Media Lab Perspectives Speaker Series

DCI has launched Cryptoeconomic Systems (CES), a multidisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal and conference series focused on blockchain tech.

The Media Lab seeks a dynamic, experienced, collaborative, and highly creative communications expert to head Communications at the Lab.

MIT spinout OPT Industries uses novel additive manufacturing systems to create intricately-designed products.

Online platform harnesses collective intelligence to accelerate recovery from Covid-19 and prepare for future disease outbreaks.

Danielle Wood co-authors NASA-funded paper, "The large footprint of small-scale artisanal gold mining in Ghana."

Congrats to Misha Sra, a recent Fluid Interfaces alum and current assistant professor in Computer Science at UC Santa Barbara.

View the main City Science Andorra project profile.Country-scale analysis of high-resolution mobility patterns and infection spreadThe MI...

System uses penetrative radio frequency to pinpoint items, even when they’re hidden from view.

Heroy Samuel, Loaiza Isabella, Pentland Alex and O’Clery Neave 2021COVID-19 policy analysis: labour structure dictates lockdown mobility behaviourJ. R. Soc. Interface.182020103520201035 http://doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2020.1035

The Commission's members are drawn from government, research and academia, civil society, public service, and private industry.

Women in Innovation and STEM Database at MIT (WISDM) announces fellowship program dedicated to promoting the visibility of women at MIT.

Ekene Ijeoma’s Black Mobility and Safety in the US course this academic year will include a series of public guest lectures.

Attend this virtual, invitation-only conference to see breakthrough MIT research, and learn about upcoming innovative technologies

Language analysis reveals possible reinforcement of race- and income-based achievement gap.

Pennycook, G., Epstein, Z., Mosleh, M. et al. Shifting attention to accuracy can reduce misinformation online. Nature (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03344-2

D. Adjodah, et al (2021) Association between COVID-19 Outcomes and Mask Mandates, Adherence, and Attitudes, medRxiv, doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.01.19.21250132

Watch the video, then read this post by Alexis Hope to learn more about her work at the Media Lab and her passions.

Media Lab spinoff co-founded by alum Jinha Lee is one of the 10 most innovative companies in augmented and virtual reality for 2020.

Read the new MIT Space Policy Compendium led by Dava Newman with co-authors including Ariel Ekblaw and Danielle Wood.

The Media Lab community brings creativity, expertise, and research to the pandemic

Guillermo Herrera-Arcos has been named as a One Young World Scholar by the AstraZeneca Young Health Programme (YHP) for 2020/2021.

As a part of Proseminar in Media Arts and Sciences, the newly-minted PhD cohort works together to envision future Media Lab research groups

Affective Computing head Rosalind Picard and alum Fernanda Viégas are elected to the SIGCHI Academy as part of the 2021 SIGCHI Awards.

Reconnecting muscle pairs during amputation gives patients more sensory feedback from the limb.

In the What, Why, and How, we often forget the Who. These illustrations explore the simple but deeply transformative question of Who Am I?

Congratulations to Signal Kinetics group head Fadel Adib, who has received a 2021 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship in Computer Science.

Expanding tissue samples before sequencing allows researchers to pinpoint locations of RNA molecules.

Classes offered by the Program in Media Arts and Sciences for the spring 2021 semester

The project has been chosen as a finalist under the Personal Technology category of the 2021 Edison Best New Product Awards.

A multi-institutional team, including members of the Camera Culture research group, has won the Baidu Best Paper Award at NeurIPS-SpicyFL'20

The award recognizes Nakagaki's work developing tangible interfaces.

Check out the project site here. The pursuit of justice in AI requires more than just tweaking the numbers. It requires us to “study up”...

Farita Tasnim from the Conformable Decoders group has been named as one of 48 finalists for the 2021 Hertz Fellowships.

Watch the interviews conducted by Career Girls with Labbers Randi Williams, Jaleesa Trapp, Marian Muthui, and Alexis Hope.

Irmandy Wicaksono, PhD student in the Responsive Environments group, has been chosen as one of six finalists in the 2021 Lexus Design Award.

This new level of teaching   is the silver lining of this very difficult yet enlightening year.

Randi Williams from the Personal Robots research group is among ten students who have received the Microsoft PhD Fellowship for 2021.

Researchers analyzed how media coverage of online dating apps may help illuminate the ways dating apps can harm marginalized communities.

On work conducted by Edward Boyden and research assistants Andrew Payne and Paul Reginato from the Synthetic Neurobiology research group

This award recognizes the impact of PhD research on the scientific discipline and practice in the field of signal processing.

Hyundai Motor Company recently unveiled a miniature electronic vehicle that uses Emotion Adaptive Vehicle Control (EAVC) technology.

These awards recognize technical contributions to projects that demonstrate a high level of innovation and potential impact.

Conformable Decoders head Canan Dagdeviren is one of the Inverse Future 50—"a group of 50 people who will be forces of good in the 2020s.”

Ostrowski, A. K., Pokorni, B., & Schumacher, S. (2020). Participatory Design for Digital Transformation of Manufacturing Enterprises. MIT Work of the Future Taskforce Working Paper.

The list is curated by the Women in AI Ethics™ Collective.

For the paper titled "JettSen: A Mobile Sensor Fusion Platform for City Knowledge Abstraction."

Congratulations to Daniella DiPaola., current research assistant in the Personal Robots group!

Fabric samples are headed to the ISS for resiliency testing; possible applications include cosmic dust detectors or spacesuit smart skins.

Chazz Sims, former researcher in Human Dynamics and founder of Media Lab spinoff Wise Systems, is chosen as an honoree for 2021.

Space research, led by a diverse team of women scientists, will be presented at this year's AIAA Ascend Conference.

Computational modeling yields a protein fragment that could bind to coronavirus spike proteins and destroy them.

An inventor of CRISPR-based gene drive has some advice to improve science, ethics, and the life-saving potential of these technologies.

Unexpected findings in chemokine receptors once believed to be non-functional open up new fields of scientific inquiry.

Osvy Rodriguez, a UROP in the Signal Kinetics group, recounts his journey to MIT as a Cuban refugee in the US.

By Carolyn “CC” Song, High School Senior and Personal Robots Intern “What do you want to be when you grow up?”

The “HIDW Young Talent” exhibition addressed three topics: Manufacturing of Tomorrow, Future Craft, and City Catalyst.

These discussions, each of which was dedicated to a timely, urgent topic, were livestreamed as part of our recent Out of Lab Experience.

The startup OpenSpace is using 360-degree cameras and computer vision to create comprehensive digital replicas of construction sites.

In recognition of exceptional contributions to the field of digital design and fabrication in early-stage careers.

Congratulations to the 2020 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellows and Finalists, including alum Ani Liu.

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

“We have standard operating procedures for emergencies, and everyone knew what to do,” Dagdeviren says.

We don’t know, but the idea is hardly crazy—and if the answer is yes, we could save many lives long before a vaccine arrives