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Baratunde Thurston

Former Director's Fellows Program Alumnus

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MLTalks: Baratunde Thurston

Baratunde Thurston in conversation with Media Lab Director Joi Ito.

Thursday
January 10, 2013
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MLTalks: Baratunde Thurston

Baratunde Thurston in conversation with Media Lab Director Joi Ito.

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Comedy Hack Day with Baratunde Thurston

LocationMIT Media Lab, 6th Floor DescriptionComedy Hack Day, an initiative by Director's Fellow Baratunde Thurston's company Cultivated Wit…

Saturday — Sunday
September 21, 2013 —
September 22, 2013
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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 in …

Friday
March 15, 2013
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Joi Ito, Shaka Senghor, Linda Stone, Jeff Sturges, Baratunde Thurston @ TEDxMidwest

LocationChicago, IL DescriptionMedia Lab Director Joi Ito, Director's Fellows Shaka Senghor, Jeff Sturges, and Baratunde Thurston, and Advi…

Thursday — Saturday
May 2, 2013 —
May 4, 2013
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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
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Media Lab Conversations Series: JJ Abrams

Nov. 26, 2012
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Media Lab Conversations Series: Carroll Bogert

Sept. 10, 2012
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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: Joi Ito and the Director's Fellows

Director of the Media Lab Joi Ito in conversation with the Director's Fellows.

Friday
January 23, 2015
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Media Lab Perspectives Speaker Series

Faculty Perspectives is a new series inviting thoughtful speakers and innovators to inspire the Media Lab community and beyond.

Thursday
April 14, 2022
12:00pm — 1:00pm ET
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MLTalks: Joi Ito and the Director's Fellows

Director of the Media Lab Joi Ito in conversation with the Director's Fellows.

Jan. 23, 2015
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Conformable Decoders Group presents on New Health at the Media Lab Focus series for July 2021

The July edition of the Media Lab Focus series for member companies starts next week! The theme is New Health,  and wil…

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Media Lab spinoff Empatica receives new FDA clearance for its Health Monitoring Platform and announces Series B financing

Co-founded by Professor Rosalind Picard, Empatica develops medical-grade wearables and algorithms for health monitoring and diagnostics.

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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

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Media Lab Perspectives: Listening to Disrupt with Katherine Cramer

Listening to DisruptIn this session of the Media Lab Perspectives series, Deb Roy will engage his collaborator Kathy Cramer in co…

Thursday
May 27, 2021
12:00pm — 1:00pm ET
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Media Lab Focus

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

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MLTalks Series

Learn more about our MLTalks series, including upcoming events.

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Media Lab Research Theme: Life with AI

The Challenge: To harness AI for humanity's leap forwardMachines are becoming more intelligent and more powerful every day. But, like all t…

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Canan Dagdeviren is interviewed by IEEE's Pulse “From the Lab” podcast series

IEEE Pulse: From The Lab Episode 1: Canan Dagdeviren

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Media Lab Perspectives: Listening to Disrupt with Katherine Cramer

Thursday May 27, 2021 …

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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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Media Lab research response to COVID-19

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

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Media Lab @ 2022 Lake Nona Impact Forum

"A conversation. Not a conference."

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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.

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Modeling Contingent Behaviors in Multiparty Conversations

Recognizing and interpreting group behaviors is much more challenging than that of individual behaviors. Firstly, the system must perform w…

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NanoBio Seminar Series Fall'24

Please join us for an exciting journey in recent advances in nanotechnology and bioengineering.

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Media Lab researchers take second place in MIT AI Pitch Competition

The theme for this year's competition was Generative Voice AI Solutions.

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Media Lab spinoff Xander honored at CES 2023

Co-founded by Media Lab alum Alex Westner, Xander will introduce its first product, XanderGlasses, at CES 2023.

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MIT Media Lab x Smart Living Lab

In January 2024, members of the Media Lab traveled to Fribourg, Switzerland to conduct a workshop on sensing, interactions, and augmentation

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Media Lab Director's Fellows

The Media Lab Director’s Fellows connect a global network of visionary leaders with the Lab's interdisciplinary research culture.…

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Leading Conversations in AI: Extended intelligence & humans with machines

Kate Darling, Cynthia Breazeal, and Pattie Maes of the Media Lab join Patricia Henderson for a conversation about extended intelligence.

Friday
October 8, 2021
12:00pm — 1:00pm ET
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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 s…

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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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Media Lab Research Theme: Future Worlds

The Challenge: To secure a sustainable future for all living thingsHow can we reduce harm to our planet and the future prospects of life on…

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Recordings: Pandemic Response Catalyst Conversations

Part of a collaboration between the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence, the Lab’s Community Biotechnology Initiative, and MilliporeSigma

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Media Lab Perspectives: Can a lab be an undivided house? with Sara Hendren

In this session of the Media Lab Perspective Series, Future Sketches head Zach Lieberman will moderate a conversation with Sara Hendren.

Thursday
December 9, 2021
12:00pm — 1:00pm ET
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Media Lab Focus | July 2021: New Health

The Media Lab Focus series for July 2021 will be around the theme of New Health.

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Media Lab Focus | September 2021: Aging

The theme for the ML Focus series for September 2021 will be on Aging.

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Media Lab research at CHI 2019

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

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Media Lab Spinoffs

For more than three decades, the people of the Media Lab have spurred progress and change not just through academia, but across startups an…

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Fast Company's 2023 World-Changing Ideas Awards: Media Lab Honorees

A number of Media Lab and MIT projects and spinoffs were recognized.

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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.

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Teaching at the Media Lab

To me, teaching equals sharing while learning.

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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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Media Lab Focus | March 2021: Mobility

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

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Media Lab Perspectives: Back to Earth with Nicole Stott

In this session of the Media Lab Perspective Series, Media Lab director Dava Newman will moderate a conversation with Nicole Stott

Thursday
February 17, 2022
12:00pm — 1:00pm ET
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Media Lab map

MIT Media Lab map updated October, 2024

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Media Lab MOSAIC

Media Lab MOSAIC (MAS Outreach for Students Advancing Inclusion & Community)Date: November 25Time: 5:00 - 7:00 PMLocation: MIT Building…

Monday
November 25, 2024
5:00pm — 7:00pm ET
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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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Media Lab @ UIST 2024

A number of Media Lab researchers are participating in UIST 2024.

Sunday — Wednesday
October 13, 2024 —
October 16, 2024
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Media Lab @ CSCW 2024

A number of Media Lab researchers are participating in CSCW 2024.

Saturday — Wednesday
November 9, 2024 —
November 13, 2024
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SXSW | Head Fakes and Pivots: Trump Punks Silicon Valley

BARATUNDE THURSTONBaratunde Bureaucracy CorpFuturist comedian, activist, and best-selling "How to Be Black" author Baratunde Thurston gives…

Wednesday
March 15, 2017
3:30pm — 4:30pm ET
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Diversity Series

The MAS Diversity Series brings the Media Lab community together to develop skills and explore ideas of diversity and social justice t…

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Media Lab @ SIGGRAPH 2024

A variety of Media Lab community members will participate in the SIGGRAPH 2024 Conference.

Sunday — Thursday
July 28, 2024 —
August 1, 2024