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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

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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.

Event

Rosalind Picard @ CBHD 22nd Annual Summer Conference

LocationTrinity International University, Deerfield, IL Description

Friday
June 19, 2015
Event

Kent Larson @ Building the 22nd Century Conference

LocationCentury Link Convention Center, Omaha Description

Monday
October 14, 2013
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BSEN' 2019 - 19-22 May, 2019

IEEE-EMBS 16th International Conference on Wearable and Implantable Body Sensor Networks. 

Sunday — Wednesday
May 19, 2019 —
May 22, 2019
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Battery-free wireless underwater camera wins Best Demo Award at ACM WUWNet'22

Battery-free wireless underwater camera wins the Best Demo Award at ACM WUWNet'22

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Agenda: Tuesday, October 22

Fall 2019 Member MeetingAgenda: Tuesday, October 22Attendance at this event is by invitation only.Unable to join us in person? Jo…

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ACM CHI'22 Workshop: Actuated Materials and Soft Robotics Strategies for Human-Computer Interaction Design

A one-day ACM CHI'22 workshop co-organized by TMG researchers on actuated materials and soft robotics in HCI

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Workshops: Tuesday, October 22

TuesdayOctober 22, 20193:30pm - 5:00pmFall 2019 Member MeetingWorkshops: Tuesday, October 22The MIT Media Lab fall 2019 member meeting is a…

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#22 The Media Lab

April 1, 2008
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Travis Rich

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Kevin Zeng Hu

Former Research Assistant

Article

MIT welcomes nine MLK Visiting Professors and Scholars for 2021-22

Record number of honorees will engage in the life of the Institute through teaching, research, and other interactions with the MIT community

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Weixuan 'Vincent' Chen

Former Research Assistant

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Conversations that Matter: The Importance of Education in the Amputee Experience (4/19/22)

Watch the recording of Conversations that Matter: The Importance of Education in the Amputee Experience, hosted by the Biomechatronics group

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Nikolaos Vlavianos

Former Research Assistant

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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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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.

Article

$27M Gift Establishes New Center for Future Children

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COVID-19

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

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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…

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

Article

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.

Event

Panel Discussion with Dr. John Herrington: Indigenous & Anticolonial Views of Human Activity in Space

John B Herrington, the first member of a federally recognized tribe to travel to space, will speak about Indigenous views of space activity.

Friday
May 14, 2021
11:30am — 1:00pm ET
Publication

Connectibles: Tangible Social Networking

Kalanithi, J. "Connectibles: Tangible Social Networking"

Publication

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.

Article

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).

Project

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…

Article

A portfolio that’s out of this world

Following an influential career at NASA, Ezinne Uzo-Okoro SM ’20, PhD ’22 now shapes space policy as a top White House advisor.

Article

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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Camera Culture researchers and collaborators win FL-IJCAI 2022 Best Student Paper Award

The award was for "Visual Transformer Meets CutMix for Improved Accuracy, Communication Efficiency, and Data Privacy in Split Learning"

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Shriya Srinivasan chosen as a 2020 Schmidt Science Fellow

Shriya Srinivasan has been selected as one of 22 Schmidt Science Fellows for 2020.

Article

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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Proposal Initiation Form

PI Proposal Initiation (PIPI ) Form

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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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CityScienceLab @ TaipeiTech Opening Ceremony / 【臺北科大城市科學實驗室】掛牌典禮

In celebrating the inauguration of the City Science Lab @TaipeiTech, a cooperation between National Taipei University of Technology and MIT…

Thursday
November 30, 2017
10:00am — 12:00pm ET
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Self-Learning AI Model Learns from Patient Data to Design Novel Clinical Trials

Technical summaryUnstructured learning problems without well-defined rewards are unsuitable for current reinforcement learning (RL) approac…

Article

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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Admissions Timeline

September 15, 2023: Application website opensOctober 2, 2023 : Virtual Open  House - This virtual event is an opportunity to…

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Andy Lippman on the future of TV