Person

Rob Pardo

Director's Fellow

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MLTalks: Rob Pardo

Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. Chief Creative Officer Rob Pardo in conversation with Media Lab Director Joi Ito.

Wednesday
May 7, 2014
Video

MLTalks: Rob Pardo

Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. Chief Creative Officer Rob Pardo in conversation with Media Lab Director Joi Ito.

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POSTPONED Media Lab Conversations Series: Geetha Narayanan

LocationMIT Media Lab, Third-Floor Atrium Description This talk has been postponed. We look forward to following Geetha Narayanan later i...

Friday
March 15, 2013
Video

Media Lab Conversations Series: JJ Abrams

Nov. 26, 2012
Video

Media Lab Conversations Series: Carroll Bogert

Sept. 10, 2012
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Media Lab Conversations Series: Damien Echols and Shaka Senghor

Damien Echols and Shaka Senghor in conversation on injustice, compassion, and redemption in relation to their prison memoirs.

Thursday
May 16, 2013
Video

Media Lab Conversations Series: Guts and Genius

David Sun Kong, Kevin Slavin, and special guests in conversation with Media Lab Director Joi Ito.

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MLTalks Series

Learn more about our MLTalks series, including upcoming events.

Publication

Proto-conversations with an anthropomorphic robot

C. Breazeal

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Media Lab research at CHI 2019

The following Media Lab groups and projects are represented at CHI 2019

Publication

SociaBowl: A Dynamic Table Centerpiece to Mediate Group Conversations

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

Article

Lessons Learned on the Road to Pandemic Preparedness | Pandemic Response Catalyst Conversations

Expert panelists discuss lessons learned from COVID-19 and progress made to better prepare our public health systems.

Article

Cynthia Breazeal Assumes New Media Lab Role

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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SociaBowl: A Dynamic Table Centerpiece to Mediate Group Conversations

We introduce SociaBowl, a dynamic table centerpiece to promote positive social dynamics in 2-way cooperative conversations. A centerpiece...

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Media Lab Focus

Join us remotely as we go on curated research journeys focused on a monthly theme.

Person

Robleh Ali

Research Scientist

Article

Media Lab to Launch Wellness Initiative with $1 Million Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Grant

New program, Advancing Wellness, combines academics with on-the-ground initiatives to promote better health at MIT and beyond.

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Media Lab Focus | March 2021: Mobility

The Media Lab Focus series for March 2021 will present research on the theme of Future Human.

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Media Lab Focus | November 2020: Telecreativity

The Media Lab Focus series for November 2020 will present research every week on the theme of Telecreativity.

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Alex 'Sandy' Pentland

Professor of Media Arts and Sciences

Person

Joanne Leong

Research Assistant

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Media Lab Focus | January 2021: Building the New Economy

The Media Lab Focus series for January 2021 will present research every week on the theme of Building the New Economy.

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Editorial: Proceedings of the First Symposium on Blockchain and Robotics, MIT Media Lab, December 5th 2018

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

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Media Lab Focus | September 2020: Technology and Social Equity

The Media Lab Focus series for September 2020 will present research every week on the theme of Technology and Social Equity.

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Advancing Wellbeing Seminar Series: Rob Morris

LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-633 DescriptionMore than 30 million adults in the United States suffer from depression. Many more meet the dia...

Wednesday
October 8, 2014
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Media Lab @ NeurIPS | 2020

The following Media Lab community members participated in the thirty-fourth virtual conference on Neural Information Processing Systems.

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Advancing Wellbeing Seminar Series: Christina A. Roberto, PhD

LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-633 DescriptionTalks in the Advancing Wellbeing Seminar Series are free and open to the public.Poor diet and o...

Event

MLTalks: Carroll Bogert "Look Who's Talking: Non-Profit Newsmakers in the New Media Age"

LocationMIT Media Lab, Third-Floor Atrium DescriptionChanges in the media world have been hard on journalists and unsettling for news con...

Monday
September 10, 2012
Publication

Personality, Attitudes, and Bonding in Conversations

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.

Group

Tangible Media

We live on the border between two worlds: our physical environment and cyberspace. People have developed sophisticated ski...

Person

Hiroshi Ishii

Jerome B. Wiesner Professor of Media Arts and Sciences

Article

Media Lab's Web-Spinning Robot: Be Very Afraid?

Publication

A clutchable series-elastic actuator: design of a robotic knee prosthesis for minimum energy consumption

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

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Humanoid robots & other innovations of the MIT Media Lab

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Meet the MIT Media Lab Learning Fellows

Welcoming three LEGO Papert Fellows and six Learning Innovation Fellows to our new cohort

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Passing of Dan Stiehl, Media Lab alum

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.

Publication

The effect of series elasticity on actuator power and work output: Implications for robotic and prosthetic joint design

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.

Event

Media Lab @ SXSW 2020

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.

Friday — Saturday
March 13, 2020 —
March 21, 2020
Article

Mabu the pint-sized robot wants to manage your health

Mabu is about the size of a kitchen appliance and assists with day-to-day healthcare needs through daily "conversations."

Person

Jean-Baptiste Labrune

Research Affiliate

Article

Furry Robots, Foldable Cars and More Innovations from MIT's Media Lab

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Media Lab @ Design, Technology + Social Innovation Workshop 2020

The following Media Lab students joined the MIT India Initiative in Mumbai for this workshop.

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Teaching at the Media Lab

To me, teaching equals sharing while learning.

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Media Lab research response to COVID-19

The Media Lab community brings creativity, expertise, and research to the pandemic

Publication

Understanding and Predicting Bonding in Conversations Using Thin Slices of Facial Expressions and Body Language

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.

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Ekene Ijeoma Joins the MIT Media Lab

In January 2019, artist Ekene Ijeoma will join the MIT Media Lab as an assistant professor.

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Introducing the “Careers in AI” Video Series for Middle School Students

By Carolyn “CC” Song, High School Senior and Personal Robots Intern “What do you want to be when you grow up?”

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Jacqueline M Kory Westlund

Research Assistant

Person

Robert R. Morris

Research Assistant

Event

Tessa Lau @ Media Lab

LocationE14-633, MIT Media Lab DescriptionAbout a year ago, knowing nothing about robotics, Tessa Lau joined Willow Garage with one missi...

Friday
November 22, 2013
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Media Lab announces 2017 Director’s Fellows

Announcing 10 new Director’s Fellows who'll bring their diverse experiences to the Media Lab.

Article

India has been able to manage complex conversations better than US: Tenzin Priyadarshi

Priyadarshi talks to Malini Goyal on a broad range of issues.

Article

Fresh off the (MIT Media) lab

MIT Media Lab fosters innovation with its motto of 'imagine and realise.'

Article

Zach Lieberman joins MIT Media Lab

New adjunct associate professor combines fine arts and coding.

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Meet the Labbers

Meet the Labbers, which ran from 2016–2018, was an ongoing audio series that took listeners inside the Media Lab.