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Reid Hoffman

Former Advisory Council Member

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MLTalks: Reid Hoffman

Reid Hoffman in conversation with Media Lab Director Joi Ito.

Wednesday
April 4, 2012
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POSTPONED Media Lab Conversations Series: Geetha Narayanan

LocationMIT Media Lab, Third-Floor Atrium Description This talk has been postponed. We look forward to following Geetha Narayanan later in …

Friday
March 15, 2013
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MLTalks: Reid Hoffman

Reid Hoffman in conversation with Media Lab Director Joi Ito.

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Media Lab Conversations Series: Damien Echols and Shaka Senghor

Damien Echols and Shaka Senghor in conversation on injustice, compassion, and redemption in relation to their prison memoirs.

Thursday
May 16, 2013
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Media Lab Conversations Series: JJ Abrams

Nov. 26, 2012
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Media Lab Conversations Series: Carroll Bogert

Sept. 10, 2012
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Ellen N. Hoffman

Special Projects

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LinkedIn's Reid Hoffman "How to Benefit 100 Million People"

LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-674 DescriptionAn accomplished entrepreneur, executive, and angel investor, Reid Hoffman has played an integral …

Monday
July 18, 2011
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Media Lab Conversations Series: Guts and Genius

David Sun Kong, Kevin Slavin, and special guests in conversation with Media Lab Director Joi Ito.

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Reid Hoffman: It’s time to change Silicon Valley culture

Reid Hoffman likes to say, “With great power comes great responsibility.” Usually, he’s referring to tech companies like the ones he has fo…

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Moshe Hoffman

Former Research Affiliate

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Guy Hoffman

Former Postdoctoral Associate

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Jack Reid

Former Research Assistant

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Rebecca Grace Reid

Former Financial Officer

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Todd Reid

Former Research Affiliate

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Reid Hoffman: A.I. Is Going to Change Everything About Managing Teams

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Media Lab Perspectives Speaker Series

Faculty Perspectives is a new series inviting thoughtful speakers and innovators to inspire the Media Lab community and beyond.

Thursday
April 14, 2022
12:00pm — 1:00pm ET
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Jack Reid speaks at Falling Walls Lab Boston

Twenty innovators and trailblazers were selected out of a pool of candidates to pitch their idea that breaks down scientific and social wall

Thursday
September 26, 2019
6:00pm — 9:00pm ET
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Sarah Hoffmann

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Jack Reid Presents to CICATA Queretaro-IPN

Jack Reid will present on his research as part of a seminar series organized around science, technology, and innovation for the common good.

Tuesday
November 10, 2020
6:00pm — 7:00pm ET
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Nominations open for $250,000 MIT Media Lab prize for Disobedient Research

Last summer, the MIT Media Lab announced its $250,000 prize for Disobedient Research, and now the nominations process has launched.The priz…

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Conformable Decoders Group presents on New Health at the Media Lab Focus series for July 2021

The July edition of the Media Lab Focus series for member companies starts next week! The theme is New Health,  and wil…

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Call for nominations: MIT Media Lab’s Disobedience Award

The Disobedience Award has closed.

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Media Lab @ AIAA ASCEND 2020

The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), composed of nearly 30,000 engineers and scientists from 91 countries, s…

Monday — Wednesday
November 16, 2020 —
November 18, 2020
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Media Lab spinoff Empatica receives new FDA clearance for its Health Monitoring Platform and announces Series B financing

Co-founded by Professor Rosalind Picard, Empatica develops medical-grade wearables and algorithms for health monitoring and diagnostics.

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Summary of Deb’s comments from March 10, 2020 all-Lab conference call

Outlining a plan to minimize risk at the Media Lab

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Jack Reid Dissertation Defense

Using Earth Observation-Informed Modeling to Inform Sustainable Development Decision-Making

Tuesday
April 11, 2023
9:00am ET
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Media Lab @ 2020 International Astronautical Congress

Due to Covid-19, the 71st International Astronautical Congress, IAC 2020, is a Cyberspace Edition offered without registration fee, fr…

Monday — Wednesday
October 12, 2020 —
October 14, 2020
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SociaBowl: A Dynamic Table Centerpiece to Mediate Group Conversations

Joanne Leong, Yuehan Wang, Romy Sayah, Stella Rossikopoulou Pappa, Florian Perteneder, Hiroshi Ishii. 2019. SociaBowl: A Dynamic Table Centerpiece to Mediate Group Conversations. In CHI’19 Extended Abstracts, May 4–9, 2019, Glasgow, Scotland Uk. https://doi.org/10.1145/3290607.3312775

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Media Lab Perspectives: Listening to Disrupt with Katherine Cramer

Listening to DisruptIn this session of the Media Lab Perspectives series, Deb Roy will engage his collaborator Kathy Cramer in co…

Thursday
May 27, 2021
12:00pm — 1:00pm ET
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Media Lab Research Theme: Life with AI

The Challenge: To harness AI for humanity's leap forwardMachines are becoming more intelligent and more powerful every day. But, like all t…

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Media Lab Focus

Join us remotely as we go on curated research journeys focused on a monthly theme.

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MLTalks Series

Learn more about our MLTalks series, including upcoming events.

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Media Lab Perspectives: Listening to Disrupt with Katherine Cramer

Thursday May 27, 2021 …

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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.

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Canan Dagdeviren is interviewed by IEEE's Pulse “From the Lab” podcast series

IEEE Pulse: From The Lab Episode 1: Canan Dagdeviren

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Announcing the winners of the 2017 Media Lab Disobedience Award

Congratulations to winners Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha and Professor Marc Edwards

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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

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Media Lab @ NeurIPS | 2020

The following Media Lab community members participated in the thirty-fourth virtual conference on Neural Information Processing Systems.

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Announcing the winners of the 2018 MIT Media Lab Disobedience Award

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

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Jack Reid Named Future Space Leader

Jack Reid was selected as a Future Space Leader for 2022 by the Future Space Leaders Foundation (FSLF).

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Media Lab @ CHI 2025

A number of Media Lab community members will showcase their work.

Saturday — Thursday
April 26, 2025 —
May 1, 2025
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Media Lab research response to COVID-19

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

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Lessons Learned on the Road to Pandemic Preparedness | Pandemic Response Catalyst Conversations

Expert panelists discuss lessons learned from COVID-19 and progress made to better prepare our public health systems.

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Media Lab @ 2022 Lake Nona Impact Forum

"A conversation. Not a conference."

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Jack Reid Publishes Paper in Systems Engineering Journal

Jack Reid publishes "Systems engineering applied to urban planning and development: A review and research agenda."

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Open or closed? The answer is both.

Joi Ito tells Reid Hoffman what he learned about management, diversity, and openness from being a DJ in Chicago in the ‘80s.

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Modeling Contingent Behaviors in Multiparty Conversations

Recognizing and interpreting group behaviors is much more challenging than that of individual behaviors. Firstly, the system must perform w…

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AI & Us: A Series from Dell Technologies featuring expert voices from MIT

Dell Technologies and MIT explore AI’s evolving business impact—offering insights and advice from top industry thought leaders.

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Early methods for studying affective use and emotional wellbeing in ChatGPT: An OpenAI and MIT Media Lab Research collaboration

Editor’s Note: This blog was written jointly with OpenAI and the MIT Media Lab. It also appears here. 

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Media Lab @ 2024 Cambridge Science Festival

Founded and produced by the MIT Museum, the Cambridge Science Festival will take place in-person across several venues across the city.

Monday — Sunday
September 23, 2024 —
September 29, 2024
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Media Lab hosts screenings with Boston Film Festival

The screenings highlight stories of the Black community in the US featuring innovation, tradition, and courage.

Saturday — Sunday
September 23, 2023 —
September 24, 2023
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NanoBio Seminar Series Fall'24

Please join us for an exciting journey in recent advances in nanotechnology and bioengineering.

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Media Lab Immersion Session + MuRata Facility Visit

A group of Media Lab community members traveled to Japan in late January 2025 to host a series of presentations for current and prospective…

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Media Lab researchers take second place in MIT AI Pitch Competition

The theme for this year's competition was Generative Voice AI Solutions.

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Media Lab spinoff Xander honored at CES 2023

Co-founded by Media Lab alum Alex Westner, Xander will introduce its first product, XanderGlasses, at CES 2023.

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MIT Media Lab x Smart Living Lab

In January 2024, members of the Media Lab traveled to Fribourg, Switzerland to conduct a workshop on sensing, interactions, and augmentation

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Leading Conversations in AI: Extended intelligence & humans with machines

Kate Darling, Cynthia Breazeal, and Pattie Maes of the Media Lab join Patricia Henderson for a conversation about extended intelligence.

Friday
October 8, 2021
12:00pm — 1:00pm ET
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SociaBowl: A Dynamic Table Centerpiece to Mediate Group Conversations

We introduce SociaBowl, a dynamic table centerpiece to promote positive social dynamics in 2-way cooperative conversations. A centerpiece s…