspondents’ dinner speech

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Research Scientist/Engineer opening at MIT in underwater acoustic/ultrasonic systems

The Signal Kinetics group, led by professor Fadel Adib at MIT, has a postdoc opening in underwater acoustic systems.

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Viral Spaces @ IEEE 2nd International Conference on Open & Big Data 2016

LocationVienna, Austria Description Additional Related ProjectsMedRec

Tuesday
August 23, 2016
Event

Neri Oxman @ Beyond 2016: MIT’s Frontiers of the Future

LocationMIT Kresge Auditorium Description

Tuesday
April 12, 2016
Article

The 2016 Medtech Boston 40 Under 40 Healthcare Innovators

Article

Innovators Under 35: Which MIT community members made the 2021 list?

Meet the MIT alumni, staff, and current or former postdocs on MIT Technology Review’s 2021 list of 35 Innovators Under 35.

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M. Ehsan Hoque and Kevin Esvelt named to 2016 list of 35 Innovators Under 35

The people in the 16th annual celebration of young innovators are disrupters and dreamers.

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Labbers win MIT Prize for Open Data 2022

The following winners and honorable mentions include members of the Media Lab community, and were selected from more than 70 nominees.

Event

Machover and Minsky: Making Music in the Dome

LocationHayden Planetarium Space Theater, AMNH, NYC Description

Thursday
June 3, 2010
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A calm house is a smart house

Receptive Skins envisions a living building that silently interacts with air and temperature

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Andrés Rico | MIT Technology Review's Innovators Under 35: Latin America 2023

Rico was recognized for his contributions in developing low-cost, open source sensors to test the quality and quantity of water sources.

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Pedro Reynolds-Cuellar selected for MIT Open Data Prize

The MIT School of Science and the MIT Libraries present the inaugural MIT Prize for Open Data to highlight the value of open data at MIT.

Article

Student Runner Up Open Design Award Core77 Design Awards 2016

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Persian Domes for Human Space Exploration on Mars

The Lut Desert of Iran is one of the most similar regions to Mars. Close to that area, there are vernacular adobe architectures that are hu…

Article

Danielle Wood is selected as New Associate Head of House in Maseeh Hall undergraduate dorm

MIT News covers new House Team Members, including Danielle Wood and Jonathan Wood as Maseeh Hall Associate Heads of House.

Article

2016 MIT Media Lab Director’s Fellows announced

Program blurs the lines between academia and the world.

Article

Clinton, Trump, the White House too, terrifyingly transformed by MIT’s ‘Nightmare Machine’

Article

A robust presence for MIT at the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale

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Janine Liberty transitions to MIT Open Learning

Janine Liberty, former Communications Manager at the Media Lab, has transitioned to MIT Open Learning as of June 2020.

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Jad Kabbara | MIT Technology Review's Innovators Under 35: MENA

Jad Kabbara was selected for his research using generative AI for understanding community conversation.

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Open Source Code for Underwater Backscatter

Open source code for Underwater Backscatter is available via GitHub. Click the button below to access it.         …

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Postdoc opening at MIT in ultra-low-power ASIC for IoT

The Signal Kinetics group, led by professor Fadel Adib at MIT, has a postdoc opening in ultra-low-power ASICs for emerging Internet-of…

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2023 MIT Prize for Open Data: Media Lab honorees

Media Lab students and alums are among the winners and honorees for the 2023 MIT Prize for Open Data.

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2016: A year in the life of the Lab

By Joi Ito, Director, MIT Media Lab

Article

Ethan Zuckerman Receives a 2016 MIT MLK Leadership Award

Article

Explore the final frontier with MIT Open Learning!

MIT Open Learning curates a collection of space-related course info from MIT departments including the Lab's Space Exploration Initiative.

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Edwina Portocarrero @ MIT Technology Review Innovators Under 35

LocationTecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico DescriptionCreating cross-generational, cross-cultural tools to harness vehicles and levels of tho…

Wednesday
November 23, 2016
Person

Dava Newman

Director; Apollo Professor of Astronautics

Article

The MIT researcher who helps senators understand digital currencies

The MIT Digital Currency Initiative director serves as a crucial link between cryptocurrency developers and central banks around the world.

Article

MIT's CityHome is a House in a Box You Control by Waving Your Hand

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Open Ocean + MIT Human Systems Lab Seminar: Dr. Darlene Lim

MIT Human Systems Lab and the Open Ocean Initiative co-host a seminar on "Ocean Worlds" by NASA’s Dr. Darlene Lim.

Post

Remembering Edith Ackermann, 1946-2016

Edith Ackermann was a beloved member of the Media Lab faculty from the early days of the Lab through the mid-90s, and continued to play an …

Article

16 art exhibits worth leaving the house for this winter

WBUR’s picks for winter art exhibits around the Boston area include director’s fellow Christine Sun Kim’s “Off the Charts.”

Person

Madeline Sayet

Former Director's Fellow

Event

Tiny Houses with Deek Diedricksen

LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-240 DescriptionDerek 'Deek' Diedricksen, host of the web-series Tiny Yellow House, author, and all-around uber-b…

Monday
November 7, 2011
Event

MIT Media Lab @Tokyo 2012–The Power of Open: Scaling the Eco System

LocationDentsu Hall, Dentsu Inc., Tokyo, Japan Description

Tuesday
January 17, 2012
Post

Tales from Virtuality – Research under quarantine at the MIT Media Lab

Joe Paradiso shares his experience running the Responsive Environments group, teaching classes, among other things during the Covid-19 era.

Event

Katy Croff Bell testifies on Ocean Exploration for House Science Committee

Open Ocean Director, Dr. Katy Croff Bell, testified before the Environment Subcommittee of the House Committee on Science, Space, and Techn…

Wednesday
June 5, 2019
Publication

Spatial User Interfaces: Augmenting Human Sensibilities in a Domestic Kitchen

Lee, J. "Spatial User Interfaces: Augmenting Human Sensibilities in a Domestic Kitchen"

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UbiComp 2016

LocationHeidelberg, Germany DescriptionThe 2016 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp 2016) wil…

Monday — Friday
September 12, 2016 —
September 16, 2016
Person

Mitchell Baker

Former Research Affiliate

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Naroa Coretti Sánchez | MIT Technology Review Innovator Under 35: Europe 2023

Congratulations to Naroa Coretti Sánchez, a PhD student in the City Science research group, on receiving this honor!

Event

Open Ocean Seminar: Catalina Martinez

This seminar explores barriers to entry for underrepresented students in STEM programs and shares approaches that promote equity.

Monday
October 26, 2020
1:30pm — 2:30pm ET
Publication

A low-cost, open-source, and distributed ocean profiling sensor node

A. Rico, S. Prasad and K. Larson, "A low-cost, open-source, and distributed ocean profiling sensor node," 2022 IEEE Sensors Applications Symposium (SAS), 2022, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/SAS54819.2022.9881243.

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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
Article

Just how uncivil is Election 2016? MIT's Media Lab has some charts you should see.

Event

Hiroshi Ishii @ SI International 2016, SII2016

LocationSapporo Convention Center DescriptionTRANSFORM: Beyond Pixels, Towards Radical AtomsWhereas today's mainstream Human Computer Inter…

Thursday
December 15, 2016
Article

“MIT Illuminations,” a colorful installation and introduction to creative computation, is now open in Kendall Square

“MIT Illuminations” showcases the creative coding work of MIT community members, including Media Lab alumni.

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MIT Summer Research Program

The MIT Summer Research Program (MSRP) seeks to promote the value of graduate education; to improve the research enterprise through in…

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Open Agriculture (OpenAg)

The MIT Media Lab’s Open Agriculture Initiative is no longer active. This site provides background on some of the people and projects that …

Person

Quentin Mitchell

Former Director's Fellow

Publication

Do we need another coffee house? The amenity space and the evolution of neighborhoods

César A. Hidalgo, Elisa E. Castañer

Article

Nominations open for $250,000 MIT Media Lab prize for Disobedient Research

Last summer, the MIT Media Lab announced its $250,000 prize for Disobedient Research, and now the nominations process has launched.The priz…

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Ed Boyden @ TEDSummit 2016

LocationThe Banff Centre DescriptionTEDSummit is a new five-day event for the most engaged members of the global TED community. The gatheri…

Sunday
June 26, 2016
Article

Under the skin of MIT's magical mask maker Neri Oxman

Head of MIT Media Lab's Mediated Matter research group teamed up with Björk to create 3D-printed wearables of the singer's face

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Media Lab @ CHI 2016

LocationCHI 2016 DescriptionCHI 2016 (May 7-12) will have a robust Media Lab presence.More details are available via the CHI 2016 program.T…

Saturday — Thursday
May 7, 2016 —
May 12, 2016