MIT experts test technical research for a hypothetical central bank digital currency

Classes offered by the Program in Media Arts and Sciences for the Spring 2022 semester

Fellowship program honors ACM members whose specific accomplishments drive innovation and make broader advances possible.

Congrats to Praneeth Vepakomma on receiving a 2022 Meta PhD Research Fellowship in the Applied Statistics category.

Collective intelligence methodology identifies key findings to accelerate the pace of innovation and build health resilience.

Danielle Wood will speak at the session "Outer Space: Projecting Histories and Futures onto the Stars."

The project won first place and the Audience Choice Award in the SEPTA for All: Augmenting Transit with Augmented Reality competition.

Developed in collaboration with dancer Loni Landon, Tapis Magique is a pressure-sensitive, knitted electronic textile carpet.

In this session of the Media Lab Perspective Series, Media Lab director Dava Newman will moderate a conversation with Nicole Stott

MIT scientist Rosalind Picard collaborates with clinicians to develop tools for mental health care delivery.

The more social behaviors a voice-user interface exhibits, the more likely people are to trust it, engage with it, and think it competent.

Shuvo, I. I., Shah, A., Dagdeviren, C.†, “Electronic Textile Sensors for Decoding Vital Body Signals: State-of-the-art Review on Characterizations and Recommendations”, https://doi.org/10.1002/aisy.202100223, Advanced Intelligent Systems, 2022.

Congratulations to Labbers Hiroshi Ishii and Nataliya Kosmyna on receiving these grants from the Council for the Arts at MIT (CAMIT).

His work will focus on refining Ethical Computing Protocol as a tool and resource for researchers and practitioners.

Using a new robotic platform, researchers can simultaneously track hundreds of microbial populations as they evolve new proteins.

Biomechatronics group head Hugh Herr speaks with Marwa ElDiwiny on a recent episode of the IEEE RAS Soft Robotics podcast.

Gramophone contributor Laurence Vittes spotlights Tod Machover’s “Death and the Powers,” an opera about robots and humans.

Matthew Groh, Ziv Epstein, Chaz Firestone, Rosalind Picard. "Deepfake detection by human crowds, machines, and machine-informed crowds." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Jan 2022, 119 (1) e2110013119; DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2110013119

Researchers encourage positive use cases of AI-generated characters for education and well-being.

Graduate student Lucy Du designs novel prosthetics and seeks to inspire others to pursue engineering.

FG is the premier international forum for research in image and video-based face, gesture, and body movement recognition.

Deblina Sarkar is recognized as one of the eight scientists leading next generation research by United For Medical Research.

The NAI Fellows Program highlights academic inventors who have demonstrated a spirit of innovation.

S. Kajale*, S. Yadav*, Y. Cai, B. C. Joy, D. Sarkar (* co 1st authors), iScience (2021): 103513

Spacecraft wrapped in sensor-rich electronic textiles could double as scientific instruments

Zhang has also been invited to deliver the 20th Schrödinger lecture on December 17, 2021.

The 2022 Forbes 30 Under 30 list honors "bold risk-takers putting a new twist on the old tools of the trade" + includes a few Media Labbers.

View recent awards and recognitions received by members of the Media Lab community in the modules attached here.

The Academy’s mission is to stimulate cross-disciplinary scientists of all disciplines, leading artists, and practitioners of governance.

MIT Future Founders Initiative announces prize competition to promote female entrepreneurs in biotech.

FlowIO is a project led by Responsive Environments PhD student Ali Shtarbanov that redesigns the role of pneumatics in soft robotics.

This fireside chat will feature Dava Newman, Tony McGuiness of Above and Beyond, and other panelists in a discussion on climate change.

Robotic textiles could help performers and athletes train their breathing, and potentially help patients recovering from postsurgery changes

Nine Graduate Social and Ethical Responsibilities of Computing (SERC) Scholars have been chosen by MIT Schwarzman College of Computing.

The special issue serves an introduction of the "classics" as to modalities in the recognition of (human) affective states.

“Growing together, remaining apart: The role of digital technology in former guerrilla fighters’ social capital."

The film was a semi-finalist at the Flickers Rhode Island Film Festival and will be released online following a private screening at the Lab

Danielle Wood was quoted in an article exploring alternatives to strategies of conquest and settlement of the Moon and Mars.

In the Boston Globe, Media Lab director Dava Newman shares her vision for the future.

Tree Clocks was selected as the winning project at the Code Cypher hosted by MIT CAST.

The documentary Zero Gravity about the MIT Zero Robotics program, led by Danielle Wood, will be showing at the DOC NYC Film Festival.

Spinoff Graviky Labs has been listed as a winner in the Science Start-Ups category of this year's Falling Walls Science Summit.

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

Space Enabled members present their research at the world’s premier annual space event.

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

A research team including Fluid Interfaces group members Nataliya Kosmyna and Pattie Maes received the Best Poster Award at IEEE BSN 2021.

Safinah Ali, a PhD student in the Personal Robots group, is among the recipients of the Microsoft PhD Fellowship for 2022.

Epstein, Ziv, et al. "Social influence leads to the formation of diverse local trends." Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction 5.CSCW2 (2021): 1-18.

Sarah Beckmann, a communications coordinator, writes and edits content with the goal of promoting the Media Lab's unique research agenda.

Artificial intelligence is top-of-mind as Governor Baker, President Reif encourage students to “see yourself in STEM.”

This robotic arm fuses data from a camera and antenna to locate and retrieve items, even if they are buried under a pile.

The LEGO Prize is presented to individuals or organizations that have made an outstanding contribution to the lives of children.

Pentland, Alex, Alexander Lipton, and Thomas Hardjono. "Building the New Economy." MIT Press.

Natasha Jaques, an alum of the Affective Computing group, has won this year's award for her thesis: "Social and Affective Machine Learning"

The competition, now in its tenth year, has featured a cross section of blue-chip companies, scruffy startups, and hungry young talents.

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

Explore the Media Lab research presented at UbiComp 2021!

The themes and concerns of Death and the Powers seem even more relevant and resonant than when the opera premiered a decade ago.

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

For the paper, “Long-Term Co-Design Guidelines: Empowering Older Adults as Co-Designers of Social Robots"

The center is funded by a $24 million gift to MIT’s McGovern Institute for Brain Research from philanthropist Lisa Yang.

City Science researcher Andres Rico reflects on his time participating in this past year's "How To Grow (Almost) Anything" (HTGAA) class.

Dava Newman, the new head of MIT’s Media Lab, wants the lab to take on bigger problems and reach out into the community.

MetaSense: Integrating Sensing Capabilities into Mechanical Metamaterial. J. Gong*, O. Seow*, C. Honnet*, J. Forman,...

The project pairs local poets of color with local scientists of color to create original poetry about the scientists’ work and experiences.

C. R. Taylor, S. S. Srinivasan, S. H. Yeon, M. K. O'Donnell, T. J. Roberts, H. M. Herr, Magnetomicrometry, Sci.Robot. 6, eabg0656 (2021), DOI: 10.1126/scirobotics.abg0656

M. E. Carney, T. Shu, R. Stolyarov, J. F. Duval and H. M. Herr, "Design and Preliminary Results of a Reaction Force Series Elastic Actuator for Bionic Knee and Ankle Prostheses," in IEEE Transactions on Medical Robotics and Bionics, vol. 3, no. 3, pp. 542-553, Aug. 2021, doi: 10.1109/TMRB.2021.3098921.

Researchers enlist grassroots activists to engage “invisible” residents about the future of the city.