Animated GIFs are widely used on the Internet to express emotions, but automatic analysis of their content is largely …
Explore New Scientist's best books of 2021, including Labber Kate Darling’s The New Breed.
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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…
Jay Silver, Eric Rosenbaum
Foundation’s $28.6 million gift will fund science, innovation, and education to advance understanding, ability, and inclusion.
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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As scholars and innovators, we build on the contributions of those who came before us, and the generosity of our alumni and friends extends…
'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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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…
Supported by a $100 million founding gift, the academy will deepen the integration of design across the Institute and beyond.
Xiao Xiao performs La Vie En Rose and a Tang Dynasty poem on the theremin at New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME).
He was a brilliant polymath, gifted musician, and former Media Lab professor who headed the Personal Information Architecture research group
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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Viral Communications at the Media Lab is all about how systems scale. We premiered scalable video in the '90s, we built scalable mesh radio…
Kalanithi, J. "Connectibles: Tangible Social Networking"
J. J. Kalanithi, V. Michael Bove, Jr.
Recreating John Maeda's "Design By Numbers" programming environment in JavaScript Try Online | GitHub
Steven Keating inspired millions with his research-driven approach to battling cancer and his advocacy for open patient health data
Disclaimer for playback viewers As part of the MIT Media Lab’s ongoing research on distance learning (MOOC, e-learning) and remote collabor…
The SeedLabs MicroPET, which began as a Media Lab collaboration, was selected to TIME's 200 Best Inventions of 2023.
Looking for children between 8-12 years old for a study on improving self-esteem.
The Opera of the Future group (formerly known as Hyperinstruments) explores concepts and techniques to help advance the future of musical c…
The PLIX Team at the MIT Media Lab invites US-based public library workers to apply for our 2023-2024 Creative Learning Ambassador Program.
LocationSapporo Convention Center DescriptionTRANSFORM: Beyond Pixels, Towards Radical AtomsWhereas today's mainstream Human Computer Inter…
New documentary chronicles Jacob Collier's collaborations at MIT.
Salome Asega is a Brooklyn-based artist and researcher whose practice celebrates dissensus and multivocality. Through participatory researc…
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…
IEEE-EMBS 16th International Conference on Wearable and Implantable Body Sensor Networks.
Pattie Maes has been recently named to the Germeshausen Professorship—an MIT faculty chair supported by the Germeshausen Foundation.
IdeaA lab is where unique ideas are generated and early prototypes are synthesized. A factory is where designs are mass produced and qualit…
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…
This mission marks the Media Lab's fourth rocket launch.
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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