Animated GIFs are widely used on the Internet to express emotions, but automatic analysis of their content is largely …
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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…
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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.
Explore New Scientist's best books of 2021, including Labber Kate Darling’s The New Breed.
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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…
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
Supported by a $100 million founding gift, the academy will deepen the integration of design across the Institute and beyond.
Kalanithi, J. "Connectibles: Tangible Social Networking"
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Looking for children between 8-12 years old for a study on improving self-esteem.
Xiao Xiao performs La Vie En Rose and a Tang Dynasty poem on the theremin at New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME).
Recreating John Maeda's "Design By Numbers" programming environment in JavaScript Try Online | GitHub
Pattie Maes has been recently named to the Germeshausen Professorship—an MIT faculty chair supported by the Germeshausen Foundation.
The MIT Media Lab’s Collective Learning group is no longer active.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…
Biomechatronics group head Hugh Herr speaks with Marwa ElDiwiny on a recent episode of the IEEE RAS Soft Robotics podcast.
He was a brilliant polymath, gifted musician, and former Media Lab professor who headed the Personal Information Architecture research group
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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The new Center will provide music education to students across North Texas, in cooperation with the Media Lab's Opera of the Future group.
In MIT Spectrum, Gladys Ngetich of the Space Enabled research group discusses her passion for math and physics and her road to MIT.
Viral Communications at the Media Lab is all about how systems scale. We premiered scalable video in the '90s, we built scalable mesh radio…
'Shells, often found on seashores, exemplifies the absence of existed lives. What if a presence dwells in to animate them?'Projec…
“MIT Illuminations” showcases the creative coding work of MIT community members, including Media Lab alumni.
"Steve brought a joy and spirit of inventiveness to all that he did."
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 …
The Opera of the Future group (formerly known as Hyperinstruments) explores concepts and techniques to help advance the future of musical c…
Niles, S. "Glyph: lightweight and evocative looping images in the news"
Please help Poetic Justice create an artwork that includes all the communities, voices, and languages of NYC.
MIT’s Center for Constructive Communication takes aim at the destructive nature of social media
The Media Lab community mourns the loss of Aydin Arpa, who passed away from complications of ALS.
I’m sure that most, if not all of you, have seen recent news stories about Jeffrey Epstein, and I owe it to you to address my prior affilia…
John B Herrington, the first member of a federally recognized tribe to travel to space, will speak about Indigenous views of space activity.
The MIT Press colophon, or logo, is made up of seven bars that represent the lowercase letters “mitp” as abstracted books on a shelf.
Making 3D aniation easier by utilizing mobile AR, enabling manipulation of spatial objects using a spatial interface.
New documentary chronicles Jacob Collier's collaborations at MIT.
On January 26, 2017, the Media Lab held a symposium to celebrate the life and ideas of Seymour Papert. Here are some photos and comments
The Affective Computing group creates and evaluates new ways of bringing together Emotion AI and other affective technologies in order to m…
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Assistant professor leads Conformable Decoders, a new research group at the Media Lab.
Leveraging the web’s power to create open, community-sourced access to knowledge
Stephen A. Benton, inventor of the rainbow hologram and a pioneer in medical imaging and fine arts holography, died of brain cancer at MGH.