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In situ DNA sequencing method lets researchers study genomes in their native environment
This award recognizes the impact of PhD research on the scientific discipline and practice in the field of signal processing.
M. E. Carney and H. Herr, "Electric-Energetic Consequences of Springs in Lower-Extremity Powered Prostheses on Varied Terrain," 2020 8th IEEE RAS/EMBS International Conference for Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics (BioRob), New York City, NY, USA, 2020, pp. 989-996, doi: 10.1109/BioRob49111.2020.9224458.
Analyzing detailed data from SpeechBlocks to understand how kids engage with constructionist literacy learning technologies, with the …
Nina Lutz, "A Year (2020) of (almost) Daily (code) Sketches"
About CloverClover aims to research, design, and deploy a new pro-social media network for tweens and early teens, that promotes positive i…
Designed for mass manufacture and rapid deployment, we are building an open hardware, reusable, sterilizable, modular, and filter-media agn…
Ovienmhada, U (2020). Earth Observation Technology Applied to Environmental Management: A Case Study in Benin, Thesis for Master of Science in Media Arts & Sciences. MIT, Cambridge, MA.
dementAI is an open-source platform for modeling risk stratification of Alzheimer's dementia using spontaneous speech through a …
Mohsenvand, M.N., Izadi, M.R. & Maes, P.. (2020). Contrastive Representation Learning for Electroencephalogram Classification. Proceedings of the Machine Learning for Health NeurIPS Workshop, in Proceedings of Machine Learning Research 136:238-253 Available from http://proceedings.mlr.press/v136/mohsenvand20a.html.
Interpreting human electroencephalogram (EEG) is a challenging task and requires years of medical training. We present a framework for lear…
The World Economic Council (WEF) Global Future Councils convene more than 1000 of the most relevant and knowledgeable thought leaders from …
We propose an improved private count-mean-sketch data structure and show its applicability to differentially private contact trac…
Nature profiles researchers from a variety of different fields, including the Lab’s own Cynthia Breazeal, who are shaping the future of AI.
Conformable Decoders head Canan Dagdeviren is one of the Inverse Future 50—"a group of 50 people who will be forces of good in the 2020s.”
“That’s one thing I always tell my female students.”
DAMS: Meta-estimation of private sketch data structures for differentially private COVID-19 contact tracing, Praneeth Vepakomma, Subha Nawer Pushpita and Ramesh Raskar, PPML (Privacy Preserving Machine Learning workshop) at NeurIPS
Dubey, A., & Pentland, A. (2020). Differentially-Private Federated Linear Bandits. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 33.
Kristy Johnson was selected as the winner of the slam.
Danielle Wood publishes "Sustainable Development Goals for Mars" in the Walker Art Center Magazine.
Johnson, K.T. & Picard, R.W. (2020). Advancing Neuroscience through Wearable Devices. Neuron 108(1), 8-12.
Regular disinfection of hands and frequently touched surfaces is a critical factor in preventing the spread of infectious diseases and diso…
Robots would be much more helpful if they spoke our language.
The Biomechatronics group recently pioneered a new type of amputation surgery, the AMI amputation, that allows patients to use a bionic pro…
The list is curated by the Women in AI Ethics™ Collective.
These awards recognize technical contributions to projects that demonstrate a high level of innovation and potential impact.
Ostrowski, A. K., Pokorni, B., & Schumacher, S. (2020). Participatory Design for Digital Transformation of Manufacturing Enterprises. MIT Work of the Future Taskforce Working Paper.
Vujic, Angela, Thad Starner, and Melody Jackson. "MoodLens: towards improving nonverbal emotional expression with an in-lens fiber optic display." Proceedings of the 2016 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers. 2016.
Dagdeviren, C.†, Durak, T., Sadat, D., Advanced Intelligent Systems, 2000074, 2020.
S. S. Srinivasan, G. Tuckute, J. Zou., Guiterrez S., Seong H., Barry R., Herr H. “Agonist Antagonist Myoneural Interface Amputation Preserves Proprioceptive Sensorimotor Neurophysiology in Lower Limbs”, Science Translational Medicine (2020)
Connolly, R. B. (2019). Teachers’ Understanding and Usage of Scientific Data Visualizations for Teaching Topics in Earth and Space Science (https://doi.org/10.7916/d8-7ryc-zh43) [Doctoral dissertation, Columbia University]. Columbia Academic Commons.
Read the preliminary report from the Living Observatory at Tidmarsh on the benefits of restoration projects on four cranberry farms in MA.
Haar, A.J.H., Jain, A., Schoeller, F. et al. Augmenting aesthetic chills using a wearable prosthesis improves their downstream effects on reward and social cognition. Sci Rep 10, 21603 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-77951-w
Middle school students reimagine the YouTube platform. Students consider the stakeholders in YouTube, the goal of the recommendation algori…
Designer partial water-soluble GPCR CXCR4QTY29 variant receptor retains ligand binding activity and in vivo cell singling.
We envision that a close-to-nose interface could be used as a complementary or alternative wearable method to nasal cannulas or masks,…
Saa, I.L., Novak, M., Morales, A.J. et al. Looking for a better future: modeling migrant mobility. Appl Netw Sci 5, 70 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s41109-020-00308-9
Pataranutaporn, P* ., Vujic, A.* , Kong, D. S., Maes, P., & Sra, M. (2020, March). Living Bits: Opportunities and Challenges for Integrating Living Microorganisms in Human-Computer Interaction. In Proceedings of the Augmented Humans International Conference (pp. 1-12).
For the paper titled "JettSen: A Mobile Sensor Fusion Platform for City Knowledge Abstraction."
Researchers in the Fluid Interfaces group and elsewhere are hoping to learn more about how and why dreams are generated, and their effects.
Rico, A., Sakai, Y., & Larson, K. (2020, November). JettSen: A Mobile Sensor Fusion Platform for City Knowledge Abstraction. In Proceedings of the Future Technologies Conference (pp. 773-791). Springer, Cham.
The ML Learning Initiative is built around a cohort of Learning Fellows from across the diverse research groups of the Media Lab.…
The Open Leadership Camp (OLC) is a new type of professional development program for senior leaders of nonprofit and public sector organiza…
Chazz Sims, former researcher in Human Dynamics and founder of Media Lab spinoff Wise Systems, is chosen as an honoree for 2021.
Fabric samples are headed to the ISS for resiliency testing; possible applications include cosmic dust detectors or spacesuit smart skins.
Can we build a battery-free underwater GPS? While underwater localization is a long-studied problem, we seek to bring it to batt…
Vujic, A., Tong, S., Picard, R., & Maes, P. (2020). Going with our Guts: Potentials of Wearable Electrogastrography (EGG) for Affect Detection. Proceedings of the 2020 International Conference on Multimodal Interaction.
Fluorescent imaging technique simultaneously captures different signal types from multiple locations in a live cell.
Chatterjee, P., Ponnapati, M., Kramme, C. et al. Targeted intracellular degradation of SARS-CoV-2 via computationally optimized peptide fusions. Commun Biol 3, 715 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-020-01470-7
Computational modeling yields a protein fragment that could bind to coronavirus spike proteins and destroy them.
Serosa III is a wearable electrode patch that records gastric activity. It reduces the size of the interface and incorporates high-resoluti…
Congrats to Fluid Interfaces PhD student Arnav Kapur and collaborators on the selection of AlterEgo by Time Magazine for this recognition.
We are presenting the WorkOut Sensor Node Assistant (WOSNA), a body sensor net composed of many tiny sensor nodes that can suck on the skin…
The Signal Kinetics group, led by professor Fadel Adib at MIT, has a program coordinator opening. Applicants are expected to have experienc…
It was believed that functionalities of G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) require full-length sequences which are negated by residue dele…
Reid, Jack B., Danielle Wood. "Decision Support Model and Visualization for Assessing Environmental Phenomena, Ecosystem Services, Policy Consequences, and Satellite Design Using Earth Observation Data." AIAA 2020-4181 Session: Model-Based Engineering: Technologies and Methodologies II Published Online: 2 Nov 2020.
Richard Bolt’s first novel, “Sailor Take Warning,” was published earlier this fall by Encircle Publications.
The work at the Media Lab is organised through a new research consortium called Things That Think.
We present an interactive virtual reality (VR) experience that uses biometric information for reflection and relaxation. We monit…