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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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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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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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Fluid Interfaces

Designing wearable systems for cognitive enhancement and personal development
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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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Poetic Justice

Exploring new forms of social justice through art
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Professor Rosalind Picard considers what happens when we add emotional intelligence to AI

Creating sensitive and astute machines comes with a plethora of ethical considerations.
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MIT OpenAg releases the Personal Food Computer 3.0, a STEM-friendly collaboration with educators

An active and passionate community of over 2,500 people spread across 62 countries have rallied around the open source platform.
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From brain prostheses to the 3D brain: Ed Boyden on the future of neuroscience

Boyden is certainly a wellspring of innovative ideas—but more than this, he is a scientific pioneer.
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Life of the composer Arnold Schoenberg inspires Tod Machover’s latest opera ‘Schoenberg in Hollywood’

Machover, known for his use of new technologies to expand music, was moved by Schoenberg’s commitment to maintain his artistic integrity.
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RFIQ: Food quality and safety detection using wireless stickers

​We have developed a wireless system that leverages the inexpensive RFID tags already on hundreds of billions of products to sense potent...
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RFID stickers could signal contaminated food

MIT researchers have found a way to check many items instantly, non-invasively, and from a distance—using the RFID tags.
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From Robots to Schoenberg: MIT Opera of the Future composer Tod Machover evolves tradition with tech

Visionary composer Tod Machover is unleashing his latest marriage of technology and tradition: "Schoenberg in Hollywood."
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Signal Kinetics

Extending human and computer abilities in sensing, communication, and actuation through signals and networks
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Putting food-safety detection in the hands of consumers

Simple, scalable wireless system uses the RFID tags on billions of products to sense contamination.
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Sohan Dsouza discusses ethics and self-driving vehicles

Sohan Dsouza speaks on the topic of moral machines.
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Byte-sized: how tech is revolutionizing food production

"Food computers" can tell us everything we need to know about what we grow and eat.
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Open Agriculture (OpenAg)

Open Agriculture Initiative (OpenAg)
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Live-streaming a marshland for fun—and science

Researchers live-stream data in Tidmarsh Wildlife Sanctuary with the hopes of better understanding wildlife restoration techniques.
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CivicLink

Voter turnout is affected by many barriers, one of which is mobility. In 2016, there were an estimated 15 million registered voters who d...