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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…

Project

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.

Event

Agenda: Tuesday, October 23

Fall 2018 member meetingAgenda: Tuesday, October 23Attendance at this event is by invitation only.Unable to join us in person? Jo…

Tuesday
October 23, 2018
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

Workshops: Tuesday, October 23

Fall 2018 member meetingWorkshops: Tuesday, October 23Attendance at this event is by invitation only.AI and Machine Learning for Health and…

Tuesday
October 23, 2018
3:30pm — 5:00pm ET
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Ruby Liu and Cathy Fang selected as 2022-23 Accenture Fellows

Two Media Lab students, Ruby Liu and Cathy Fang, awarded among 2022-23 Accenture Fellows.

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Agenda: Wednesday, October 23

Fall 2019 Member MeetingAgenda: Wednesday, October 23Attendance at this event is by invitation only.Unable to join us in person? …

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City Sci-fi Spring'23: Students Projects

Final projects created in MAS.S64 City Sci-Fi: Speculative Movie Making Towards the Design of Future Cities.Students were prompted to …

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Agenda: Tuesday, April 23

Spring 2019 Member MeetingAgenda: Tuesday, April 23Attendance at this event is by invitation only.Unable to join us in person? Jo…

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Travis Rich

Person

Kevin Zeng Hu

Former Research Assistant

Article

MIT welcomes eight MLK Visiting Professors and Scholars for 2022-23

MLK Jr. Visiting Professors and Scholars will enhance and enrich the MIT community through engagement with students and faculty.

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#23 Nexi MDS Robot

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City Sci-fi Fall '23: Student Projects

Final projects created in  MAS.S66 City Sci-Fi: Speculative Movie Making Towards the Design of Ecology Futures, taught in Fall 20…

Person

Weixuan 'Vincent' Chen

Former Research Assistant

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Workshops: Wednesday, October 23

WednesdayOctober 23, 20193:30pm - 5:00pmFall 2019 Member MeetingWorkshops: Wednesday, October 23The MIT Media Lab fall 2019 member meeting …

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Workshops: Tuesday, April 23

Workshop descriptions and locations

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Chris Murphy

Article

Aashini Shah one of 13 MIT undergrads, graduate students, and alumni awarded Fulbright fellowships in 2022–23

Sponsored by the US Department of State, the Fulbright US Student Program offers grants in over 150 countries.

Person

Ayesha Ali

Person

Ho-Jun Suk

Former Research Assistant

Article

MIT Appoints 23 Faculty to Named Professorships

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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…

Project

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…

Article

$27M Gift Establishes New Center for Future Children

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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.

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.

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Daniella DiPaola, Pedro Reynolds-Cuéllar, and Hope Schroeder receive Gary Marsden Travel Awards to attend CHI 2023

Congratulations to Daniella DiPaola, Pedro Reynolds-Cuéllar, and Hope Schroeder on being 2023 recipients of the Gary Mardsen Travel Awards.

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ORGANOLOGY: Real-Time Biometrics x Sound Synthesis

Organology: Real-Time Biometrics x Sound Synthesis October 19th @ 8:00 PMMIT Media Lab 3rd Floor AtriumWhat role does the body pl…

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).

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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.

Group

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…

Event

All-Lab Meeting, 2:30-4pm in E14-633

LocationE14-633 Description

Friday
September 10, 2010
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.

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

Article

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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COVID-19

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

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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.

Publication

Public health impact of delaying second dose of BNT162b2 or mRNA-1273 covid-19 vaccine: simulation agent based modeling study

The British Medical Journal (BMJ) 2021; 373 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.n1087 (Published 12 May 2021) Cite this as: BMJ 2021;373:n1087