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RetroGAN

We developed a CycleGAN based system to learn retrofitting mappings for word embeddings. The purpose of the system is that it generalizes...
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Deep Relationship Discovery

Relationship discovery between two entities is a problem that has to be addressed when constructing a Knowledge Base (KB). A solutio...
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Sculpting Evolution

Cultivating wisdom through evolutionary and ecological engineering
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Scratch + Civic Engagement

Facilitating opportunities for non-dominant youth to learn how to use technology as a tool to engage civically, and create positive chang...
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Opera of the Future

Extending expression, learning, and health through innovations in musical composition, performance, and participation
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Migratable AI

We live in a world of personified conversational assistants (agents). We interact with these agents in our daily lives such as smart spea...
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Gender Affirming Makeup

What if we could leverage technology and modern cosmetics for good? To empower people to explore identities? To give anyone, regardless o...
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Looking Through the Piano

Looking Through the Piano is a project created to visualize all of the past projects from the Opera of the Future group. The piano acts a...
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Fukushima 2100

“[The wild boars] look at me like I am a visitor. It's like they’re the owners and I’m the guest. Wild animals that normally live in natu...
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El Poema de la Fabrica Cósmica

This sonic rite consists on a listening session of the performance of the place, guided by the Para-Cantora, a sonic device that acts as ...
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NewsMaker

NewsMaker decouples news snippets from multiple news sources, and challenges you to re-create an objective news article using them. Once ...
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Media Lab Startup Showcase

Wednesday October 235:00-6:00pm
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Bubble: Wearable assistive grasping augmentation based on soft inflatables

Bubble is a pneumatically actuated wearable system that enables people with handdisabilities to use their own hands to grasp objects with...
Publication Research

Bubble: Wearable Assistive Grasping Augmentation Based on Soft Inflatables

Xinlei Zhang, Ali Shtarbanov, Jiani Zeng, Valerie K. Chen, V. Michael Bove, Pattie Maes, and Jun Rekimoto. 2019. Bubble: Wearable Assistive Grasping Augmentation Based on Soft Inflatables. In Extended Abstracts of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA '19). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Paper LBW2313, 6 pages. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3290607.3312868
Article Research

Educators gather for first Scratch Africa Conference

Educators from across Africa are gathering in Nairobi, Kenya for the first Scratch Africa Conference.
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Wave Bubble

In a high-population-density city, inhabitants must be prepared to defend their own personal space. Technologies that increase personal p...
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New method visualizes groups of neurons as they compute

Fluorescent probe could allow scientists to watch circuits within the brain and link their activity to specific behaviors.
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Workshops: Tuesday, October 22

TuesdayOctober 22, 20193:30pm - 5:00pmFall 2019 Member MeetingWorkshops: Tuesday, October 22The MIT Media Lab fall 2019 member meeting is...
Sept. 3, 2019
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AttentivU

[Update 09/12/2019: This project has two open positions for UROPs/visiting students or interns. One position focuses around electrical en...
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Publications up to 2019

2019 Bianca Datta, Sundeep Jolly, and V. Michael Bove, Jr., "Towards inverse design of biomimetic nanostructuresexhibiting composite str...
Publication Research

Wearable Lab on Body: Combining Sensing of Biochemical and Digital Markers in a Wearable Device

P. Pataranutaporn, A. Jain, C. M. Johnson, P. Shah and P. Maes, "Wearable Lab on Body: Combining Sensing of Biochemical and Digital Markers in a Wearable Device," 2019 41st Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), Berlin, Germany, 2019, pp. 3327-3332. doi: 10.1109/EMBC.2019.8857479
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AttentivU: Towards Improved Wellbeing in the Car

Several research projects have recently explored the use of physiological sensors such as electroencephalography (EEG - brain activity) o...
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Thinking Cap

Peoples' mindsets, meaning their beliefs about their own intellectual abilities, affect their effort and thereby their performance on tas...
Publication Research

AttentivU: a Biofeedback Device to Monitor and Improve Engagement in the Workplace

Nataliya Kosmyna, Pattie Maes. 2019. AttentivU: a Biofeedback Device to Monitor and Improve Engagement in the Workplace. In the 41st International Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference, Berlin, Germany, July 23-27.
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Agenda: Wednesday, October 23

Fall 2019 Member MeetingAgenda: Wednesday, October 23Attendance at this event is by invitation only.Unable to join us in person?&nbs...
Sept. 3, 2019
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AlterEgo

AlterEgo is a  non-invasive, wearable, peripheral neural interface that allows humans to converse in natural language with mach...
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Media Timelines: Understanding the future by studying the past

The world wide web was conceived 30 years ago. What will internet media look like after another 30 years? Should we expect it to be mostl...
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Tidmarsh Living Observatory Portal

The Tidmarsh Living Observatory Portal is a research project that focuses on the design and fabrication of a pavilion that will gene...
Article Research

How that giant homemade modular synth wound up at MIT

Joe Paradiso talks about making music, collaborating with students (and with the internet), and his massive modular synthesizer.
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BBC 100 Women 2019: Who is on the list this year?

Meet 100 inspiring, influential women from around the world, including Labbers Ayah Bdeir and Rana el Kaliouby.
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CEE: Color Expanse Examination

​The CEE (Color Expanse Examination) system is an explorative approach to evaluating human color acuity. Color perception is shaped and a...
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Agenda: Thursday, October 24

Fall 2019 Member MeetingAgenda: Thursday, October 24Attendance at this event is by invitation only.Unable to join us in person? ...
Sept. 3, 2019
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Agenda: Tuesday, October 22

Fall 2019 Member MeetingAgenda: Tuesday, October 22Attendance at this event is by invitation only.Unable to join us in person? ...
Sept. 3, 2019
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City Science Lab Andorra

Andorra and the City Science research group at the MIT Media Lab are taking on the challenge of turning Andorra into an “Internationally ...
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Workshops: Wednesday, October 23

WednesdayOctober 23, 20193:30pm - 5:00pmFall 2019 Member MeetingWorkshops: Wednesday, October 23The MIT Media Lab fall 2019 member meetin...
Sept. 3, 2019
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Workshops: Thursday, October 24

ThursdayOctober 24, 20191:30pm - 3:00pmFall 2019 Member MeetingWorkshops: Thursday, October 24The MIT Media Lab fall 2019 member meeting ...
Sept. 3, 2019
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Fluid Interfaces

Designing systems for cognitive enhancement
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Neil Gaikwad chosen for 2019 INK Fellows Program for Emerging Innovators

Neil Gaikwad, a doctoral student at the Space Enabled research group,  has been chosen for the 2019 INK Fellowship Pr...
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An interpretable approach for social network formation among heterogeneous agents

Yuan, Yuan, Ahmad Alabdulkareem, and Alex Pentland. "An interpretable approach for social network formation among heterogeneous agents." Nature Communications 9.1 (2018): 4704.
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Mekatilili Fellowship Program

Mekatilili is a learning initiative that provides a platform for African youth to enhance technical skills through creative learning...