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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.

Project

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…

Person

Asaph Azaria

Former Research Assistant

Article

Self-Assembling Peptide EAK16 and RADA16 Nanofiber Scaffold Hydrogel

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Rosalind Picard @ IJCAI-16

LocationNew York Hilton Midtown Hotel Description BiographiesProfessor Rosalind W. Picard, Sc.D. is founder and director of the Affective C…

Saturday — Friday
July 9, 2016 —
July 15, 2016
Event

Fall 2020 OOLE INT16

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

Thursday
November 19, 2020
Video

#16 Seamless

Feb. 7, 2008
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Barry L. Vercoe

Professor Emeritus

Article

16 art exhibits worth leaving the house for this winter

WBUR’s picks for winter art exhibits around the Boston area include director’s fellow Christine Sun Kim’s “Off the Charts.”

Event

SDG 16: Peace, Justice, and Strong Institutions

How does better information lead to different policy decisions?

Thursday
July 9, 2020
10:00am — 11:30am ET
Video

SDG 16: Peace, Justice, and Strong Institutions

Sustainable Development Goal 16: Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions seeks to promote just, peaceful and inclusive societies.

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.

Person

John West

Former Data Journalist & Application Developer

Course

Fall 2023: Can Space Enabled Designs Advance Justice and Development? (MAS.858/16.857)

This course examines the theoretical underpinnings of the mission statement of the Space Enabled Research Group at the MIT Media Lab.

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

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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.

Publication

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

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Keisuke Honda

Former Director's Fellow

Group

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.

Group

Advancing Wellbeing

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

Person

Joseph A. Paradiso

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

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
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…

Article

Researchers design moisture-responsive workout suit

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

Post

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…

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

Publication

Self-assembling peptide scaffolds in the clinic

Gelain, F., Luo, Z., Rioult, M. et al. Self-assembling peptide scaffolds in the clinic. npj Regen Med 6, 9 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41536-020-00116-w

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Electome Analyses

The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation is providing support for the Electome project as part its efforts to advance excellence in journ…

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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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Danielle Wood Speaks at New Space Africa 2024

The U.S. Department of Commerce invited Wood to speak at New Space Africa about Space Enabled's NASA-funded Angola drought project.

Event

Ocean Sciences Meeting 2020

Open Ocean will be at the Ocean Sciences Meeting in San Diego, February 16-21, 2020.