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Agenda: Wednesday, October 18

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Wednesday
October 18, 2017
9:30am — 7:00pm ET
Event

Workshops: Wednesday, October 18

Workshop topics range from AI to farming and are hosted by Media Lab researches or member companies.

Wednesday
October 18, 2017
4:30pm — 5:30pm ET
Video

#18 Software Agents

Feb. 22, 2008
Article

18-year-old Nigerian-American wins awards in finance, AI inventions

Bell was a high school intern with the Fluid Interfaces group, where he helped to develop assistive cognitive tools.

Publication

Chapter 18: Flexible and Stretchable Devices for Human-Machine Interfaces

Wicaksono, I., Dagdeviren, C., Handbook of Flexible and Stretchable Electronics, CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group 2019.

Event

Fall 2020 OOLE INT18

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

Monday
November 23, 2020
Event

Smart City Expo World Congress 2017. Andorra Pavilion

Events at the Andorra PavilionTuesday 11/1411:30 - 13:00 - Inauguration of the Andorra Pavilion15:00 - 15:30 - Apiumtech15:30 - 16:00 - FED…

Post

Media Lab @ Daimler Lab1886

Ryan McCarthy and Phil Tinn spent a week at the headquarters of Daimler and Lab1886 in Stuttgart.

Event

IAP: 18th Annual Salute to Dr. Seuss

Monday
January 21, 2008
Event

Daimler Lab 1886 Workshop: Mobility without Cars

Collaboratively exploring the horizon of urban mobility

Friday
April 26, 2019
8:00am — 5:00pm ET
Article

Comprehensive report on pandemic response solutions developed by 180 leading experts

Online platform harnesses collective intelligence to accelerate recovery from Covid-19 and prepare for future disease outbreaks.

Publication

Unveiling the geography of historical patents in the United States from 1836 to 1975

Petralia, S., Balland, P.A., and Rigby, D. (2016) Unveiling the geography of historical patents in the United States from 1836 to 1975, Scientific Data, 3 (160074): 1-14

Person

Sourav Das

Course

Decoders 1.4: Project Realization in Cleanroom

StyleTeamwork; Collective This class is graded P/D/F. To pass, you must: (i) attend all the cleanroom sessions, (ii) work in a team se…

Person

Jessica Mello

Former Sr. Financial Assistant

Event

Space Has Arrived | Space Exploration Initiative at Ars Electronica 2020

We created a digital spaceship to share the diverse portfolio from the Initiative. Audiences are invited to immerse themselves.

Wednesday — Sunday
September 9, 2020 —
September 13, 2020
12:00am — 11:00pm ET
Person

Stephen Von Stetina

Former Biological Research Scientist

Course

MAS.S65: Piezoelectrics for Ultrasonic Biomedical Devices

Style:Teamwork; CollectiveTo pass, you must: (i) attend all the class lectures, (ii) participate during the experimental/simulation se…

Publication

Deblina Sarkar publications

Gallery

AR Enhanced Wall Plants: Box

See http://fab.cba.mit.edu/classes/4.140/CBA/people/alex/final-project/index.html

Project

Turning Objects into Cameras

Consider a small object sitting on a desk in your living room. The object is illuminated by light sources from all directions—this includes…

Publication

Pluto: Community-based News Server

Quan, D. "Pluto: Community-based News Server"

Course

Decoders (1.0, 1.1, 1.2): Learn, Imagine, Integrate, Design, Fabricate, Demo

Course Series OverviewThe purpose of the three-course series is to gain a comprehensive understanding of the microfabrication processes to …

Course

Decoders 1.2: Project Realization in Cleanroom

StyleTeamwork; Collective This class is graded P/D/F. To pass, you must: (i) attend all the cleanroom sessions, (ii) work in a team se…

Course

Decoders 1.6: Project Realization in Cleanroom

StyleTeamwork; CollectiveTo pass, you must: (i) attend at least 3/4 of the class sessions, (ii) participate in literature review, and (iii)…

Project

Philadelphia Voices

Philadelphia Voices is the latest in the series of City Symphonies projects that Tod Machover and the Opera of the Future group have c…

Publication

ICLC 2024 Submission

Project

Nostalgia Box

Nostalgia BoxA deep learning visualization of your own memoriesBy Aubrey Simonson Commissioned by Manuel Cebrian and Iyad RahwanNostal…

Publication

A Decade of Digital Currency at MIT

Narula, Neha. "A Decade of Digital Currency at MIT." May 2025, https://www.dci.mit.edu/posts/a-decade-of-digital-currency-at-mit

Post

Michael Naimark reflects on the Aspen Movie Map

Media Lab alum Michael Naimark, part of the original team who created the Aspen Movie Map, has written extensively about the project.

Publication

The Hidden Plumbing of Stablecoins: Financial and Technological Risks in the GENIUS Act Era

Dan Aronoff and Neha Narula, et al. "The Hidden Plumbing of Stablecoins: Financial and Technological Risks in the GENIUS Act Era," Digital Currency Initiative, February 2026, https://dci.mit.edu/projects/hidden-plumbing-stablecoins

Course

How To Grow (Almost) Anything

Building upon the tradition of ‘How to Make (Almost) Anything,’ we are offering ‘How to Grow (Almost) Anything,’ a course to teach experi…

Publication

Disembodied Performance

Peter Alexander Torpey and Elena Naomi Jessop. 2009. Disembodied performance. CHI '09 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 3685–3690. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/1520340.1520555

Publication

SCRIBE: Crowdsourcing Indigenous Knowledge

Muniyappa, Prathima. "SCRIBE: Crowdsourcing Indigenous Knowledge," September 2020.

Course

Decoders 1.0: Microfabricated Decoders

StyleFlexible; Individual projects (teamwork can also be possible upon the wish of students).OverviewDecoders 1.0 is the core class th…

Event

Kevin Esvelt @ Marsilius-Vorlesungen, Universität Heidelberg

Wisely Engineering Shared Ecosystems: Leveraging gene drive to ensure open and community-responsive genetic engineering research …

Thursday
June 1, 2017
4:00pm ET
Project

Using Shadows to See Behind Objects

The full text of our paper is available here.Sometimes the thing that we want to see is hidden behind something else. A neighboring vehicl…

Publication

The Future of WIC: EBT and Beyond

S. Blumenthal, E. Yang, H. England, J. Loyo, K. Horton, W. Willett, The Future of WIC: EBT and Beyond, Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, Volume 118, Issue 9, Supplement, 2018, Page A69, ISSN 2212-2672.

Gallery

Explore Moon Architecture Workshop Digital FUTURES

Explore Moon ArchitectureWorkshop @Digital FUTURESNASA’s Artemis Program is envisioning a plan to drive humanity to live on our closest cel…

Publication

Agonist-antagonist Muscle Strain in the Residual Limb Preserves Motor Control and Perception after Amputation

Song H, Israel EA, Gutierrez-Arango S, Teng AC, Srinivasan SS, Freed LE, Herr HM. Agonist-antagonist Muscle Strain in the Residual Limb Preserves Motor Control and Perception after Amputation. Communication Medicine (Lond). 2022 Aug 5;2:97. doi: 0.1038/s43856-022-00162-z PMID35942078; PMC9356003 2022 (Publisher Correction 2022 Sep 26;2:121. doi: 10.1038/s43856-022-00188-3).

Event

IRCAM + Media Lab Meeting 2026

IRCAM + Media Lab researchers, artists and developers showcase AI for music, creativity, performance and visualization.

Monday — Tuesday
July 6, 2026 —
July 7, 2026
Event

Media Lab Immersion Session @ Sant Pau

 ********We have reached capacity and are unable to accept any further applications at this time. Thank you very much for your interes…

Friday
April 17, 2026
Publication

SynthAX: A Fast Modular Synthesizer in JAX

Cherep*, M., & Singh*, N. (2023, May). SynthAX: A Fast Modular Synthesizer in JAX. In Audio Engineering Society Convention 155. Audio Engineering Society.

Publication

MirrorFugue: Communicating Presence in Remote Music Collaboration

Xiao, X. "MirrorFugue: Communicating Presence in Remote Music Collaboration"

Article

Professor Deblina Sarkar discusses research breakthrough that could reinvent treatment for brain disease

Deblina Sarkar talks to CNN News18 about her recent research on "circulatronics."

Publication

The Fintech Bubble

June 14, 2016.

Event

Media Lab Immersion Session @ Osaka, Japan

Thank you all for your outstanding contributions to the success of the event. We truly appreciated the opportunity to work alongside you an…

Tuesday
January 27, 2026
Publication

Zero-Shot Transfer Learning to Enhance Communication for Minimally Verbal Individuals with Autism using Naturalistic Data

Narain, J.*, Johnson, K.T.*, Picard, R.W., Maes, P. "Zero-Shot Transfer Learning to Enhance Communication for Minimally Verbal Individuals with Autism using Naturalistic Data," NeurIPS Workshop on AI for Social Good, December 2019. (*Co-first authors/Equal contribution)

Publication

"Hey Google is it OK if I eat you?" Initial Explorations in Child-Agent Interactions

Stefania Druga, Randi Williams, Cynthia Breazeal, and Mitchel Resnick. 2017. "Hey Google is it OK if I eat you?": Initial Explorations in Child-Agent Interaction. In Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Interaction Design and Children (IDC '17). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 595-600. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3078072.3084330

Publication

Fascia Ecosystem: A Step Forward in Sleep Engineering and Research

Bernal, Guillermo, Malika Chhibber, Mradul Bhatnagar, Urvil Jivani, Nelson Hidalgo, Anthony Levasseur, and Pattie Maes. 2023. Fascia Ecosystem: A Step Forward in Sleep Engineering and Research. 45th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC’23), no. Sydney Australia, (July )

Gallery

Day of AI 2023: Photo gallery

View photos from the Day of AI event this year, which happened on May 18.

Publication

QTY code designed thermostable and water-soluble chimeric chemokine receptors with tunable ligand affinity

Rui Qing, Qiuyi Han, Michael Skuhersky, Haeyoon Chung, Myriam Badr, View ORCID ProfileThomas Schubert, and Shuguang Zhang. PNAS first published November 27, 2019 (https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1909026116). Edited by Alan R. Fersht, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom, and approved October 30, 2019 (received for review May 24, 2019).