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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 …

Article

These MIT Researchers Want to Turn GIFs Into a Language

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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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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…

Publication

Gifts for intertwining with modern nature

Jay Silver, Eric Rosenbaum

Article

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.

Article

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.

Article

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

Article

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.

Event

Showcase21: Interpretation

Showcase21 video for sample - InterpretationBianca Datta

Friday
June 4, 2021
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Roz Picard @ Computing in the 21st Century

LocationHefei Grand Theatre, Anhui Description

Friday
November 1, 2013
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Open-World Video Object Detection and Segmentation Challenge, ICCV'21

We are organizing our first workshop on Open-World Video Object Detection and Segmentation with MIT and Facebook A…

Saturday
October 16, 2021
8:00am — 12:00pm ET
Video

Inflection PoinT: Showcase 21 Trailer

Tuesday — Thursday June 8, 2021 — …

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Second international workshop on large-scale holistic video understanding, CVPR'21

We are organizing our second workshop on large-scale holistic video understanding with MIT,  ETH Zurich, KU Leuven…

Friday
June 25, 2021
11:00am — 7:00pm ET
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The Artist: Means, Meaning, and Impact in the 21st Century

LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-633 DescriptionHead of the Opera of the Future group Tod Machover has been a co-curator of “Generation Elsewhere…

Friday
December 9, 2016
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Travis Rich

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Kevin Zeng Hu

Former Research Assistant

Article

Reimagining public health infrastructure in the 21st century

A new multidisciplinary field of public health technology should be established to modernize the nation’s health system.

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Gathering 'round the connected table: Crafting tools for a 21st century food system

Building a future food system for everyone takes more than just another food conference.  At this one-day event, we'll dig in to …

Monday
December 10, 2018
8:00am — 5:00pm ET
Event

Second tutorial on large-scale holistic video understanding, ICCV'21

We are organizing our second tutorial on large-scale holistic video understanding with MIT,  ETH Zurich, KU L…

Saturday
October 16, 2021
9:00am — 6:00pm ET
Event

Fighting 21st Century Hate: A 360 view with Adam Neufeld, VP of Innovation and Strategy, ADL

In the new arena of Twitter doxxing and other emerging tools, hate has learned to travel different pathways. Likewise, the effort to fight …

Monday
October 29, 2018
4:00pm — 5:30pm ET
Video

#21 Stiff People’s League

March 24, 2008
Person

Weixuan 'Vincent' Chen

Former Research Assistant

Project

Fukushima 2100

“[The wild boars] look at me like I am a visitor. It's like they’re the owners and I’m the guest. Wild animals that normally live in nature…

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Guillermo Herrera-Arcos chosen as a 2020/21 AstraZeneca YHP One Young World Scholar

Guillermo Herrera-Arcos has been named as a One Young World Scholar by the AstraZeneca Young Health Programme (YHP) for 2020/2021.

Person

Wakanene Sebastian Kamau

Research Assistant

Article

Gastronomy in the 21st century

It’s Thanksgiving season again, and the double shadow on our great American food holiday is feast and famine, both. A bounteous industrial …

Person

Jacob Shearman

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PLIX Receives IMLS Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program Award

The grant will enable PLIX to deliver to build capacity for 300 librarians to implement creative STEAM learning programs in their libraries.

Publication

Grounded Semantic Composition for Visual Scenes, Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, Volume 21, pages 429-470

Peter Gorniak, Deb Roy

Article

Music Museums of the 21st Century: High-Tech, Cutting Edge, Interactive

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Alumni + friends

As scholars and innovators, we build on the contributions of those who came before us, and the generosity of our alumni and friends extends…

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Deborah Widener

Former Member Relations Manager

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Jan Wojcik

Former Research Assistant

Article

$27M Gift Establishes New Center for Future Children

Person

Christopher Borroni-Bird

Former Research Scientist

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Howard Gardner

Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education

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Alaa Murabit

Former Director's Fellow

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Andrew Lippman

Senior Research Scientist

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Cesar A. Hidalgo

Former 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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COVID-19

Effective May 11, 2023, federal and Commonwealth of Massachusetts Covid-19 public health emergencies ended. As a result…

Publication

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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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

Publication

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.