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Patrick Chwalek + Jocelyn Shen receive Harold Horowitz (1951) Student Research Fund awards

Award recipients are selected based on their academic achievements and dedication to their graduate research works.

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MIT Arts Startup Incubator finalist: Hex House

Hex House was co-founded by Char Stiles, a master's student in the Future Sketches research group.

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Caitlin Morris among 2024 cohort of MIT MAD Design Fellows

Caitlin is an artist, researcher, and educator creating and researching around themes of perception and the human-environment relationship.

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Three Media Lab papers selected for honorable mentions at CHI 2024

Authors include researchers from the Fluid Interfaces, Future Sketches, and Tangible Media research groups.

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Sharif Islam Named 2024 IAF Emerging Space Leader

Dr. Sharif Islam was selected as a 2024 IAF Emerging Space Leader.

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Samantha Gutierrez-Arango selected for 2024 MIT RISE Unsung Hero Award

Recipients of this award have shown commitment and passion for the community regardless of leadership position.

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Camera Culture students selected for National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program (NSF-GRFP)

They've been selected as Fellows in the fields of Machine Learning and Computer Vision.

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Illuminate named 2024 Webby Award honoree

Illuminate was featured in the AI, Metaverse + Virtual: Best Installation or Experience category.

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Tangible Media paper most cited of ACM SIGCHI

The paper authored by Professor Hiroshi Ishii and Brygg Ullmer is from CHI '97.

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The Digital Currency Initiative at the Media Lab will collaborate with Deutsche Bundesbank on central bank digital currency (CBDC) research

The collaboration will focus on privacy-preserving designs.

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"AI comes out of the closet" seeks to merge AI and LGBTQIA+ advocacy in a way as innovative as it is necessary

This research shows how AI can support LGBTQIA+ advocacy, how technology might help create a more accepting + understanding society.

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Ufuoma Ovienmhada Publishes Paper on "Perspectives from Anti-Prison Community Organizers on the Uses of Geospatial Data"

Ufuoma Ovienmhada, Ahmed Diongue, and Danielle Wood publish paper on perspectives from anti-prison community organizers on geospatial data.

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Danielle Wood and Co-Authors Publish Paper on Space Technology and Sustainable Development Goals

"Challenges and progress in applying space technology in support of the sustainable development goals."

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Danielle Wood Speaks at New Space Africa 2024

The US Department of Commerce invited Wood to speak at New Space Africa about Space Enabled's NASA-funded Angola drought project.

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Fadel Adib named Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum

Fadel Adib has been named a Young Global Leader (YGL) by the World Economic Forum. The Forum announced the 2024 YGL cohort today, reco…

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MIT AI for Filmmaking Hackathon 2024: A Leap Forward in Creative Innovation

The second iteration of this hackathon featured 66 films and 400 participants from local institutions, other states, and countries.

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Spring Meeting 2024 Attendees

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Xin Liu wins inaugural K11 Artist Prize

Liu was selected from eight shortlisted artists for her work bridging art and science.

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Media Lab Spinoffs make Fast Company's 2024 World's Most Innovative Companies list

The following spinoffs were recognized in different industry sectors.

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Imagine what we can become.

Every day we imagine, design, and build transformative technologies, experiences, and systems—enabling everyone to thrive.

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Personal Robots researchers win Best Paper at HRI 2024

Their paper won the award in the Theory + Methods category.

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New England Journal of Medicine Series: Wearable Digital Health Technologies

Researchers in the Affective Computing group have been invited to edit a series of articles in the New England Journal of Medicine.

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Max Addae wins first place in the 2024 Guthman Musical Instrument Competition

Addae received the award for VocalCords, which was developed as part of his master's thesis at the Media Lab.

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Praneeth Vepakomma named as ADIA Lab research fellow

The Abu Dhabi Investment Authority Lab aims to encourage multidisciplinary collaboration and solve large-scale, complex problems.

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Deblina Sarkar receives Nanomaterials Young Investigator Award

Deblina Sarkar is one of three researchers worldwide to receive the Nanomaterials Young Investigator Award for 2023

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MIT Media Lab 40th Anniversary Drive: 40 for 40

The 40 for 40 Drive celebrates the MIT Media Lab's 40th anniversary in 2025, aiming to secure $40 million in additional support by the end …

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Ufuoma Ovienmhada Publishes Review paper on Environmental Justice Review and satellite data

Ufuoma Ovienmhada publishes "Satellite data for environmental justice: a scoping review of the literature in the United States."

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Minoo Rathnasabapathy and Danielle Wood Publish Paper on Emerging Space Nations and Space Sustainability

Dr. Minoo Rathnasabapathy and Prof. Danielle Wood recently published "Role of emerging nations in ensuring long-term space sustainability."

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BBC Woman's Hour podcast speaks with Dr. Dagdeviren on her wearable ultrasound bra developed at the Media Lab

On BBC Woman's Hour, Professor Canan Dagdeviren talks to host Emma Barnett about the wearable ultrasound scanner developed in the Media Lab…

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Prelude to a new era of bionics

Through a paper in Nature Reviews Bioengineering, researchers delve into mechanoneural interfaces, a new paradigm for bionic integration.

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Alessandra Davy-Falconi wins 2024 MIT Excellence Award

The award acknowledges the extraordinary efforts made by members of the MIT community.

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Danielle Wood featured on Science Friday

Danielle Wood spoke on NPR's Science Friday about space law and other topics.

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Danielle Wood and collaborators at IPN in Mexico publish paper on satellite data to map urban sprawl

In IEEE Latin America Transactions, "Assessing Human Settlement Sprawl in Mexico via Remote Sensing and Deep Learning."

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Danielle Wood Speaks at AAAS 2024

Prof. Danielle Wood spoke as an invited lecturer at the American Association for the Advancement of Science’s annual meeting.

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Danielle Wood co-hosts Space Traffic Management Conference at UT Austin

Danielle Wood co-hosts the Space Traffic Management Conference, themed around "Inflection Points of Change: Civil, Commercial & Security."

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Ufuoma Ovienmhada chosen for Agents of Change in Environmental Justice Program

PhD candidate Ufuoma Ovienmhada was chosen as one of 2024's cohort of the Agents of Change in Environmental Justice program.

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MIT Media Lab + PwC Emerging Tech Exchange 2024

Pioneering Sustainable Futures and Human-Centric TechnologiesThrough our Future Worlds Research Theme and work being done at our Space Expl…

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Neil Gaikwad Accepted to Future Leaders Summit 2024

PhD candidate Neil Gaikwad was recently accepted to the MIDAS Future Leaders Summit.

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GFI Partners + the MIT Media Lab

At the MIT Media Lab, we imagine, design, and invent a future filled with possibilities giving everyone the opportunity to thrive…

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Day 9 - Returning to the Volcano Where it all Began

On our final day of fieldwork in Lanzarote we returned to Monte Corona and back down again to the lava tube Cueva de la Paloma, our ma…

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Day 8 - La Graciosa

On Sunday, February 18th we visited La Graciosa, another volcanic island on the Canary Islands, a Spanish archipelago.&…

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Day 7 - Local culture and recharge

After a very full week of intense research and field work, we were all ready for some downtime to go through the data we'd collected, asses…

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Day 6 - Karman Vortex Lanzarote

On day 6 we got a chance to come back to Jameo de la Puerta Falsa to recover more data and scans of the lava tube, as well as to do some sc…

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Celebrating Black History Month 2024

Explore these events and resources to see how you can celebrate Black History this month and every month.

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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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Day 5 - Vines in Volcanos

Our fifth day in Lanzarote was our biggest data collection day.

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Member Collaboration Spotlight

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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) about Media Lab membership

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Day 4 - Timanfaya and the Cueva de los Verdes Lava Tube

Today we got to know the most recent geologic history of the island while visiting Timanfaya National Park.

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Day 3 - First Lava Tube: Cueva de la Paloma

This morning we entered and explored our first lava tube at Cueva de la Paloma.

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MORF FORM

MORF FORM is a knitted animation piece on display at the Future Sketches room at ARTECHOUSE in Miami Beach.

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Day 2 - Permits and field school

Our second day, though not the most exciting in imagery and data, was critical for the success of the expedition.

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MIT Media Lab Impact Report 2023

​​​I am thrilled to present the MIT Media Lab Impact Report 2023-2024. This document is a testament to the pioneering spirit and collaborat…

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Day 1 - Arrival

The team packed up the truck and departed the Media Lab for the airport on Saturday afternoon.  Flying through Madrid, we arrived in L…

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Preparing for Lanzarote

Leading up to our departure the team tested all our hardware to make sure that it all works in the lab before exposing it to the more rugge…

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NanoBio Seminar Series Spring '24

NanoBio Seminar Series Spring'24Timings : 1 pm ETPlease use this zoom link for joining the webinar.For a list of all talks at the…