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Randi Williams

Former Research Assistant
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Congratulations to everyone graduating in 2024!

We're so proud of everything you've accomplished here, and can't wait to see what you do next.
May 16, 2024
Article Research

AVID Open Access: Day of AI, with Randi Williams

On an episode of the Unpacking Education podcast, Randi Williams (a PhD student in the Personal Robots research group) talks Day of AI.
Article Research

Do scientists have superpowers?

Randi Williams, who is a PhD student in the Media Lab’s Personal Robots group, joins other talented scientists to talk about their careers.
Gallery Research

RAISE AI Playground Projects

Collection of AI projects built with the RAISE AI Playground.
Post Research

Personal Robots team wins Best Paper Award at the 2022 IEEE Visual Languages and Human-Centered Computing (VL/HCC) conference

Congratulations to Tejal Reddy, Randi Williams, and Professor Cynthia Breazeal!
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Randi Williams receives 2021 Curious Scientist Award at Cambridge Science Festival

This year, among student winners of the Challenge, Personal Robots PhD candidate Randi Williams was honored as the 2021 Curious Scientist.
Post Research

Career Girls Role Models

Watch the interviews conducted by Career Girls with Labbers Randi Williams, Jaleesa Trapp, Marian Muthui, and Alexis Hope.
Article Research

Career Girls Role Models: Randi Williams

Randi Williams talks about her work. Her advice to girls is never to be afraid to make yourself heard; your ideas are essential.
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Randi Williams named as 2021 Microsoft Research PhD Fellow

Randi Williams from the Personal Robots research group is among ten students who have received the Microsoft PhD Fellowship for 2021.
Post Research

RAISE AI Playground

AI blocks are a suite of drag-and-drop coding blocks that allow students to integrate AI engines into block-based programming projects.
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Celebrating Teaching Assistants in MAS

During these uncertain times, we would like to thank the Teaching Assistants that helped make the transition to remote teaching.
Article Research

New AI curriculum designed for middle school students

A new curriculum has been designed by MIT researchers and collaborators to teach middle school students about artificial intelligence.
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Lifelong Learners: Insights from an intergenerational initiative

We believe that knowledge belongs to everyone.
Feb. 11, 2020
Article Research

Bringing artificial intelligence and MIT to middle school classrooms

MIT researchers and collaborators have developed an open-source curriculum to teach young students about ethics and artificial intelligence.
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Randi Williams receives 2019 Unsung Hero Award

The Unsung Hero Award from the Office of Graduate Education recognizes students who have shown commitment and passion for the community.
Post Research

Media Lab research at CHI 2019

The following Media Lab groups and projects are represented at CHI 2019
Post Research

Agnes Cameron, Huili Chen, Devora Najjar, and Randi Williams honored as 2019 Graduate Women of Excellence

Congratulations to all of the honorees! We are so proud of you all.
Post Research

Announcing the 2019 LEGO Papert Fellows

The LEGO Papert Fellowships support three graduate students working at the intersection of creativity, play, learning, and new technology.
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PopBots: A Hands-on STEAM platform for the AI generation

PopBots are programmable, intelligent social robots that play with children to help them learn about AI.
Article Research

Teaching AI to preschoolers with Randi Williams

In the inaugural episode of the TWiML & AI Podcast’s Black in AI series, PhD student Randi Williams discusses her work with PopBots.
Gallery Research

PopBot Gallery

A series of images from the Preschool Oriented Programming (AI) curriculum. 
Article Research

Alexa: Don’t Let My 2-Year-Old Talk to You That Way

Children are using voice-activated technology at far younger ages than other devices, but some parents worry they’re picking up rude habits
Article Research

Should children form emotional bonds with robots?

When I brought the robot home from the Apple Store, I knew I was inviting a new kind of strangeness into our lives. My wife worried ab…
Article Research

Growing Up with Alexa

What will it do to kids to have digital butlers they can boss around?
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Kids, AI devices, and intelligent toys

What do children think about machines that think?