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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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Park 062320 JME130

Disclaimer for playback viewers As part of the MIT Media Lab’s ongoing research on distance learning (MOOC, e-learning) and remote collabor…

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June 23, 2020
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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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Fall 2020 OOLE INT13

Disclaimer for playback viewers As part of the MIT Media Lab’s ongoing research on distance learning (MOOC, e-learning) and remote collabor…

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November 17, 2020
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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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#13 Autom Sociable Robot

Autom is an interactive, sociable robot designed to be used on a daily basis for several months. We are currently running a study with fif…

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Structural informatics study of determined and AlphaFold2 predicted molecular structures of 13 human solute carrier transporters

Structural informatics study of determined and AlphaFold2 predicted molecular structures of 13 human solute carrier transporters and their water‑soluble QTY variants

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Personalized Gaussian Processes for Forecasting of Alzheimer's Disease Assessment Scale-Cognition Sub-Scale (ADAS-Cog13)

Utsumi, Y., Rudovic, O., Peterson, K., Guerrero, R., Picard, R. "Personalized Gaussian Processes for Forecasting of Alzheimer's Disease Assessment Scale-Cognition Sub-Scale (ADAS-Cog13)." The 40th International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC). May 2018.

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Aashini Shah one of 13 MIT undergrads, graduate students, and alumni awarded Fulbright fellowships in 2022–23

Sponsored by the US Department of State, the Fulbright US Student Program offers grants in over 150 countries.

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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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Alaa Murabit

Former Director's Fellow

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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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Pashon Murray

Former Director's Fellow

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$27M Gift Establishes New Center for Future Children

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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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Andrew Lippman

Senior 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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Cesar A. Hidalgo

Former Research Scientist

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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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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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The MIT Media Lab Launches the Center for Bits and Atoms with $13.75 Million Award from the National Science Foundation

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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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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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Arnaud Grignard

Research Affiliate

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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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Unlocking AI’s Potential: Exploring the Impact of Emerging Technologies on Business

​Join us as we provide learning opportunities on how emerging technologies, particularly AI, can impact business and emphasize the importan…

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Proposal Initiation Form

PI Proposal Initiation (PIPI ) Form

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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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Dava Newman receives honorary doctorate degree from Royal College of Art

Director Newman will participate in a convocation ceremony at the Royal Festival Hall on September 13, 2023.

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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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TEDx Boston - If we owned our data

In his talk, Hossein Rahnama discusses what the world would look like if we owned our data. Digital life, and real life, would be so much b…

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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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E14-648 Silverman Skyline Room

With beautiful views of the Charles River and  the MIT campus, the Silverman Skyline Room can be reserved in conjunction with the adja…

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Shaping the Future of Music: Media Lab Hosts Panel, Papers, and Concert at ICMC 2025

Media Lab Takes Center Stage at ICMC 2025: Papers, Panels, and Performances

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Media Lab 東京 イベント December 2018

MIT Media Lab @ Tokyo 2018Being Artistic and Analytic東京六本木アカデミーヒルズ

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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…