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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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Rosalind Picard @ CBHD 22nd Annual Summer Conference

LocationTrinity International University, Deerfield, IL Description

Friday
June 19, 2015
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Kent Larson @ Building the 22nd Century Conference

LocationCentury Link Convention Center, Omaha Description

Monday
October 14, 2013
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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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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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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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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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Travis Rich

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Kevin Zeng Hu

Former Research Assistant

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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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Weixuan 'Vincent' Chen

Former Research Assistant

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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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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

Support innovation at the Media Lab—alumni gifts fuel fellowships, creativity, AI, and the future. Give now.

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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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$27M Gift Establishes New Center for Future Children

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Andrew Lippman

Senior Research Scientist

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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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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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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
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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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Dava Newman named Margret & H.A. Rey Curiosity Award Recipient 2025

On April 22, 2025 at the Multicultural Arts Center in Cambridge, MA, Dava Newman was named the Margret & H.A. Rey Curiosity Award recipient

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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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Dr. Dagdeviren organizes the Japan-American Frontiers of Engineering (JAFOE) Symposium by the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) at UCSD

2025 Japan-America Frontiers of Engineering SymposiumDr. Canan Dagdeviren is organizing the 2025 Japan-America Frontiers of Engineering (JA…

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June 3, 2025
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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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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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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.

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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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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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Proposal Initiation Form

PI Proposal Initiation (PIPI ) Form

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Tod Machover’s Schoenberg in Hollywood goes to…..Hollywood!

Tod Machover’s opera Schoenberg in Hollywood comes to the UCLA Nimoy Theater on May 18, 19, 20 + 22 for its West Coast premiere.

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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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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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Shriya Srinivasan chosen as a 2020 Schmidt Science Fellow

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