Article

These prosthetics break the mold with third thumbs, spikes, and superhero skins

Prosthetics designers are coming up with new ways to help people feel more comfortable in their own skin.

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Structural Analysis of Musical Signals for Indexing and Thumbnailing

A musical piece typically has a repetitive structure. Analysis of this structure will be useful for music segmentation, indexing, and thumb…

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Park 062320 JME130

Disclaimer for playback viewers As part of the MIT Media Lab’s ongoing research on distance learning (MOOC, e-learning) and remote collabor…

Tuesday
June 23, 2020
Event

Fall 2020 OOLE INT13

Disclaimer for playback viewers As part of the MIT Media Lab’s ongoing research on distance learning (MOOC, e-learning) and remote collabor…

Tuesday
November 17, 2020
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Asaph Azaria

Former Research Assistant

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Barry L. Vercoe

Professor Emeritus

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#13 Autom Sociable Robot

Autom is an interactive, sociable robot designed to be used on a daily basis for several months. We are currently running a study with fif…

Publication

Structural informatics study of determined and AlphaFold2 predicted molecular structures of 13 human solute carrier transporters

Structural informatics study of determined and AlphaFold2 predicted molecular structures of 13 human solute carrier transporters and their water‑soluble QTY variants

Publication

Personalized Gaussian Processes for Forecasting of Alzheimer's Disease Assessment Scale-Cognition Sub-Scale (ADAS-Cog13)

Utsumi, Y., Rudovic, O., Peterson, K., Guerrero, R., Picard, R. "Personalized Gaussian Processes for Forecasting of Alzheimer's Disease Assessment Scale-Cognition Sub-Scale (ADAS-Cog13)." The 40th International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC). May 2018.

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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.

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Alaa Murabit

Former Director's Fellow

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Surgeons test-drive the amputation of the future with a mail-order limb, rerouted nerve, and prosthetic hand that grips like the real thing

A research team, including members of the Biomechatronics group, devises a new surgery for hand amputations and prostheses.

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Pashon Murray

Former Director's Fellow

Publication

A Virtual Muscle Model of the Arm for EMG-Driven Control of Prostheses

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Music, Mind and Machine

The Music, Mind and Machine group is working towards bridging the gap between the current generation of audio technologies and those that w…

Article

E Ink’s latest color displays have me dreaming of electronic paper magazines

Media Lab spinoff E Ink’s new generation of color displays were introduced at CES 2023.

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Advancing Wellbeing

In contributing to the digital revolution, the Media Lab helped fuel a society where increasing numbers of people are obese, sedentary, and…

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Joseph A. Paradiso

Alexander W Dreyfoos (1954) Professor; Associate Academic Head, Program in Media Arts and Sciences

Article

Hugh Herr talks to the Boston Globe about the collaboration that led to a new amputation procedure

A team of Boston surgeons and scientists has developed a new approach to amputation.

Video

MLTalks: IDEO's David and Tom Kelley

IDEO's David and Tom Kelly in conversation with Media Lab Director Joi Ito.

July 23, 2013
Article

The MIT Media Lab Launches the Center for Bits and Atoms with $13.75 Million Award from the National Science Foundation

Article

Researchers design moisture-responsive workout suit

Ventilating flaps lined with live cells open and close in response to an athlete’s sweat.

Person

Arnaud Grignard

Former Research Affiliate

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Dava Newman receives honorary doctorate degree from Royal College of Art

Director Newman will participate in a convocation ceremony at the Royal Festival Hall on September 13, 2023.

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Build a Personal Food Computer

OpenAg is committed to changing the way the world thinks about farming and food—and we need your help! As an open source project, we believ…

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E14-648 Silverman Skyline Room

With beautiful views of the Charles River and  the MIT campus, the Silverman Skyline Room can be reserved in conjunction with the adja…

Article

‘I can still feel it’: Groundbreaking arm amputation surgery makes a ‘phantom’ hand seem real

Read about the first upper-limb amputation performed using the AMI procedure created by Media Lab researchers + Brigham and Women’s Hospital

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Media Lab 東京 イベント December 2018

MIT Media Lab @ Tokyo 2018Being Artistic and Analytic東京六本木アカデミーヒルズ

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Network Computing Systems

Network Computing Systems (aka: NeCSys) develops and maintains the Media Lab's advanced network and computing infrastructure. We create and…

Project

Membrane receptor-based high molecular density bioelectronic platform

In collaboration with Prof. Uwe Sleytr and Dr. Andreas Breitwieser (BOKU, Vienna, Austria).Bioelectronics is an emerging antidisciplinary f…

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MAS.S66 - City Sci-fi: Speculative Movie Making Towards the Design of Ecology Futures

City Sci-fi  // Fall 2023 A City Science workshopFIRST CLASS:    September 13th (WED) - 2pm, E15-359Instructors:&n…

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ML Focus | July 2021: New Health | Affective Computing

Tuesday July 13, 2021 …

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Media Lab alums among honorees for Mozilla's Rise 25 Awards

Media Lab alums, Rob Morris (Affective Computing) and J. Nathan Matias (Civic Media), are among 25 honorees for Mozilla's Rise 25 awards.

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Ishii 0617-062520 JME01

Disclaimer for playback viewers As part of the MIT Media Lab’s ongoing research on distance learning (MOOC, e-learning) and remote collabor…

Wednesday — Thursday
June 17, 2020 —
June 25, 2020
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Responsible Data Summit: GAEN-based Contact Tracing and Challenges

These sessions will focus on tools for privacy-aware contact tracing.

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Minoo Rathnasabapathy & Danielle Wood Participate in White House U.S.-Africa Space Forum

Wood and Rathnasabapathy were invited to the White House's US-Africa Leaders Summit held in Washington, DC from December 13-15.

Event

Smart City Expo World Congress 2017. Andorra Pavilion

Events at the Andorra PavilionTuesday 11/1411:30 - 13:00 - Inauguration of the Andorra Pavilion15:00 - 15:30 - Apiumtech15:30 - 16:00 - FED…

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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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UrbInt 2017. Workshop in Urban engineering. Tijuana

UrbInt 2017The theme of this workshop is framed in what is called Urban Intelligence, where new ways of understanding the complex dynamics …

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Media Lab @ SXSW 2020

When South by Southwest 2020 convenes in Austin, TX March 13-21, many of the speakers taking the stage will be members of the Media Lab.

Friday — Saturday
March 13, 2020 —
March 21, 2020
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2018 Tokyo Member Event: Agenda Details

MIT Media Lab @ Tokyo 2018Being Artistic and AnalyticAcademy Hills, Roppongi, Tokyo, Japan

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Responsive Environments

We explore how diverse and distributed sensors augment and mediate human experience, interaction, and perception, while developing new sens…