Event

Jie Qi @ Hack Your Notebook Day

LocationOnline Description

Wednesday
July 9, 2014
Person

Jie Qi

Former Research Affiliate

Event

Jie Qi @ Exploratorium

LocationExploratorium, Pier 15, San Francisco Description

Thursday
November 7, 2013
Event

Jie Qi @ Maker Camp

LocationOnline Description

Thursday
July 17, 2014
Event

Jie Qi PhD Dissertation Defense

LocationMIT Media Lab, Bartos E15-070 DescriptionThe experience of wonder imbues the ordinary world around us with a magical sense of possi…

Friday
July 22, 2016
Post

Jie Qi on Edith Ackermann

Edith was a mentor to me, both inside and outside academics, inside and outside the Lab. In our discussions, Edith had a knack for taking o…

Person

Yang Qi

Former Research Assistant

Person

Chang-Qi Zhang

Former Research Assistant

Project

Hacking Manufacturing 2017

IdeaA lab is where unique ideas are generated and early prototypes are synthesized. A factory is where designs are mass produced and qualit…

Event

Science Hack Day @ Media Lab

LocationMIT Media Lab Description

Saturday — Sunday
January 24, 2015 —
January 25, 2015
Article

PhD Student Jie Qi Wins Schnitzer Prize in the Visual Arts at MIT

Event

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
Project

Hacking the Sketchbook

In this project we investigate how the process of building a circuit can be made more organic, like sketching in a sketchbook. We integrate…

Article

An MIT lab is building devices to hack your dreams

From improving your mood to focusing your creativity, scientists at MIT’s Dream Lab want to prove the power of dreams.

Person

Junqing Qiao

Research Assistant

Person

Qiuyi Han

Former Research Scientist

Article

These sleep engineers could help you hack your dreams

A group at MIT’s Media Lab known as the “Dream Team” thinks you can harness your unconscious mind with tech you can wear to bed.

Person

Yang Qiao

Former Research Assistant

Person

Fang Qing

Former Visiting Scientst

Person

Tammy Qiu

Former Research Software Engineer

Person

Yedan Qian

Former Research Assistant

Person

Qiansheng Li

Person

Jimmy Day

Video Producer

Post

Hacking Manufacturing: research on the factory floor

How one collaborative month has changed Labbers' views of making stuff.

Post

Hacking Reality

XR technology is becoming increasingly important in a world where the need to know intersects with the need to experience.

Person

Rui Qing

Former Postdoctoral Associate

Post

Day 1 - Arrival

The team packed up the truck and departed the Media Lab for the airport on Saturday afternoon.  Flying through Madrid, we arrived in L…

Article

Your front row seat to the trade war

This is what a trade war looks like.

Event

Hack with Samsung 2022

This hackathon aims to explore how projection can tap into our personal life to allow us to be healthier, better versions of ourselves.

Friday — Sunday
September 23, 2022 —
September 25, 2022
Publication

The audio notebook: paper and pen interaction with structured speech

Lisa Stifelman, Barry Arons, Chris Schmandt

Article

Make Magazine: Make Your Own Dream Incubator

First things first. Make sure you have your PCB, solder, soldering iron, flux pen, and electronic components ready to go.

Event

City Robotics: $10K Design•a•Hack•a•thon for People-Centric Mobility

Recent advancements in autonomous and intelligent machines introduce an unprecedented opportunity to reimagine how people live, work, and p…

Saturday — Monday
September 15, 2018 —
September 17, 2018
9:00am — 11:00pm ET
Publication

Augmenting real-world objects: a paper-based audio notebook

Lisa Stifelman

Article

Want to be more creative? Try dream-hacking while you sleep

The Washington Post reports on research from the Media Lab’s Fluid Interfaces group & Harvard Medical School that naps could aid creativity.

Event

Breakout Session: Kinect Hacks

Description

Tuesday
February 22, 2011
Event

MIT Hacking Arts 2017

Artists, engineers, hackers, creative technologists, innovators, entrepreneurs. If you have a passion for art and want to see how technolog…

Saturday — Sunday
November 11, 2017 —
November 12, 2017
Event

Hacking Journalism @ Media Lab

LocationMIT Media Lab, 6th Floor DescriptionKevin Hu and Alexis Hope on FOLD:Imagine reading about the 2008 housing crisis without knowing …

Saturday — Sunday
June 7, 2014 —
June 8, 2014
Event

Bio-Digital Hacking Workshop

Learn how to get started on BioHacking, and how might we create a bio-digital system.

Article

The consequences of hacking our dreams

Advertisers are beginning to explore ways to market products to people while they sleep. A group of scientists talked to NPR about the risks

Event

Joi Ito @ Hacking the Human Body

LocationSan Francisco, CA Description

Thursday
November 5, 2015
Article

Hacking in a factory

Lessons from a month in a Chinese knitting plant.

Video

Research at Scale

A six-week summer course in Shenzhen gave students a unique experience in bringing their research into a manufacturing environment

Post

Day 2 - Permits and field school

Our second day, though not the most exciting in imagery and data, was critical for the success of the expedition.

Article

Companies are ready to experiment with advertising in your dreams, and experts are sounding the alarm

Sleep and dream researchers are urging for an advance tightening of advertising law to nip all this in the bud before it starts in earnest.

Article

Inside your dreamscape

Dream-hacking techniques can help us create, heal and have fun. They could also become tools of commercial manipulation.

Event

Smart Urban Furniture, Hacking Ubiquitous Infrastructure

LocationMoonshine, 303 Red River DescriptionWhat if we could charge our phones while sitting in the park? What if wifi on the go was never …

Sunday
March 9, 2014
Event

#MLSXSW: Hacking Attention: Media, Technology & Crisis

LocationRoom 9ABC, Austin Convention Center Description#sxsw #HackAttn #MLSXSWSuperstorms, bombings and protests around the globe are chall…

Monday
March 10, 2014
Post

Day 7 - Local culture and recharge

After a very full week of intense research and field work, we were all ready for some downtime to go through the data we'd collected, asses…

Person

Elinor Poole-Dayan

Research Assistant

Event

City Science Mobility++ Hackathon 2017 / MIT 城市科學【多元運輸】黑客松 2017

​MIT Media Lab  Mobility++ Workshop【多元運輸】工作坊2017  11月28日~30日 In celebration of the launch of City Science Lab @ TaipeiTechAb…

Article

Hacking the Breast Pump

"When the Make the Breast Pump Not Suck! hackathon, a collection of roughly a hundred and fifty engineers, designers, midwives, and parents…

Post

Getting Started with Creative Learning in your Public Library

Our PLIX Facilitation Kits are designed to make it easy for librarians to offer creative learning programs to their patrons.

Person

Taylor Levy

Former Research Assistant

Publication

User Innovation and Hacking

Eric von Hippel, Joseph A. Paradiso,

Post

MIT AI for Filmmaking Hackathon 2023 Brings Dreams to Life

Ruihan Zhang, a student in the Molecular Machines group, was lead organizer of this event in collaboration with MIT Film Makers Association

Publication

Hacking Innovation - Group Dynamics in Innovation Teams

Lederman, O. "Hacking Innovation - Group Dynamics in Innovation Teams"

Person

Che-Wei Wang

Publication

Guest Editors' Introduction: Hacking is Pervasive

Joseph A. Paradiso, John Heidemann, Thomas G. Zimmerman

Post

MIT AI for Filmmaking Hackathon 2024: A Leap Forward in Creative Innovation

The second iteration of this hackathon featured 66 films and 400 participants from local institutions, other states, and countries.

Article

These tiny, wearable robots can cling to your clothes and drive around your body

They may one day assemble into a screen on your arm.

Publication

Hacking Voice Assistants: Speculative Design As Resistance In The Age Of Surveillance Capitalism

Event

Scratch Day

LocationMIT Media Lab, 6th Floor DescriptionJoin the Scratch Team at the MIT Media Lab to meet, share, learn, and celebrate Scratch Day wit…

Saturday
May 14, 2016