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Make a gift to the MIT Media Lab

Your gift makes it possible for our diverse and unique community to do our work—every day.By giving to one of the funds below, you become a…

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GIFGIF

An animated GIF is a magical thing. It has the power to compactly convey emotion, empathy, and context in a subtle way that text or emotico…

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Predicting perceived emotions in animated GIFs with 3D convolutional neural networks

Animated GIFs are widely used on the Internet to express emotions, but automatic analysis of their content is largely …

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Danielle Wood Speaks on Trillion Pixel Challenge Panel

Danielle Wood will speak at “Session 6: Collaborations and Community Engagements."

Thursday
April 22, 2021
2:15pm ET
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Gifts for intertwining with modern nature

Jay Silver, Eric Rosenbaum

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Hiroshi Ishii at Boston CHI - Making Digital Tangible: The Battle Against the Pixel Empire

ABSTRACTToday's mainstream Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) research primarily addresses functional concerns – the needs of users, practica…

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Alana gift to MIT launches Down syndrome research center, technology program for disabilities

Foundation’s $28.6 million gift will fund science, innovation, and education to advance understanding, ability, and inclusion.

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New Bionics Center Established at MIT with $24 Million Gift

The center is funded by a $24 million gift to MIT’s McGovern Institute for Brain Research from philanthropist Lisa Yang.

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Efficient lensless imaging with a femto-pixel

Lensless imaging with compressive ultrafast sensingTraditional cameras require a lens and a mega-pixel sensor to capture images. The lens f…

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How Internet Connects Us, Gift of Failure, Meet the Producers

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#30 Urban Pixels

Sept. 29, 2008
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The best books of 2021 - New Scientist's Christmas gift guide

Explore New Scientist's best books of 2021, including Labber Kate Darling’s The New Breed.

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Imaging in 3P: The Physical Pixel Project

Imagine holding an animated pixel in the palm of your hand. What could you create with physical pixels that fit together like children's bl…

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Self-Organized Pixellated Vibrotactile Input-Output Device

We are investigating a novel pixellated vibrotactile device based on the hardware and software infrastructure developed in previous MLE-UL …

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These MIT Researchers Want to Turn GIFs Into a Language

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Liberated Pixels: Alternative Narratives for Lighting Future Cities

Seitinger, S. "Liberated Pixels: Alternative Narratives for Lighting Future Cities"

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Tangible Bits: Beyond Pixels

Hiroshi Ishii

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Customizing time of flight modulation codes to resolve mixed pixels

A Kadambi, R Whyte, A Bhandari, L Streeter, C Barsi, A Dorrington, Ramesh Raskar

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Radical Atoms: Beyond the "Pixel Empire"

To achieve your goals, Hiroshi Ishii says, you must continuously stand out like the proverbial nail regardless of how many times you are ha…

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Emancipated Pixels: Real-World Graphics in the Luminous Room

Underkoffler, J Ullmer, B., and Ishii, H.

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Travis Rich

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Kevin Zeng Hu

Former Research Assistant

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Sparse linear operator identification without sparse regularization? applications to mixed pixel problem in time-of-flight/range imaging

Ayush Bhandari, Achuta Kadambi, Ramesh Raskar

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Entering the pixels at the Creators Project

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Weixuan 'Vincent' Chen

Former Research Assistant

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Susanne Seitinger

Former Research Affiliate

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Guy Satat

Former Research Assistant

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Micha Feigin-Almon

Former Postdoctoral Associate

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Michael J. Hawley

Former Research Scientist

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Alumni + friends

As scholars and innovators, we build on the contributions of those who came before us, and the generosity of our alumni and friends extends…

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Nikhil Naik

Former Research Assistant

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Reviving Design by Numbers (1999): A Technical Writeup

 Recreating John Maeda's "Design By Numbers" programming environment in JavaScript Try Online    |    GitHub

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AR Animation Tool

 Making 3D aniation easier by utilizing mobile AR, enabling manipulation of spatial objects using a spatial interface.

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$27M Gift Establishes New Center for Future Children

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Ramesh Raskar

Associate Professor of Media Arts and Sciences

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Refraction - Using computation to control caustics

This project explores a computational method to create controlled cuastics. I experiment with a process to transform pixels into caustic im…

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RoboScope

RoboScope is a transformable, tangible-interface developed for the CityScope platform. This interface allows for on-demand, three-dime…

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Andrew Lippman

Senior Research Scientist

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Computational Knitting Patterns

​This project explores a few computational approaches to use the shape of a knitted garment as input for its pattern.This experiment combin…

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Cesar A. Hidalgo

Former Research Scientist

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In memory: Carson Reynolds

Carson Reynolds | In Memory | (1976-2013)On July 4, 2013 the Media Lab lost a long-time member of our community with the passing of Car…

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Exploring the connections between Claude Shannon, Jean Piaget, and children's hundred languages through an experimental paradigm.

Dhariwal Manuj, "An experimental and theoretical tool for studying the language of geometric concepts" master's thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018, https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/120899

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MIT Morningside Academy for Design created as a new hub for cross-disciplinary education, research, and innovation

Supported by a $100 million founding gift, the academy will deepen the integration of design across the Institute and beyond.

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Connectibles: Tangible Social Networking

Kalanithi, J. "Connectibles: Tangible Social Networking"

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Connectibles: Tangible Social Networks

J. J. Kalanithi, V. Michael Bove, Jr.

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Thinking Cap study

Looking for children between 8-12 years old for a study on improving self-esteem.

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T-VOKS: The singing and speaking theremin

Xiao Xiao performs La Vie En Rose and a Tang Dynasty poem on the theremin at New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME).

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Kinected Conference: Augmenting Video: Imaging with Calibrated Depth and Audio

Anthony DeVincenzi, Lining Yao, Hiroshi Ishii, and Ramesh Raskar. 2011. "Kinected Conference: Augmenting Video Imaging with Calibrated Depth and Audio." In Proceedings of the ACM 2011 conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW ’11). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 621–624. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/1958824.1958929

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Femtosecond Time Resolved Computational Imaging

Kirmani, A. "Femtosecond Time Resolved Computational Imaging"

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Optical design and characterization of an advanced computational imaging system

Hamilton Shepard, Christy Fernandez-Cull, Hang Zhao, Boxin Shi, Christopher Barsi, Ramesh Raskar

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Compressive Light Field Displays

G Wetzstein, D Lanman, M Hirsch, W Heidrich, R Raskar

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3DKnITS Gallery

Our digital knitting approach enables the fabrication of 2D to 3D pressure-sensitive textile interiors and wearables

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Pattie Maes named to the Germeshausen Professorship

Pattie Maes has been recently named to the Germeshausen Professorship—an MIT faculty chair supported by the Germeshausen Foundation.

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Microsoft Azure Kinect for a Lunar Environment

The Microsoft Azure Kinect is a commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) time-of-flight (ToF) depth camera which can provide high resolution near-fi…

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Collective Learning

The MIT Media Lab’s Collective Learning group is no longer active. This site provides background on some of the people and projects that we…

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What can we learn from predicting shadows?

By predicting sparse shadow cues, our physics-inspired machine learning algorithm can reconstruct the underlying 3D scene. Abstract. W…

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Automated end-to-end deep learning framework for classification and tumor localization from native nonstained pathology images

Akram Bayat, Connor Anderson and Pratik Shah. "Automated end-to-end deep learning framework for classification and tumor localization from native nonstained pathology images," Proc. SPIE 11596, Medical Imaging 2021: Image Processing, 115960A (15 February 2021); doi: 10.1117/12.2582303

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Lensless Imaging with Compressive Ultrafast Sensing

Guy Satat, Matthew Tancik, Ramesh Raskar 10.1109/TCI.2017.2684624

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Soft Robotics Podcast | Hugh Herr: "Bionics"

Biomechatronics group head Hugh Herr speaks with Marwa ElDiwiny on a recent episode of the IEEE RAS Soft Robotics podcast.