Event

Danny Hillis @ Long Now Boston

LocationLong Now Boston Description

Wednesday
May 4, 2016
Person

William Danny Hillis

Visiting Professor

Event

David Colby Reed Speaks at Long Now Boston's "A New Lens on the Future"

David Colby Reed will present on "Space Enabled: Laying the foundation for the future of space exploration."

Monday
February 7, 2022
7:30pm — 9:00pm ET
Event

Nicholas Negroponte Leading Seminar at the Long Now Foundation

LocationThe Long Now Foundation Description

Wednesday
April 17, 2013
Person

Ellen Long

Former Administrative Assistant

Person

Chang Long Zhu Jin

Former Research Assistant

Article

Some Bostonians feel largely unheard. With MIT’s ‘Real Talk’ portal now public, here’s a chance to really listen

A database of community conversations in various Boston neighborhoods launches publicly on Monday.

Person

Sebastian Nowak

Former Research Support Associate

Person

Shayne Longpre

Research Assistant

Article

New approach to sustainable building takes shape in Boston

A five-story mixed-use structure in Roxbury represents a new kind of net-zero-energy building, made from wood.

Post

Danielle Wood and Space Enabled group host Boston premiere of Zero Gravity

As part of the Boston Film Festival, the documentary Zero Gravity will have its Boston premiere in a screening at the MIT Media Lab.

Event

Design Exchange Boston

DescriptionSATURDAY, OCTOBER 12Xiao XiaoReinvent, Reimagine: From classical piano to future interactive technologyhttp://dxboston.com/event…

Saturday — Sunday
October 12, 2013 —
October 13, 2013
Event

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
Project

RealTalk for Change Boston

A revolutionary new piece of civic infrastructure for more inclusive public input.Real Talk for Change is a collaboration between MIT’s Cen…

Event

Inside Design Now

LocationCooper-Hewitt DescriptionA showcase of work by eighty American designers, the second installment of the National Design Triennial i…

Tuesday — Sunday
April 22, 2003 —
January 25, 2004
Event

AI Now | 2017 Symposium

The AI Now Symposium is designed to address the biggest challenges we face as AI moves further into our everyday lives.

Monday
July 10, 2017
5:30pm — 8:30pm ET
Article

HubWeek 2019 celebrates five years of connecting MIT, Boston, and the world

Greater Boston’s annual festival of ideas finds new avenues for celebrating and connecting innovators.

Event

SEI & Boston Design Academy Workshop

The Boston Design Academy (BDA) is developing projects and activities to help high school students learn and engage with their Patent …

Thursday
August 1, 2019
1:00pm — 2:00pm ET
Event

Joi Ito @ Boston Book Festival

LocationOld South Sanctuary 645 Boylston Street, Boston, MA DescriptionA discussion of which industries we can expect to thrive in the futu…

Saturday
October 15, 2016
Event

Kent Larson @ Boston Society of Architects

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Thursday
March 6, 2014
Event

The Japan-Boston Joint Entrepreneurship Forum

LocationMIT Media Lab, E15, Bartos Theater DescriptionThe MIT Media Lab, Harvard Business School’s Japan Research Center, and the Consulate…

Monday
September 16, 2013
Event

Place Pulse at Pecha Kucha Boston

LocationOberon (2 Arrow Street, Cambridge) Description

Tuesday
November 15, 2011
Project

Wall of Now

Wall of Now is a multi-dimensional media browser of recent news items. It attempts to address our need to know everything by presenting a d…

Event

Jennifer Groff Dissertation Defense

Reengineering Education: Systems Engineering and the LearningGraph as a Means to Developing a Coherent Learning Data ArchitectureCOMMI…

Monday
August 13, 2018
1:00pm — 3:00pm ET
Event

#techstyle @ Boston Museum of Fine Arts

Clothes that respond to the environment, dresses you can tweet, and garments that come off a 3D printer ready to wear!

Sunday — Wednesday
March 6, 2016 —
July 20, 2016
Article

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu asks SA+P advanced degree recipients to be forces for good in Boston and beyond

Media Lab professor Tod Machover performed a new musical composition, "A Little Hub Symphony," during the SA+P advanced degree ceremony.

Event

Can You Feel Me Now?

LocationAustin Convention Center, Ballroom BC, 500 E. Cesar Chavez St. Description

Monday
March 10, 2014
Event

Travis Rich Dissertation Defense

Collaborative Scientific Publishing: A New Research EcosystemCommittee:Andrew LippmanSenior Research ScientistAssociate Director, MIT Media…

Wednesday
April 19, 2017
10:30am — 12:30pm ET
Event

Media Lab 30th Anniversary

Mind, Magic & MischiefOn October 30, 2015, the Media Lab marked its 30th anniversary with a day-long symposium, Mind, Magic & Misch…

Friday
October 30, 2015
Article

Ten important humans behind Boston’s AI revolution

The list includes Habib Haddad, founding managing partner of the E14 Fund, and Rana el Kaliouby, co-founder and CEO of Affectiva.

Event

Unveiling of first Lost in Boston sign

DescriptionMore info on the Lost in Boston project: https://news.mit.edu/2009/lost-in-boston

Monday
October 19, 2009
Event

826 Boston Workshop: Our City is Alive

The City Science team hosted students from 826 Boston's STEM Inspired Writing Camp Our City is Alive for a one-day workshop. The stude…

Tuesday
July 23, 2019
Gallery

CityScope Boston BRT Community Engagement

Event

Joi Ito to be honored by Japan Society of Boston

LocationBoston, MA Description

Thursday
June 6, 2013
Event

Death and the Powers @ Boston's Cutler Majestic Theater

LocationART at the Cutler Majestic Theater, Boston Description

Friday — Friday
March 18, 2011 —
March 25, 2011
Event

Dent:Live Boston at Carbonite – Women Driving Innovation in Space

It’s no secret that some of the most important breakthroughs in aerospace and planetary science are coming from Boston and Cambridge. …

Tuesday
February 12, 2019
6:00pm — 9:00pm ET
Post

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Celebrating Marvin Minsky

Philosopher and scientist Marvin Minsky was universally regarded as one of the world's leading authorities in the field of AI.

Thursday
March 17, 2016
10:00am — 6:00pm ET
Project

Boston Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) Community Engagement

The development of transportation improvements in any city poses a range of challenges, including meaningfully involving relevant stakehold…

Article

Hugh Herr talks to the Boston Globe about the collaboration that led to a new amputation procedure

A team of Boston surgeons and scientists has developed a new approach to amputation.

Event

Courtyard Festival with Boston Mayor Martin J. Walsh

This one-night speaker event at City Hall Plaza will explore the ways startups and new technologies will shape the future of Boston.Join Ma…

Thursday
June 1, 2017
5:00pm — 8:00pm ET
Article

Device offers long-distance, low-power underwater communication

The system could be used for battery-free underwater communication across kilometer-scale distances to help monitor climate + coastal change

Publication

Role of emerging nations in ensuring long-term space sustainability

M. Rathnasabapathy, M. Slavin, D. Wood, "Role of emerging nations in ensuring long-term space sustainability." Acta Astronautica, 2024.

Project

Field Experimentation in Boston's Intertidal Zone

The Intertidal Experimentation Workshop will take place September 29 and 30 (9am to 2pm) at the MIT Media Lab, open to students ages 8-14. …

Video

Thinking about Thinking about Seymour

Thinking about Thinking about Seymour celebrated the ideas and research of Seymour Papert.

Jan. 26, 2017
Event

Ufuoma Ovienmhada joins panel at IEEE Boston Remote Sensing Night

Join the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (GRSS) and Indigo Agriculture for an evening meetup event featuring professionals from …

Thursday
November 21, 2019
6:00pm — 8:00pm ET
Event

Ramesh Raskar at Boston IEEE Photonics Society Imaging Workshop

LocationMIT Lincoln Lab Description

Wednesday
April 20, 2011
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.

Event

Jack Reid speaks at Falling Walls Lab Boston

Twenty innovators and trailblazers were selected out of a pool of candidates to pitch their idea that breaks down scientific and social wall

Thursday
September 26, 2019
6:00pm — 9:00pm ET
Publication

Unveiling Voices: Boston Students' Data Activism Journey with Community Catalysts

R. Walker, S. Brady, O. Dias, A. Castillo, K. Asfaw, E. Johnson, M. Taylor, and C. Breazeal , "Unveiling Voices: Boston Students' Data Activism Journey with Community Catalysts," in Black Issues in Computing Education Symposium 2024, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, 2024

Event

Dr. Dagdeviren to give an invited talk at Boston Children's Hospital

Dr. Dagdeviren is invited to speak at the F. M.  Kirby Neurobiology Center at Boston Children’s Hospital which is the largest basic ne…

Thursday
June 27, 2019
1:00pm — 2:00pm ET
Event

Wearable Lab at London Design Festival: Biodesign Here Now 2019

Biodesign—the future of materials, manufacturing, architecture, and fashion.

Thursday — Saturday
September 19, 2019 —
September 21, 2019
10:00am — 8:00pm ET
Article

11 Artists Leading The Country's Cultural Conversation Right Now

Shantell Martin, who spent two years as a visiting scholar at the Media Lab, is one of Gotham Magazine’s top artists of 2022.

Event

#MLSXSW: The Avatar Will See You Now: Inside Virtual Health

LocationHilton Austin Downtown, Salon F, 500 E. 4th St. Description#sxsw #SXHealth #MLSXSWIn the future, virtual health care won’t be a lux…

Monday
March 10, 2014
Publication

Robots at Home: Understanding Long-Term Human-Robot Interaction

C. Kidd, C. Breazeal

Project

Long Voting

Can the voting machine tell when the stress on a voter might compromise their vote? A voter might be agitated because they aren�t sure of w…

Event

Danielle Wood is Interviewed on NOVA Now Podcast from PBS

Danielle Wood speaks on the next episode of the NOVA Now Podcast from PBS, where they explore the past, present, and future of satellites.

Thursday
December 17, 2020
Article

What to See in N.Y.C. Galleries Right Now

The New York Times reviews Media Lab alum Ani Liu’s solo show, “Ecologies of Care," on view at the Cuchifritos Gallery + Project Space, NYC.

Event

Workshop on Long-Term Child-Robot Interaction

LocationIEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN)OrganizersJacqueline Kory Westlund, Personal Robo…

Wednesday
August 31, 2016
Group

Viral Communications

Viral Communications at the Media Lab is all about how systems scale. We premiered scalable video in the '90s, we built scalable mesh radio…

Article

'Atlas Of Inequality' shows income segregation around Boston

Esteban Moro talks to WBUR about the Human Dynamics group's Atlas of Inequality.

Publication

Designing for Long-Term Human-Robot Interaction and Application to Weight Loss

Kidd, C. "Designing for Long-Term Human-Robot Interaction and Application to Weight Loss"

Article

‘#techstyle’ Review: In Boston, the Future of Fashion

Person

Mark Grinstein-Camacho

Former Administrative Assistant

Project

Sleep and Epilepsy: Demystifying the thousand-year-long conundrum

According to WHO, epilepsy is the fourth most common neurological disease globally. CDC statistics show that 1 in 26 individuals in the U.S…