Director's Fellow
Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. Chief Creative Officer Rob Pardo in conversation with Media Lab Director Joi Ito.
Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. Chief Creative Officer Rob Pardo in conversation with Media Lab Director Joi Ito.
LocationMIT Media Lab, Third-Floor Atrium Description This talk has been postponed. We look forward to following Geetha Narayanan later i...
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.
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C. Breazeal
The following Media Lab groups and projects are represented at CHI 2019
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
Expert panelists discuss lessons learned from COVID-19 and progress made to better prepare our public health systems.
Cynthia Breazeal has been promoted to full professor and named associate director of the Media Lab. Both appointments are effective July 1.
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.
Research Scientist
New program, Advancing Wellness, combines academics with on-the-ground initiatives to promote better health at MIT and beyond.
The Media Lab Focus series for March 2021 will present research on the theme of Future Human.
The Media Lab Focus series for November 2020 will present research every week on the theme of Telecreativity.
Professor of Media Arts and Sciences
Research Assistant
The Media Lab Focus series for January 2021 will present research every week on the theme of Building the New Economy.
Castelló Ferrer, E., Hardjono, T., & Pentland, A. (2019). Editorial: Proceedings of the First Symposium on Blockchain and Robotics, MIT Media Lab, 5 December 2018. Ledger, 4. doi:https://doi.org/10.5195/ledger.2019.179
The Media Lab Focus series for September 2020 will present research every week on the theme of Technology and Social Equity.
LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-633 DescriptionMore than 30 million adults in the United States suffer from depression. Many more meet the dia...
The following Media Lab community members participated in the thirty-fourth virtual conference on Neural Information Processing Systems.
LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-633 DescriptionTalks in the Advancing Wellbeing Seminar Series are free and open to the public.Poor diet and o...
LocationMIT Media Lab, Third-Floor Atrium DescriptionChanges in the media world have been hard on journalists and unsettling for news con...
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.
We live on the border between two worlds: our physical environment and cyberspace. People have developed sophisticated ski...
Jerome B. Wiesner Professor of Media Arts and Sciences
E. J. Rouse, L. M. Mooney, E. C. Martinez-Villalpando and H. M. Herr A clutchable series-elastic actuator: design of a robotic knee prosthesis for minimum energy consumption, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics, 2013
Welcoming three LEGO Papert Fellows and six Learning Innovation Fellows to our new cohort
It is with great sadness that I share news of the passing of Walter Daniel Stiehl, a beloved member of two groups at the Media Lab.
D. Paluska and H. M. Herr. The effect of series elasticity on actuator power and work output: Implications for robotic and prosthetic joint design, Robotics and Autonomous Systems, vol. 54, pp. 667–673, 2006.
When South by Southwest 2020 convenes in Austin, TX March 13-21, many of the speakers taking the stage will be members of the Media Lab.
Mabu is about the size of a kitchen appliance and assists with day-to-day healthcare needs through daily "conversations."
Research Affiliate
The following Media Lab students joined the MIT India Initiative in Mumbai for this workshop.
To me, teaching equals sharing while learning.
The Media Lab community brings creativity, expertise, and research to the pandemic
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.
By Carolyn “CC” Song, High School Senior and Personal Robots Intern “What do you want to be when you grow up?”
Research Assistant
Research Assistant
LocationE14-633, MIT Media Lab DescriptionAbout a year ago, knowing nothing about robotics, Tessa Lau joined Willow Garage with one missi...
Announcing 10 new Director’s Fellows who'll bring their diverse experiences to the Media Lab.
Priyadarshi talks to Malini Goyal on a broad range of issues.
Research Assistant
MIT Media Lab fosters innovation with its motto of 'imagine and realise.'
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.