Event

#techstyle @ Boston Museum of Fine Arts

Clothes that respond to the environment, dresses you can tweet, and garments that come off a 3D printer ready to wear!

Sunday — Wednesday
March 6, 2016 —
July 20, 2016
Article

‘#techstyle’ Review: In Boston, the Future of Fashion

Gallery

Beijing Media Arts Biennale 2018

On September 5, 2018, the 2nd Beijing Media Art Biennale (BMAB) is to return on schedule. If the topic Ethics of Technology last year discu…

Article

New MIT Museum glimpses the future and examines school’s past

The Boston Globe takes a tour around the new MIT Museum, highlighting a number of exhibits and events related to the Media Lab.

Article

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu asks SA+P advanced degree recipients to be forces for good in Boston and beyond

Media Lab professor Tod Machover performed a new musical composition, "A Little Hub Symphony," during the SA+P advanced degree ceremony.

Event

Sputniko! @ MIT Museum

LocationMIT Museum DescriptionHigh speed robots? Humans colonizing space? How do today’s technologies reflect what we’ve seen on the big sc…

Friday
September 12, 2014
Post

The Media Lab @ the MIT Museum

We're thrilled to welcome our friends at the Museum to Kendall Square!

Event

Connections Exhibit at MIT Museum

LocationMIT Museum DescriptionThis exhibition at the MIT Museum explores the social potential of new communication technologies. Art instal…

Thursday — Sunday
February 12, 2009 —
September 13, 2009
Article

A guided tour of the new MIT Museum

David Nuñez, an alum of the Media Lab’s Personal Robots research group, takes MIT Technology Review on a tour of the re-imagined Museum.

Event

Sandy Pentland @ MIT Museum

LocationMIT Museum DescriptionWhen big data meets social science: social physics, collective intelligence, and more!From Google to the NSA,…

Thursday
April 10, 2014
Article

MIT Museum Collection Highlights: Holography

Explore the MIT Museum's collection of holograms, which includes examples of the rainbow holograms developed by Stephen Benton.

Project

TurboTrack: 3D backscatter localization for fine-grained robotics

TurboTrack is a 3D localization system for fine-grained robotic tasks, with unique capability to localize backscatter nodes with sub-centim…

Event

Vitra Design Museum: Instagram Live

Vitra Design Museum invites Neri Oxman to an Instagram Live Q+A session with Mateo Kries.

Wednesday
September 16, 2020
12:00pm — 1:00pm ET
Publication

3D Backscatter Localization for Fine-Grained Robotics

Zhihong Luo, Qiping Zhang, Yunfei Ma, Manish Singh, and Fadel Adib. 16th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI 19).

Event

inFORM @ Cooper Hewitt Design Museum

LocationCooper Hewitt Museum, New YorkDescriptionImagine handling objects virtually and physically in real time, from thousands of miles aw…

Monday — Sunday
December 1, 2014 —
May 31, 2015
Event

Alum Jeff Lieberman @ MIT Museum

LocationMIT Museum DescriptionThis year is the XIXth Friday After Thanksgiving chain reaction event at the MIT Museum, so the theme is … sy…

Friday
November 25, 2016
Event

Rana el Kaliouby @ MIT Museum

LocationMIT Museum Description

Saturday
September 28, 2013
Event

Tod Machover @ Computer History Museum

LocationMountain View, CA Description

Wednesday — Thursday
June 27, 2012 —
June 28, 2012
Event

Mitch Resnick Speaking at Discovery Museums

LocationThe Discovery Musuems DescriptionIn today's rapidly-changing society, people must continually come up with creative solutions to un…

Wednesday
March 20, 2013
Event

Design Exchange Boston

DescriptionSATURDAY, OCTOBER 12Xiao XiaoReinvent, Reimagine: From classical piano to future interactive technologyhttp://dxboston.com/event…

Saturday — Sunday
October 12, 2013 —
October 13, 2013
Project

RealTalk for Change Boston

A revolutionary new piece of civic infrastructure for more inclusive public input.Real Talk for Change is a collaboration between MIT’s Cen…

Event

Tapis Magique and Knitted Keyboard @ KSU Museum

The Kent State University (KSU) Museum is pleased to announce the opening of a new exhibition, Knitting Beyond the Body. When you thin…

Saturday — Thursday
September 9, 2023 —
August 1, 2024
Article

Reimagined MIT Museum encourages visitors to join MIT’s community

“Whoever you are, this is your place.” The new museum opens Oct. 2 at the gateway between Kendall Square and campus.

Event

Joi Ito Keynote @ New Museum's Ideas City

LocationIdeas City Description

Wednesday
May 1, 2013
Project

Meteorite Museum

Meteorite is a permanent, underground, interactive museum that opened in Essen, Germany in June 1998. Our group designed all of the intera…

Event

SEI & Boston Design Academy Workshop

The Boston Design Academy (BDA) is developing projects and activities to help high school students learn and engage with their Patent …

Thursday
August 1, 2019
1:00pm — 2:00pm ET
Event

Joi Ito @ Boston Book Festival

LocationOld South Sanctuary 645 Boylston Street, Boston, MA DescriptionA discussion of which industries we can expect to thrive in the futu…

Saturday
October 15, 2016
Event

Danny Hillis @ Long Now Boston

LocationLong Now Boston Description

Wednesday
May 4, 2016
Event

Brain, Body + Breath : Machover @ MIT Museum

A multisensory musical experience created by composer and innovator Tod Machover for the opening of the new MIT Museum.

Friday — Saturday
October 14, 2022 —
October 15, 2022
7:00pm ET
Event

MIT Museum Exhibit: Making Digital Tangible

“My dream is to make bits tangible and atoms dance.”—Hiroshi Ishii

Event

Two Mobility Futures 0∞ at the Autostadt Museum

Two Mobility Futures 0∞ is a research project that encompasses storytelling, a democratic decision making platform, a city model, and …

Friday — Sunday
February 17, 2023 —
June 4, 2023
10:00am — 6:00pm ET
Article

HubWeek 2019 celebrates five years of connecting MIT, Boston, and the world

Greater Boston’s annual festival of ideas finds new avenues for celebrating and connecting innovators.

Publication

The Fine Art of Electronics: Paper-based Circuits for Creative Expression

Qi, J. "The Fine Art of Electronics: Paper-based Circuits for Creative Expression"

Event

Judith Donath on Post-Physical Representation @ MIT Museum

LocationMIT Museum DescriptionPortraits depict something essential about a person, usually by delineating the subject’s physical appearance…

Tuesday
April 7, 2009
Event

Kent Larson @ Boston Society of Architects

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Thursday
March 6, 2014
Event

The Japan-Boston Joint Entrepreneurship Forum

LocationMIT Media Lab, E15, Bartos Theater DescriptionThe MIT Media Lab, Harvard Business School’s Japan Research Center, and the Consulate…

Monday
September 16, 2013
Event

Place Pulse at Pecha Kucha Boston

LocationOberon (2 Arrow Street, Cambridge) Description

Tuesday
November 15, 2011
Project

Digito: A Fine-Grained, Gesturally Controlled Virtual Musical Instrument

Digito is a gesturally controlled virtual musical instrument, controlled through a number of intricate hand gestures which provide both dis…

Article

Ten important humans behind Boston’s AI revolution

The list includes Habib Haddad, founding managing partner of the E14 Fund, and Rana el Kaliouby, co-founder and CEO of Affectiva.

Publication

Digito: A Fine-Grain Gesturally Controlled Virtual Musical Instrument

Nick Gillian, Joseph A. Paradiso,

Person

Sputniko!

Former Assistant Professor of Media Arts and Sciences

Publication

SensorNets: Towards Reconfigurable Multifunctional Fine-grained Soft and Stretchable Electronic Skins

Wicaksono, I., Kodama, E., Dementyev, A. and Paradiso, J.A. 2020. SensorNets: Towards Reconfigurable Multifunctional Fine-grained Soft and Stretchable Electronic Skins. In Proceedings of ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, New York, NY, USA, 1–8. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3334480.338

Event

Unveiling of first Lost in Boston sign

DescriptionMore info on the Lost in Boston project: https://news.mit.edu/2009/lost-in-boston

Monday
October 19, 2009
Event

826 Boston Workshop: Our City is Alive

The City Science team hosted students from 826 Boston's STEM Inspired Writing Camp Our City is Alive for a one-day workshop. The stude…

Tuesday
July 23, 2019
Post

City Science Lab Opens in Guadalajara Museum of Environmental Sciences

The City Science Lab @ Guadalajara was established in 2019 via a cooperation agreement between the University of Guadalajara and the City S…

Event

Alex 'Sandy' Pentland @ Intrepid Museum's Space & Science Festival

LocationThe Intrepid Sea, Air, and Space Museum DescriptionTREK TALK Alex “Sandy” Pentland presents The Genesis of Wearable TechnologyProfe…

Saturday
July 16, 2016
Gallery

CityScope Boston BRT Community Engagement

Article

Welcome to the MIT Museum’s ‘spiffy’ new digs in Kendall Square

The museum’s director, John Durant, talks about the new location and installations including Media Lab alum Andy Cavatorta’s sculpture.

Event

Joi Ito to be honored by Japan Society of Boston

LocationBoston, MA Description

Thursday
June 6, 2013
Article

Hugh Herr talks to the Boston Globe about the collaboration that led to a new amputation procedure

A team of Boston surgeons and scientists has developed a new approach to amputation.

Event

Death and the Powers @ Boston's Cutler Majestic Theater

LocationART at the Cutler Majestic Theater, Boston Description

Friday — Friday
March 18, 2011 —
March 25, 2011
Event

VANTAA ART MUSEUM EXHIBITION: Be My Guest! A Dinner Event Hosted by Artificial Intelligence

Be My Guest! is currently on display at the Vantaa Art Museum, Finland until December 3, 2023 as part of their "SYSTEMS" exhibiti…

Friday — Sunday
September 29, 2023 —
December 3, 2023
Event

Dent:Live Boston at Carbonite – Women Driving Innovation in Space

It’s no secret that some of the most important breakthroughs in aerospace and planetary science are coming from Boston and Cambridge. …

Tuesday
February 12, 2019
6:00pm — 9:00pm ET
Event

Golan Levin: "Interaction Arts, Data Arts, and Speculative HCI"

LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-633 DescriptionGolan Levin is interested in the medium of response, and in the conditions that enable people to …

Tuesday
March 1, 2011
Event

Sound/System: Media Lab at the Peabody Essex Museum's PEM/PM

LocationPeabody Essex Museum, Salem MA DescriptionMIT Media Lab researchers bring the radiO_o project to the Peabody Essex! Wear one of the…

Thursday
September 18, 2014
Project

Language Vision: Exhibition at MIT Museum Studio

Where is the boundary between internal and external?  This series of animations serves as the title for an exhibition of the installat…

Event

Courtyard Festival with Boston Mayor Martin J. Walsh

This one-night speaker event at City Hall Plaza will explore the ways startups and new technologies will shape the future of Boston.Join Ma…

Thursday
June 1, 2017
5:00pm — 8:00pm ET
Event

Earthrise: A 50 Year Contemplation at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum

Meet members of the Space Enabled research group and experience their celebration of the original Earthrise photo.

Friday — Saturday
July 19, 2019 —
July 20, 2019
Person

Sepandar Kamvar

Project

Field Experimentation in Boston's Intertidal Zone

The Intertidal Experimentation Workshop will take place September 29 and 30 (9am to 2pm) at the MIT Media Lab, open to students ages 8-14. …

Event

Ufuoma Ovienmhada joins panel at IEEE Boston Remote Sensing Night

Join the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (GRSS) and Indigo Agriculture for an evening meetup event featuring professionals from …

Thursday
November 21, 2019
6:00pm — 8:00pm ET
Event

Ramesh Raskar at Boston IEEE Photonics Society Imaging Workshop

LocationMIT Lincoln Lab Description

Wednesday
April 20, 2011
Person

Ophelia Dahl

Former Director's Fellow