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MAS.S64 Real-world Evaluation of Artificial Intelligence and Genome Editing Technologies - Fall 2020 Online CourseWhen: Tuesdays, 3-...
Advancing justice in Earth's complex systems using designs enabled by space
A new study by researchers from the Personal Robots group and collaborators assesses how families interact with voice-user interfaces.
Advancing human wellbeing by developing new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion
Technical summary: Future of clinical development is on the verge of a major transformation due to convergence of large new digital data ...
Looking beyond smart cities
Enhancing human physical capability
Promoting deeper learning and understanding in human networks
Deb Roy talks to McKinsey about the many ways audience, voice, and medium combine to create compelling stories.
Extending expression, learning, and health through innovations in musical composition, performance, and participation
The more social behaviors a voice-user interface exhibits, the more likely people are to trust it, engage with it, and think it competent.
Designing Systems for Cognitive Support
Research studies led by Dr. Shah, in collaboration with the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA), have develo...
Research studies led by Dr. Shah in his laboratory have created new paradigms for using low-cost images captured using simple optica...
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General OverviewStaining of tissues sections using chemical and biological dyes has been used for over a century for visualizing various ...
Technical summaryUnstructured learning problems without well-defined rewards are unsuitable for current reinforcement learning (RL) appro...
Staining of tissues sections using chemical and biological dyes has been used for over a century for visualizing various tissue types and...
PhD student Matt Groh speaks with Input Magazine’s Annie Rauwerda about his team's recent research on deepfake detection.
MIT scientists discuss the future of AI with applications across many sectors, as a tool that can be both beneficial and harmful.
Inventing, building, and deploying wireless sensor technologies to address complex problems in society, industry, and ecology
Seamlessly coupling the worlds of bits and atoms by giving dynamic physical form to digital information and computation
Creating scalable technologies that evolve with user inventiveness
Cultivating wisdom through evolutionary and ecological engineering
Building intelligent personified technologies that collaborate with people to help them learn, thrive, and flourish.
Engineering at the limits of complexity with molecular-scale parts
Exploring the essence of code as a creative medium
Making the invisible visible–inside our bodies, around us, and beyond–for health, work, and connection
“Us” aims to help people develop their sense of empathy. It uses machine learning to analyze interlocutors’ signals (e.g., tone of voice,...
How do you spot a DeepFake? How good are DeepFake videos? How well can ordinary people tell the difference between a video manipulated by...
Member company Dentsu and the Affective Computing research group have been collaborating on a research project to use smartphone and...
Researchers encourage positive use cases of AI-generated characters for education and well-being.
Advancements in machine learning have recently enabled the hyper-realistic synthesis of prose, images, audio and video data, in what is r...
SynopsisThe class will cover a wide range of perspectives on deepfakes, from their historical ancestors through their philosophical under...
Our body and mind relate in ways which are extraordinarily enigmatic and seemingly incomprehensible. Recent findings exemplify this by sh...
Pataranutaporn, P., Danry, V., Leong, J. et al. AI-generated characters for supporting personalized learning and well-being. Nat Mach Intell (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s42256-021-00417-9
OverviewResearch efforts in social human-robot interactions (HRI) have been mainly targeted at a single-person interacting with a single ...
InspirationSleep is a forgotten country of the mind. A vast majority of our technologies are built for our waking state, even though a th...
Engaging people in creative learning experiences
Spinoff DeepCure, co-founded by Molecular Machines head Joe Jacobson and alumni Kfir Schreiber and Thrasyvoulos Karydis, raised $40 million
An exploration of how advances in deep learning and generative models can be used to help us synthesize our ideas.
Named Human Rights & Technology Fellow by MIT Center for International Studies, and a Rising Star by UChicago Center for Data & Computing.
A database of community conversations in various Boston neighborhoods launches publicly on Monday.
Today’s assistive communication devices are far from perfect. Using state of the art small, wearable sensors and powerful machine learnin...
New generative AI technologies (such as the Generative Adversarial Network, or GAN) can allow us to imagine new species. Hidden within th...
Charlene Xia is a Media Lab alum now pursuing a PhD in MIT Mechanical Engineering, combining her passions for food and sustainability.
Artificial intelligence is top-of-mind as Governor Baker, President Reif encourage students to “see yourself in STEM.”
Different approaches and models have been used to detect driver’s stress and affective states, using physiology, facial expression, and s...
Pataranutaporn, Pat, Valdemar Danry, and Pattie Maes. "Machinoia, Machine of Multiple Me: Integrating with Past, Future and Alternative Selves." Extended Abstracts of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. 2021.
Humans can accurately sense the position, speed, and torque of their limbs, even with their eyes shut. This sense, known as proprioceptio...
What is ELSA?ELSA is an AI-powered chatbot that acts as an empathetic companion, encouraging users to talk about their day through a form...
WiStress is a system that can monitor a user’s stress passively using wireless signals. WiStress can be installed on a desk or near a cou...
Swarms of robots will revolutionize many applications, from targeted material delivery to farming. However, the characteristics that make...
Tara Boroushaki, Isaac Perper, Mergen Nachin, Alberto Rodriguez, Fadel Adib. "RFusion: Robotic Grasping via RF-Visual Sensing and Learning." ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems 2021.
RFusion is a robotic system that can search for and retrieve items in line-of-sight, non-line-of-sight, and fully occluded settings. It c...
By leveraging algorithms and unorthodox data sources, an MIT researcher has made Valencia a Covid-19 data pioneer
Jiang, Hang, Sairam Gurajada, Qiuhao Lu, Sumit Neelam, Lucian Popa, Prithviraj Sen, Yunyao Li, and Alexander Gray. "LNN-EL: A Neuro-Symbolic Approach to Short-text Entity Linking." ACL (2021).
Figur8, founded by alum Nan-Wei Gong, offers a wearable sensor system to improve the diagnosis and treatment of muscle injuries.
Neil Gaikwad, a PhD student in the Media Lab's Space Enabled research group, has received the GSC Graduate Teaching Award, an Institute A...
Neil Gaikwad, a PhD student in the Space Enabled research group, has been selected as one of the 2019 Facebook Fellows.
In this new show, AI artist Harshit Agrawal uses machine intelligence to talk about social justice and empathy.
John Ellis talks to Affective Computing head Rosalind Picard about making AI and computers more emotionally intelligent.
Fluid Interfaces head Pattie Maes and researcher Pat Pataranutaporn discuss the ethical implications of deepfake technology.
Pattie Maes talks about optimizing technology to be used by people, through fluid, interactive, immersive, and wearable systems.
MIT Center for Constructive Communication