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Cynthia Breazeal @ MIT Technology Review at Google

LocationGoogle Cambridge DescriptionGoogle pairs up with Kara Miller, journalist and radio host, and MIT Technology Review to bring you an …

Monday
November 28, 2016
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Cynthia Breazeal

Professor of Media Arts and Sciences; MIT Dean for Digital Learning

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Cynthia Breazeal named dean for digital learning at MIT

Alongside her other roles, Breazeal will focus on the future of digital technologies + their applications in education at MIT Open Learning.

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MIT Chalk Radio: AI Literacy for All with Prof. Cynthia Breazeal

Social robotics pioneer Prof. Cynthia Breazeal discusses artificial intelligence in our lives, digital citizenship, and AI education for all

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Cynthia Breazeal Assumes New Media Lab Role

Cynthia Breazeal has been promoted to full professor and named associate director of the Media Lab. Both appointments are effective July 1.

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Cynthia Breazeal and Pattie Maes awarded seed grants from MIT Schwarzman College of Computing

Cynthia Breazeal and Pattie Maes awarded seed grants for projects exploring AI and workplace management.

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Cynthia Breazeal @ STI Forum

LocationConference Room 1, UN Headquarters, New York City DescriptionThe STI Forum is a component of the technology facilitation mechanism …

Monday
June 6, 2016
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Cynthia Breazeal "Social Robots"

Personal Robots group head Cynthia Breazeal speaks with Marwa ElDiwiny on a recent episode of the IEEE RAS Soft Robotics podcast.

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Cynthia Breazeal @ Nobel Week Dialogue

LocationMässans gata 8, Gothenburg, Sweden DescriptionHow Will AI Change the World?The Future of Human-Computer Interaction

Wednesday
December 9, 2015
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Cynthia Breazeal Keynote @ Blur Conference

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Tuesday
February 22, 2011
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Cynthia Breazeal @ TEDWomen: Reshaping the Future

LocationWashington, DC Description

Tuesday — Wednesday
December 7, 2010 —
December 8, 2010
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Cynthia Breazeal: "The Social Side of Robotics"

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Wednesday
January 5, 2011
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An interview with Cynthia Breazeal: IEEE VIC Summit 2018

Cynthia Breazeal sits down for an interview with Glenn Zorpette at the 2018 IEEE Vision, Innovation, and Challenges Summit.

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Cynthia Breazeal delivers keynote at Mass STEM Week 2020

The official third annual STEM Week Kick Off event is co-hosted by the STEM Advisory Council, MIT, and the MA Science and Engineering Fair.

Monday
October 19, 2020
10:00am ET
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Cynthia Breazeal named senior associate dean for open learning

Congratulations to Media Lab professor Cynthia Breazeal on her joint appointment as senior associate dean of MIT Open Learning.

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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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Cynthia Breazeal and Joe Paradiso @ Chicago Ideas Week

LocationChicago, IL DescriptionWith state-of-the-art robots, the introduction of big data and the always-improving applications of Internet…

Thursday
October 15, 2015
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Mass STEM Week 2020 Keynote: Prof. Cynthia Breazeal on Teaching Ethical Use of AI

In October, MIT hosted the kickoff for Massachusetts STEM Week, which included a keynote by Cynthia Breazeal.

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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
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Cynthia Breazeal named to 2023 Forbes 50 Over 50 list

Cynthia Breazeal, head of the Personal Robots research group, makes the 2023 Forbes 50 Over 50 list in the Innovation category

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Cynthia Breazeal receives an IFAAMAS Influential Paper Award

Cynthia Breazeal has been chosen as one of two recipients of this award for the paper, "Emotion and Sociable Humanoid Robots."

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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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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!

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Cynthia Greenleaf

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Cynthia Smith

Former Administrative Assistant

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Cynthia Zeng

Former Research Affiliate

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Intelligent Media: Andrew Lippman, Cynthia Breazeal, Deb Roy

In the 1990s, the Media Lab was one of the first organizations to recognize that we were rapidly approaching an era where the channel could…

Wednesday
February 24, 2021
2:00pm — 3:30pm ET
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Wedyan Babatain selected as one of MIT Technology Review's "Innovators Under 35: MENA" for 2022

She was recognized for her work on the development of a soft multifunctional wearable platform.

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Cynthia Breazeal named Future Thinker 2019 at the German Innovation Awards

2019 marked the 10th anniversary of the awards.

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Cynthia Breazeal Keynote @UbiComp 2021: Emotion, Social Robots, and a New Human-Robot Relationship

People have welcomed conversational AI technologies into our homes, workplaces, and institutions where we interact with them daily.

Tuesday
September 21, 2021
10:00am ET
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Cynthia Breazeal: Why We Will Learn to Love Our Robots

Cynthia Breazeal has been called the mother of personal robotics, and it’s easy to see why. For more than ten years, she has brought forth …

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Ken Nakagaki selected as one of MIT Technology Review's "Innovators Under 35: Asia Pacific" for 2021

Nakagaki is an incoming assistant professor at the University of Chicago, where he's launching his own lab, the Actuated Experience Lab.

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Ken Nakagaki selected as one of MIT Technology Review's "Innovators Under 35: Japan" for 2020

The award recognizes Nakagaki's work developing tangible interfaces.

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Cynthia Breazeal elected as a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)

The AAAI Fellows program recognizes individuals who have made significant, sustained contributions to the field of artificial intelligence.

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Alfredo Morales named as one of MIT Technology Review's Innovators Under 35—Latin America

Visiting scientist Alfredo Morales (Human Dynamics) has been named as one of MIT Technology Review en español's "Innovadores meno…

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Cynthia Breazeal on the Rise of Personal Robots

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How Cynthia Breazeal Is Teaching Robots How to Be Human

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Google, Cisco, MIT Team With Patent Office on Searchable Archive

The Prior Art Archive aims at boosting US patent quality.

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Cynthia Breazeal, Limor Fried Among Tech's Most Influential Women

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A guided tour of the new MIT Museum

David Nuñez, an alum of the Media Lab’s Personal Robots research group, takes MIT Technology Review on a tour of the re-imagined Museum.

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Learning with—and about—AI technology

At Open Learning Talks, Cynthia Breazeal and Eric Klopfer discuss artificial intelligence education.

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Google and MIT team up to get more kids interested in programming

Google is teaming up with MIT's Media Lab to create Scratch Blocks, an updated version of the kid-centric programming language.

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TakeTwo: Using Google Glass for Augmented Memory

Scott W. Greenwald, Christian D.Vazquez, Pattie Maes

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Arts at MIT Reviews June 3 Exhibit and Show at Media Lab: Queer-Feminist-Antiracism and Design for the Future

Arts at MIT covers the performance for Danielle Wood's course Queer-Feminist-Antiracism and Design for the Future.

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The MIT Roots of Google’s New Software

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The MIT Roots of Google Glass, the Wearable Information Display

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MIT scholars awarded seed grants to probe the social implications of generative AI

The 27 finalists will explore the technology’s impact on democracy, education, sustainability, communications, and much more.

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Could humanlike behavior make smart devices more engaging? MIT researchers think so

A new study by researchers from the Personal Robots group and collaborators assesses how families interact with voice-user interfaces.

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Danielle Wood Speaks at MIT Technology Day 2023

Danielle Wood ’04, SM ’08, PhD ’12 was one of the keynote speakers at MIT's Technology Day 2023, sponsored by MIT Alumni.

Saturday
June 3, 2023
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FAST Light: Celebrate Art, Science and Technology at MIT

LocationMIT Campus Description

Saturday — Monday
May 7, 2011 —
May 9, 2011
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Music | MACHINES: 50 Years of Music and Technology at MIT

LocationE14-6th Floor DescriptionMusic | MACHINES will be a full day and evening experience at MIT’s new Media Lab Complex celebrating the …

Saturday
February 5, 2011
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Google Faculty Research Award

Fadel Adib, assistant professor in Signal Kinetics group at MIT Media Lab, is a recipient of Google’s 2018 Faculty Research Award. As part …

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MIT developed a course to teach tweens about the ethics of AI

Blakeley Payne and Cynthia Breazeal discuss Blakeley’s open source AI curriculum for middle school students.

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Ramesh Raskar

Associate Professor of Media Arts and Sciences; NEC Career Development Professor

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Personal Narratives in Technology Design: The Value of Sharing Older Adults’ Stories in the Design of Social Robots

Ostrowski, A. K., Harrington, C.N., Breazeal, C., & Park, H. W. (2021). Personal Narratives in Technology Design: The Value of Sharing Older Adults' Stories in the Design of Social Robots. Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 315.

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Lunar Mission Technology and Standards Review: towards international collaboration and safe, secure democratization of lunar access

J.K. Schingler, A. Ekblaw, J. Guglin, M. Sarang, Lunar Mission Actor Analysis: Open Information Architecture for International Collaboration, IAC-19-A5.1.10, 70th International Astronautical Congress, Washington D.C., United States, 2019, 21 – 25 October.

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Build your skills with MIT’s women engineers

Explore MIT Open Learning resources, including interviews with Media Lab Director Dava Newman, Professor Cynthia Breazeal, and more.

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Danielle Wood Wins MIT's "Teaching with Digital Technology" Award

Danielle Wood was selected as a 2023 winner of MIT's Teaching with Digital Technology Award.

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Pattie Maes reaches 500 peer-reviewed accepted papers

Pattie Maes, head of the Fluid Interfaces group and Professor of Media Technology, reaches milestone of 500 peer-reviewed accepted papers.

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Ufuoma Ovienmhada Publishes Review paper on Environmental Justice Review and satellite data

Ufuoma Ovienmhada publishes "Satellite data for environmental justice: a scoping review of the literature in the United States."

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STEM Week event encourages students to see themselves in science and technology careers

MIT hosts kickoff event of Massachusetts STEM Week — a statewide virtual celebration of K-12 education.

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Design Justice Project at MIT

​We take as a starting point for our work the recent scholarship by Sasha Costanza-Chock, Design Justice, in which she described design jus…

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Q+A with Pattie Maes, MIT Professor of Media Technology

The MIT Integrated Learning Initiative (MITili) talks to Fluid Interfaces head Pattie Maes