Event

Yesterday Happened: Remembering H.M.

LocationCentral Square Theater Description

Thursday — Sunday
April 12, 2012 —
May 13, 2012
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Remembering Edith Ackermann, 1946-2016

Edith Ackermann was a beloved member of the Media Lab faculty from the early days of the Lab through the mid-90s, and continued to play an …

Article

Sherry Turkle: Remembering Seymour Papert

Seymour saw that the computer would make it easier for thinking itself to become an object of thought.

Article

Opinion: Remembering Michael Hawley, remarkable polymath and exceptional friend

Scott Simon remembers his friend, Michael Hawley, who died this past week.

Article

Remembering a thinker who thought about thinking

Article

Remembering Ricky Leacock

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Asia Project 102220 HMTM

Disclaimer for playback viewers As part of the MIT Media Lab’s ongoing research on remote collaboration, we will extract the viewing logs (…

Thursday
October 22, 2020
Project

Human-Machine Interaction (HMI) in Social & Public Environments

Facilitating coexistence, trust-building, and collaboration among people and machines.New modes of 21st century urban transportation are be…

Post

The Inevitability Of Augmented Reality HMDs

Forbes Opinion article on HMDs, featuring Pattie Maes. By Charlie Fink.

Publication

AttentivU + XR: Integrating Brain Sensing and HMDs

Nataliya Kosmyna "AttentivU: A Wearable Pair of EEG and EOG Glasses for Real-Time Physiological Processing (Conference Presentation)", Proc. SPIE 11310, Optical Architectures for Displays and Sensing in Augmented, Virtual, and Mixed Reality (AR, VR, MR), 113101P (2 April 2020); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2566398

Publication

A simple hierarchical infinite HMM with efficient inference

Ardavan Saeedi, Asma Ghandeharioun, Matt Hoffman

Article

Negroponte on the Media Lab’s 25th: A Salon des Refusés That Could Only Have Happened at MIT

Project

Classification of Killer Whale Sounds with GMM and HMM

The automatic classification of marine mammal sounds is very attractive as a means of assessing massive quantities of recorded data, freein…

Publication

Emotive Alert: HMM-Based Emotion Detection in Voicemail Messages

Z. Ingalou, Ron Caneel

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Hugo Masclet

Former Research Assistant

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Judith C. Brown

Former Visiting Scientist

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Yi-Cheng Jiang

Former Research Assistant

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Yago Lizaribar Carrillo

Former Research Assistant

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Jerry Wei Hua Yao

Former Research Assistant

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Lucas Cassiano Pereira Silva

Former Research Assistant

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Chang-Qi Zhang

Former Research Assistant

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Michael Lin

Research Scientist

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Phil Tinn

Former Research Affiliate

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Barry L. Vercoe

Professor Emeritus

Gallery

Day of AI 2023: Photo gallery

View photos from the Day of AI event this year, which happened on May 18.

Event

Tapis Magique @ Artura ICAD 12

Tapis Magique will be on display at Indonesian Contemporary Art and Design (ICAD) 12, "Fragmenting Yesterday, Reshaping Tomorrow”

Wednesday — Sunday
October 19, 2022 —
November 27, 2022
Publication

FaceDisplay: Enabling Multi-User Interaction for Mobile Virtual Reality

Gugenheimer, J., Stemasov, E., Sareen, H., & Rukzio, E. (2017, May). FaceDisplay: Enabling Multi-User Interaction for Mobile Virtual Reality. In Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 369-372). ACM.

Publication

Prospero: A personal wearable memory coach

Chan, S. W. T., Zhang, H., & Nanayakkara, S. (2019, March). Prospero: A personal wearable memory coach. In Proceedings of the 10th Augmented Human International Conference 2019 (pp. 1-5).

Publication

Coupled hidden Markov models for complex action recognition

Matthew Brand, Nuria Oliver, Sandy Pentland

Project

Tap To Remember

Tap To Remember is a wearable memory prosthesis.  We are testing whether laboratory techniques for enhancing memory—such as targeted m…

Article

"Dream glove" boosts creativity during sleep

In a new study, researchers from the Media Lab’s Fluid Interfaces group & Harvard Medical School find that brief naps can enhance creativity

Publication

From Hidden Markov Models to Linear Dynamical Systems

Thomas Minka

Publication

Recognition and Interpretation of Parametric Gesture

Andrew Wilson, Aaron Bobick

Article

Tinkering and coding for the future

Scratch workshop in Japan introduces kids to the idea that they can be creators, not just consumers.

Publication

Fast Constraint Propagation on Specialized Allen Networks and its Application to Action Recognition and Control (January

Claudio S. Pinhanez, Aaron F. Bobick

Publication

Visual Recognition of American Sign Language Using Hidden Markov Models

T. Starner, A. Pentland

Article

It's time to accept AI will never think like a human – and that's okay

Media Lab research specialist Kate Darling is writing a new column for BBC Science Focus

Publication

Head-Mounted Display Visualizations to Support Sound Awareness for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing

Dhruv Jain, Leah Findlater, Jamie Gilkeson, Benjamin Holland, Ramani Duraiswami, Dmitry Zotkin, Christian Vogler, Jon Froehlich

Publication

Parametric Hidden Markov Models for Gesture Recognition

Andrew Wilson, Aaron Bobick

Publication

Coupled hidden Markov models at multiple time scales

Matthew Brand

Publication

Coupled hidden Markov models for modeling interacting processes

Matthew Brand

Publication

ProspecFit: In Situ Evaluation of Digital Prospective Memory Training for Older Adults

Chan, S. W. T., Buddhika, T., Zhang, H., & Nanayakkara, S. (2019). Prospecfit: In situ evaluation of digital prospective memory training for older adults. Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies, 3(3), 1-20.

Publication

Real-Time American Sign Language Recognition from Video Using Hidden Markov Models

Thad Starner, Alex Pentland

Publication

On-line Cursive Handwriting Recognition Using Speech Methods

T. Starner, J. Makhoul, R. Schwartz, G Chou

Publication

A Real-Time Head Nod and Shake Detector

Ashish Kapoor, Rosalind W. Picard

Article

Want to be more creative? Try dream-hacking while you sleep

The Washington Post reports on research from the Media Lab’s Fluid Interfaces group & Harvard Medical School that naps could aid creativity.

Publication

An Audio-Based Personal Memory Aid

Sunil Vemuri, Chris Schmandt, Walter Bender, Stefanie Tellex, Brad Lassey

Article

Siggraph 2019 offers a sneak peek into what’s next for AR, VR, and CG

Held this week at the Los Angeles Convention Center, Siggraph 2019 is all about the future of 2D and 3D digital worlds.

Project

The laws of forgetting II: How death and exogenous events shape our collective memory

In order to understand how exogenous shocks, like death, impact memorability by remembering, we use a data-set of biographies from Wikipedi…

Article

Stephen Benton; his holograms melded science, art, commerce

"Steve brought a joy and spirit of inventiveness to all that he did."

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Music, Mind and Machine

The Music, Mind and Machine group is working towards bridging the gap between the current generation of audio technologies and those that w…

Publication

A new methodology to estimate the discrete-return point density on airborne LiDAR surveys

Balsa-Barreiro, José and José Luis Lerma. 2014. A new methodology to estimate the discrete-return point density on airborne LiDAR surveys. International Journal of Remote Sensing 35(4): 1496-1510.

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A guide to daily life on Mars

What would daily life be like on the Red Planet?

Article

He quit Google to work on climate change. Now, he’s helping others do the same thing

In July 2020, Eugene Kirpichov + Media Lab alum Cassandra Xia started a Slack workspace called Work On Climate—today, it has 8,500+ members.

Article

AI is learning how to make you cry at the movies

New research can predict how plots, images, and music affect your emotions while watching a movie.

Post

On the death of Bassel Khartabil

We’re devastated by the news that Bassel Khartabil Safadi, an open source developer, has been executed by the Syrian government.

Publication

Invariant features for 3-D gesture recognition

Lee W. Campbell, David A. Becker, Ali Azarbayejani, Aaron Bobick, Alex Pentland

Article

The assumptions you bring into conversation with an AI bot influence what it says

In Scientific American, PhD student Pat Pataranutaporn talks about how a user's impressions of AI chatbots may influence their interactions.

Article

NTUT, MIT sign ‘smart’ development agreement

NTUT, MIT sign ‘smart’ development agreement

Article

MIT OpenAg releases the Personal Food Computer 3.0, a STEM-friendly collaboration with educators

An active and passionate community of over 2,500 people spread across 62 countries have rallied around the open source platform.

Event

Next Evolution in Communication: What Will Happen

LocationHyatt Regency, Ballroom 5-7, 208 Barton Springs Rd. Description

Saturday
March 8, 2014
Publication

Auditory Context Awareness in Wearable Computing

Brian Clarkson, Nitin Sawhney, Alex Pentland

Project

Newsflow: Where News Happens

Newsflow is a dynamic, real-time map of news reporting that displays both the latest top stories as well as the news organizations which co…