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in Signal Kinetics · Aug. 20, 2019
#sensors #computer science #space +3 more
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Alum Erhardt Graeff receives Best Dissertation Award

The Association of Internet Researchers has recognized alum Erhardt Graeff, now an assistant professor of social and computer science at ...

Aug. 21, 2019
in Center for Civic Media · Civic Media
#civic media #civic technology #politics
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Teaching at the Media Lab

To me, teaching equals sharing while learning.

Aug. 16, 2019
in Conformable Decoders
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Zero Gravity Flight 2019

In 2017, the MIT Media Lab set its sights on space. Just over two years later, the Space Exploration Initiative has grown ...

Aug. 13, 2019
in Space Exploration Initiative
#robotics #design #human-computer interaction +6 more
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RadioTalk

The RadioTalk corpus includes speech recognition transcripts sampled from talk radio broadcasts in the United States between October of 2...

in Social Machines
William Brannon · Deb Roy +1 more
#civic media #natural language processing
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Member collaboration: NEC and Affective Computing researchers

Based on high precision sensing technology, NEC and the Affective Computing group are aiming to lead people towards healthier lifestyles.

Aug. 8, 2019
in Affective Computing
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Model predicts cognitive decline due to Alzheimer’s, up to two years out

Researchers hope the system can zero in on the right patients to enroll in clinical trials, to speed discovery of drug treatments

via MIT News · Aug. 1, 2019
in Affective Computing
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Towards New Musics: What the future holds for sound creativity

Tod Machover and Charles Holbrow discuss how they're building the tools and platforms for a culture of living music

via NPR Music · July 26, 2019
in Opera of the Future · Responsive Environments
#artificial intelligence #music #technology
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Air Travel in Academia: Designing a carbon offsets program for the MIT Media Lab

Our planet’s warming climate presents an imminent and catastrophic challenge that will have far-reaching economic, social, and political ...

July 29, 2019
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Decoding physical patterns of our bodies via conformable devices

In an interview with Medgadget, Canan Dagdeviren talks about the mission and ethos of Conformable Decoders

via Medgadget · July 24, 2019
in Conformable Decoders
#health #neurobiology #wellbeing
Project Research

BASIC: Blockchained Agent-based Simulator for Cities

Autonomous vehicles (AVs), drones, and other types of robots will revolutionize our way of traveling and understanding urban space. In or...

in Human Dynamics · City Science
Arnaud Grignard · Eduardo Castello Ferrer +3 more
#urban planning #blockchain #autonomous vehicles
Article Research

E14 Fund helps Media Lab community deploy startups

“First and foremost we’re a community-builder,” says Habib Haddad, a managing partner of the venture fund.

via MIT News · July 25, 2019
in Director's Office · Spinoffs
#member company #community #alumni +1 more
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Using AI to manage opioid use in hospital ICUs

New Harvard-MIT deep reinforcement learning algorithm optimizes pain management.

via Psychology Today · July 25, 2019
in Affective Computing
#artificial intelligence #public health #wellbeing
Article Research

Celebrating a curious mind: Steven Keating 1988-2019

Steven Keating inspired millions with his research-driven approach to battling cancer and his advocacy for open patient health data

via MIT News · July 22, 2019
in Mediated Matter
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Guitar Machine

​We often imagine a future world filled with robots and artificial intelligence agents, where humans share their civilization with sentie...

July 24, 2019
in Fluid Interfaces
#robotics #human-computer interaction #music
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Social robots as social catalysts: Collaborating with older adults as design research partners

When they’re valued as design research partners, older adults feel empowered to contribute to technology design.

July 12, 2019
in Personal Robots
#human-machine interaction #social robotics #social change
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Technical Flaws of Pretrial Risk Assessments Raise Grave Concerns

By Chelsea Barabas, Karthik Dinakar and Colin Doyle

July 17, 2019
in Ethics and Governance of Artificial Intelligence
#artificial intelligence #social science #racial justice
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Building with Bio in “How to Grow (Almost) Anything”

The class introduced students from all backgrounds to the emerging areas of biodesign, biotechnology, and synthetic biology.

June 21, 2019
Project Research

Moon Village

In 2015, the director general of the European Space Agency (ESA), Jan Wörner, introduced the concept of the “Moon Village.” Inspired by t...

in Responsive Environments
Valentina Sumini
#design #architecture #space
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Announcing the 2019 Media Lab Director’s Fellows

NBA star, Polynesian voyager, Stockton mayor among the new cohort working to build bridges between MIT and the world.

June 28, 2019
in Director's Fellows Program
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Study: Social robots can benefit hospitalized children

Interacting with a robotic teddy bear invented at MIT boosted young patients’ positive emotions, engagement, and activity level.

via MIT News · June 26, 2019
in Advancing Wellbeing · Personal Robots
#health #social robotics
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The Deep Image of the City

How do you image a city that doesn't exist? DeepScope is a novel platform for interactive, real-time, and setup-less urban design vi...

in City Science
Ariel Noyman · Kent Larson
#human-computer interaction #architecture #urban planning +2 more
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Exhibiting at the Media Lab: Canan Dagdeviren reflects on exhibiting student work

Putting together this exhibit helped me to reflect on both my personal and academic lives.

June 17, 2019
in Conformable Decoders
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Six Degrees of Separation at Burning Man

What our experiment in the desert taught us about social networks and human cooperation.

via Nautilus · July 11, 2019
in Scalable Cooperation
#social networks #crowdsourcing
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Footwear x Mental Health: A Collaboration

How do your kicks collaborate with mental health?

May 21, 2019
in Viral Communications
#health #social science
Project Research

[bike] swarm

As bikes navigate city streets after dark, they are often equipped with lights. The lights make the bikes visible to cars or other bikers...

in City Science
Alex Berke · Kent Larson +1 more
#design #human-computer interaction #networks +6 more
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Getting Started with Creative Learning in your Public Library

Our PLIX Facilitation Kits are designed to make it easy for librarians to offer creative learning programs to their patrons.

June 4, 2019
in ML Learning
#learning
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Tangible influence: A stroll through Hiroshi Ishii’s living legacy

Celebrating Hiroshi Ishii's mentorship and groundbreaking research

June 18, 2019
in Tangible Media
#design #human-computer interaction #interfaces
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Congratulations to the Class of 2019!

Congratulations to all who graduated during the 2018-2019 academic year!

June 5, 2019
in Program in Media Arts and Sciences
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How do materials choices and design decisions affect the regulatory pathway for neuroimplantable devices?

We present a review paper that analyzes how early design decisions can affect the regulatory approval process downstream.

June 20, 2019
in Conformable Decoders
#bioengineering #public health #engineering +1 more
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Agnes Cameron, Huili Chen, Devora Najjar, and Randi Williams honored as 2019 Graduate Women of Excellence

Congratulations to all of the honorees! We are so proud of you all.

May 3, 2019
in Personal Robots · Viral Communications · Sculpting Evolution +1 more
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Guillermo Bernal wins 2019 Schnitzer Prize

Guillermo Bernal believes virtual reality should be more expressive.

May 1, 2019
in Fluid Interfaces
#virtual reality
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Creating a Space Sustainability Rating

A team led by the Space Enabled group, ESA, and the World Economic Forum will address waste in Earth’s orbit

May 5, 2019
in Space Enabled
#space
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Nature—Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial

The exhibition includes work from a number of Media Lab researchers and alumni.

Friday — Monday
May 10, 2019 —
January 20, 2020
Hiroshi Ishii · Pattie Maes +6 more
#environment
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Six suborbital research payloads fly on Blue Origin New Shepard

The projects on board the Media Lab's first suborbital rocket flight

May 1, 2019
in Space Exploration Initiative
#architecture #art #space +1 more
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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.

April 30, 2019
in Synthetic Neurobiology
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AI: More than Human

The exhibition includes work from several Media Lab researchers and groups, including Neri Oxman, Joy Buolamwini, and the OpenAg Initiative.

Thursday — Monday
May 16, 2019 —
August 26, 2019
London
Caleb Harper · Joy Buolamwini +2 more
#artificial intelligence
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Pip Mothersill receives 2019 Wiesner Student Art Award

Pip Mothersill lives and thrives at the junction of design and engineering.

May 1, 2019
in Object-Based Media
#design
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Arnav Kapur wins “Use it!” Lemelson-MIT Student Prize

Congratulations, Arnav!

April 25, 2019
in Fluid Interfaces
#artificial intelligence #health
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Danielle Wood receives 2019 Curious Scientist Award at Cambridge Science Festival

This year, 120 curious students were honored at the Curiosity Challenge Celebration, along with Dr. Danielle Wood, 2019 Curious Scientist.

April 30, 2019
in Space Enabled
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Machine Behavior

Machines powered by artificial intelligence (AI) increasingly mediate our social, cultural, economic, and ...

in Human Dynamics · Personal Robots · Scalable Cooperation
Iyad Rahwan · Manuel Cebrian +3 more
#artificial intelligence #human-machine interaction #learning +4 more
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"The conscience of the AI revolution."

Fortune Magazine has named Joy Buolamwini to its 2019 list of the World's Greatest Leaders.

April 18, 2019
in Center for Civic Media · Civic Media
#artificial intelligence
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Guided-wave light modulator for holographic video

The electro-holographic video display (Holovideo) project has spanned over decades, beginning back in 1989, and continues to be a main re...

in Object-Based Media · Future Storytelling · CE 2.0 +1 more
V. Michael Bove · Sunny Jolly +4 more
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An AI smartwatch that detects seizures

In this TED Talk, Affective Computing head Rosalind Picard explains how AI can help save lives.

via TED · Nov. 1, 2018
in Affective Computing
#health #wearable computing
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Affective Network

Try Affective Network!Emotional contagion in online social networks has been of great interest over the past years. Previous studies have...

in Affective Computing · Social Machines
Belen Saldias Fuentes · Rosalind W. Picard +1 more
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Announcing the 2019 LEGO Papert Fellows

The LEGO Papert Fellowships support three graduate students working at the intersection of creativity, play, learning, and new technology.

April 4, 2019
in Lifelong Kindergarten · Personal Robots · Civic Media
#artificial intelligence #civic media #learning +3 more
Project Research

Optimizing plants for flavor, nutrition, and pharmaceutical content

Flavor, in addition to making our food delicious, is one way of sensing biochemical richness. A highly flavorful plant generally con...

in Open Agriculture (OpenAg)
John de la Parra · Rebekah Carlson
#agriculture #food #biology +1 more
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Daisy Drives

Who should decide whether, when, and how to alter the environment? These are hard questions, especially when the decisions will impact pe...

in Sculpting Evolution
Kevin Esvelt · Joanna Buchthal
#bioengineering #genetics #synthetic biology +1 more
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Mentoring UROPs at the Media Lab

In just three semesters, we have done a lot, and I cannot wait to experience our progress in Spring 2019 and beyond.

March 26, 2019
in Conformable Decoders
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EngageME chosen as an EU Research success story

The technology being developed can enable personalized interactions with an autistic child, helping therapists to engage their attention.

March 12, 2019
in Affective Computing
#robotics #health #social robotics +1 more
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Joi Ito | WIRED Ideas

July 30, 2018
in Director's Office
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Microgravity research after the International Space Station

Researchers say new facilities in space should be available to scientists from any country.

via MIT News · March 12, 2019
in Space Enabled
#politics #space #technology
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Actionable Auditing: Coordinated bias disclosure study

Algorithmic auditing has emerged as a key strategy to expose systematic biases embedded in software platforms, yet scholarship on the imp...

in Civic Media
Joy Buolamwini
#computer vision #artificial intelligence #civic media +8 more
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Totems

Biodiversity on planet Earth is under momentous threat, with extinction rates estimated between 100 and 1,000 times their pre-human level...

in Mediated Matter
Sunanda Sharma · Christoph Bader +5 more
#design #architecture #art
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User needs for augmentative communication interfaces

We are creating new communication interfaces for people with speech and language disorders, incorporating technologies like physiological...

in Fluid Interfaces
Jaya Narain
#design #human-computer interaction #health +1 more
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Hiroshi Ishii wins ACM SIGCHI Lifetime Research Award

MAS professor recognized for a career of contributions to human-computer interaction.

Feb. 13, 2019
in Tangible Media
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PopBots: An early childhood AI curriculum

How can we add the missing "T" and "E" in preschool STEAM education?

in Personal Robots
Hae Won Park · Cynthia Breazeal +1 more
#human-computer interaction #human-machine interaction #learning +2 more
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Thinking Cap

Peoples' mindsets, meaning their beliefs about their own intellectual abilities, affect their effort and thereby their performance on tas...

in Fluid Interfaces
Nataliya Kos'myna · Pattie Maes
#kids #learning #wearable computing +2 more
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Rosalind Picard elected to the National Academy of Engineering

Rosalind Picard is nominated to the NAE for her contributions to affective and wearable computing.

Feb. 7, 2019
in Affective Computing
#wearable computing #technology
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Danielle Wood and Joi Ito named FD200 Awardees

On the occasion of his bicentennial, a list of 200 people who best embody the spirit and work of Frederick Douglass.

via The Guardian US · Feb. 13, 2019
in Space Enabled
Project Research

How the medium shapes the message: Printing and the rise of the arts and sciences

Communication technologies, from printing to social media, affect our historical records by changing the way ideas are spread and recorde...

in Collective Learning
Cristian Ignacio Jara Figueroa · Amy Yu +1 more
#social science #social change #history
Article Research

Mapping the brain at high resolution

New 3D imaging technique can reveal, much more quickly than other methods, how neurons connect throughout the brain.

via MIT News · Jan. 17, 2019
in Synthetic Neurobiology
#neurobiology #imaging
Project Research

Scratch 3.0

Since the release of Scratch in 2007, young people around the world have programmed and shared more than 15 million Scratch projects . Th...

in Lifelong Kindergarten
Andrew Sliwinski · Carl Bowman +5 more
#design #gaming #kids +3 more
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Ekene Ijeoma Joins the MIT Media Lab

In January 2019, artist Ekene Ijeoma will join the MIT Media Lab as an assistant professor.

Nov. 6, 2018
in Poetic Justice
#art #performance #social change
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The universal decay of collective memory and attention

Collective memory and attention are sustained by two channels: oral communication (communicative memory) and the physical recording of in...

in Collective Learning
Cristian Esteban Candia Vallejos · Cesar A. Hidalgo +1 more
#art #communications #entertainment +5 more
Project Research

RFIQ: Food quality and safety detection using wireless stickers

​We have developed a wireless system that leverages the inexpensive RFID tags already on hundreds of billions of products to sense potent...

in Signal Kinetics
Fadel Adib · Unsoo Ha +2 more
#artificial intelligence #food #health +8 more
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Schoenberg in Hollywood—The Exhibit

A rare glimpse into the creative life of Arnold Schoenberg.

Monday — Friday
October 29, 2018 —
June 28, 2019
9:00am — 5:00pm
Tod Machover
#music
Project Research

kinetiX

kinetiX is a transformable material featuring a design that resembles a cellular structure. It consists of rigid plates or rods and elast...

in Tangible Media
Jifei Ou · Jannik Peters +2 more
#design #art #manufacturing +3 more
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Big Ocean, Big Data

More ocean data has been collected in the last two years than in all previous years combined, and we are on a path to continue to break t...

in Open Ocean
Katy Croff Bell · Neil Gaikwad
#data #environment #machine learning +3 more
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Neil Gaikwad receives the 2019 Karl Taylor Compton Prize

The Compton Prizes are the highest awards presented by the Institute to students and student organizations.

May 16, 2019
in Space Enabled
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Designing the Future of Agriculture: OpenAg at the Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial, the Barbican Centre, and the V&A Museum in 2019

OpenAg is invited to showcase its latest Food Computer design in the Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial, the Barbican Centre, and the V&A Museum

May 14, 2019
in Open Agriculture (OpenAg)
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MIT Colombian Association wins 2019 Organization of the Year Award

Civic Media PhD student Pedro Reynolds-Cuellar serves as president of the association.

May 20, 2019
in Center for Civic Media · Human Dynamics · Biomechatronics +1 more
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Untold Possibilities at the Last Minute

Local artists explore the state of climate change today in “Untold Possibilities at the Last Minute,” an exhibition on view at Cambridge ...

Monday — Friday
May 20, 2019 —
October 4, 2019
Cambridge, MA
Laura Perovich · Dietmar Offenhuber
#environment
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