Event

Jonathan Bobrow @ Tech Poetics Meetup

LocationBocoup, Boston, MA Description

Friday — Thursday
December 18, 2015 —
December 17, 2015
Person

Jonathan Bobrow

Former Research Assistant

Person

Jonathan Merrin

AI Augmented Learning System Developer

Person

Jonathan Richards

Administrative Assistant

Person

Jonathan Cohen

Research Affiliate

Person

Jonathan Askin

Former Visiting Professor

Person

Jonathan Zittrain

Former Visiting Professor

Person

Jonathan Fanton

President Emeritus, American Academy of Arts & Sciences; Advisory Council Member

Person

Jonathan Dyssel Stets

Former Research Assistant

Event

Moonshot Meetup with Dan Novy

LocationGoogle Hangout DescriptionDan Novy, a PhD student in the Object-Based Media Group, will be joining Solve for X’s Moonshot Meet Up o…

Thursday
February 13, 2014
Person

Plexxi Tech

Event

Jonathan Ledgard: Future Africa

LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-633 DescriptionThe technology choices Africa makes in the next decade will help to determine whether it becomes …

Monday
April 29, 2013
Event

Special Talk: Edinburgh Festival Director Jonathan Mills

LocationMIT Media Lab, Building E14, 6th Floor Lecture Hall DescriptionThe Edinburgh International Festival has been connecting artists and…

Tuesday
November 13, 2012
Post

The Media Lab at the 2021 Core77 Design Awards

Congratulations to the winners of the 2021 Core77 Design Awards!

Project

Troxes

The building blocks we grow up with and the coordinate systems we are introduced to at an early age shape the design space with which we th…

Project

AutomaTiles

A tabletop set of cellular automata ready to exhibit complex systems through simple behaviors, AutomaTiles explores emergent behavior throu…

Project

Dice++

Today, algorithms drive our cars, our economy, what we read, and how we play. Modern-day computer games utilize weighted probabilities to m…

Project

Storyboards

Giving opaque technology a glass house, Storyboards present the tinkerers or owners of electronic devices with stories of how their devices…

Article

Interview with Jonathan Taplin and Cesar Hidalgo

Article

Student Runner Up Open Design Award Core77 Design Awards 2016

Group

Playful Systems

In a world mediated through computing, our everyday lives are increasingly affected by complex and invisible systems. Some of these are alg…

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

Tech’s ethical ‘dark side’: Harvard, Stanford and others want to address it

The medical profession has an ethic: First, do no harm.Silicon Valley has an ethos: Build it first and ask for forgiveness later.…

Article

What tech will look like in 2039

We asked futurists, tech execs, academics, researchers, and a sci-fi writer to imagine our tech-driven society in 20 years.

Project

Tech Tutors

MIT students on a mission to tackle the education crisis created by Covid-19The US school system is struggling to support all of its studen…

Event

Platform Tech Summit - 2014

Topper Carew speaking at Platform Tech Summit - 2014

Saturday
November 15, 2014
Event

MIT Health Tech Workshop

LocationMumbai, India DescriptionThe Tata Center for Technology+Design along with the MIT Media Lab will be hosting a workshop that will br…

Sunday — Saturday
January 26, 2014 —
February 1, 2014
Event

Education for Fashion Tech

Where is fashion education heading? Join us for a digital conversation on how fashion-technology is shaping future fashion creatives.3 roun…

Saturday
October 17, 2020
5:30am — 12:00pm ET
Article

The ethics and tech of dream seeding

In Discovery Magazine, Media Lab postdoc Adam Haar Horowitz and other researchers discuss the possible ethical issues of influencing dreams.

Event

MLTalks: Hoops, Tech, and Justice

Jaylen Brown in conversation with David Sun Kong and Kade Crockford

Friday
October 12, 2018
5:00pm — 6:00pm ET
Group

High-Low Tech

The High-Low Tech group integrates high and low technological materials, processes, and cultures. Our primary aim is to engage diverse audi…

Event

Rosalind Picard Talk @ Georgia Tech

LocationGeorgia Tech Square Research Building Description

Thursday
February 18, 2016
Project

Tech Tutors - Spring 2021

MIT students on a mission to tackle the education crisis created by Covid-19The US school system is struggling to support all of its studen…

Event

Indovation: Nashik2015 Tech for Kumbh Mela

LocationSandip Foundation, Village Mahiravani, Trimbak Road, Nashik DescriptionKumbhThon is a technical hackathon for Kumbh 2015. It is a …

Friday — Monday
January 24, 2014 —
January 27, 2014
Article

MIT Legal Forum 2017: The future of lawyers and technology

This October, MIT celebrated the inaugural MIT Legal Forum on AI & Blockchain which aimed to provide a space in which legal professiona…

Article

MIT clean tech companies to watch

Explore a few of the clean tech startups begun by MIT researchers and alumni, including Media Lab spinoffs Graviky Labs and Stable Auto.

Article

Ekene Ijeoma Reveals Social Injustices Through Data, Design and Art

Jareh Das: Where did your interest in bringing together computational data and conceptual art begin?Ekene Ijeoma: Throughout high scho…

Publication

Defund Big Tech, Refund Community: Anti-Trust is Not Enough, Another Tech is Possible

Barendregt, W., Becker, C., Cheon, E., Clement, A., Reynolds-Cuéllar, P., Schuler, D., & Suchman, L. (2021). Defund Big Tech, Refund Community. Tech Otherwise. https://doi.org/10.21428/93b2c832.e0100a3f

Article

HDR pioneer looks to future of wearable tech

Media Lab alum Steve Mann, known as “the father of wearable computing,” talks to the MIT Alumni Association about his approach to new tech.

Event

Rosalind Picard @ Burnell Symposium at Cornell Tech

Emotion AI: How Well Can We Forecast and Change The Future of Mental Health?

Wednesday
November 13, 2019
4:30pm — 6:30pm ET
Event

Kent Larson @Tech Review Digital Summit

LocationSt. Regis Hotel, San Francisco Description

Tuesday
June 10, 2014
Article

Assistive tech gains at CES in Las Vegas

Spinoff Xander, founded by alum Alex Westner, provides real-time captions to help users with hearing loss follow in-person conversations.

Video

MLTalks: Hoops, Tech, and Justice

At 21, Jaylen Brown is a polymath and a rising star in the NBA with the Boston Celtics.

Article

John Maeda: A Life of Tech, Design and Computational Thinking

Former Media Lab Professor John Maeda talks to Danielle Newnham about computational thinking and what it takes to cultivate curiosity.

Article

Hugh Herr's new prosthetic tech uses magnets

Magnetomicrometry uses implantable magnets to track the position of muscles, potentially improving the control and efficacy of prosthetics.

Event

Trust in Pandemic Tech: Smartphone Apps for Participatory Response

From 12–3pm ET Thursday 7/29 and Thursday, 8/6, and join Ramesh Raskar and other experts for Trust in Pandemic Tech, part of the …

Thursday
August 6, 2020
12:00pm — 3:00pm ET
Post

MIT Media Lab + PwC Emerging Tech Exchange 2024

Pioneering Sustainable Futures and Human-Centric TechnologiesThrough our Future Worlds Research Theme and work being done at our Space Expl…

Article

Danielle Wood Publishes Article on Antiracist Tech Innovators

Danielle Wood pens opinion piece, "It’s Time To Celebrate Antiracist Tech Innovators."

Article

To Hold Tech Accountable, Look to Public Health

The field of public health has transformed medicine, yet failed the most vulnerable. This trajectory can be avoided.

Article

Technologists are trying to fix the “filter bubble” problem that tech helped create

But research shows online polarization isn’t as clear-cut as people think.

Post

Augmental Tech among 2023 Forbes 30 Under 30 honorees

Fluid Interfaces alum Tomás Vega and his Augmental Tech co-founder Corten Singer were recognized in the Social Impact category.

Article

Foster innovation, ethical tech with diverse teams

Civic Media head Ethan Zuckerman and others discuss how increasing team diversity can improve outcomes.

Article

The High-Tech Future of Farming

Caleb Harper is interviewed at the 2016 Aspen Ideas Festival.

Event

Danielle Wood Moderates AAAS Session on Space Tech and Biodiversity

Danielle Wood moderates Panel on Space Tech and Biodiversity at the AAAS Annual Meeting.

Monday
February 8, 2021
2:00pm ET
Article

Literati CTO Finds “Tech for Good” in Boxes of Books

Civic Media alum Charlie DeTar talks to the MIT Alumni Association about his work with Literati, using technology for social good, and more.

Event

Adam Marblestone @ Wearable Tech + Digital Health NYC 2016

LocationNew York Academy of Sciences Description BiographiesAdam Marblestone is the Director of Scientific Architecting at the MIT Syntheti…

Wednesday
June 8, 2016
Event

Rosalind Picard @ Wearable Tech + Digital Health NYC 2016

LocationNew York Academy of Sciences Description BiographiesProfessor Rosalind W. Picard, Sc.D. is founder and director of the Affective Co…

Wednesday
June 8, 2016
Event

Negroponte, Raskar, Bonanni, Chin @ Indian Institute of Tech Conference

Description

Saturday — Sunday
October 1, 2011 —
October 2, 2011
Post

E14 Fund Startups: Mobility and Urban Tech

Article

New tech provides early warning for depression

'Affective computing' measures subtle changes in stress and mental health.