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Introducing Scratch 3.0: Expanding the creative possibilities of coding

in Lifelong Kindergarten · Jan. 3, 2019
#learning #computer science
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Decoders 1.1 - Short Movies of Microfabrication

Learning cleanroom processes and fabrication techniques with Canan Dagdeviren

via YouTube · Jan. 11, 2019
in Conformable Decoders
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MLTalks with Douglas Rushkoff—Team Human: How people, together, can rule the digital future

MLTalks with Douglas Rushkoff, hosted by Kate Darling

Thursday
February 7, 2019
2:00pm — 3:00pm
Project Research

Active Fairness in Algorithmic Decision Making

Algorithmic FairnessSociety increasingly relies on machine learning models for automated decision making. Yet, efficiency gains from auto...

in Human Dynamics
Alejandro Noriega Campero · Michiel Bakker +1 more
#machine learning
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Wearable medical tech is about to become crucial for staying alive

Wearables are already replacing traditional drugs and therapies—this year, they'll go further still.

via WIRED · Jan. 3, 2019
in Affective Computing · Fluid Interfaces
#health #wearable computing #technology
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Helping Physicians via Novel AI and Machine Learning Methods

Assisting physicians and patients by novel computational processes at the point-of-care.

Dec. 18, 2018
in Health 0.0
#artificial intelligence #health #machine learning +2 more
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MLTalks Series

Learn more about our MLTalks series

Feb. 12, 2018
in Director's Office
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Fadel Adib receives the Young Investigator Award from the Office of Naval Research

Fadel Adib is one of 25 recipients of the Office of Naval Research's 2019 Young Investigator Awards, and the only awardee from MIT.

Dec. 19, 2018
in Signal Kinetics
#robotics #communications #networks +3 more
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The role of industry, occupation, and location-specific knowledge in the survival of new firms

How do regions acquire the knowledge they need to diversify their economic activities? How does the migration of workers among firms and ...

in Collective Learning
Cristian Ignacio Jara Figueroa · Bogang Jun +1 more
#data #economy
Project Research

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
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Team invents method to shrink objects to the nanoscale

The technique, known as “implosion fabrication,” can be used to create nearly any shape imaginable.

via MIT News · Dec. 13, 2018
in Synthetic Neurobiology
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Earthrise, 50 years later

Thoughts from the Media Lab's Space Enabled group and Space Exploration Initiative

Dec. 24, 2018
in Space Exploration Initiative · Space Enabled
#space #climate change #racial justice
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2019 Spring Media Arts and Sciences Course List

Academic offerings at the Media Lab

Nov. 1, 2018
in Program in Media Arts and Sciences
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Joi Ito | WIRED Ideas

July 30, 2018
in Director's Office
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Leg nerves activated by light offer new path to restoring mobility

New optogenetic technique could help restore limb movement, treat muscle tremor.

via MIT News · Dec. 26, 2018
in Biomechatronics
#technology #prosthetics #bionics
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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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Announcing the winners of the 2018 MIT Media Lab Disobedience Award

#MeToo and #MeTooSTEM leaders recognized with $250,000 award

Nov. 27, 2018
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Elowan: A plant-robot hybrid

Elowan is a cybernetic lifeform, a plant in direct dialogue with a machine. Using its own internal electrical signals, the plant is inter...

in Fluid Interfaces
Harpreet Sareen · Pattie Maes
#robotics #design #art +6 more
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Managing a Lab

I would like to start with a mind-ingrained conversation at my 7th birthday party on the 4th of May, 1992, between my late grandfather an...

Dec. 4, 2018
in Conformable Decoders
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Congratulations to the 2019 Forbes 30 Under 30 honorees

The 2019 Forbes 30 Under 30 list includes at least three members of the Media Lab community.

Nov. 13, 2018
in Center for Civic Media · Biomechatronics · Synthetic Neurobiology +2 more
#artificial intelligence #civic media #neurobiology +4 more
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Awkwardly Mobile: Meet the New Ambulatory ArtCube

Because the walls and halls of E14 and E15 are subject to building codes and approvals, we decided to create our own walls.

Dec. 19, 2018
in Civic Media
#art #community
Project Research

FIBERBOTS: Design of a multi-agent, fiber composite digital fabrication system

FIBERBOTS is a digital fabrication platform fusing cooperative robotic manufacturing with abilities to generate highly sophisticated mate...

in Mediated Matter
Markus Kayser · Sara Falcone +5 more
#robotics #architecture #construction +2 more
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Media Lab Projects in Cooper Hewitt's The Road Ahead: Reimagining Mobility exhibition

Three research projects featured in The Road Ahead: Reimagining Mobility

Friday — Sunday
December 14, 2018 —
March 31, 2019
New York City, NY
Kent Larson · Iyad Rahwan
#design #architecture #civic technology +4 more
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Data for refugees

Data for refugees is a big data challenge whereby Turk Telekom opens a large dataset of anonymized mobile phone records to research group...

in Human Dynamics
Michiel Bakker · Alfredo Morales-Guzman +4 more
#social science #civic action #data science
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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Atmopragmascope

We are surrounded by displays and technologies whose mechanisms are hidden from view. This work is an exploration of revealing the underl...

in Object-Based Media
Everett Lawson
Article Research

Intelligent robots could prove to be a boon for autism therapies

Social robots could potentially aid therapists working with autistic children in the future.

via Spectrum · Nov. 13, 2018
in Affective Computing
#artificial intelligence #social robotics
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How should autonomous vehicles be programmed?

Massive global Moral Machine study reveals ethics preferences and regional differences

via MIT News · Oct. 24, 2018
in Scalable Cooperation
#artificial intelligence #ethics
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Schoenberg in Hollywood—The Exhibit

A rare glimpse into the creative life of Arnold Schoenberg.

Monday — Tuesday
October 29, 2018 —
April 30, 2019
9:00am — 5:00pm
Tod Machover
#music
Project Research

Opening wider genomic access with a flexible CRISPR enzyme

The CRISPR-Cas9 system has proven to be a versatile tool for genome editing, with numerous implications in medicine, agriculture, bi...

in Molecular Machines
Pranam Chatterjee · Noah Jakimo +1 more
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Why we have an emotional connection to robots

Kate Darling's TED Talk

Oct. 18, 2018
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
Nikolaos Vlavianos · Hiroshi Ishii +2 more
#design #art #manufacturing +3 more
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Taming "information hazards" in synthetic biology research

Cryptography techniques to screen synthetic DNA could help prevent the creation of dangerous pathogens, argues Professor Kevin Esvelt

via MIT News · Oct. 4, 2018
in Sculpting Evolution
#biology #biotechnology
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The MIT Press and the MIT Media Lab launch the Knowledge Futures Group

Leveraging the web’s power to create open, community-sourced access to knowledge

via MIT Press · Sept. 25, 2018
in Knowledge Futures
#open access #publishing
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Responding to the conservative tyranny of the gender-typicals

A note of support to the trans community at the Media Lab and MIT

Oct. 25, 2018
in Director's Office
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Personal Food Computer

The OpenAg™ Personal Food Computer is a tabletop-sized, controlled environment agriculture technology platform that uses robotic systems ...

in Open Agriculture (OpenAg)
Caleb Harper · Babak Babakinejad +7 more
#robotics #design #agriculture +10 more
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Live-streaming a marshland for fun—and science

Researchers live-stream data in Tidmarsh Wildlife Sanctuary with the hopes of better understanding wildlife restoration techniques.

via AP News · Nov. 8, 2018
in Responsive Environments
#virtual reality #augmented reality #ecology +2 more
Project Research

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 #machine learning #ocean
Article Research

Prior Art Archive aims to improve patent process

New MIT-hosted database is open to both examiners and the wider public, and seeks to reduce the number of wrongly-issued patents.

Oct. 10, 2018
in Knowledge Futures
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OpenAg EDU

Today's students have grown up in a world of rapidly evolving technology, and they are natural-born experimenters, programmers, and tinke...

in Open Agriculture (OpenAg)
Caleb Harper · Hildreth England +3 more
#environment #learning
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Media Arts and Sciences Alumni Profiles

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April 17, 2018
in Program in Media Arts and Sciences

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