Event

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
Person

Edward Boyden

Professor of Media Arts and Sciences; Y. Eva Tan Professor in Neurotechnology

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Ed Boyden @ Techonomy 2014

LocationHalf Moon Bay, CA Description

Sunday — Tuesday
November 9, 2014 —
November 11, 2014
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Ed Boyden @ Neuroscience Conference

LocationBioConference Live Description

Wednesday — Thursday
March 19, 2014 —
March 20, 2014
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Ed Boyden @ SMArchS Colloquium 2013

Location3-133 DescriptionProfessor at the MIT Media Lab, joint Professor at the MIT Department of Biological Engineering and the MIT Depart…

Friday
September 27, 2013
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Ed Boyden @ TED: Threads of Discovery

LocationTED, Long Beach, CA Description

Thursday
March 3, 2011
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Ed Boyden, IET AF Harvey Prize Lecture

LocationSavoy Place, London, UK Description

Tuesday
June 19, 2012
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Ed Boyden @ NSF Workshop on Mapping and Engineering the Brain

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Wednesday
August 14, 2013
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Reactions: Ed Boyden

Ed Boyden is in the MIT Media Lab and McGovern Institute, and a professor in the Departments of Biological Engineering and Brain and Cogniti

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Ed Boyden on minding your brain

A conversation between Ed Boyden and Tyler Cowen on optogenetics and expansion microscopy to storytelling and the nature of consciousness.

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Ed Boyden receives 2019 Lennart Nilsson Award

The award recognizes outstanding contributions within the realm of scientific photography.

Article

Ed Boyden wins prestigious Wilhelm Exner Medal

Entrepreneurial science award recognizes scientists whose work opens up “new dimensions of economic progress."

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Ed Boyden and optogenetics: The future of neuroscience

Eric Topol, editor-in-chief of Medscape, interviews Synthetic Neurobiology head Ed Boyden.

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Meet the Labbers: Ed Boyden

"I was always very philosophical as a kid, wondering about the meaning of life and what should we do."

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Ed Boyden awarded the Croonian Medal and Lecture 2020

Named for one of the original Fellows of the Royal Society, the Croonian Medal and Lecture is the premier lecture in biological sciences.

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Ed Boyden receives 2018 Canada Gairdner International Award

MIT scientist is among three recognized for the discovery of optogenetics.

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Ed Boyden on "How to invent game-changing technologies"

Neuroscientist Ed Boyden discussing two inventions of his that have revolutionized neuroscience: optogenetics and expansion microscopy.

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Ed Boyden Receives Breakthrough Prize

Edward S. Boyden received $3 million for his role in the development of optogenetics

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Ed Boyden elected to National Academy of Sciences

Boyden’s research creates and applies technologies that aim to expand our understanding of the brain.

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Ed Boyden elected to the National Academy of Sciences

The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) is a private, non-profit society of distinguished scholars.

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Ed Boyden: Creating tools and disrupting neuroscience

I think we ought to integrate the maps of the brain, the dynamics of the brain, and the ability to control the brain into single coherent d…

Article

Neuroscientist Ed Boyden is decoding the brain with the power of light

With the help of flashing lights and materials used in diapers, we could find out what thoughts are made of.

Article

An Interview with Ed Boyden

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Q&A with Ed Boyden, Winner of the Breakthrough Prize

Neuroscience hasn’t been the same since Ed Boyden arrived on the scene. As a trainee at Stanford, Boyden helped develop a technique that al…

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Congratulations to Ed Boyden on being inducted as an AIMBE Fellow

The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) College of Fellows honors those who have made out…

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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 …

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Ed Boyden at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Symposium—Brains and Behavior

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From brain prostheses to the 3D brain: Ed Boyden on the future of neuroscience

Boyden is certainly a wellspring of innovative ideas—but more than this, he is a scientific pioneer.

Event

Media Lab Faculty @ World Economic Forum 2016

LocationDavos-Klosters, Switzerland DescriptionWednesday, 1/20, 12:30pm | Ed Boyden: Panel: Will Science Save Us?Wednesday, 1/20, 4-5pm and…

Wednesday — Friday
January 20, 2016 —
January 22, 2016
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Congratulations to Ed Boyden on receiving the 2018 Canada Gairdner International Award!

2018 Canada Gairdner International Awardee “for the discovery of light-gated ion channel mechanisms, and for the discovery of optogenetics"

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Ed Boyden one of 19 new Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigators

The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) has named 19 new HHMI Investigators, including Synthetic Neurobiology head Ed Boyden.

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Joi Ito and Ed Boyden inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

On October 7, 2017, Media Lab director Joi Ito and professor Ed Boyden were inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, among …

Publication

Interview with Edward S. Boyden

Boyden, E. S. (2013) Interview with Edward S. Boyden, Trends in Neurosciences 36(1):1-2.

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Ed Boyden to share prestigious brain prize

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Ed Boyden one of four MIT professors named inaugural Faculty Scholars

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How to think: Ed Boyden on thinking, taking notes and rebooting your failures

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Ed Boyden and Feng Zhang named Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigators

MIT faculty members are among 19 top scientists selected from across the nation.

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Ed Boyden Awarded Perl/UNC Neuroscience Prize

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Ed Boyden named one of six recipients of the Rumford Prize for co-developing optogenetics

Ed Boyden, Ernst Bamberg, Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann, Gero Miesenböck, and Georg Nagel awarded one of America's oldest science prizes.

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MIT's Ed Boyden to Receive Andrew Carnegie Prize in Mind and Brain Sciences

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Ed Boyden Receives NIH Grants for Innovative Medical Research

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Ed Boyden Receives Allen Distinguished Investigator Award

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Ed Boyden at TED: A Light Switch for Neurons

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Ed Boyden Receives Award

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Ed Boyden awarded 2019 Warren Alpert Prize, with Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann, and Gero Miesenböck

The Warren Alpert Foundation honors scientists whose work has improved the understanding, prevention, treatment or cure of human disease.

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Ed Boyden Wins Newly Established A. F. Harvey Prize

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Ed Boyden, Deb Roy to Speak at TED in March

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Ed Boyden on the Importance of Engineering Motivation into Intelligence

Some futurists such as Ray Kurzweil have hypothesized that we will someday soon pass through a singularity–that is, a time period of rapid …

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Edward Boyden Receives BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award for His Work on Optogenetics

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Edward Boyden Receives BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award for His Work on Optoge

Event

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
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2016: A year in the life of the Lab

By Joi Ito, Director, MIT Media Lab

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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
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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
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Kent Larson Keynote @ CES 2016

LocationLas Vegas, NV Description

Thursday
January 7, 2016
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Radical Atoms @ Ars Electronica Festival 2016

LocationLinz, Austria DescriptionIn close cooperation with Professor Hiroshi Ishii and the Tangible Media group, the 2016 Ars Electronica F…

Thursday — Monday
September 8, 2016 —
September 12, 2016
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Philippa Mothersill @ Design Research Society 2016

LocationBrighton, UK DescriptionThe future of design is becoming ever more digital: from the computer-aided design systems designers use to…

Tuesday
June 28, 2016
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Valentin Heun @ Augmented Reality World Expo 2016

LocationAugmented World Expo, Santa Clara California DescriptionCurrently, we use Augmented Reality mainly to superimpose virtual content w…

Sunday
June 5, 2016