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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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Rosalind Picard @ CBHD 22nd Annual Summer Conference

LocationTrinity International University, Deerfield, IL Description

Friday
June 19, 2015
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Kent Larson @ Building the 22nd Century Conference

LocationCentury Link Convention Center, Omaha Description

Monday
October 14, 2013
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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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Agenda: Tuesday, October 22

Fall 2019 Member MeetingAgenda: Tuesday, October 22Attendance at this event is by invitation only.Unable to join us in person? Jo…

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Battery-free wireless underwater camera wins Best Demo Award at ACM WUWNet'22

Battery-free wireless underwater camera wins the Best Demo Award at ACM WUWNet'22

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ACM CHI'22 Workshop: Actuated Materials and Soft Robotics Strategies for Human-Computer Interaction Design

A one-day ACM CHI'22 workshop co-organized by TMG researchers on actuated materials and soft robotics in HCI

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Workshops: Tuesday, October 22

TuesdayOctober 22, 20193:30pm - 5:00pmFall 2019 Member MeetingWorkshops: Tuesday, October 22The MIT Media Lab fall 2019 member meeting is a…

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Barry L. Vercoe

Former Professor Emeritus; Former Founder

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#22 The Media Lab

April 1, 2008
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MIT welcomes nine MLK Visiting Professors and Scholars for 2021-22

Record number of honorees will engage in the life of the Institute through teaching, research, and other interactions with the MIT community

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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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Nikolaos Vlavianos

Former Research Assistant

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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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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…

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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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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…

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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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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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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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Dr. Dagdeviren organizes the Japan-American Frontiers of Engineering (JAFOE) Symposium by the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) at UCSD

2025 Japan-America Frontiers of Engineering SymposiumDr. Canan Dagdeviren is organizing the 2025 Japan-America Frontiers of Engineering (JA…

Tuesday
June 3, 2025
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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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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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Joseph A. Paradiso

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

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A portfolio that’s out of this world

Following an influential career at NASA, Ezinne Uzo-Okoro SM ’20, PhD ’22 now shapes space policy as a top White House advisor.

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Camera Culture researchers and collaborators win FL-IJCAI 2022 Best Student Paper Award

The award was for "Visual Transformer Meets CutMix for Improved Accuracy, Communication Efficiency, and Data Privacy in Split Learning"

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Tod Machover’s Schoenberg in Hollywood goes to…..Hollywood!

Tod Machover’s opera Schoenberg in Hollywood comes to the UCLA Nimoy Theater on May 18, 19, 20 + 22 for its West Coast premiere.

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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…

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Shriya Srinivasan chosen as a 2020 Schmidt Science Fellow

Shriya Srinivasan has been selected as one of 22 Schmidt Science Fellows for 2020.

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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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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.…

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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 …

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CityScienceLab @ TaipeiTech Opening Ceremony / 【臺北科大城市科學實驗室】掛牌典禮

In celebrating the inauguration of the City Science Lab @TaipeiTech, a cooperation between National Taipei University of Technology and MIT…

Thursday
November 30, 2017
10:00am — 12:00pm ET
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Self-Learning AI Model Learns from Patient Data to Design Novel Clinical Trials

Technical summaryUnstructured learning problems without well-defined rewards are unsuitable for current reinforcement learning (RL) approac…

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Tod Machover inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Congratulations to Professor Machover, who leads the Opera of the Future research group at the Media Lab!

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Andy Lippman on the future of TV

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Magnetic Implants for Muscle Tracking

This new technology can provide natural, reliable control of prostheses, exoskeletons, and stimulated muscles.

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Fall 2019 Member Meeting

Attendance at this event is by invitation only. Unable to join us in person? Join via live webcast (login required).For questions…

Tuesday — Thursday
October 22, 2019 —
October 24, 2019
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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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Astronaut Ethnography

Our journeys off-world have taught us just as much about humanity as the harsh environment of space. For the past 20 years, we have had a c…