Director's Fellows Program Alumnus
Baratunde Thurston in conversation with Media Lab Director Joi Ito.
Baratunde Thurston in conversation with Media Lab Director Joi Ito.
LocationMIT Media Lab, 6th Floor DescriptionComedy Hack Day, an initiative by Director's Fellow Baratunde Thurston's company Cultivated W...
LocationMIT Media Lab, Third-Floor Atrium Description This talk has been postponed. We look forward to following Geetha Narayanan later i...
LocationChicago, IL DescriptionMedia Lab Director Joi Ito, Director's Fellows Shaka Senghor, Jeff Sturges, and Baratunde Thurston, and Ad...
Damien Echols and Shaka Senghor in conversation on injustice, compassion, and redemption in relation to their prison memoirs.
David Sun Kong, Kevin Slavin, and special guests in conversation with Media Lab Director Joi Ito.
Director of the Media Lab Joi Ito in conversation with the Director's Fellows.
Director of the Media Lab Joi Ito in conversation with the Director's Fellows.
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Expert panelists discuss lessons learned from COVID-19 and progress made to better prepare our public health systems.
Joanne Leong, Yuehan Wang, Romy Sayah, Stella Rossikopoulou Pappa, Florian Perteneder, Hiroshi Ishii. 2019. SociaBowl: A Dynamic Table Centerpiece to Mediate Group Conversations. In CHI’19 Extended Abstracts, May 4–9, 2019, Glasgow, Scotland Uk. https://doi.org/10.1145/3290607.3312775
We introduce SociaBowl, a dynamic table centerpiece to promote positive social dynamics in 2-way cooperative conversations. A centerpiece...
Join us remotely as we go on curated research journeys focused on a monthly theme.
The Media Lab Focus series for November 2020 will present research every week on the theme of Telecreativity.
On Should This Exist?, Sculpting Evolution head Kevin Esvelt grapples with the potential benefits and consequences of gene drive.
The Media Lab Focus series for January 2021 will present research every week on the theme of Building the New Economy.
The Media Lab Focus series for September 2020 will present research every week on the theme of Technology and Social Equity.
The following Media Lab community members participated in the thirty-fourth virtual conference on Neural Information Processing Systems.
LocationMIT Media Lab, Third-Floor Atrium DescriptionChanges in the media world have been hard on journalists and unsettling for news con...
Colleen Macklin and John Sharp in conversation with Joi Ito
Jaques, N., Kim, Y. L., and Picard, R. W. "Personality, Attitudes, and Bonding in Conversations," In Proceedings of Intelligent Virtual Agents, California, USA, September 2016.
The following Media Lab groups and projects are represented at CHI 2019
BARATUNDE THURSTONBaratunde Bureaucracy CorpFuturist comedian, activist, and best-selling "How to Be Black" author Baratunde Thurston giv...
The Media Lab Focus series for March 2021 will present research on the theme of Future Human.
Cynthia Breazeal has been promoted to full professor and named associate director of the Media Lab. Both appointments are effective July 1.
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To me, teaching equals sharing while learning.
Jaques, N., McDuff, D., Kim, Y. K., and Picard, R. W. "Understanding and Predicting Bonding in Conversations Using Thin Slices of Facial Expressions and Body Language," In Proceedings of Intelligent Virtual Agents, California, USA, September 2016.
In January 2019, artist Ekene Ijeoma will join the MIT Media Lab as an assistant professor.
Priyadarshi talks to Malini Goyal on a broad range of issues.
New adjunct associate professor combines fine arts and coding.
Meet the Labbers, which ran from 2016–2018, was an ongoing audio series that took listeners inside the Media Lab.
How well have humans adapted to the current climate, and how will we adapt to new climate complexities?This week, the Climate Conversatio...
Dr. Temple Grandin in conversation with founder and director of the Media Lab's Affective Computing Rosalind Picard.
Mark Bauman in conversation with Media Lab Director Joi Ito.
Kickstarter's Yancey Strickler in conversation with Media Lab Director Joi Ito.
Reid Hoffman in conversation with Media Lab Director Joi Ito.
Archaeologist Sarah Parcak in conversation with Media Lab Director Joi Ito.
J.J. Abrams in conversation with Media Lab Director Joi Ito.
The MIT Center for Collective Intelligence, MIT Media Lab’s Community Biotechnology Initiative, and MilliporeSigma—the lif...
Founder and Director of The Governance Lab Beth Noveck in conversation with Media Lab Director Joi Ito.
Judith Donath in conversation with Center for Civic Media Director Ethan Zuckerman and Media Lab Director Joi Ito.
American geneticist, molecular engineer, and chemist George Church in conversation with Media Lab Director Joi Ito.
Announcing 10 new Director’s Fellows who'll bring their diverse experiences to the Media Lab.