Event

Deb Roy @ URI Honors Colloquium

LocationEdwards Auditorium, URI Kingston Campus Description

Wednesday — Tuesday
November 9, 2011 —
November 8, 2011
Person

Deb Roy

Professor of Media Arts and Sciences

Event

Ed Boyden @ SMArchS Colloquium 2013

Location3-133 DescriptionProfessor at the MIT Media Lab, joint Professor at the MIT Department of Biological Engineering and the MIT Depart…

Friday
September 27, 2013
Article

Ed Boyden, Deb Roy to Speak at TED in March

Person

Uri Wilensky

Person

Edward Boyden

Professor of Media Arts and Sciences; Y. Eva Tan Professor in Neurotechnology

Event

MLTalks: Nichole Pinkard and Deb Roy

Education, Technology, Equity: Nichole Pinkard and Deb Roy in conversation with J. Philipp Schmidt.

Wednesday
February 15, 2017
3:00pm — 4:30pm ET
Event

Deb Roy @ TED: Deep Mystery

LocationTED, Long Beach, CA Description

Wednesday
March 2, 2011
Article

A Matter of Facts podcast: MIT's Deb Roy on Twitter

Deb Roy talks to Delaware Public Media about social media, the spread of misinformation, trolling and abuse, content moderation, and more.

Event

Joi Ito, Deb Roy @ emTech 2011

LocationMIT Media Lab, E14 6th Floor Description

Tuesday — Wednesday
October 18, 2011 —
October 19, 2011
Event

Deb Roy and Rosalind Picard @ WIRED 2013

LocationTobacco Dock, London Description

Thursday
October 17, 2013
Person

Roy Shilkrot

Former Research Affiliate

Article

Deb Roy Interview: Misinformation and Social Media

Deb Roy talks to Amina Asim about the ways misinformation spreads on social media and what kinds of damage it can cause.

Post

Ed Boyden receives 2019 Lennart Nilsson Award

The award recognizes outstanding contributions within the realm of scientific photography.

Video

MLTalks: Nichole Pinkard and Deb Roy

Education, Technology, Equity: Nichole Pinkard and Deb Roy in conversation with J. Philipp Schmidt.

Post

Ed Boyden awarded the Croonian Medal and Lecture 2020

Named for one of the original Fellows of the Royal Society, the Croonian Medal and Lecture is the premier lecture in biological sciences.

Event

Ed Boyden @ TEDSummit 2016

LocationThe Banff Centre DescriptionTEDSummit is a new five-day event for the most engaged members of the global TED community. The gatheri…

Sunday
June 26, 2016
Event

Ed Boyden @ Techonomy 2014

LocationHalf Moon Bay, CA Description

Sunday — Tuesday
November 9, 2014 —
November 11, 2014
Event

Ed Boyden @ Neuroscience Conference

LocationBioConference Live Description

Wednesday — Thursday
March 19, 2014 —
March 20, 2014
Article

Jelani Cobb and Deb Roy Join Knight Institute Board

The Knight Institute was established by Columbia University and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation in 2016.

Article

The data-driven future of storytelling: MIT’s Deb Roy on the message and the medium

Deb Roy talks to McKinsey about the many ways audience, voice, and medium combine to create compelling stories.

Event

Ed Boyden @ TED: Threads of Discovery

LocationTED, Long Beach, CA Description

Thursday
March 3, 2011
Post

Congratulations to Ed Boyden on being inducted as an AIMBE Fellow

The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) College of Fellows honors those who have made out…

Post

Deb Roy named to Aspen Institute Commission on Information Disorder

The Commission's members are drawn from government, research and academia, civil society, public service, and private industry.

Article

Ed Boyden on "How to invent game-changing technologies"

Neuroscientist Ed Boyden discussing two inventions of his that have revolutionized neuroscience: optogenetics and expansion microscopy.

Event

Intelligent Media: Andrew Lippman, Cynthia Breazeal, Deb Roy

In the 1990s, the Media Lab was one of the first organizations to recognize that we were rapidly approaching an era where the channel could…

Wednesday
February 24, 2021
2:00pm — 3:30pm ET
Event

Ed Boyden, IET AF Harvey Prize Lecture

LocationSavoy Place, London, UK Description

Tuesday
June 19, 2012
Article

MIT’s Deb Roy analyzes divisions caused by social media-dominated world

In a recent lecture, Deb Roy discussed social media, democracy, and the continuing importance of local, in-person conversations.

Person

Carlos Gonzalez Uribe

Former Research Assistant

Event

Ed Boyden @ NSF Workshop on Mapping and Engineering the Brain

Description

Wednesday
August 14, 2013
Article

Reactions: Ed Boyden

Ed Boyden is in the MIT Media Lab and McGovern Institute, and a professor in the Departments of Biological Engineering and Brain and Cogniti

Publication

Interview with Edward S. Boyden

Boyden, E. S. (2013) Interview with Edward S. Boyden, Trends in Neurosciences 36(1):1-2.

Article

Ed Boyden on minding your brain

A conversation between Ed Boyden and Tyler Cowen on optogenetics and expansion microscopy to storytelling and the nature of consciousness.

Post

Ed Boyden awarded 2019 Warren Alpert Prize, with Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann, and Gero Miesenböck

The Warren Alpert Foundation honors scientists whose work has improved the understanding, prevention, treatment or cure of human disease.

Article

Ed Boyden wins prestigious Wilhelm Exner Medal

Entrepreneurial science award recognizes scientists whose work opens up “new dimensions of economic progress."

Post

Meet the Labbers: Ed Boyden

"I was always very philosophical as a kid, wondering about the meaning of life and what should we do."

Article

Ed Boyden and optogenetics: The future of neuroscience

Eric Topol, editor-in-chief of Medscape, interviews Synthetic Neurobiology head Ed Boyden.

Article

Ed Boyden Receives Breakthrough Prize

Edward S. Boyden received $3 million for his role in the development of optogenetics

Article

Ed Boyden elected to National Academy of Sciences

Boyden’s research creates and applies technologies that aim to expand our understanding of the brain.

Post

Ed Boyden elected to the National Academy of Sciences

The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) is a private, non-profit society of distinguished scholars.

Article

Ed Boyden: Creating tools and disrupting neuroscience

I think we ought to integrate the maps of the brain, the dynamics of the brain, and the ability to control the brain into single coherent d…

Article

Neuroscientist Ed Boyden is decoding the brain with the power of light

With the help of flashing lights and materials used in diapers, we could find out what thoughts are made of.

Article

Q&A with Ed Boyden, Winner of the Breakthrough Prize

Neuroscience hasn’t been the same since Ed Boyden arrived on the scene. As a trainee at Stanford, Boyden helped develop a technique that al…

Article

An Interview with Ed Boyden

Article

Ed Boyden at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Symposium—Brains and Behavior

Article

From brain prostheses to the 3D brain: Ed Boyden on the future of neuroscience

Boyden is certainly a wellspring of innovative ideas—but more than this, he is a scientific pioneer.

Article

Ed Boyden receives 2018 Canada Gairdner International Award

MIT scientist is among three recognized for the discovery of optogenetics.

Post

Congratulations to Ed Boyden on receiving the 2018 Canada Gairdner International Award!

2018 Canada Gairdner International Awardee “for the discovery of light-gated ion channel mechanisms, and for the discovery of optogenetics"

Post

Ed Boyden one of 19 new Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigators

The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) has named 19 new HHMI Investigators, including Synthetic Neurobiology head Ed Boyden.

Post

Joi Ito and Ed Boyden inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

On October 7, 2017, Media Lab director Joi Ito and professor Ed Boyden were inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, among …

Event

Colloquium: Tim Wu

LocationE14-525 DescriptionTim Wu will talk about his new book, The Master Switch, and more generally about the cycles in innovation and in…

Thursday
February 24, 2011
Event

Colloquium: Ken Perlin

LocationE14-633 DescriptionProfessor Perlin will present recent research in procedural modeling, responsive animation, pressure-sensitive i…

Monday
May 17, 2010
Article

Ed Boyden to share prestigious brain prize

Article

Ed Boyden one of four MIT professors named inaugural Faculty Scholars

Event

Colloquium with Behrokh Khoshnevis

LocationWiesner Room DescriptionThe nature of construction has remained intensely manual throughout recorded history. Unlike in manufactur…

Monday
January 26, 2009
Event

Colloquium with Jeremy Bailenson

LocationWiesner Room DescriptionJeremy Bailenson is founding director of Stanford University's Virtual Human Interaction Lab and an assista…

Monday
April 13, 2009
Event

Colloquium with Bart Hopkin

LocationWiesner Room DescriptionBart Hopkin will talk about musical instruments and sound, with the following question as a starting point:…

Monday
December 8, 2008
Person

Deborah Widener

Former Member Relations Manager

Event

Brandon Roy Dissertation Defense

LocationMIT Media Lab, Building E14, 6th Floor DescriptionThe first two years of a child's life is a period of remarkable development, espe…

Friday
November 30, 2012
Event

Colloquium: Eric Von Hippel

LocationWiesner Room DescriptionCorporations have well-refined methods of product development, brand development, management, production, a…

Monday
March 16, 2009
Article

Ed Boyden and Feng Zhang named Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigators

MIT faculty members are among 19 top scientists selected from across the nation.

Article

How to think: Ed Boyden on thinking, taking notes and rebooting your failures

Post

Deblina Sarkar named a finalist in MIT-Royalty Pharma Prize Competition 2023-24

The MIT-Royalty Pharma Prize Competition aims to support female faculty entrepreneurs in biotechnology.