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Deep Angel: The AI behind the aesthetics of absence

Deep Angel is an artificial intelligence that erases objects from photographs. The algorithm is hosted on http://deepangel.media.mit...

in Scalable Cooperation
Abhimanyu Dubey · Niccolo Pescetelli +5 more
#artificial intelligence #imaging
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Living the Media Lab experience with the 2018 MSRP interns

By Monica Orta

Sept. 17, 2018
in Object-Based Media · Responsive Environments · Personal Robots +2 more
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Field Experimentation in Boston's Intertidal Zone

The Intertidal Experimentation Workshop will take place September 29 and 30 (9am to 2pm) at the MIT Media Lab, open to students ages 8-14...

in Open Ocean · Sculpting Evolution
Avery Normandin · Devora Najjar
#learning #ocean
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Fall 2018 MAS Course List

Fall is here, hear the yell/Back to school, ring the bell

Aug. 10, 2018
in Program in Media Arts and Sciences
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A Protocol to Characterize pH Sensing Materials and Systems

​Although significant progress is being made in identifying pH sensing materials and device configurations, a standard protocol for ...

in Conformable Decoders
Mohamed Tarek · Atieh Sadraei +1 more
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Curating the human experience of space—present, future, and fiction

Xin Liu discusses the Space Exploration Initiative's upcoming arts exhibition at Ars Electronica

Aug. 21, 2018
in Space Exploration Initiative
#design #art #space +1 more
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Media Lab projects recognized in the 2018 Innovation by Design Awards

Winner and finalists in Fast Company's 2018 awards

Sept. 10, 2018
in Living Mobile · Tangible Media · Fluid Interfaces
#design
Project Research

Wireless Communication from Underwater to the Air

Did you know that submarines today still cannot wirelessly communicate with airplanes? For decades, communicating between underwater and ...

in Signal Kinetics
Fadel Adib · Junsu Jang +1 more
#robotics #communications #networks +3 more
Project Research

Time-folded optics

Rethinking photography optics in the time dimensionWhat if we could design optics in time instead of space?While the time resolutions or ...

in Camera Culture
Barmak Heshmat Dehkordi · Guy Satat +1 more
#imaging
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Media Lab at Ars Electronica 2018

The Ars Electronica Festival runs from September 6-10, 2018 in Linz, Austria

Sept. 4, 2018
in Tangible Media · Fluid Interfaces · Space Exploration Initiative
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Joi Ito's WIRED Ideas Column

July 30, 2018
in Director's Office
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Self-learning AI model learns from patient data to design novel clinical trials

Technical summaryUnstructured learning problems without well-defined rewards are unsuitable for current reinforcement learning (RL) appro...

in Health 0.0
Pratik Shah · Gregory Yauney
#artificial intelligence #health #human-machine interaction +3 more
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Exploring the effects of environmental stressors on daily governance

If we are unable to adapt to climate change, it may amplify the marginal gap between citizen need and government assistance.

Aug. 14, 2018
in Scalable Cooperation
#environment #government #health +2 more
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HyperCubes: Learning computational concepts in Augmented Reality

HyperCubes is an augmented reality platform to help children understand computational concepts drawn from their physical surroundings, fr...

in Living Mobile
Anna Fuste
#design #augmented reality #learning +1 more
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Civic Entertainment

Civic Entertainment is a project based at the Center for Civic Media that explores the intersection of civic engagement with film, televi...

in Civic Media · Center for Civic Media
Anushka Shah · Ethan Zuckerman
#civic media #entertainment #politics +1 more
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Storytelling, STEM, and changing the conversation at Comic-Con

The Media Lab panel at San Diego Comic-Con covered inclusion, exploration, and the reciprocity between fiction and research at the Lab

July 31, 2018
in Responsive Environments · Mediated Matter · Civic Media +2 more
#storytelling #engineering
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Helping computers perceive human emotions

Personalized machine-learning models capture subtle variations in facial expressions to better gauge how we feel

via MIT News · July 26, 2018
in Affective Computing
#human-machine interaction #machine learning
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2018 Global Community Bio Summit

The Community Biotechnology Initiative at the MIT Media Lab is organizing the second annual Global Summit on Community Biotechn...

Friday — Sunday
October 26, 2018 —
October 28, 2018
David S. Kong
#bioengineering #synthetic biology #biotechnology
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Skillscape: How skills affect your job trajectory, and their implications for automation by AI

This blog post summarizes the key findings of our new paper Unpacking the polarization of workplace skills published in Science Advances ...

July 18, 2018
in Scalable Cooperation
#data #economy
Project Research

Mediated Atmosphere

The Mediated Atmosphere project envisions a smart office that is capable of dynamically transforming itself to enhance occupants' work ex...

in Responsive Environments
Joseph A. Paradiso · Nan Zhao +2 more
#architecture #health #wearable computing +2 more
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DeepMoji

Emotional content is an important part of language. There are many use cases now showing that natural language processing is becoming an ...

in Scalable Cooperation
Iyad Rahwan · Bjarke Felbo +1 more
#communications #data #social media +2 more
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All Hands on Deck

All Hands on Deck will convene leaders in ocean exploration to imagine new ways to empower an inclusive global community of explorers.

Wednesday — Saturday
November 7, 2018 —
November 10, 2018
8:00am — 7:00pm
Katy Croff Bell
#ocean
Project Research

Personalized Machine Learning for Autism Therapy

EngageME: Personalized machine learning and humanoid robots for measuring affect and engagement of children with autismEngageME is a proj...

in Affective Computing
Ognjen (Oggi) Rudovic · Rosalind W. Picard
#robotics #human-computer interaction #health +9 more
Archived
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Words in Motion

Embodied theories of language propose that the way we communicate verbally is grounded in our bodies. Nevertheless, the way a second lang...

in Fluid Interfaces
Pattie Maes · Christian David Vazquez Machado
#virtual reality #language learning
Archived
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The hackable bike and the future of the MamaChari

Rapid urbanization causes a need for new mobility modes which may not be totally dependent on cars.

May 29, 2018
in City Science
#hacking #transportation #urban planning
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Dizzying Decisions

It’s not about your wireless or cable bill, it’s about your right to learn.

June 20, 2018
in Viral Communications
#communications #economy
Article Research

Embracing a Future with Autonomous and Intelligent Systems

Announcing the Global Council on Extended Intelligence

via Medium · June 22, 2018
in Ethics and Governance of Artificial Intelligence
#artificial intelligence #machine learning
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DIVE

DIVE is a web-based data exploration system that lets non-technical users create stories from their data without writing code. DIVE ...

in Collective Learning
Kevin Zeng Hu · Cesar A. Hidalgo
#data #human-machine interaction #interfaces +1 more
Project Research

Brainstorm: Anima Mundi

We'd like to introduce you to a very special neuroscience project that we are currently conducting in the setting of a traditional fine a...

in Sculpting Evolution
Jeantine Lunshof
#art #genetics #synthetic biology
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Congratulations to the Class of 2018!

Best wishes to the MAS grads

June 8, 2018
in Program in Media Arts and Sciences
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Academia

April 17, 2018
in Program in Media Arts and Sciences
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BioEssence

A Wearable Olfactory Display That Monitors Cardio-respiratory Information to Support Mental WellbeingBioEssence is a novel wearable ...

in Fluid Interfaces
Judith Amores Fernandez · Pattie Maes +2 more
#consumer electronics #fashion #wearable computing +3 more
Project Research

In-Vivo Networking: Powering and Communicating with Tiny Battery-Free Devices Inside the Body

In-Vivo Networking (IVN) is the new technology that can wirelessly power and communicate with tiny devices implanted deep within the...

in Signal Kinetics
#health
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Agonist-antagonist Myoneural Interface (AMI)

Humans can accurately sense the position, speed, and torque of their limbs, even with their eyes shut. This sense, known as proprioceptio...

in Center for Extreme Bionics · Biomechatronics
Tyler Clites · Shriya Srinivasan +3 more
#robotics #bioengineering #health +6 more
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Growing up with AI: How can families play and learn with their new smart toys and companions?

I grew up in a small town in Transylvania, and will always remember the day when I assembled my first computer and loaded the first mp3 s...

May 11, 2018
in ML Learning · Personal Robots
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Making Data Matter: Voxel-Printing for the Digital Fabrication of Data across Scales and Domains

We present a multimaterial voxel-printing method enabling the physical visualization of data sets commonly associated with scientific ima...

in Mediated Matter
James Weaver · Christoph Bader +4 more
#design #manufacturing #3d printing
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MLTalks: Explaining the MacArthur Fellowship

Tuesday May 29, 2018 ...

May 30, 2018
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Ed Boyden one of 19 new Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigators

The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) has named 19 new HHMI Investigators, including Synthetic Neurobiology head Ed Boyden.

May 23, 2018
in Synthetic Neurobiology
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Introducing the 2018 MIT Media Lab Director's Fellows

New cohort brings social, scientific, and creative experience to extend the Lab’s reach beyond academia.

May 22, 2018
in Director's Fellows Program
Article Research

Spinning data into sound

An interdepartmental collaboration brings out the music of nuclear fusion

via MIT News · May 9, 2018
in Responsive Environments
Article Research

Addressing bias, inequality, and accessibility in breastfeeding

Make the Breast Pump Not Suck hackathon at the Media Lab emphasizes social and political issues over engineering

via MIT News · May 4, 2018
in Civic Media
#hacking #health #public health
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How a study of school energy efficiency inspired a new generation of Electronautes

Public buildings account for the greatest energy demands in the Andorran economy. As part of the City Science Lab @Andorra, a team of sci...

May 4, 2018
in City Science
#learning #sensors
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Neri Oxman Among Winners of Cooper Hewitt 2018 National Design Awards

Interaction Design category

May 8, 2018
in Mediated Matter
#design #art
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MLTalks: How Data Killed Facts Jill Lepore in conversation with Andrew Lippman

Jill Lepore is the David Woods Kemper ’41 Professor of American History at Harvard University.

April 27, 2018
Project Research

AlterEgo

AlterEgo is a  non-invasive, wearable, peripheral neural interface that allows humans to converse in natural language with mach...

in Fluid Interfaces
Arnav Kapur · Pattie Maes
#design #human-machine interaction #wearable computing +3 more
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Inside MIT's Future Factory—60 Minutes

60 Minutes goes inside the MIT Media Lab.

via CBS/60 Minutes · April 20, 2018
in Open Agriculture (OpenAg) · Object-Based Media · Opera of the Future +4 more
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Dormio: Interfacing with Dreams to Augment Human Creativity

Sleep is a forgotten country of the mind: A vast majority of our technologies are built for our waking state, even though a third of our ...

in Fluid Interfaces · Personal Robots
Adam Haar Horowitz · Ishaan Grover +3 more
#human-computer interaction #art #cognition +8 more
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Programmable Droplets

​State-of-the art liquid handling systems are generally pump-driven systems connected with valves and tubes. These systems are manually a...

in Tangible Media
Udayan Umapathi · Hiroshi Ishii
#design #human-computer interaction #art +2 more
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The Beautiful Brain

The MIT Museum presents The Beautiful Brain, featuring the drawings of neuroscience pioneer Santiago Ramón y Cajal, alongside an interact...

Thursday — Monday
May 3, 2018 —
December 31, 2018
Edward Boyden
#neurobiology #imaging
Post Research

Two Media Lab researchers awarded Lemelson-MIT Student Prizes

Guy Satat and Tyler Clites won in the "Drive It!" and "Cure It!" categories, respectively

April 10, 2018
in Biomechatronics · Camera Culture
Project Research

Preschool-Oriented Programming Toolkit

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

in Personal Robots
Cynthia Breazeal · Randi Williams
#human-machine interaction #learning #interfaces +1 more
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Introducing the Public Library Innovation Exchange (PLIX)

Public libraries and the MIT Media Lab are kindred spirits. Together, we hope to design new programs for libraries across the U.S.

Oct. 3, 2017
in ML Learning
#learning
Project Research

Inertia

Inertia is a platform for exploring physical interactions between real active agents and virtual elements in an augmented reality environ...

in Living Mobile
Anna Fuste
#augmented reality #learning
Project Research

Theme | CityScope

City Science researchers are developing a slew of tangible and digital platforms dedicated to solving spatial design and urban planning c...

in City Science Network · City Science
Ariel Noyman · Kent Larson +5 more
#design #computer vision #human-computer interaction +19 more
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MLTalks: Ibram X. Kendi in conversation with Danielle Wood

Friday May 4, 2018 ...

May 4, 2018
in Space Enabled
#social science
Project Research

EMMA: An Emotionally Intelligent Personal Assistant for Improving Wellbeing

The delivery of mental health interventions via ubiquitous devices has shown a lot of promise. A natural conversational interface that al...

in Affective Computing
Asma Ghandeharioun
#health #interfaces
Project Research

City Symphonies: Massive Musical Collaboration

The City Symphony project by the Opera of the Future group brings creative musical participation to everyone while encouraging collaborat...

in Opera of the Future
Tod Machover · Akito Oshiro van Troyer +7 more
#design #art #crowdsourcing +3 more
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Seeing Through Realistic Fog

Seeing through dense, dynamic, and heterogeneous fog conditions. The technique, based on visible light, uses hardware that is similar to ...

in Camera Culture
Guy Satat · Ramesh Raskar
#computer vision #sensors #imaging
Article Research

Machine behavior needs to be an academic discipline

We cannot certify that an AI agent is ethical by looking at its source code.

via Nautilus · March 29, 2018
in Scalable Cooperation
#artificial intelligence #human-machine interaction #machine learning
Project Research

The Observatory of Economic Complexity (OEC)

The Observatory of Economic Complexity (OEC) is the world's leading data visualization tool for international trade data. The OEC makes m...

in Collective Learning
Cesar A. Hidalgo
Project Research

TuringBox: Democratizing the study of AI

TuringBox is a platform that makes it easier for social and behavioral scientists to study Artificial Intelligence algorithms. ...

in Ethics · Scalable Cooperation
Ziv Epstein · Blakeley H. Payne +7 more
#artificial intelligence #human-machine interaction #social science +1 more
Project Research

Spatial Flux: Body and Architecture in Space

Structurally, zero gravity means that we do not have to contend with architecture's greatest arch-nemesis, gravity. This opens up a new w...

in Space Exploration Initiative · City Science
Carson Smuts · Chrisoula Kapelonis
#design #architecture #art +4 more
Project Research

Collective Debate

On Collective Debate, users take a test of their morality, then debate an artificial agent regarding a controversial claim: tha...

in Social Machines
Ann Yuan
#civic media #collective intelligence
Video Videos

MLTalks: Neal Stephenson

Award-winning science fiction author Neal Stephenson

March 12, 2018
in Space Exploration Initiative
#space
Project Research

Gender Shades

The Gender Shades project pilots an intersectional approach to inclusive product testing for AI.Algorithmic Bias PersistsGender Shades is...

in Center for Civic Media · Civic Media
#computer vision #artificial intelligence #civic media +4 more
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JoDS Issue 3: Resisting Reduction

The new issue looks at designing a complex and unknowable future with machines

Feb. 5, 2018
in Director's Office
Project Research

Miniaturized Neural System for Chronic, Local Intracerebral Drug Delivery (MiNDS)

Recent advances in medications for neurodegenerative disorders are expanding opportunities for improving the debilitating symptoms suffer...

in Conformable Decoders
Canan Dagdeviren
#bioengineering #health #neurobiology +2 more
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Aotearoa: Mistakes and Amends

Researchers should hold themselves morally accountable for all of the consequences of their work. That can require publicly acknowledging...

Jan. 18, 2018
in Sculpting Evolution
#synthetic biology #ethics
Post Research

Rhapsody in Zero G

Reimagining research for life in space

Nov. 21, 2017
in Space Exploration Initiative
#space #zero gravity
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