Things That Think: In The News

TTT's multidisciplinary researchers garner frequent attention from the news media. Here are just some examples of our recent press coverage. If you are a member of the press and want to learn more, please contact our press liaison, Alexandra Kahn, through the Lab's Contact Us page.

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		Nigerian President says government has budgeted for a million $100 laptops

		BusinessWeek puts Gershenfeld's Fab book in "best-of-bunch" list.

		Look for electronic paper to show up in some "surprising places".

		Simplicity: The Goldilocks Rule. According to Maeda, "You'll never become a Designer."

		Philips group, E-Ink combine to prototype "rollable" pocket e-reader.

		19 Fellows from around world meet to foster after-school learning.

		At AAAs, Gershenfeld advocates computing to understand "nature itself.

		Selker calls for more practical apprach to kitchen innovation.

		Gershenfeld sees paintable computing as programming model.

		Computers that "read" emotions are more effective, efficient, says Picard.

		Why Pentland is fascinated by "personable computing."

		Beijing museum reflects Negroponte's vision of planet-wide interactivity.

		Audio Spotlight may make memorable music for marketeers.

		Batteries a bit heavy, but nTag provides moments of electricity.

		Ex-Media Labber sees third wave as simplicity, context, unification.

		Media Lab voicemail system notes emotions of messages.

		Concept car, Place Lab are at the heart of magazine's look at 2050.

		Nicholas writes editorial signaling swing to "less is more".

		Negroponte signals swing to digitization in home/hi-fi industry.

		Keynoter Gershenfeld describes fabrication tools at India meeting.

		Dramatic drop in voting-procedure complaints in 2004, Selker reports.

		In case you didn't know, John Maeda has been simply blogging for a week.

		Symphony Painter draws 5 stars out of 5 from USA Today.

		Viegas study detects emerging etiquette in personal blogging.

		Yahoo readies video search engine; Media Lab grad involved.

		Media Labber Rich Fletcher part of creative motorcycle gang in Cambodia.

		DakNet reflects "thinking outside box" in developing world, says Pentland.

		Brown Medical, MIT called upon for VA limb-loss center. (more here)

		New arrival: Fisher-Price releases Color Pixter Symphony Painter. (pdf)

		Benton team prototypes holographic video monitor.

		Picard compares affective computer to pet dog.

		Teen recounts how he was inspired by Selker to become an inventor.

		Gershenfeld selected among top 50 on Scientific American honor roll.

		Kumar able to bring people, institutions together to do "right thing."

		Wired Magazine features Gershenfeld team's "Dream Factory."

		Pentland, Eagle spearhead "smarter smartphone": It predicts.

		Critic's best-of-CDs includes "Messiah Remix" with Machover rendition.

		Ishi to keynote world human interface conference in New Zealand.

		Media Lab's kitchen tools, concept car cited in PC World's what's-ahead rundown.

		Borovoy's nTag adds zest to meetings but also collects useful data.

		Machover is principal guest composer at Contemporary Music Festival.

		Gershenfeld among 40 "leading thinkers" tapped into by IEEE Spectrum.

		Gershenfeld, Selker selected as "Scientific American 50" honorees.

		Negroponte decries "obsolete" structure of universities.

		Special BT Journal goes online with 30-article snapshot of Media Lab themes.

		Brainteasers delight Gruhl as tests of WebFountain's searching prowess.

		Pocket-size projectors to produce some radical changes, says Bove.

		After identifying a crisis, Maeda gains supporters in struggle for simplicity.

		Selker stresses turn-back-clock testing of touch-screen machines.

		Moonlighting grad and associates aims expertise toward Third World.

		Media Lab twist: Smart fabrics that you can design to your own needs.

		Ishii's lab looks more like a magician's playroom than a scientist's workplace.

		Advocacy group, Media Lab trying to stir debate on surveillance cameras.

		Poor raises concerns about energy usage in wireless sensor networks.

		Selker anticipates improved, safer process in November election.

		Media Lab grad Kumar adds humanitarian-of-year award to his laurels.

		Maeda selected for 5-year term as Rudge and Nancy Allen Professor.

		Lab Alum Uses New Ideas to Sell Old Books.

		Pennsylvania's first Computer Clubhouse opens in Pittsburgh.

		Chin views concept car through the lens of a city.

		Lengthy interview with Tad Hirsch on TxtMob.com experiences.

		Tantalizing exhibit by Csikszentmihályi in New York City this Fall.

		Negroponte spells out the magic of your future doorknob.

		Samsung show features Media Lab's Treehouse technology.

		Media Lab grads Gruhl, Kumar, Oliver, and Levin on Tech Review's top 100 list.

		Selker article in Scientific American on electronic voting available for a fee.

		Gershenfeld article in October Scientific American on Internet 0 available for a fee.

		Cellist tours club touting album that includes Machover piece.

		Picard voices concerns about turning affection into statistical game.

		Negroponte at custom home design show underscores digitization trend.

		Media Lab students re-invent the automobile.

		Concept-car presentation—open to all—at MIT on Sept. 8 at 7 p.m.

		Ars Electronica 2004 reflects Media Lab tinge in Austria.

		Little things make sense in Media Lab's kitchen of future.

		LaJolla contest aspirants are motivated by Hyperscore's motives.

		Blogs go mainstream; Marlow weighs in on links-equal-traffic issue.

		Concept car a result of impossible engineering.

		Maeda's philosophy at home is about the same as at Media Lab.

		Still time to fix some election processes, says Selker.

		Australian website features "padded" aspect of Media Lab concept car.

		Two articles focus on Vemuri's memory research project: Article No. 1 Article No. 2

		Karahalios's Visiphone bridges the gap between audio and picture-phone.

		Orth, France Telecom lead the way in electronic textile field.

		Bove provides 3-minute runthrough of future electronic ecosystems.

		LaJolla promotes Hyperscore to compose music for string quartets.

		Selker calls paper-trail issue a "red herring" in e-voting debate.

		More on Concept Car from Financial Times, Engadget.

		Marlow featured in Democratic Convention coverage.

		Lego Mindstorms seen as forerunner to children's digtal toys, gadgets.

		Step-back thinking sparks forward ideas for concept car, says Mitchell.

		Ogletree, Selker discuss voting challenges on NPR.

		E Ink, Philips and partners produce an electronic drawing pad.

		MIT/Caltech group offers 4 easy steps to improve voting.

		Breazeal's Leonardo robot videos described as "astonishing."

		200 youngsters from 15 countries at Computer Clubhouse summit.

		Paradiso's shoe projects make music, charge batteries.

		"Amplifiers" will increase future body performance, says Herr.

		Gesture recognition taking hold; Picard works on discerning boredom.

		Next threshold: when robots are more a partner than a tool, says Breazeal.

		Orth's genius goes beyond weaving technology into fabrics.

		Electric field sensing moves well beyond Penn and Teller chair.

		Donath group among highlighted SIGGRAPH Sketches entries.

		Negroponte says standards can be a drag; warns of impact on China.

		"Serendipity bubble" has implications beyond matchmaking.

		Maeda cited among top 20 design masters as risk-taker, agitator.

		Machover sees "active music" as prime example of crossing disciplines.

		Picard explains why some of us act inappropriately with our computers.

		Pentland's group takes wearable computing to next level: healthware.

		Toppan, E Ink develop e-paper with resolution of 400 pixels per inch.

		Benton's holography ideas becoming reality with endless possibilities.

		Selker opposes concept of voter-verified paper trail; explains why.

		nTag wearers skip over obligatory chatter at social gatherings.

		Mitchell discusses how wireless creates a new 21st century architecture.

		The visions of top 20 design masters, including Maeda (subscription).

		Chuang's quantum computer part of new wave; sends atoms into a spin.

		Bender to speak on new ways technology can transform business.

		It's time to break free from intimidating complexity, says Maeda.

		In Athens, Negroponte agrees; cites expense and lack of reliability.

		Hyperscore runner-up in MIT $50K entrepreneurial competition.

		Breazeal discusses robots, gender, and emotion.

		Benton's holography legacy taking shape in Japan, US labs.

		Negroponte stresses need for simplicity, common sense in new products.

		Selker proposes random voting machine tests and audio verification.

		Patient compositions create "exciting" side benefits.

		Concert to feature music composed by patients using Hyperscore.

		Selker defines issues as election officials scramble.

		"A cool tool," memory prothesis contends with privacy issues.

		Tangible media highlights role of eyes in processing.

		Machover team to facilitate "Musical Dim Sung" in La Jolla.

		Media Lab project provides answer to annoying cellphone ringing.

		Circuit benders should refrain from toying with toys, says Machover.

		Credit cards tap into radio tags.

		Media Lab's digital paint brush tweaks child's imagination.

		Complexity tends to create errors in electronic balloting, says Selker.

		How business can benefit from reality-mining data techniques.

		Visual, audio memory systems bring past into present.

		Philips creates division to mass produce flexible displays.

		New technology may prolong life, provide cure for ailing health-care system.

		"Evocative Objects" symposium at MIT this Friday.(March 5)

		Miami arts center turns to Media Lab students for digital pizzazz.

		Saul Griffith Wins Lemelson-MIT Prize for low-cost eyeglass lenses.

		Paper, absentee ballots, unlocked boxes give Selker the willies.

		Schmandt seeks to minimize inappropriate cellphone behavior.

		Florida Film Festival to host Toy Symphony in March.

		Dishman, Pentland work on cures to health dilemma.

		Borovoy's nTags create more business than company needs.

		Negroponte prediction bears fruit regarding new meaning of "being local."

		Flexible display screens ready for production.

		Paradiso, Strickon guest editors for IEEE Emerging Technologies issue.

		Philips incubator set to mass-produce thin, roll-up polymer displays.

		Info tech redefines sense of citizenship, according to Mitchell book.

		Schmandt, Marti respond to dislike for cellphones.

		Media Lab aids PBS with interactive help/support site for Alzheimer's.

		Media Lab consumer push includes small, medium-sized partners.

		Media Lab's stackable, electric concept car designed with city in mind.

		Quanta faces challenges in making "millions and millions" of $100 laptops.

		Media Lab's Bonanni cooks up cues to create responsive kitchen

		"Is Common Sense the Next Killer App?"

		Robot dog developed by Breazeal, Kidd monitors diet, exercise.

		"Media lab kids" cook up some imaginative ideas at SIGGRAPH.

		"A rustle of delighted interest" in $100 laptop at D3 conference.

		Soldout Machover concert raises $1.25 million for Boston Symphony.

		MIT, RI design school, EDS fashion Tamagotchi-like seniors' "Pill Pet."

		One more invention needed to put Fab Labs over the top.

		Taiwan Creativity Lab turns to Media Lab as model and partner.

		Breazeal says it with flowers in exhibiting new image of robotic life.

		No end to possibilities for use of thin, flexible displays, coming in '04.

		Media Lab project aims to turn automobile into your driving coach.

		Veteran critic includes Toy Symphony on his best-of-year concerts list.

		Consumer writer calls Holosonic's Audio Spotlight "heavenly."

		Bove extols cheaper, better video- conferencing; deaf benefit.

		Registration woes lost 1-3 million votes in 2000, says Selker.

		NY Times Magazine cites Vemuri's memory project.

		Bhargava exhibit turns news into sounds of impending conflict.

		Philips, E Ink to produce electronic paper in early '04 using new scheme.

		Negroponte plays role as UN summit moves toward compromise.

		Bill Cosby has sweet visit with Resnick team at Media Lab.

		CES partners with Media Lab at Las Vegas consumer-tech trade show.

		Ex-Media Labber learns from dating site, becomes social-network guru.

		AudioPad implications go beyond making nightclubs rock.

		Underkoffler provides plausibility for latest version of "The Hulk."

		Bickmore, Picard pushing limits of computer-human relations.

		New Miami arts centers offers itself as test case for Media Lab course.

		DeVaul's memory glasses go beyond recalling names at parties.

		BBC pays tribute to Mr. Holography who "epitomized Media Lab."

		RFID backers, foes struggle to find common ground at Media Lab. More here

		Mitchell, Gehry drive car design into the future.

		Chad Dyner making movie screen out of thin air—in color.

		Pentland describes difficulty home sensors face; worse for us?

		Negroponte's convergence prediction fast taking shape.

		Benton extolled as enthusiast, pioneer, Pied Piper.

		Intel adds Computer Clubhouse in Soweto, third in South Africa.

		"Subliminal messages" are key to memory glasses, DeVaul says.

		U2 band tinkering with creative uses of Audio Spotlight.

		Mitchell spells out the shift to "augmented reality."

		Audio Spotlight installed at Smithsonian Air/Space Museum.

		Nov. 11 MIT symposium to honor work of Stephen Benton.

		Men's Health selects Ben Fry for "Red Hot, Right Now" feature.

		Ishii's fanciful-appearing technology attracts business community.

		Pentland presenting high-tech eyeglasses that tweak memory.

		Ishii's team beginning to change the way people think and act.

		Media Lab's body-network concept taken to the streets in Japan.

		Papert theories bear fruit at Thailand school.

		Minsky differs with Alcor but signs up as "future client."

		E Ink comes out with flexible electronic paper 0.3mm thick.

		"Common Sense" could solve AI, says Media Lab's Singh.

		Mobile wireless to redefine work spaces, Mitchell says.

		Voting project gets funding; Selker playing key role for MIT.

		Pompei's "Spotlight" being heard in commercial world.

		Mitchell's new book explores actual, virtual togetherness.

		Negroponte lays out case for designing simplicity.

		Slashdot features MIThril jacket, key demo at upcoming symposium. More here

		Negroponte fends off those who say Media Lab should be nuttier.

		Paradiso sees Mindstorms' business approach as future model.

		Differences are what spawn creativity, says Negroponte.

		"Get Closer" unveiled; uses Media Lab infrared technology.

		Media Lab researcher says film-swap time lag can aid Hollywood.

		Pappu cited for innovation to thwart credit-card forgery.

		Eye devices get a serious look in Selker's lab.

		Selker goes against flow in electronic voting debate; cites Brazil.

		Nortel to sponsor Europe IT forum; Negroponte speaking.

		Mitchell explores the changing face of learning space.

		A good corporate citizen? This scanner can tell.

		Orth designs firefly dress and e-tablecloth that lets guests play Jeopardy.

		Kurzweil lauds Machover in presentation of coveted award.

		E-wear, spawned at Media Lab, called "next electronic revolution."

		Breazeal puts it bluntly: Real-face robots can be "doubly creepy."

		Media Lab graduates carving out future in fashion.

		Author uses Negroponte vision as jumping-off point.

		Breazeal a finalist for coveted National Design Award.

		Machover among futurists at Telluride Conference.

		Orth's "Electric Plaid" produces dazzling designs—camouflage next?

		Wired.com cites easy-to-use aspects of Audiopad.

		Spielberg insisted on "future reality" in Minority Report, says Underkoffler.

		Hyperscore among "noteworthy" music projects at Siggraph.

		Media Lab grad creates site that breeds poems.

		Gershenfeld details the significance of personal fabrication.

		Optical engineering group publishes book co-edited by Breazeal.

		Pompeii's Audio Spotlight goes commercial.

		"Audiopad" gets Slashdot treatment.

		Jacques d'Amboise leads children in RoBallet at Media Lab.

		Lab researchers exhibit work at NYC's Location One Center.

		Weinberg sees Beatbug as antidote to computer- generated music.

		OpenGov site in debut; tops Blogdex; here is the widely-used story.

		Media Lab student's game motivates children with Type 1 diabetes.

		Paradiso, others interviewed on information technology.

		Media Lab helps citizens monitor government.

		MIT magazine spotlights Machover.

		2-way sensor nets will be as pervasive as bar code, says Robert Poor.

		Benton honored at World Technology Summit finale.

		Professors Joe Jacobson and John Maeda earn tenure. (Photos by Webb Chappell)

		Prof. Gadget (Selker) cooks up inventions to make everyday life easier.

		Barry's StoryBeads provide new means for trading and creating stories.

		Selker sees eyes (no pun intended) linking to computing activity.

		Unobtrusive information displays give glow to Media Lab spinoff.

		Breazeal discusses vision of what she sees her robots becoming.

		Csikszentmihályi Artist-in-Residence at Haystack. Haystack site

		Skeptical essayist admits to value of Toy Symphony.

		Japanese researcher, Bickmore agree: Mimicry enriches robot value.

		Electronic paper shipments set for early '04.

		Resner's Ambient Orb hits the market.

		Media Lab colleagues tapping into Singh's Open Mind.

		Breazeal one of six inventors labeled "rare-breed" visionaries.

		Large crowd turns out for Toy Symphony in New York City. Another Review Listen on NPR
		Get ready New York: Toy Symphony there this weekend. (May 2003)

		Breazeal, Fry, and Machover featured in Cooper-Hewitt exhibit through Jan. 2004.

		Tod Machover's latest CD, Hyperstring Trilogy, debuts this month.

		E Ink unveils flexible display prototype that is .03mm thin.

		Borovoy's talking badges break ice—and then some—in business gatherings.

		Veteran critic describes Toy Symphony as "ode to the joy of music."

		Toy Symphony brings out the kid in people—including Machover himself.

		Workshops prep children for US debut of Toy Symphony.

		Wireless is reenacting internet process, says Negroponte.

		Alan Alda's Scientific American Frontiers highlights TTT research on PBS. Watch online

		Breazeal presents her vision of the sociable robot of the future.

		Deb Roy's team looks into minds of children in robotic approach.

		Breazeal among those concentrating on how humans, robots interact.

		Collaboration Results in New Class of Low-Level E-Field Imaging Applications.

		Sociable Media Group Exhibits Technology at Boston's ICA (through April 27, 2003)

		Invention at Play traveling exhibit runs until April 30, 2003, at Boston's Museum of Science.

		Gershenfeld speech excerpt on painting a printed semi-conductor.

		E-Ink awarded its 30th US patent; 150 applications pending.

		"Evocative" Media Lab project part of "wild" Boston art exhibition.

		Negroponte's recipe for fostering a culture of innovation.

		Cynthia Breazeal's "Kismet" in Steve Reich's High-Tech Opera.

		Minsky among experts invited to write advice memo to President Bush.

		*Joe Jacobson is among Esquire* magazine's best and brightest.**

		Tomorrow's toys need to enhance creativity, says Resnick.

		John Maeda's work featured at NYC gallery "F00D" exhibit.

		Griffith used "stuff" from around house to develop low-cost eyeglass lens.

		Hollywood turns to Underkoffler for futuristic reality.

		Dean Mitchell joins Media Lab to head Media Arts and Sciences program.

		Alan Alda revisits Lab, spotlights 4 projects on PBS. Watch online

		Saul Griffith wins inventors' grand prize for lens mold.

		Discovery's 7-minute Toy Symphony video.

		"Minority Report" movie depicts "frighteningly plausible" tech future.

		Toy Symphony has television premiere on Tech TV.

		Negroponte explains why wireless will transform telecom.

		Breazeal's expressive robot interacts with fluid movements.

		*Children star as Toy Symphony* sweeps Europe; US next.**

		Physicist cites Ike Chuang's quantum computing progress.

		Why famous violinist swapped Stradivarius for HyperViolin.

		Pompei's Audio Spotlight among sci-fi technology that caught on.

		Two Media Lab projects get a hand at SIGGRAPH.

		BBC Music Magazine features virtues of "child's play".

		Machover's music toys spur listening, performing, composing.

		Teens transform access to success at Computer Clubhouses globally.

		Scott Manalis receives coveted science award at White House.

		Computer Clubhouses (now 63 in world) become teen sanctuary