Article

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…

Event

Showcase21: Interpretation

Showcase21 video for sample - InterpretationBianca Datta

Friday
June 4, 2021
Person

Asaph Azaria

Former Research Assistant

Event

Roz Picard @ Computing in the 21st Century

LocationHefei Grand Theatre, Anhui Description

Friday
November 1, 2013
Event

Open-World Video Object Detection and Segmentation Challenge, ICCV'21

We are organizing our first workshop on Open-World Video Object Detection and Segmentation with MIT and Facebook A…

Saturday
October 16, 2021
8:00am — 12:00pm ET
Video

Inflection PoinT: Showcase 21 Trailer

Tuesday — Thursday June 8, 2021 — …

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Second international workshop on large-scale holistic video understanding, CVPR'21

We are organizing our second workshop on large-scale holistic video understanding with MIT,  ETH Zurich, KU Leuven…

Friday
June 25, 2021
11:00am — 7:00pm ET
Event

The Artist: Means, Meaning, and Impact in the 21st Century

LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-633 DescriptionHead of the Opera of the Future group Tod Machover has been a co-curator of “Generation Elsewhere…

Friday
December 9, 2016
Article

Reimagining public health infrastructure in the 21st century

A new multidisciplinary field of public health technology should be established to modernize the nation’s health system.

Event

Gathering 'round the connected table: Crafting tools for a 21st century food system

Building a future food system for everyone takes more than just another food conference.  At this one-day event, we'll dig in to …

Monday
December 10, 2018
8:00am — 5:00pm ET
Event

Second tutorial on large-scale holistic video understanding, ICCV'21

We are organizing our second tutorial on large-scale holistic video understanding with MIT,  ETH Zurich, KU L…

Saturday
October 16, 2021
9:00am — 6:00pm ET
Person

Barry L. Vercoe

Professor Emeritus

Event

Fighting 21st Century Hate: A 360 view with Adam Neufeld, VP of Innovation and Strategy, ADL

In the new arena of Twitter doxxing and other emerging tools, hate has learned to travel different pathways. Likewise, the effort to fight …

Monday
October 29, 2018
4:00pm — 5:30pm ET
Video

#21 Stiff People’s League

March 24, 2008
Project

Fukushima 2100

“[The wild boars] look at me like I am a visitor. It's like they’re the owners and I’m the guest. Wild animals that normally live in nature…

Post

Guillermo Herrera-Arcos chosen as a 2020/21 AstraZeneca YHP One Young World Scholar

Guillermo Herrera-Arcos has been named as a One Young World Scholar by the AstraZeneca Young Health Programme (YHP) for 2020/2021.

Person

Wakanene Sebastian Kamau

Research Assistant

Article

Gastronomy in the 21st century

It’s Thanksgiving season again, and the double shadow on our great American food holiday is feast and famine, both. A bounteous industrial …

Person

Jacob Shearman

Post

PLIX Receives IMLS Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program Award

The grant will enable PLIX to deliver to build capacity for 300 librarians to implement creative STEAM learning programs in their libraries.

Publication

Grounded Semantic Composition for Visual Scenes, Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, Volume 21, pages 429-470

Peter Gorniak, Deb Roy

Article

Music Museums of the 21st Century: High-Tech, Cutting Edge, Interactive

Person

Deborah Widener

Former Member Relations Manager

Person

Jan Wojcik

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

Person

Christopher Borroni-Bird

Former Research Scientist

Person

Howard Gardner

Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education

Person

Alaa Murabit

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…

Group

COVID-19

Effective May 11, 2023, federal and Commonwealth of Massachusetts Covid-19 public health emergencies ended. As a result…

Person

Joseph A. Paradiso

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

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
Article

Researchers design moisture-responsive workout suit

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

Event

Inflection PoinT

Join us for a new, student-focused Media Lab event, created by and for the Media Lab community.

Tuesday — Thursday
June 8, 2021 —
June 10, 2021
Post

Defiance: images

Images from the 2017 Defiance event and Disobedience Award

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

Sub-Picomolar Detection of SARS-CoV-2 RBD via Computationally-Optimized Peptide Beacons

Tripathy, Soumya P., et al. "Sub-Picomolar Detection of SARS-CoV-2 RBD via Computationally-Optimized Peptide Beacons." bioRxiv (2021).

Event

Rosalind Picard @ AffCon-2021

The fourth annual AAAI-21 Workshop on Affective Content Analysis presents Rosalind Picard as a keynote speaker addressing Best Practic…

Tuesday
February 9, 2021
8:00am — 9:00am ET
Event

Advancing Wellbeing Seminar Series: Don Norman

Design in the 21st Century