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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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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

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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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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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Joseph A. Paradiso

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

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

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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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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.

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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…

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‘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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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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Fall 2020 OOLE INT20

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

Wednesday
November 25, 2020
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TIME's 200 Best Inventions of 2023: SeedLabs MicroPET

The SeedLabs MicroPET, which began as a Media Lab collaboration, was selected to TIME's 200 Best Inventions of 2023.

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Hiroshi Ishii @ SI International 2016, SII2016

LocationSapporo Convention Center DescriptionTRANSFORM: Beyond Pixels, Towards Radical AtomsWhereas today's mainstream Human Computer Inter…

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December 15, 2016
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📣 Announcing: PLIX Ambassador Program 2023-2024!

The PLIX Team at the MIT Media Lab invites US-based public library workers to apply for our 2023-2024 Creative Learning Ambassador Program.

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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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CoCo and MIT RAISE among 2023-2024 Tools Competition winners

Their awards aim to support and prepare students to navigate the changing world.

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Women Take the Reel Film Festival 2024: “20,000 Species of Bees” followed by Q+A

Please join us on March 8 for the screening of Spanish Drama 20,000 Species Of Bees  followed by a Q+A discussion. The screening is FR…

Friday
March 8, 2024
6:00pm — 9:00pm ET
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AHA Symposium 2025

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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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Typographics 2024

Lecture at Typographics 2024,  a design festival for people who use type. Vera van de Seyp will be presenting a lecture addressin…

Thursday — Sunday
June 13, 2024 —
June 16, 2024
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IAP 2025

An evolving list of IAP activities hosted by members of the Media Lab community in collaboration with other MIT entities during 2025.

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EVDT Community Meeting - June 2025

We invite you to join the June meeting of the Environment-Vulnerability-Decision-Technology (EVDT) Community. The purpose of the EVDT …

Tuesday
June 17, 2025
11:00am — 12:00pm ET
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EVDT Community Meeting - August 2025

We invite you to join the August meeting of the Environment-Vulnerability-Decision-Technology (EVDT) Community. The purpose of the EVD…

Tuesday
August 12, 2025
10:00am — 11:00am ET
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EVDT Community Meeting - July 2025

We invite you to join the July meeting of the Environment-Vulnerability-Decision-Technology (EVDT) Community. The purpose of the EVDT …

Tuesday
July 22, 2025
10:00am — 11:00am ET
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EVDT Community Meeting - May 2025 (2)

We invite you to join the February meeting of the Environment-Vulnerability-Decision-Technology (EVDT) Community. The purpose of the E…

Tuesday
May 13, 2025
11:00am — 12:00pm ET
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EVDT Community Meeting - May 2025 (1)

We invite you to join the May meeting of the Environment-Vulnerability-Decision-Technology (EVDT) Community. The purpose of the EVDT C…

Tuesday
May 6, 2025
12:00pm — 1:00pm ET
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EVDT Community Meeting - April 2025

We invite you to join the February meeting of the Environment-Vulnerability-Decision-Technology (EVDT) Community. The purpose of the E…

Tuesday
April 29, 2025
11:00am — 12:00pm ET
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EVDT Community Meeting - December 2024

We invite you to join the December meeting of the Environment-Vulnerability-Decision-Technology (EVDT) Community. The purpose of the E…

Tuesday
December 17, 2024
11:00am — 12:00pm ET
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EVDT Community Meeting - February 2025

We invite you to join the February meeting of the Environment-Vulnerability-Decision-Technology (EVDT) Community. The purpose of the E…

Tuesday
February 11, 2025
11:00am — 12:00pm ET
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Media Lab @ CES/ICCE 2025

Learn more about the Media Lab alumni attending CES and ICCE 2025.

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Launch - City Science Summit 2025

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Hacking Manufacturing 2017

IdeaA lab is where unique ideas are generated and early prototypes are synthesized. A factory is where designs are mass produced and qualit…

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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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Dava Newman named Margret & H.A. Rey Curiosity Award Recipient 2025

On April 22, 2025 at the Multicultural Arts Center in Cambridge, MA, Dava Newman was named the Margret & H.A. Rey Curiosity Award recipient

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Media Lab @ CSCW 2024

A number of Media Lab researchers are participating in CSCW 2024.

Saturday — Wednesday
November 9, 2024 —
November 13, 2024
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Zero Gravity Flight 2024

Founded in 2016 and now in our eighth year, we set our sights on space. The Space Exploration Initiative has since grown to …