Person

George Church

Former Visiting Professor

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MLTalks: George Church

American geneticist, molecular engineer, and chemist George Church in conversation with Media Lab Director Joi Ito.

Friday
May 2, 2014
Video

MLTalks: George Church

American geneticist, molecular engineer, and chemist George Church 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 in …

Friday
March 15, 2013
Event

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
Person

Margaret Church

Program Manager

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: Guts and Genius

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

Person

George Rossick

Person

George Shaw

Former Research Assistant

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George Sergiadis

Former Visiting Scientist

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Liz George

Former Director's Fellow

Person

George Leifman

Former Postdoctoral Fellow

Event

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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Media Lab Perspectives: Why Do We Want Our Computers to Improvise? with George Lewis

Professor Tod Machover will welcome George Lewis, Edwin H. Case Professor of American Music at Columbia University.

Thursday
April 29, 2021
12:00pm — 1:00pm ET
Video

Media Lab Perspectives: Why Do We Want Our Computers to Improvise? with George Lewis

Thursday April 29, 2021 …

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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…

Article

Talking with Maggie Church: MIT staff are "part of it all"

Get to know more about Maggie Church, the program coordinator for the City Science research group, through this MIT SA+P profile.

Article

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.

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

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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.

Person

Kevin Esvelt

Associate Professor of Media Arts and Sciences; NEC Career Development Professor of Computer and Communications

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MLTalks Series

Learn more about our MLTalks series, including upcoming events.

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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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Jianghong Min

Former Research Assistant

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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…

Post

Media Lab Public Statement on Racism

​​​To members of the Media Lab community,As we pass the mid-way point of summer, a worldwide movement to combat racial oppression and anti-…

Event

Media Lab @ 2022 Lake Nona Impact Forum

"A conversation. Not a conference."

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.

Project

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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Media Lab research response to COVID-19

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

Group

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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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.

Post

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 hosts screenings with Boston Film Festival

The screenings highlight stories of the Black community in the US featuring innovation, tradition, and courage.

Saturday — Sunday
September 23, 2023 —
September 24, 2023
Event

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
Project

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…

Post

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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Announcing the winners of the 2017 Media Lab Disobedience Award

Congratulations to winners Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha and Professor Marc Edwards

Event

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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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 Focus | September 2021: Aging

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

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MIT Media Lab in the Media

Explore coverage of MIT in the MediaFor media inquiries, visit the Information for the Press page.

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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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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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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…

Event

City Science Lab @ Gipuzkoa Announced

On February 28, 2023 the MIT City Science team hosted an event to formally announce the start of the City Science Lab@Gipuzkoa, a region in…

Monday — Wednesday
February 27, 2023 —
March 1, 2023
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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.

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.

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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 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.

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…