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The Reality Editor: An Open and Universal Tool for Understanding and Controlling the Physical WorldCommittee:Prof. Pattie MaesProfessor o...

The AI Now Symposium is designed to address the biggest challenges we face as AI moves further into our everyday lives.

How crowdcomputing can enable computational social scientists to study human behavior at scale by engaging with millions of Internet users

Designing Bots, Virtual Humans, and Other Systems that Can Hold up Their End of the ConversationIn today's era of intelligent assistants ...

TitleA Rational Choice Framework for Collective BehaviorTime & LocationFriday, July 7, 2017 - 2:00pm, 32-G449 (Kiva)Thesis Supervisor...

Karlheinz Brandenburg (born 20 June 1954, in Erlangen) is a German electrical engineer and mathematician.

– Interfacing humans to the ubiquitous electronic “nervous system”. – Sensor networks will soon extend across things, places, and people.

Presentation and discussion about a model and some design choices to build a mass online deliberation (MOD) system.

This dissertation explores lighting and environment control for future workspaces with advanced sensing and output capabilities.

This one-night speaker event at City Hall Plaza will explore the ways startups and new technologies will shape the future of Boston.Join ...

The 2017 Gabor Lecture will be presented by Professor Joseph ParadisoWe have already witnessed profound and often unanticipated developme...

Guy Satat presents his work on Optical Scattering

We'll discuss the Lab's new DAM, and opportunities for other organizations/institutions to leverage what we've built.

We introduce lensing, and apply it to three health applications.

As part of Plan Ceibal Foundation's Annual Educational Innovation Forum and this year's 10th Anniversary Conference, this event will...

Ramesh Raskar discusses sourcing grand challenge statements, and how redx aims to empower innovators to solve problems to impact billions.

Joseph A. Paradiso (Massachusetts Institute of Technology – MIT) will give the lecture “Life after the app – How Humans will connect with...

We are at the edge of seeing voice-based monitoring of wellbeing conquer the consumer market.

We live in a culture that depends on technologies to record our behavior and coordinate our actions with billions of other connected people.

Much of human social communication is channeled through our facial expressions, body language, gazing, and many other nonverbal behaviors.

See and feel what it is like to become a tree in this haptically enhanced VR experience. With your arms as the branches and your body as ...

Part of the Advancing Wellbeing seminar series.

Collaborative Scientific Publishing: A New Research EcosystemCommittee:Andrew LippmanSenior Research ScientistAssociate Director, MIT Med...

Blockchain—You've heard the term, now understand the impact.Digital technologies let people who’ve never met do business across borders a...

THE FUTURE OF HAPPINESS: How Mindful Innovation Can Fuel Well-beingTechnology—at least in theory—is improving our productivity, efficienc...

Bio:Parag Khanna is a is a senior research fellow in the Centre on Asia and Globalisation at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at ...

KATE DARLINGMIT Media Lab / Harvard Berkman CenterNILESH ASHRAWieden+KennedyEven the smartest computers are still pretty dumb. We want to...

BARATUNDE THURSTONBaratunde Bureaucracy CorpFuturist comedian, activist, and best-selling "How to Be Black" author Baratunde Thurston giv...

This panel will look at coding as a means to unlock creativity and innovative thinking that can be applied to all aspects of life. Speake...

SARAH JAHAAN KHANALAA MURABITLILA IGRAMSAKENA YACOOBIWomen and girls around the world face formidable challenges. Just two of the grim st...

ARTHUR SIMONEBot PartyBRADLEY KNOXbots_alivebots_alive founder (and MIT Media Lab alumnus) Dr. Brad Knox joins ColdTowne Theater’s Arthur...

How a region eats gives great insight into the narratives that make up its cultural identity and its intersection with landscape and biom...

In today’s digitally-mediated world, designers translate ideas back and forth between the richly poetic language of the physical world an...

Cranberry bogs are often thought of as an iconic element of Massachusetts' historical, cultural and natural landscapes. Yet, today, due t...

How will the role of data science in democracy be transformed as software expands the public’s ability to conduct our own experiments at ...

Event Cancelled due to weather and will be rescheduledMicro-randomized Trials and Moderated Effects of Mobile Health Intervention Pushes ...