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Space Exploration Initiative

Space Exploration Initiative

#robotics #design #virtual reality +69 more
Article Research

MIT scholars awarded seed grants to probe the social implications of generative AI

The 27 finalists will explore the technology’s impact on democracy, education, sustainability, communications, and much more.

via MIT News · Sept. 18, 2023
in Media Lab Research Theme: Future Worlds · Media Lab Research Theme: Life with AI
#artificial intelligence #politics #social science +5 more
Research
Camera Culture

Making the invisible visible–inside our bodies, around us, and beyond–for health, work, and connection

#robotics #computer vision #human-computer interaction +45 more
Accepting Applicants
Research
Fluid Interfaces

Designing Systems for Cognitive Support

#robotics #design #virtual reality +40 more
Accepting Applicants
Research
Poetic Justice

Exploring new forms of social justice through art

#robotics #design #architecture +31 more
Not Accepting Applicants
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City Science

Looking beyond smart cities

#robotics #design #social networks +73 more
Accepting Applicants
Project Research

Photorythms: Interactive

​In this new adjacent implementation of Photorythms as an interactive art installation, members of the public are invited to sit in front o…

in Future Sketches · Media Lab Research Theme: Cultivating Creativity
Chelsi Cocking
#art #computer science #interactive
Project Research

Illuminate

What would it be like if we could see our movement? Illuminate (2023, Chelsi Alise Cocking) is an interactive art installation in whic…

in Future Sketches · Media Lab Research Theme: Cultivating Creativity
Chelsi Cocking
#design #human-computer interaction #art +2 more
Project Research

Photorythms

Photorythms: a computational art-based inquiry of portrait photographyPhotorythms investigates whether computational methods such as facial…

in Future Sketches · Media Lab Research Theme: Cultivating Creativity
Chelsi Cocking
#design #computer vision #art +2 more
Research
Lifelong Kindergarten

Engaging people in creative learning experiences

#design #human-computer interaction #art +32 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Research
Media Lab Research Theme: Life with AI

Life with AI | Designing the future of smart systems to improve the human experience

#robotics #design #human-computer interaction +63 more
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Media Lab Research Theme: Future Worlds

Future Worlds | Design and action for the future we want to live in

#robotics #design #social networks +74 more
Project Research

Theme | CityScope

City Science researchers are developing a slew of tangible and digital platforms dedicated to solving spatial design and urban planning cha…

in City Science · Media Lab Research Theme: Future Worlds · Media Lab Research Theme: Life with AI +1 more
Markus Elkatsha · Kent Larson +7 more
#design #computer vision #human-computer interaction +20 more
Project Research

TESSERAE: Self-Assembling Space Architecture

Overview: How will we build the coming generations of Space Architecture—the modules, space ships, and space stations that will enscon…

in Space Exploration Initiative · Media Lab Research Theme: Future Worlds
Ariel Ekblaw
#robotics #design #agriculture +12 more
Project Research

3DKnITS: Three-dimensional Knitted Intelligent Textile Sensor

Three-dimensional Digital Knitting of Intelligent Textile Sensor for Activity Recognition and Biomechanical MonitoringWe present an ap…

in Responsive Environments · Media Lab Research Theme: Life with AI · Media Lab Research Theme: Connected Mind + Body
Irmandy Wicaksono · Joseph A. Paradiso
#design #human-computer interaction #art +22 more
Project Research

OpenCBDC

ResearchTechnical Paper | Executive Summary | GitHubAboutIntroductionOpenCBDC is an open source project to engage in co…

in Digital Currency Initiative (DCI) · Media Lab Research Theme: Decentralized Society
Thaddeus Dryja · Alexander Jung +4 more
#banking and finance #civic technology #economy +2 more
Archived
Project Research

Drawing++ Workshop

Drawing++ Workshop: using drawing as a means of understanding computationIn this workshop participants explore computational concepts …

in Future Sketches · Media Lab Research Theme: Cultivating Creativity
Zach Lieberman · Chelsi Cocking
#design #art #learning + teaching +2 more
Archived
Project Research

Battery-free wireless underwater camera

More than 95% of the ocean has never been observed by humans, even though the ocean plays the largest role in the world's climate system, h…

in Signal Kinetics · Media Lab Research Theme: Future Worlds
Sayed Afzal · Waleed Akbar +5 more
#robotics #ecology #energy +10 more
Project Research

Dreaming through Code

Dreaming through Code Designing creative learning workshops for local organizations committed to introducing technology to kids in a n…

in Future Sketches · Lifelong Kindergarten · Media Lab Research Theme: Life with AI +1 more
Cecilé Sadler · Chelsi Cocking
#civic technology #learning + teaching #computer science +2 more
Project Research

FuseBot: RF-Visual Mechanical Search

FuseBot is a robotic system that can efficiently find and retrieve both RFID tagged and untagged target objects in line-of-sight, non-line-…

in Signal Kinetics · Media Lab Research Theme: Life with AI
Tara Boroushaki · Laura Dodds +2 more
#robotics #computer vision #health +6 more
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Signal Kinetics

Inventing, building, and deploying wireless sensor technologies to address complex problems in society, industry, and ecology

#robotics #virtual reality #computer vision +28 more
Accepting Applicants
Project Research

Blockchain: A new framework for robotic swarm systems

Swarms of robots will revolutionize many applications, from targeted material delivery to farming. However, the characteristics that make t…

in Human Dynamics · Media Lab Research Theme: Decentralized Society · Media Lab Research Theme: Life with AI
Alex 'Sandy' Pentland · Eduardo Castello Ferrer
#robotics #art #artificial intelligence +15 more
Project Research

Objects as Cameras

Press: - MIT News:  Using reflections to see the world from new points of view- TechXplore, EuropaPress, La Nacion …

in Camera Culture · Media Lab Research Theme: Life with AI
Kushagra Tiwary · Nikhil Behari +2 more
#robotics #computer vision #artificial intelligence +7 more
Archived
Project Research

Simulating Motion with Computation

​This project hosts a few experiments of 2D visualization of 3D moving processes.  All of the experiments relate to repeating, machine…

in Future Sketches · Media Lab Research Theme: Cultivating Creativity
Vera van de Seyp
#design #art #computer science
Archived
Archived
Project Research

SkeleText: Skeletonization of Typefaces

Have you ever needed a single-line font rather than an outline of a typeface? For instance in the use of digital fabrication processes such…

in Future Sketches · Media Lab Research Theme: Cultivating Creativity
Vera van de Seyp
#design #art #computer science
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Viral Communications

People and intelligent machines in a creative, symbiotic loop

#design #virtual reality #computer vision +45 more
Accepting Applicants
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Responsive Environments

Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks

#robotics #design #virtual reality +72 more
Not Accepting Applicants
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Affective Computing

Advancing human wellbeing by developing new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion

#robotics #design #social networks +58 more
Accepting Applicants
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Sculpting Evolution

Cultivating wisdom through evolutionary and ecological engineering

#robotics #design #social networks +41 more
Accepting Applicants
Project Research

👋 CoCo — A New Real-Time Co-Creative Platform for Young People

CoCo is a new live co-creative learning platform designed to empower educators to support young people in both physical and remote set…

in Lifelong Kindergarten · Media Lab Research Theme: Cultivating Creativity
Shruti Dhariwal · Manuj Dhariwal
#kids #learning + teaching #social science +6 more
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Digital Currency Initiative (DCI)

Digital Currency Initiative

#artificial intelligence #banking and finance #civic technology +20 more
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Human Dynamics

Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion

#robotics #design #social networks +77 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Gallery Research

Illuminate

Gallery of images of the interactive art installation: Illuminate.Artwork by Chelsi Alise Cocking of the Future Sketches group. Photography…

by Chelsi Cocking · July 31, 2023
in Future Sketches
#design #human-computer interaction #art +1 more
Article Research

Studies at the intersection of equity, computing, and education

“The work I’m doing is deeply rooted in the belief that you can plant seeds in people,” says graduate student Cecilé Sadler.

via MIT News · June 29, 2023
in Lifelong Kindergarten
#kids #learning + teaching #computer science +2 more
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Social Machines

Promoting deeper learning and understanding in human networks

#design #social networks #computer vision +50 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Article Research

MIT-Pillar AI Collective announces first seed grant recipients

Six teams conducting research in AI, data science, + machine learning receive funding for projects with potential commercial applications.

via MIT News · June 22, 2023
in Fluid Interfaces
#artificial intelligence #data #machine learning +1 more
Article Research

Day of AI curriculum meets the moment

Global participation in MIT RAISE’s free K-12 program more than doubles in its second year.

via MIT News · June 26, 2023
in RAISE
#human-computer interaction #artificial intelligence #government +12 more
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Tangible Media

Invent new tangible and embodied interactions that inspire and engage people

#robotics #design #virtual reality +63 more
Accepting Applicants
Article Research

CoCo: A real-time co-creative learning platform for young people

Media Lab PhD students Manuj Dhariwal + Shruti Dhariwal introduce a new paradigm of creative collaboration in digital learning environments

via MIT News · May 30, 2023
in Lifelong Kindergarten
#kids #learning + teaching #social science +4 more
Project Research

Detect DeepFakes: How to counteract misinformation created by AI

Participate in the experiment at https://detectfakes.media.mit.eduCheck out our publications in PNAS, a workshop at IJCAI, and pre-pri…

in Affective Computing
Aruna Sankaranarayanan · Matthew Groh +5 more
#human-computer interaction #artificial intelligence #data +7 more
Project Research

Scratch Online Community

Launched in 2007, the Scratch Online Community enables children, primarily between the ages of 8 and 16, to share interactive media such as…

in Lifelong Kindergarten
Eric Schilling · Christan Balch +3 more
#computer science
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Personal Robots

Building intelligent personified technologies that collaborate with people to help them learn, thrive, and flourish.

#robotics #design #virtual reality +72 more
Accepting Applicants
Article Research

Using reflections to see the world from new points of view

A new computer vision system turns any shiny object into a camera of sorts, enabling an observer to see around corners or beyond obstruction

via MIT News · May 10, 2023
in Camera Culture
#computer vision #artificial intelligence #sensors +5 more
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Opera of the Future

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

#multimodal representation #performance technologies #digital opera +67 more
Accepting Applicants
Archived
Project Research

Essence Wearables: Biometric Olfactory Interfaces for Day and Night

Human-computer interaction (HCI) has traditionally focused on designing and investigating interfaces that provide explicit visual, auditory…

in Fluid Interfaces
Judith Amores Fernandez
#design #virtual reality #human-computer interaction +18 more
Archived
Archived
Project Research

ScratchJr

ScratchJr makes coding accessible to younger children (ages 5-7), enabling them to program their own interactive stories, games, and animat…

in Lifelong Kindergarten
Chris Garrity · Andrew Sliwinski +3 more
#robotics #design #kids +4 more
Archived
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Beyond the Cradle

Beyond the Cradle

#robotics #design #architecture +10 more
Archived
Project Research

Paper Dreams

Paper Dreams explores how human creativity can be supported by artificial intelligence.Prior research on AI and creativity has primarily fo…

in Fluid Interfaces
Guillermo Bernal
#design #art #artificial intelligence +8 more
Archived
Article Research

Sensing with purpose

Fadel Adib uses wireless technologies to sense the world in new ways, addressing sweeping problems such as food insecurity + climate change

via MIT News · Jan. 24, 2023
in Signal Kinetics
#robotics #health #sensors +4 more
Article Research

Are brain implants the future of computing?

The Economist reports on the future of brain-computer interfaces, including work being done by researcher Nataliya Kosmyna.

via Youtube · Dec. 15, 2022
in Fluid Interfaces
#wearable computing #computer science #technology +1 more
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Future Sketches

Exploring the essence of code as a creative medium

#design #computer vision #human-computer interaction +19 more
Accepting Applicants
Archived
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Collective Learning

Transforming data into knowledge

#design #social networks #virtual reality +39 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Article Research

All the possibilities of the cleanroom

Jorg Scholvin talks to MIT News about his range of experiences at MIT, including current work as an assistant director at MIT.nano.

via MIT News · Dec. 8, 2022
in Synthetic Neurobiology
#neurobiology #computer science #engineering +1 more
Article Research

Brelyon secures $15 million for Ultra Reality immersive technology

Media Lab spinoff Brelyon has raised $15 million in Series A financing to accelerate development of headset-free immersive displays.

via Optics.org · Sept. 22, 2022
in Media Lab Spinoffs
#virtual reality #computer science #technology +2 more
Article Research

Amazon MARS 2022: Day 2 Keynote

Be inspired by Rohit Prasad, SVP and Head Scientist, Alexa AI, Amazon, Tye Brady, Chief Technologist, Amazon Robotics, Dilip Kumar, VP, Phy…

via Youtube · June 22, 2022
in Space Exploration Initiative
#robotics #computer vision #sensors +3 more
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Health 0.0

Health 0.0

#artificial intelligence #bioengineering #communications +23 more
Archived
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Helping Emergency Care Physicians Diagnose Sepsis and Bacterial Infections with Machine Learning and Vision

General overview:Sepsis, a life-threatening complication of bacterial infection, leads to millions of worldwide deaths requires significant…

in Health 0.0
Pratik Shah
#computer vision #human-computer interaction #artificial intelligence +7 more
Archived
Archived
Project Research

AI Methods for Rapid Automated Staining and Destaining of Tissue Biopsies in Hospitals

General OverviewStaining of tissues sections using chemical and biological dyes has been used for over a century for visualizing various ti…

in Health 0.0
Pratik Shah
#artificial intelligence #health #pharmaceuticals +7 more
Archived
Archived
Project Research

Deep Learning to Develop and Analyze Computational Hematoxylin and Eosin Staining of Tissue Images for Digital Biopsies

Staining of tissues sections using chemical and biological dyes has been used for over a century for visualizing various tissue types and m…

in Health 0.0
Pratik Shah
#human-computer interaction #artificial intelligence #bioengineering +8 more
Archived
Archived
Project Research

Research Area | Emergent Neural Networks to Redesign Clinical Testing of Medicines and Learning from Real World Evidence

Research studies led by Dr. Shah, in collaboration with the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA),  have develope…

in Health 0.0
Pratik Shah
#computer vision #artificial intelligence #health +8 more
Archived
Archived
Project Research

Scratch 3.0

Since the release of Scratch in 2007, young people around the world have programmed and shared more than 15 million Scratch projects . The …

in Lifelong Kindergarten
Andrew Sliwinski · Carl Bowman +5 more
#design #gaming #kids +3 more
Archived
Archived
Project Research

Scratch in Space

The Scratch Team invited young people from around the world to create Scratch projects designed specifically to be played in zero grav…

in Lifelong Kindergarten · Space Exploration Initiative
Christan Balch · Eric Schilling
#computer science #space #zero gravity
Archived
Archived
Project Research

Microworlds

The MIT Scratch Team is exploring ways to make it easier for newcomers to get started creating with coding. We are designing "microworlds"—…

in Lifelong Kindergarten
Moran Tsur · Sarah Otts +2 more
#kids #learning + teaching #storytelling +1 more
Archived
Publication Research

Privacy Limitations Of Interest-based Advertising On The Web: A Post-mortem Empirical Analysis Of Google’s FLoC

Alex Berke and Dan Calacci. 2022. Privacy Limitations of Interest-based Advertising on The Web: A Post-mortem Empirical Analysis of Google’s FLoC. In Proceedings of the 2022 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS ’22), November 7–11, 2022, Los Angeles, CA, USA. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 13 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3548606.3560626

Academic Paper, Feb. 2022
in City Science
#civic technology #privacy #computer science +1 more
Article Research

How culture creates emotions — and how technology decodes them

On KCRW's Life Examined, Rosalind Picard talks about the potential for technology to help people understand emotions and improve wellbeing.

via KCRW's Life Examined · Aug. 20, 2022
in Affective Computing
#artificial intelligence #computer science #technology +1 more
Article Research

Robot overcomes uncertainty to retrieve buried objects

This robotic system uses radio frequency signals, computer vision, and complex reasoning to efficiently find items hidden under a pile.

via MIT News · June 29, 2022
in Signal Kinetics
#robotics #computer vision #machine learning +2 more
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ML Learning

ML Learning

#design #virtual reality #cognition +22 more
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Scalable Cooperation

Reimagining human cooperation in the age of social media and artificial intelligence

#design #social networks #human-computer interaction +40 more
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