E14 Venture Summit celebrates the diversity of spinoff companies from the Media Lab.
McKinsey & Co. and LSM ask: Can we understand, and even predict, the relationship between video story content and audience consumption?
Revisit Human 2.0, a 2007 Media Lab symposium focused on the future of human adaptability.
Plus: A big overview of all the research that we have so far.
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The spread of misinformation on social media is an alarming phenomenon that scientists have yet to fully understand. While the data show ...
An AI algorithm can predict which parts of a film will generate the greatest emotional responses in audiences.
Helping readers slow down, ask questions, and find reasoned opposing views may foster civil discourse online
New research can predict how plots, images, and music affect your emotions while watching a movie.
Computers don’t cry during sad stories, but they can tell when we will.
Artificial intelligence (AI) may not be ready to write the next blockbuster movie, but a team of AI researchers from the Massachuset...
At EmTech 2017, Deb Roy discusses how insights gained from big data and machine learning can help us monitor the social impact of new tec...
Education, Technology, Equity: Nichole Pinkard and Deb Roy in conversation with J. Philipp Schmidt.
One wallet becomes more difficult to open as its owner’s bank account runs low on money; another wallet swells and shrinks, depending on ...
In case you hadn’t noticed, early voting is a thing this year. It’s been underway in some states for weeks ahead of Election Day. And lik...
Q&A: How Twitter explains the 2016 election