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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.

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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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Asaph Azaria

Former Research Assistant

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Barry L. Vercoe

Former Professor Emeritus; Former Founder

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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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Media Lab research response to COVID-19

The Media Lab community brings creativity, expertise, and research to the pandemic

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Tod Machover: Operas 1987-2014

This brief excerpt video shows a glimpse of some of Tod Machover’s innovative, unusual opera realized at—and with the collaboration of—the …

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In Memoriam: Barry Lloyd Vercoe (1937–2025)

Visionary Computer Music Pioneer, Composer, and Founding Faculty Member of the MIT Media Lab

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Episode 19: COVID-19 Update - Jaleesa Trapp - Flaws in Facial Recognition

Jaleesa Trapp talks to Brittney Gallagher about how she works to create equitable spaces for STEM learning experiences.

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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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COVID-19 Effect in Mexico

Plots describing the effect of COVID-19 in Mexico in terms of spending and employment 

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Health, Wellness, and Medical Support during the Covid-19 Pandemic

MIT resources for students, staff, and faculty.

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Fall 2020 OOLE INT19

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 24, 2020
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Contemporary Design and COVID-19

How has the work of designers, so central to everyday life and society at large, been impacted by COVID-19? Museum of Modern Art curator Pa…

Thursday
July 9, 2020
5:00pm — 6:00pm ET
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An AI opera from 1987 reboots for a new generation

At MIT, Tod Machover’s ‘VALIS’ receives its first staged production in over two decades

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Hyperinstruments – A Progress Report 1987 – 1991

Machover, Tod

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Mobility and COVID-19 in Andorra

Country-scale analysis of high-resolution mobility patterns and infection spreadThe MIT Media Lab City Science group and the Andorra Innova…

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Resilient Communities and COVID-19

The City Science group is collaborating on several projects in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition to the project pages linked b…

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Planning the future after COVID-19

Kevin Esvelt, Kent Larson, Esteban Moro, Sandy Pentland, Beth Porter, Ron Rivest, and Ramesh Raskar will each present a short talk.

Saturday
April 4, 2020
9:00am — 10:00am ET
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Study: Covid-19 has reduced diverse urban interactions

Mobility-related data show the pandemic has had a lasting effect, limiting the breadth of places people visit in cities.

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Alum Karl Sims reflects on his animated walking stick creatures from 1987

Karl Sims has spent his career exploring the boundaries of computer animation.

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A better nasal swab for Covid-19 testing

MIT spinout OPT Industries uses novel additive manufacturing systems to create intricately-designed products.

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Patrick Chwalek + Jocelyn Shen receive Harold Horowitz (1951) Student Research Fund awards

Award recipients are selected based on their academic achievements and dedication to their graduate research works.

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Implications of COVID-19 vaccination heterogeneity in mobility networks

Yuan, Y., Jahani, E., Zhao, S. et al. Implications of COVID-19 vaccination heterogeneity in mobility networks. Commun Phys 6, 206 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s42005-023-01325-7

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Informing Covid-19 preparedness in Sierra Leone

MIT Governance Lab and the Institute for Governance Reform work with the government of Sierra Leone to conduct rapid-response surveys.

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Evolving Decoy ACE2 Receptor Mimics As COVID-19 Therapeutics

COVID-19 has over only a few short months resulted in the deaths of >400,000 people worldwide (as of mid-June 2020) and has forced many …

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

Ramesh Raskar and Sandy Pentland present approaches and projects related to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Friday
April 17, 2020
11:00am ET
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Supercomputers help researchers speed drug discovery for Covid-19

An MIT research team is using supercomputers to help develop a drug to treat the disease caused by the novel coronavirus.

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Increased Urban Segregation during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Urban socioeconomic segregation is an important indicator that is crucial for social, economic, and health outcomes. Segregation is inheren…

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MIT-affiliated companies take on Covid-19

A variety of companies with MIT ties are working to address aspects of the Covid-19 pandemic.

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Resilience of communities in Mexico during COVID-19

In this project we seek to combine data sources to understand the effect of the shock of COVID-19 as well as the recovery dynamics.  W…

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COVID-19 policy analysis: labour structure dictates lockdown mobility behaviour

Heroy Samuel, Loaiza Isabella, Pentland Alex and O’Clery Neave 2021COVID-19 policy analysis: labour structure dictates lockdown mobility behaviourJ. R. Soc. Interface.182020103520201035 http://doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2020.1035

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Irmandy Wicaksono + Matt Groh receive Harold Horowitz (1951) Student Research Fund awards

Award recipients are selected based on their academic achievements and dedication to their graduate research works.

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Mobile phones and their use to study dynamics of the COVID-19 pandemic

Alex Berke, Kent Larson, Chapter 3 - Mobile phones and their use to study dynamics of the COVID-19 pandemic, Editor(s): Rajkumar Rajendram, Victor R. Preedy, Vinood B. Patel, Features, Transmission, Detection, and Case Studies in COVID-19, Academic Press, 2024, Pages 25-37, ISBN 9780323956468, https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-323-95646-8.00049-4

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The Distance Between Us: Exploring the COVID-19 Intensive Care Unit Through the Soundscape of Biometric Monitoring

Kimaya Lecamwasam. 2024. The Distance Between Us: Exploring the COVID-19 Intensive Care Unit Through the Soundscape of Biometric Monitoring. In Proceedings of the 19th International Audio Mostly Conference: Explorations in Sonic Cultures (AM '24). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 533–542. https://doi.org/10.1145/3678299.3678355

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Vida Decision Support System for COVID-19

Vida OverviewThe Space Enabled research group at the MIT Media Lab is leading a US-based team of innovators from East Carolina University (…

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COVID-19 policy analysis: labour structure dictates lockdown mobility behaviour

Countries and cities around the world have resorted to unprecedented mobility restrictions to combat COVID-19 transmission. Here we exploit…

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Conversations that Matter: The Importance of Education in the Amputee Experience (4/19/22)

Watch the recording of Conversations that Matter: The Importance of Education in the Amputee Experience, hosted by the Biomechatronics group

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Preserving Sustainability Gains of the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Case Study of MIT Campus Commuting

Berke, A., Doorley, R., Alfonso, L., & Larson, K. (2022). Preserving Sustainability Gains of the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Case Study of MIT Campus Commuting. Transportation Research Record. https://doi.org/10.1177/03611981221088776

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Bidirectional contact tracing is required for reliable COVID-19 control

Bradshaw, W., Alley, E., Huggins, J., Lloyd, A., & Esvelt, K. (2020). Bidirectional contact tracing is required for reliable COVID-19 control. medRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.05.06.20093369

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Covid-19 What Next...?

Leveling the education playing field under COVID-19...and beyond.This event is presented by The HEAD Foundation, a Singapore-based foundati…

Tuesday
July 7, 2020
10:00pm — 11:30pm ET
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It shouldn’t be easy to buy synthetic DNA fragments to recreate the 1918 flu virus

In STAT, Media Lab Professor Kevin Esvelt calls for stronger regulation of synthetic DNA.

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Behavioral changes during the COVID-19 pandemic decreased income diversity of urban encounters

Yabe, T., Bueno, B.G.B., Dong, X. et al. Behavioral changes during the COVID-19 pandemic decreased income diversity of urban encounters. Nat Commun 14, 2310 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-37913-y

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Remembering Edith Ackermann, 1946-2016

Edith Ackermann was a beloved member of the Media Lab faculty from the early days of the Lab through the mid-90s, and continued to play an …

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3 Questions: Catherine D’Ignazio on visualizing Covid-19 data

“Data scientists and visualization designers need to take their civic role very seriously in a pandemic,” says the MIT assistant professor.

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Association between COVID-19 Outcomes and Mask Mandates, Adherence, and Attitudes

D. Adjodah, et al (2021) Association between COVID-19 Outcomes and Mask Mandates, Adherence, and Attitudes, PLOS ONE, doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0252315

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New device can diagnose Covid-19 from saliva samples

The tabletop diagnostic yields results in an hour and can be programmed to detect variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus.