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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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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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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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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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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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Cesar A. Hidalgo

Former Research Scientist

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Andrew Lippman

Senior Research Scientist

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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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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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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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$27M Gift Establishes New Center for Future Children

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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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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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Rosalind W. Picard

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

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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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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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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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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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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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Connectibles: Tangible Social Networking

Kalanithi, J. "Connectibles: Tangible Social Networking"

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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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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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Celebrating a curious mind: Steven Keating 1988-2019

Steven Keating inspired millions with his research-driven approach to battling cancer and his advocacy for open patient health data

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Imagination off the charts

New documentary chronicles Jacob Collier's collaborations at MIT.

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Beyond the Cradle 2017 Speaker Bios

Salome Asega is a Brooklyn-based artist and researcher whose practice celebrates dissensus and multivocality. Through participatory researc…

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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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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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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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Fall 2020 OOLE INT20

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 25, 2020
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TIME's 200 Best Inventions of 2023: SeedLabs MicroPET

The SeedLabs MicroPET, which began as a Media Lab collaboration, was selected to TIME's 200 Best Inventions of 2023.

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📣 Announcing: PLIX Ambassador Program 2023-2024!

The PLIX Team at the MIT Media Lab invites US-based public library workers to apply for our 2023-2024 Creative Learning Ambassador Program.

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Hiroshi Ishii @ SI International 2016, SII2016

LocationSapporo Convention Center DescriptionTRANSFORM: Beyond Pixels, Towards Radical AtomsWhereas today's mainstream Human Computer Inter…

Thursday
December 15, 2016
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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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Aydin Arpa

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

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CoCo and MIT RAISE among 2023-2024 Tools Competition winners

Their awards aim to support and prepare students to navigate the changing world.

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Dava Newman named co-chair of WEF Global Future Council on Space Technologies 2025-2026

Newman joins Masami Onoda from the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency as co-chair of this World Economic Forum Council on Space

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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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Women Take the Reel Film Festival 2024: “20,000 Species of Bees” followed by Q+A

Please join us on March 8 for the screening of Spanish Drama 20,000 Species Of Bees  followed by a Q+A discussion. The screening is FR…

Friday
March 8, 2024
6:00pm — 9:00pm ET