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Prosthetics designers are coming up with new ways to help people feel more comfortable in their own skin.
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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Effective May 11, 2023, federal and Commonwealth of Massachusetts Covid-19 public health emergencies ended. As a result…
The Media Lab community brings creativity, expertise, and research to the pandemic
This brief excerpt video shows a glimpse of some of Tod Machover’s innovative, unusual opera realized at—and with the collaboration of—the …
Visionary Computer Music Pioneer, Composer, and Founding Faculty Member of the MIT Media Lab
Jaleesa Trapp talks to Brittney Gallagher about how she works to create equitable spaces for STEM learning experiences.
IEEE-EMBS 16th International Conference on Wearable and Implantable Body Sensor Networks.
Plots describing the effect of COVID-19 in Mexico in terms of spending and employment
MIT resources for students, staff, and faculty.
Disclaimer for playback viewers As part of the MIT Media Lab’s ongoing research on distance learning (MOOC, e-learning) and remote collabor…
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…
At MIT, Tod Machover’s ‘VALIS’ receives its first staged production in over two decades
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Country-scale analysis of high-resolution mobility patterns and infection spreadThe MIT Media Lab City Science group and the Andorra Innova…
The City Science group is collaborating on several projects in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition to the project pages linked b…
Kevin Esvelt, Kent Larson, Esteban Moro, Sandy Pentland, Beth Porter, Ron Rivest, and Ramesh Raskar will each present a short talk.
Mobility-related data show the pandemic has had a lasting effect, limiting the breadth of places people visit in cities.
Karl Sims has spent his career exploring the boundaries of computer animation.
MIT spinout OPT Industries uses novel additive manufacturing systems to create intricately-designed products.
Award recipients are selected based on their academic achievements and dedication to their graduate research works.
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
MIT Governance Lab and the Institute for Governance Reform work with the government of Sierra Leone to conduct rapid-response surveys.
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 …
Ramesh Raskar and Sandy Pentland present approaches and projects related to the Covid-19 pandemic.
An MIT research team is using supercomputers to help develop a drug to treat the disease caused by the novel coronavirus.
Urban socioeconomic segregation is an important indicator that is crucial for social, economic, and health outcomes. Segregation is inheren…
A variety of companies with MIT ties are working to address aspects of the Covid-19 pandemic.
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…
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
Award recipients are selected based on their academic achievements and dedication to their graduate research works.
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
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
Vida OverviewThe Space Enabled research group at the MIT Media Lab is leading a US-based team of innovators from East Carolina University (…
Countries and cities around the world have resorted to unprecedented mobility restrictions to combat COVID-19 transmission. Here we exploit…
Watch the recording of Conversations that Matter: The Importance of Education in the Amputee Experience, hosted by the Biomechatronics group
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
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
Leveling the education playing field under COVID-19...and beyond.This event is presented by The HEAD Foundation, a Singapore-based foundati…
In STAT, Media Lab Professor Kevin Esvelt calls for stronger regulation of synthetic DNA.
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
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 …
“Data scientists and visualization designers need to take their civic role very seriously in a pandemic,” says the MIT assistant professor.
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
The tabletop diagnostic yields results in an hour and can be programmed to detect variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus.