Event

LinkedIn's Reid Hoffman "How to Benefit 100 Million People"

LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-674 DescriptionAn accomplished entrepreneur, executive, and angel investor, Reid Hoffman has played an integral …

Monday
July 18, 2011
Person

Reid Hoffman

Co-founder, LinkedIn; Partner, Greylock Partners; Advisory Council Member

Video

MLTalks: Reid Hoffman

Reid Hoffman in conversation with Media Lab Director Joi Ito.

Event

MLTalks: Reid Hoffman

Reid Hoffman in conversation with Media Lab Director Joi Ito.

Wednesday
April 4, 2012
Article

Reid Hoffman: It’s time to change Silicon Valley culture

Reid Hoffman likes to say, “With great power comes great responsibility.” Usually, he’s referring to tech companies like the ones he has fo…

Person

Moshe Hoffman

Former Research Affiliate

Person

Guy Hoffman

Former Postdoctoral Associate

Person

Ellen N. Hoffman

Special Projects

Person

Jack Reid

Former Research Assistant

Person

Todd Reid

Former Research Affiliate

Person

Rebecca Grace Reid

Financial Officer

Article

Reid Hoffman: A.I. Is Going to Change Everything About Managing Teams

Post

Scratch hits a major milestone—100 million global users!

Scratch, a coding platform for children, was developed by the Lifelong Kindergarten group at the Media Lab in 2007.

Article

Manufacturing Software Company Tulip Raises $100 Million To Give Factory Workers Cloud-Based Tools

Spinoff Tulip, an E14 Fund company founded by alumni Natan Linder and Rony Kubat, has received a new round of investment financing.

Event

Danielle Wood gives talk on societal benefits of space at Bermuda Aquarium

MIT professor Dr. Danielle Wood to host talk: "Technology from Space Helps Keep us Safe on Earth"On Monday, July 1, Dr. Danielle Wood from …

Monday
July 1, 2019
6:30pm — 8:30pm ET
Article

How to be the steward of your idea, with Affectiva's Rana el Kalioub‪y

Former Labber Rana el Kaliouby, current CEO and co-founder of Affectiva, talks with Reid Hoffman during an episode of Masters of Scale.

Article

How can AI benefit everyone?

Video: AI for all, not just a few.

Person

Sarah Hoffmann

Article

World's 100 most influential people in digital government 2019

Commending a formidable variety of international change-makers driving digital transformation in government.

Article

How Under 30 company Augmental is creating tongue-controlled mouse pads–with just over $1 million in funding

Augmental co-founders have been recognized in the Social Impact category of the 2023 Forbes 30 Under 30 list.

Event

How Creative People Arrive at Good Ideas

LocationCourtyard Marriott, Rio Grande Ballroom, 300 E. 4th St. Description#sxsw #How2CreateThis is not a panel about “Aha! moments.” There…

Sunday
March 9, 2014
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BBC 100 Women 2023: Canan Dagdeviren

Professor Dagdeviren was recognized for her work developing a wearable ultrasound patch for early breast cancer detection.

Publication

Reinforcement Learning with Human Teachers: Understanding how people want to teach robots

A. L. Thomaz, G. Hoffman, C. Breazeal

Post

MIT Media Lab to participate in new $27 million initiative on ethics and governance in AI

Bridging the gap between the humanities, the social sciences, and computing by addressing the global challenges of artificial intelligence.

Event

Civic Lunch: P. Sainath, The People's Archive of Rural India (PARI)

P. Sainath, veteran journalist on rural affairs, poverty, and inequality in India, will be speaking at the Center for Civic Media.

Article

How Breaking the Rules Could Win You $250,000

Interview with Joi Ito about the first-ever Disobedience Award

Event

Conducting a benefits assessment for restoration of wetlands on cranberry farmland

The talk focuses on what the Living Observatory project team learned about the benefits of wetland restoration on retired cranberry farmland

Wednesday
December 15, 2021
3:00pm — 4:30pm ET
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.

Event

Jack Reid Dissertation Defense

Using Earth Observation-Informed Modeling to Inform Sustainable Development Decision-Making

Tuesday
April 11, 2023
9:00am ET
Article

Mitchel Resnick among Fast Company's 100 Most Creative People

Article

Jack Reid Publishes Paper in Systems Engineering Journal

Jack Reid publishes "Systems engineering applied to urban planning and development: A review and research agenda."

Article

How Headspace Health is tackling the global mental health crisis

CNBC profiles Headspace Health, which was formed through a merger between spinoff Ginger and meditation + mindfulness app company Headspace.

Person

Jeff Howe

Former Visiting Scholar

Event

Jack Reid Presents to CICATA Queretaro-IPN

Jack Reid will present on his research as part of a seminar series organized around science, technology, and innovation for the common good.

Tuesday
November 10, 2020
6:00pm — 7:00pm ET
Article

How many famous people will die in 2017?

In 2016 hundreds of famous people died. David Bowie, Prince, Muhammad Ali, Fidel Castro, Carrie Fisher, Gene Wilder, George Michael, Vera R…

Post

Spinoff Xander raises $1.4 million in pre-seed funding

Xander plans to launch its first product, XanderGlasses, designed for people with hearing loss or auditory processing challenges.

Publication

How to build robots that make friends and influence people.

Breazeal, C., Scassellati, B.

Post

Jack Reid Named Future Space Leader

Jack Reid was selected as a Future Space Leader for 2022 by the Future Space Leaders Foundation (FSLF).

Event

Jack Reid speaks at Falling Walls Lab Boston

Twenty innovators and trailblazers were selected out of a pool of candidates to pitch their idea that breaks down scientific and social wall

Thursday
September 26, 2019
6:00pm — 9:00pm ET
Video

MLTalks with Douglas Rushkoff—Team Human: How people, together, can rule the digital future

Kate Darling hosts a talk with Douglas Rushkoff, discussing his new book and the various topics related to it.

Event

Christine Joseph and Jack Reid to present papers at IEEE Aerospace Conference

The international IEEE Aerospace Conference is organized to promote interdisciplinary understanding of aerospace systems.

Monday — Friday
March 4, 2019 —
March 8, 2019
Project

Teshima 8 Million Lab

Teshima 8 Million Lab is the first Shinto shrine worshipping a genetically engineered life—a silkworm created in Sputniko!'s new work Red S…

Article

Study: Social robots can benefit hospitalized children

Interacting with a robotic teddy bear invented at MIT boosted young patients’ positive emotions, engagement, and activity level.

Event

MLTalks with Douglas Rushkoff—Team Human: How people, together, can rule the digital future

MLTalks with Douglas Rushkoff, hosted by Kate Darling

Thursday
February 7, 2019
2:00pm — 3:00pm ET
Article

How culture creates emotions — and how technology decodes them

On KCRW's Life Examined, Rosalind Picard talks about the potential for technology to help people understand emotions and improve wellbeing.

Article

Study: More people walked during the pandemic, but how much depended on their income level

Boston.com reports on research conducted by Human Dynamics head Sandy Pentland, visiting professor Esteban Moro, and collaborators.

Article

New Bionics Center Established at MIT with $24 Million Gift

The center is funded by a $24 million gift to MIT’s McGovern Institute for Brain Research from philanthropist Lisa Yang.

Project

Let's Talk Privacy: Exploring how privacy and data governance policies translate into practice

Let’s Talk Privacy explores how the implementation of privacy and data governance policies might impact a variety of fields.Project Let’s T…

Article

Visualizing the major gap between media election coverage and what people are actually talking about

Post

Golda Nguyen and Jack Reid Awarded Soffen Fund Travel Grant

The Soffen Memorial Fund Committee selected Golda Nguyen and Jack Reid for their research success, interdisciplinary work, and service.

Article

Butlr lands new cash to put people-detecting sensors in the office

Media Lab spinoff Butlr, co-founded by Honghao Deng and Jiani Zeng, raises $20 million in a Series A funding round.

Event

Design Justice: A talk and discussion with Sasha Costanza-Chock, Catherine D’Ignazio, and Jaleesa Trapp

Sasha Costanza-Chock will present key insights from their book Design Justice.

Wednesday
August 12, 2020
2:00pm — 3:15pm ET
Article

Bringing the benefits of in-person collaboration to the virtual world

The startup Spatial uses an augmented reality platform to make people feel like they’re working side by side.

Article

TED Talk: How AI is making it easier to diagnose disease

What if we could drastically reduce the amount of data needed to train an AI, making diagnoses low-cost and more effective?

Article

“Kids are people too!”

Throughout his career, Professor Hal Abelson has worked to make information technology more accessible to people of all ages.

Article

FIGUR8 Raises $12 Million To Take The Guesswork Out Of Musculoskeletal Diagnostics

Forbes highlights spinoff Figur8 and its most recent funding round, which raised $12 million.

Article

The Root 100 2019

The Root 100 is our annual list of the most influential African Americans, ages 25 to 45.

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Dr. Joy Buolamwini named to TIME's Most Influential People in AI 2023

Media Lab alum Dr. Joy Buolamwini has been named to TIME's 100 Most Influential People in AI 2023.

Publication

Robots that work in collaboration with people

G. Hoffman, C. Breazeal

Publication

Robots that Work in Collaboration with People

G. Hoffman, C. Breazeal

Publication

100-fold linear expansion of biological samples for nanoscale imaging

D. SARKAR, A. T. WASSIE, A. PAYNE, K. D. PIATKEVICH, D. ORAN, J.-B. CHANG, E. S. BOYDEN. Society for Neuroscience, 2016.

Article

How should autonomous vehicles be programmed?

Massive global Moral Machine study reveals ethics preferences and regional differences

Post

City Science Network Talks Series-2024

Each year the City Science Network hosts a talks series where City Science Labs present and share their research to the Network and collabo…