Press Release Archive

MIT Media Lab Announces Two New Associate Directors

Will aid in defining strategic direction
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Media Lab Announces New Center for Future Banking

Collaboration to create an innovative engine for consumer banking solutions
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Hume Joins MIT Civic Media Center as Research Director

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Research Aims to Restore Amputee Limb Function

An MIT professor and colleagues from Brown University and the Providence Veterans Affairs Medical Center have begun a five-year, multidisciplinary research project to restore arm and leg function to amputees.
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VA Funds Limb-Loss Research

The Department of Veterans Affairs has awarded $7.2 million to the Providence VA Medical Center to establish a broad-based research program to restore natural function to amputees. The chief goal is to create “biohybrid” limbs that meld human tissue with a prosthesis controlled by an amputee’s own muscles and brain signals.  more ›

New Color Pixter Symphony Painter Software is Based on Critically Acclaimed MIT Media Lab Software

Fisher-Price announces release of Color Pixter Symphony Painter

(EAST AURORA, NY) December 3, 2004—Fisher-Price, Inc., a subsidiary of Mattel, Inc. and the world's leading manufacturer of infant and preschool toys, has announced the release of Color Pixter®. Symphony Painter, developed in collaboration with the Toy Symphony project at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab.  more ›

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Holography Pioneer Stephen Benton Dies at 61

Stephen A. Benton, inventor of the rainbow hologram and a pioneer in medical imaging and fine arts holography, died of brain cancer.
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Ireland and MIT Will Establish MediaLabEurope in Dublin

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