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GIFGIF+: Collecting emotional animated GIFs with clustered multi-task learning

Chen, Weixuan & Rudovic, Ognjen & Picard, Rosalind. (2017). GIFGIF+: Collecting emotional animated GIFs with clustered multi-task learning. 410-417. 10.1109/ACII.2017.8273647.

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Predicting Perceived Emotions in Animated GIFs with 3D Convolutional Neural Networks

Chen, Weixuan and Picard, Rosalind W. 2016. "Predicting Perceived Emotions in Animated GIFs with 3D Convolutional Neural Networks."

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Predicting perceived emotions in animated GIFs with 3D convolutional neural networks

Animated GIFs are widely used on the Internet to express emotions, but automatic analysis of their content is largely …

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Make a gift to the MIT Media Lab

Your gift makes it possible for our diverse and unique community to do our work—every day.By giving to one of the funds below, you become a…

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These MIT Researchers Want to Turn GIFs Into a Language

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GIFGIF

An animated GIF is a magical thing. It has the power to compactly convey emotion, empathy, and context in a subtle way that text or emotico…

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Gifts for intertwining with modern nature

Jay Silver, Eric Rosenbaum

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Alana gift to MIT launches Down syndrome research center, technology program for disabilities

Foundation’s $28.6 million gift will fund science, innovation, and education to advance understanding, ability, and inclusion.

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New Bionics Center Established at MIT with $24 Million Gift

The center is funded by a $24 million gift to MIT’s McGovern Institute for Brain Research from philanthropist Lisa Yang.

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How Internet Connects Us, Gift of Failure, Meet the Producers

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The best books of 2021 - New Scientist's Christmas gift guide

Explore New Scientist's best books of 2021, including Labber Kate Darling’s The New Breed.

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Travis Rich

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Kevin Zeng Hu

Former Research Assistant

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Weixuan 'Vincent' Chen

Former Research Assistant

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Alumni + friends

Support innovation at the Media Lab—alumni gifts fuel fellowships, creativity, AI, and the future. Give now.

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$27M Gift Establishes New Center for Future Children

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Andrew Lippman

Senior Research Scientist

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Cesar A. Hidalgo

Former Research Scientist

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Climate Intelligence

Climate Intelligence focuses on the integration of cutting-edge technologies and systems thinking to address critical climate challenges.&n…

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In memory: Carson Reynolds

Carson Reynolds | In Memory | (1976-2013)On July 4, 2013 the Media Lab lost a long-time member of our community with the passing of Car…

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Exploring the connections between Claude Shannon, Jean Piaget, and children's hundred languages through an experimental paradigm.

Dhariwal Manuj, "An experimental and theoretical tool for studying the language of geometric concepts" master's thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018, https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/120899

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MIT Morningside Academy for Design created as a new hub for cross-disciplinary education, research, and innovation

Supported by a $100 million founding gift, the academy will deepen the integration of design across the Institute and beyond.

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Connectibles: Tangible Social Networking

Kalanithi, J. "Connectibles: Tangible Social Networking"

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Connectibles: Tangible Social Networks

J. J. Kalanithi, V. Michael Bove, Jr.

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Thinking Cap study

Looking for children between 8-12 years old for a study on improving self-esteem.

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Reviving Design by Numbers (1999): A Technical Writeup

 Recreating John Maeda's "Design By Numbers" programming environment in JavaScript Try Online    |    GitHub

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T-VOKS: The singing and speaking theremin

Xiao Xiao performs La Vie En Rose and a Tang Dynasty poem on the theremin at New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME).

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Pattie Maes named to the Germeshausen Professorship

Pattie Maes has been recently named to the Germeshausen Professorship—an MIT faculty chair supported by the Germeshausen Foundation.

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Collective Learning

The MIT Media Lab’s Collective Learning group is no longer active. This site provides background on some of the people and projects that we…

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Soft Robotics Podcast | Hugh Herr: "Bionics"

Biomechatronics group head Hugh Herr speaks with Marwa ElDiwiny on a recent episode of the IEEE RAS Soft Robotics podcast.

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MAS Faculty Receive Aging Brain Initiative Seed Grants for Alzheimer’s Research

Pattie Maes and Ed Boyden receive Aging Brain Initiative seed grants to advance innovative Alzheimer’s research.

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Alumni Appeal to Support the Lab

Dear Alum,In his video below, Tobin South sounds like he’s just returned from an amazing travel experience and couldn’t help telling everyo…

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Proposal Initiation Form

PI Proposal Initiation (PIPI ) Form

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Michael Hawley, whose talents soared as an MIT professor and a pianist, dies at 58

He was a brilliant polymath, gifted musician, and former Media Lab professor who headed the Personal Information Architecture research group

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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.

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Dallas Symphony Orchestra launches new Jeanne R. Johnson Education Center

The new Center will provide music education to students across North Texas, in cooperation with the Media Lab's Opera of the Future group.

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Foundations Provide Crucial Support for Novel Ideas

In MIT Spectrum, Gladys Ngetich of the Space Enabled research group discusses her passion for math and physics and her road to MIT.

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Viral Communications

We build technologies of learning, exploration, and speculation that we call “technologies of curiosity.” They are interfaces and systems i…

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“MIT Illuminations,” a colorful installation and introduction to creative computation, is now open in Kendall Square

“MIT Illuminations” showcases the creative coding work of MIT community members, including Media Lab alumni.

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HERMITS: Mechanical Shells for Robotic TUIs (Ars Electronica 2020)

'Shells, often found on seashores, exemplifies the absence of existed lives. What if a presence dwells in to animate them?'Projec…

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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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Be Part of Advancing Humans with AI

Join AHA and become part of a community advancing human flourishing with AI. Through your support, we hope to advance awareness and real-wo…

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Opera of the Future

The Opera of the Future group (formerly known as Hyperinstruments) explores concepts and techniques to help advance the future of musical c…

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30th Anniversary fund

WE DID IT! $108,822.73 raised toward $100,000 goal as of August 15, 2016Fourteen Media Lab alums have pitched in to bootstrap the IF30–the …

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MIT’s Center for Constructive Communication takes aim at the destructive nature of social media

MIT’s Center for Constructive Communication takes aim at the destructive nature of social media

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Aydin Arpa

The Media Lab community mourns the loss of Aydin Arpa, who passed away from complications of ALS.

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Glyph: lightweight and evocative looping images in the news

Niles, S. "Glyph: lightweight and evocative looping images in the news"

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Panel Discussion with Dr. John Herrington: Indigenous & Anticolonial Views of Human Activity in Space

John B Herrington, the first member of a federally recognized tribe to travel to space, will speak about Indigenous views of space activity.

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May 14, 2021
11:30am — 1:00pm ET
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A Counting—Poetic Justice group call for multilingual speakers

Please help Poetic Justice create an artwork that includes all the communities, voices, and languages of NYC.

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My apology regarding Jeffrey Epstein

I’m sure that most, if not all of you, have seen recent news stories about Jeffrey Epstein, and I owe it to you to address my prior affilia…

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The Museum of Modern Art has acquired the MIT Press colophon, created by Media Lab founding faculty member Muriel Cooper in 1965

The MIT Press colophon, or logo, is made up of seven bars that represent the lowercase letters “mitp” as abstracted books on a shelf.

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AR Animation Tool

 Making 3D aniation easier by utilizing mobile AR, enabling manipulation of spatial objects using a spatial interface.

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Imagination off the charts

New documentary chronicles Jacob Collier's collaborations at MIT.

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How Seymour Papert influenced our thinking

On January 26, 2017, the Media Lab held a symposium to celebrate the life and ideas of Seymour Papert. Here are some photos and comments

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Once I was Lost but Now I am Found or How to Navigate the Chartroom of Memory

Neri Oxman

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Rosalind W. Picard

Professor of Media Arts and Sciences; Grover M. Hermann Professor in Health Sciences and Technology

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Canan Dagdeviren joins the Media Lab

Assistant professor leads Conformable Decoders, a new research group at the Media Lab.

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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