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Wiesner Gallery relaunched

Inaugural exhibition in the newly renovated space features work from 20 MIT Arts Scholars.

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Distributed and collaborative learning

Split Learning: Distributed deep learning without sharing raw dataAbstract: Can a server utilize deep learning models for training o...
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Open Agriculture (OpenAg)

Open Agriculture Initiative (OpenAg)
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Fluid Interfaces

Designing wearable systems for cognitive enhancement and personal development
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Nurturing creative thinking in school and work

Careers with STEM caught up with Mitch Resnick, the inventor of Scratch, in a wide-ranging Q&A.
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ML Learning

ML Learning
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City Science

Looking beyond smart cities
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Split learning for health: Distributed deep learning without sharing raw patient data

Split learning for health: Distributed deep learning without sharing raw patient data
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What the Boston school bus schedule can teach us about AI

AI tools can absolutely make systems more equitable and fair, but they won’t succeed without our help.
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Creative Learning in Brazil / Aprendizagem Criativa no Brasil

The Lemann Creative Learning Program is a collaboration between the MIT Media Lab and the Lemann Foundation to foster creative learning i...
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What the California wildfires can teach us about data sharing

The 2017 and 2018 fires in California were the air quality equivalent of the Daiichi nuclear disaster.
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Joi Ito's WIRED Ideas Column
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Desafio Aprendizagem Criativa Brasil 2019

ATENÇÃO: O formulário de inscrição já está disponível online. Confira os detalhes abaixo.----O Desafio Aprendizagem Criativa Brasil visa ...
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Conformable Decoders

Converting the patterns of nature and the human body into beneficial signals and energy
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Strangers, Voices, and Society

As part of its broader work around learning, this project is exploring both individualized and community-based models for promoting empat...
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The Universal Decay of Collective Memory and Attention

Collective memory and attention are sustained by two channels: oral communication (communicative memory) and the physical recording of in...
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AI Spirits

Media manipulation technologies have the power to vanish people from photographs. Yet their souls live on in the deep memory of these alg...
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The role of industry, occupation, and location-specific knowledge in the survival of new firms

How do regions acquire the knowledge they need to diversify their economic activities? How does the migration of workers among firms and ...
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Towards Personalized Medicine: The Evolution of Imperceptible Health-Care Technologies

Tasnim, F., Sadraei, A., Datta, B., Khan, M., Choi, K. Y., Sahasrabudhe, A., Vega Gálvez, T. A., Wicaksono, I., Rosello, O., Nunez-Lopez, C., Dagdeviren, C.†, Foresight, 20, 6, 589-601, 2018.
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The universal decay of collective memory and attention

Candia, Cristian and Jara-Figueroa, C. and Rodriguez-Sickert, Carlos and Barabási, Albert-László and Hidalgo, César A., Nature Human Behaviour, 2018, DOI:10.1038/s41562-018-0474-5
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The role of industry-specific, occupation-specific, and location-specific knowledge in the growth and survival of new firms

C. Jara-Figueroa, Bogang Jun, Edward L. Glaeser, and Cesar A. Hidalgo, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2018, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1800475115
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MIT "cyborg botany" researcher builds plant-robot hybrid called Elowan

Sareen is a research affiliate within the Fluid Interfaces group, and worked with lab founder Pattie Maes to develop the project.
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Part 1: Gene Drive; Part 2: Gene Drive and Local Drive

iBiology features two introductory classes from CRISPR expert Kevin Esvelt, head of the Media Lab's Sculpting Evolution group.
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Elowan in the news

A selection of recent press coverage on Elowan, a plant-robot hybrid designed by Harpreet Sareen and Pattie Maes.
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Schoenberg in Hollywood in the news

A selection of recent press coverage on Tod Machover's newest opera, Schoenberg in Hollywood.
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2018 Disobedience Award in the news

A selection of recent press coverage on the MIT Media Lab's second annual Disobedience Award ceremony.
Dec. 4, 2018
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Gene drive should be a nonprofit technology

Unlike a normal edit, gene drive systems could lastingly alter or suppress local or global populations of a target species.
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The Leafy Green Cyborgs Are Coming

While plants at first glance look like static things, they are in fact very busy transmitting bio-electrochemical signals.
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Elowan: A plant-robot hybrid

Elowan is a cybernetic lifeform, a plant in direct dialogue with a machine. Using its own internal electrical signals, the plant is inter...
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Dormio: Interfacing with dreams for creativity

Sleep is a forgotten country of the mind. A vast majority of our technologies are built for our waking state, even though a third of our ...
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Announcing the winners of the 2018 MIT Media Lab Disobedience Award

#MeToo and #MeTooSTEM leaders recognized with $250,000 award
Nov. 27, 2018
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Personal Robots

Building socially engaging robots and interactive technologies to help people live healthier lives, connect with others, and learn better
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Opportunity within the unknown: Amazing women making their mark in the South Africa space industry

BBQ magazine was fortunate to chat two remarkable women in the South African space industry—Carla Sharpe and Dr Minoo Rathnasabapathy
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This plant is a cyborg (and it might be the future of interfaces)

A Parsons and MIT researcher hooked up electrodes to a plant’s leaves to turn it into a robotic sensor.
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Cyborg houseplant can drive itself toward the light it craves

Introducing Elowan, a robot-plant hybrid designed by Harpreet Sareen and Pattie Maes, both from MIT Media Lab.
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Reaching tech's limit, YouTube phenom Jacob Collier seeks a human touch

As Collier gets ready to release his sophomore album, "Djesse," he's adding a new element to his musical world: other people.
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Skrin

Skrin is an exploration project on digitalized body skin surface using embedded electronics and prosthetics. Human skin is a means for pr...
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Managing a Lab

I would like to start with a mind-ingrained conversation at my 7th birthday party on the 4th of May, 1992, between my late grandfather an...
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Text Editor for Augmented Writing

We study augmentation of the creative writing process through a new text editor. This text editor presents short-length snippets from boo...
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ReflectOns: Mental Prostheses for Self-Reflection

ReflectOns are objects that help people think about their actions and change their behavior based on subtle, ambient nudges delivered at ...
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Wave Alchemy: Perception and Reminiscence of Expressive Moments through Waves

It's common for us to attach different emotions to each moment in our lives, but when we capture and interact with them, we are often con...
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Synaesthetic Recipes

This work explores a technological answer to the perennial question "What's for dinner?" Few of us know with great certainty the exact fo...
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xLink: Extensible Context Management Layer

The Context Manager is a generalized framework for connecting a variety of pervasive sensor technologies and output modalities to intelli...
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Taste Modeling and Forecasting

People's tastes are their systems of aesthetic judgment and preference. Taste systems are generative; understanding the tastes of friends...
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Desafio Aprendizagem Criativa Brasil 2018

ATENÇÃO: Saiu o resultado do Desafio Aprendizagem Criativa Brasil 2018! Clique aqui para conhecer os fellows e os projetos seleciona...
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Desafio Aprendizagem Criativa Brasil 2018 - Vídeo

Em maio de 2018, os fellows do Desafio Aprendizagem Criativa Brasil tiveram a oportunidade de conhecer o MIT, visitar instituições educac...
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PAL

PAL (Personalized Active Learner) is a wearable system with on-device machine learning to help users with real-time, perso...
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Human Dynamics

Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion
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My Deep Sea, My Backyard: Empowering nations to study the deep

The deep sea is the common heritage of all of humankind and we must all share in the responsibility to be good stewards of it.
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Multiple instance learning for credit risk assessment with transaction data

As the number of personal loan applications grows rapidly, credit risk assessment has become increasingly crucial to both practitioners a...
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Poetic Justice

Exploring new forms of social justice through art
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