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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

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Fall 2020 OOLE INT17

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
Event

Agenda: Tuesday, October 17

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Tuesday
October 17, 2017
8:00am — 7:00pm ET
Person

Barry L. Vercoe

Former Professor Emeritus; Former Founder

Event

Workshops: Tuesday, October 17

Workshop topics range from AI to farming and are hosted by Media Lab researches or member companies.

Tuesday
October 17, 2017
4:30pm — 5:30pm ET
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MIT Flies on Blue Origin New Shepard NS-17

On August 26, 2021, the MIT  Space Exploration Initiative launched to space and back with Blue Origin a second time. The payload, a pr…

Article

Wonder woman of rocket science: Tiera Fletcher ’17

Fletcher co-authored the book Wonder Women of Science, which features the career of MIT Media Lab director Dava Newman.

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#17 Death and the Powers

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Update on Restricted E14/E15 Access (March 17, 2020)

At midnight, Tuesday, March 17, E14/E15 will be closed to staff, faculty, students, & visitors who don't have special permission to enter.

Article

"El robot que escribe libros de terror" Oppenheimer Presenta # 1741

Research scientist Manuel Cebrian discusses Shelley with CNN en Español host Andrés Oppenheimer. 

Publication

Evaluating Deep Neural Networks Trained on Clinical Images in Dermatology with the Fitzpatrick 17k Dataset

Groh, Matthew, Caleb Harris, Luis Soenksen, Felix Lau, Rachel Han, Aerin Kim, Arash Koochek, and Omar Badri. "Evaluating Deep Neural Networks Trained on Clinical Images in Dermatology with the Fitzpatrick 17k Dataset." arXiv preprint arXiv:2104.09957 (2021). Accepted at CVPR ISIC 2021 workshop. Publication pending.

Person

Jordan Miller

Event Space Assistant

Person

Jackie Smith

Graduate Student

Article

"Musical Brain" Echo Nest Raises $17 Million, Turns From Tastemaker To Matchmaker

Person

Shriya Srinivasan

Former Research Assistant

Article

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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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…

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
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Dava Newman named co-chair of WEF Global Future Council on Space Technologies 2025-2026

Newman joins Masami Onoda from the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency as co-chair of this World Economic Forum Council on Space

Person

Joseph A. Paradiso

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

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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Researchers design moisture-responsive workout suit

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

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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…

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

Article

Biennale Architettura 2021 - Presentation

The 17th International Architecture Exhibition, “How will we live together?" includes work from the City Science research group.

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Shuguang Zhang elected to Erwin Schrödinger Society for Nanosciences

Zhang has also been invited to deliver the 20th Schrödinger lecture on December 17, 2021.

Project

Silverspot: exploring parameter space with sketches

With computation, it's easy to create systems that have a vast number of variations, but it's sometimes difficult to explore those systems.…

Project

CAREER: Wirelesss Sensing for In Vivo Medical Devices

This NSF-funded project develops wireless networking systems for deep-tissue micro-implants. The micro-implants may be swallowed or injecte…

Person

Dava Newman

Professor; Apollo Professor of Astronautics

Project

Comments on Code

I have always been interested in the communities around coding.I love shader programming, I do it as a performance, but I have always felt …

Article

If You Ever Read An Article on Online Voting: Make It This One

"Out of those approximately 17,000 articles, I profoundly enjoyed and learned from this one, written by Alex Berke, MIT Media Lab."

Person

Arnaud Grignard

Research Affiliate

Event

Misha Sra Dissertation Defense

Dissertation Defense for Misha Sra on November 17

Video

Covid-19: What governments can do for contact tracing, analytics, and restarting

Friday April 17, 2020 …

April 17, 2020
Event

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
Publication

A Platform for Creating Stories Across Digital and Physical Boundaries

Eckhardt M., Ferguson C. and Picard R. W., "A Platform for Creating Stories Across Digital and Physical Boundaries," Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction. ACM, Munich, Germany, February 2014

Article

MIT engineers prepare to send three payloads to the moon

Data from the devices will help future astronauts navigate the moon’s south polar region and search for frozen water.

Event

Unlocking AI’s Potential: Exploring the Impact of Emerging Technologies on Business

​Join us as we provide learning opportunities on how emerging technologies, particularly AI, can impact business and emphasize the importan…

Event

Danielle Wood, David Colby Reed, and Ufuoma Ovienmhada Participate in MIT's Space Week Events

Danielle Wood and Ufuoma Ovienmhada will each speak at different events during MIT's 5th Annual Space Week between March 15-17.

Wednesday — Friday
March 15, 2023 —
March 17, 2023
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MIT Media Lab in the News: 2024 Review

The Media Lab attracted significant attention in 2024 across digital, print, and broadcast media—garnering over 170 stories world-wide.

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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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Machine Learning for Combined Classification of Fluorescent Biomarkers and Expert Annotations Using White Light Images

Biomarker imaging provides non-invasive indicators of disease and is used by human experts to augment disease diagnosis. It is, however, of…

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E14-638 Winter Garden

E14-638 Winter Garden

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SEI Space Analog Mission Application 2022

SEI Space Analog Mission Application 2022 

Article

From modeling quantum devices to political systems

MIT senior Sihao Huang describes his experience working with Alex Siegenfeld towards the emerging field of complex systems science.

Event

Workshop on Benchmarks for Human Flourishing with AI

Working Workshop on Benchmarks for Human Flourishing with AIWorkshop dates:  October 14-15, 2025 Deadline for application : Augus…

Tuesday — Wednesday
October 14, 2025 —
October 15, 2025
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The most futuristic building in New York—currently on view at MoMA—wasn’t made by humans

To build a new pavilion in midtown Manhattan, the architect Neri Oxman employed 17,000 silkworms.