Animated GIFs are widely used on the Internet to express emotions, but automatic analysis of their content is largely …
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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…
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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Foundation’s $28.6 million gift will fund science, innovation, and education to advance understanding, ability, and inclusion.
Explore New Scientist's best books of 2021, including Labber Kate Darling’s The New Breed.
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Professor Dagdeviren was recognized for her work developing a wearable ultrasound patch for early breast cancer detection.
The recognition highlights his work at the Media Lab and his current position as chief minister of Sierra Leone.
A paper led by Ehsan Hoque, alum of the Affective Computing group, receives UbiComp's 10-Years Impact Award.
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Supported by a $100 million founding gift, the academy will deepen the integration of design across the Institute and beyond.
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Scratch, a coding platform for children, was developed by the Lifelong Kindergarten group at the Media Lab in 2007.
Workshop topics range from AI to farming and are hosted by Media Lab researches or member companies.
Recent advancements in autonomous and intelligent machines introduce an unprecedented opportunity to reimagine how people live, work, and p…
The Root 100 is our annual list of the most influential African Americans, ages 25 to 45.
Alum Mihir Sarkar looks back at the 10 years since his dissertation defense, and reflects on both the joys and the challenges of that time.
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Zach Lieberman talks to arts curator Roddy Schrock about creative coding, his career path, the work of his group at the Media Lab, and more.
Recreating John Maeda's "Design By Numbers" programming environment in JavaScript Try Online | GitHub
For the paper "Modeling the Co-evolution of Behaviors and Social Relationships Using Mobile Phone Data"
Congratulations to Daniella DiPaola., current research assistant in the Personal Robots group!
The challenge of understanding pandemics, illustrated by the recent COVID-19 outbreak, has significantly impacted global health and economi…
W. Cao, J. Kang, D. Sarkar, W. Liu and K. Banerjee, "2D Semiconductor FETs—Projections and Design for Sub-10 nm VLSI," in IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, vol. 62, no. 11, pp. 3459-3469, Nov. 2015.
Beginning in the early twentieth century, composition branched out into a variety of new representations, the most common being the graphic…
Affective Computing PhD student Matt Groh and other experts offer a few recommendations to help people recognize falsehoods online.
Xiao Xiao performs La Vie En Rose and a Tang Dynasty poem on the theremin at New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME).
Spinoff Tulip, an E14 Fund company founded by alumni Natan Linder and Rony Kubat, has received a new round of investment financing.
Meet 100 inspiring, influential women from around the world, including Labbers Ayah Bdeir and Rana el Kaliouby.
Congratulations to Joy Buolamwini and Amanda Nguyen for being recognized in the "Advocates" category.
The Conformable Decoders group's new method to deliver drugs directly to the brain was selected to the Top 100 Science Spinoffs according t…
W. Cao, J. Kang, D. Sarkar, W. Liu and K. Banerjee, "Performance evaluation and design considerations of 2D semiconductor based FETs for sub-10 nm VLSI," 2014 IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting, San Francisco, CA, 2014, pp. 30.5.1-30.5.4.
Commending a formidable variety of international change-makers driving digital transformation in government.
D. SARKAR, A. T. WASSIE, A. PAYNE, K. D. PIATKEVICH, D. ORAN, J.-B. CHANG, E. S. BOYDEN. Society for Neuroscience, 2016.
We are creating thirty-dollar, sunlight-readable, low-power, and high-resolution displays for laptop computers. We are focusing on the repl…
Varied important problems can be solved using surprisingly approximate arithmetic. We've designed a co-processor for such arithmetic that …
Hugh Herr and his Biomechatronics research group at the MIT Media Lab have developed the first powered ankle-foot prosthesis. The novel pro…
Terra Incognita is a global news game and recommendation system. Terra Incognita helps you discover interesting news and personal connectio…
WHIPLASH: How to Survive Our Faster Future, by Joi Ito and Jeff Howe. (Grand Central, $28.) Theories of technological change, optimisticall…
"Real-Time Recognition of Physical Activities and Their Intensities Using Wireless Accelerometers and a Heart Rate Monitor," presented at&n…