LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-633 DescriptionHead of the Opera of the Future group Tod Machover has been a co-curator of “Generation Elsewhere…
LocationHefei Grand Theatre, Anhui Description
A new multidisciplinary field of public health technology should be established to modernize the nation’s health system.
In the new arena of Twitter doxxing and other emerging tools, hate has learned to travel different pathways. Likewise, the effort to fight …
Building a future food system for everyone takes more than just another food conference. At this one-day event, we'll dig in to …
It’s Thanksgiving season again, and the double shadow on our great American food holiday is feast and famine, both. A bounteous industrial …
The grant will enable PLIX to deliver to build capacity for 300 librarians to implement creative STEAM learning programs in their libraries.
Alum Harpreet Sareen writes about how humans might form a type of symbiosis with the plant kingdom in the future.
Nataliya Kosmyna, Alexandra Gross and Pattie Maes. “The Thinking Cap 2.0”: Preliminary Study on Fostering Growth Mindset of Children by means of Electroencephalography and Perceived Magic using Artifacts from Fictional Sci-Fi Universes. In Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Interaction Design and Children (IDC ’20). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 761–767.
Brian Whitman, Deb Roy, Barry Vercoe
“A Counting,” an art project from the Poetic Justice group, invites people to call in and count to 100 in their native language.
Nataliya Kosmyna, Cassandra Scheirer, and Pattie Maes. 2021. The Thinking Cap: Fostering Growth Mindset Of Children By Means Of Electroencephalography And Perceived Magic of Harry Potter Universe. In CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstracts (CHI ’21 Extended Abstracts), May 08–13, 2021, Yokohama, Japan. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 6 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/34
The MIT Quarter-Century Club recognizes faculty members and members of staff who have served the Institute for 25 years or more.
On May 11, 2022, the MIT Media Lab hosted a biannual event known as Demo Day, where 14 teams of students presented their course projects.
Coming shows involve artificial intelligence, but underlying them is a concern: “What are we unleashing?”
Whitman, B. "Learning the meaning of Music"
Join the Future Sketches group on Fridays from 12 – 1pm ET for the Lunch Lectures Spring 2023 edition: “Generative AI and artistic practice”
Former Member Relations Manager
This project focuses on new methods for analyzing, visualizing, and interacting with large text and speech collections. We are exploring tr…
An MIT-led study reveals a core tension between the impulse to share news and to think about whether it is true.
Researchers + artists reflect on the partnerships that have created career opportunities and forged a deeper public understanding of science
Fourteen student teams presented proto-ventures during Demo Day 2022, an event related to an academic course taught at the MIT Media Lab.
Xin Liu, an alum of the Fluid Interfaces group and collaborator with the Space Exploration Initiative, talks to Artnet about her practice.
A number of Media Lab researchers and alumni are included in the cohort.
Deb Roy
Decades ago development scholars argued that the productive structure of a country (i. e. the mix of industries operating in the country) c…
We aim to computationally model the meaning of music by taking advantage of community usage and description�using the self-selected and nat…
Hilke Reckman, Jeff Orkin, Deb Roy
Nicole L'Huillier will speak at an event as part of ACT's Spring 2020 Artistic Research Luncheon Series.
On November 14, the Boston Lyric Opera will present the World Premiere of Schoenberg in Hollywood, a new opera by Tod Machover, the Muriel …
The meanings of simple verbs such as "pick up" convey more information than meets the eye. In order to pick up an object, a person much rea…
Deb Roy, Kai-yuh Hsiao, Nikolaos Mavridis
The 21st Geneva Report on the World Economy reviews the basics of blockchain technology, and its challenges, costs, and benefits.
Christine Sun Kim talks to the New York Times about her work. Her installation "The Sound of Obsessing" appears in the Media Lab's lobby.
LocationMIT Media Lab, Bartos Theatre (E15, Lower Level) Description
Global climate change is projected to change our planet this century and beyond.
Lawsuits over the development and use of AI tools can have huge implications on the creative process and intellectual property ownership.
Blackaller, L. "Performing Process: The Artist Studio as Interactive Art"
"Are you real?"If you've seen the TV series Westworld, you may remember this line. A man named William has just arrived at Westworld, a sor…
Matthew Brand
The Praise Shadows Art Gallery hosts an artist talk between Zach Lieberman and Manila-based American artist James Clar.
Opera of the Future PhD candidate Nicole L'Huillier discusses her multimedia artwork with WBUR.
Kim explains why she accepted the opportunity to perform during one of America’s most-watched events and what it means to the Deaf community
Michael Fleischman, Deb Roy
Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education
M. Ehsan Hoque, Rana el Kaliouby, Rosalind W. Picard
Breyer, N. "Children's Comprehension of Video Effects: Understanding Meaning, Mood & Message"
At Sundance New Frontiers 2020, Xin Liu and Qinya (Jenny) Guo debuted Living Distance, a VR piece about the journey of Liu’s wisdom tooth.
LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-633 DescriptionJoin artist "Red" Hong Yi as she describes her creative process of finding and creating the beaut…
In this work we suggest to harness the power of knowledge-seeking positive experiences, engagement, and curiosity that objects perceived as…
Philip DeCamp, Amber Frid-Jimenez, Jethran Guiness, Deb Roy
LocationCentury Link Convention Center, Omaha Description
Liu was selected from eight shortlisted artists for her work bridging art and science.
LocationKing Abdullah Economic City (KAEC), Saudi Arabia Description
Former Research Scientist
MoCho (short for "Mobility Choices") is a CityScope module focused on mobility choices and societal impacts. This tool helps pred…
We investigate the structure and dynamics of a network representative of the global trading market that emerged during the 16th century.
E. C. Ferrer, I. Berman, A. Kapitonov, V. Manaenko, M. Chernyaev and P. Tarasov, "Gaka-Chu: A Self-Employed Autonomous Robot Artist," 2023 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), London, United Kingdom, 2023, pp. 11583-11589, doi: 10.1109/ICRA48891.2023.10160866.
The alewife, a type of river herring, wriggled against the current, a 10-inch streak that disappeared from view as it rounded a bend in the…