Former Director's Fellows Program Alumnus
LocationMIT Media Lab, Bartos Theater DescriptionShaka Senghor was one of the first group of Director's Fellows at the Media Lab. On March …
Damien Echols and Shaka Senghor in conversation on injustice, compassion, and redemption in relation to their prison memoirs.
Shaka Senghor and Martha Minow in conversation with Media Lab Director Joi Ito.
Shaka Senghor and Martha Minow in conversation with Media Lab Director Joi Ito.
Damien Echols and Shaka Senghor in conversation on injustice, compassion, and redemption in relation to their prison memoirs.
LocationChicago, IL DescriptionMedia Lab Director Joi Ito, Director's Fellows Shaka Senghor, Jeff Sturges, and Baratunde Thurston, and Advi…
2018: A year defined by a PhD | A study, analyses, and a writing spree.
Lebanese artist Yazan Halwani created a mural for the Media Lab's Defiance event. He called this work "Between a Rock and a Hard Place."
Former Fiscal Officer
We study augmentation of the creative writing process through a new text editor. This text editor presents short-length snippets from books…
Singh, N., Bernal, G., Savchenko, D., & Glassman, E. L. (2022). Where to Hide a Stolen Elephant: Leaps in Creative Writing with Multimodal Machine Intelligence. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction.
Seventy percent of nations have deep-sea environments within their maritime Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZs), yet only 16 percent of them ar…
Many people don't finish high school. We are studying the context, student population, and technical resources of an urban, community-based…
Research Scientist
Nan-wei Gong., Mathew Laibowitz, Joseph A. Paradiso
Director of the Media Lab Joi Ito in conversation with the Director's Fellows.
Photorefractive polymer has many attractive properties for dynamic holographic displays; however, the current display systems based around …
Man of My Words is a wearable self-feedback voice changer for women to challenge internalized sexism. The experience is designed in two par…
MACH, My Automated Conversation coacH, is a system for people to practice social interactions in face-to-face scenarios. MACH consists of a…
Mohammed (Ehsan) Hoque, Matthieu Courgeon, Jean-Claude Martin, Bilge Mutlu, Rosalind W. Picard
Director of the Media Lab Joi Ito in conversation with the Director's Fellows.
Hill, B. "Cooperation in Parallel: A Tool for Supporting Collaborative Writing in Diverged Documents"
The deep sea is the common heritage of all of humankind and we must all share in the responsibility to be good stewards of it.
Sundeep Jolly, Bianca Datta, Vik Parthiban, Daniel Smalley, and V. Michael Bove Jr. "Experimental characterization of leaky-mode spatial light modulators fabricated via direct laser writing", Proc. SPIE 10944, Practical Holography XXXIII: Displays, Materials, and Applications, 109440V (1 March 2019); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2510174
Machover, T.
Kyunghee Kim, Rosalind W. Picard, Henry Lieberman
I’m sure that most, if not all of you, have seen recent news stories about Jeffrey Epstein, and I owe it to you to address my prior affilia…
With its increasingly humanlike design, artificial intelligence gives many people the creeps—though usually not intentionally. But a new ro…
Sunny Jolly, Daniel Smalley, James Barabas, V. Michael Bove, Jr.
Be My Guest! is currently on display at the Vantaa Art Museum, Finland until December 3, 2023 as part of their "SYSTEMS" exhibition.At the …
A visiting scientist from NHK, Takahito Ito joined the Lab as a company member and left as a crew member.
LocationMarriot Marquis, New York City Description
This project is a novel concept for a social TV application, targeting the demographic of viewers enjoying live sports events, such as road…
When friends give directions, they often don't describe the whole route, but instead provide landmarks along the way that they think will b…
Be My Guest! will be performed at the Museum of Fine Arts, Brussels (BOZAR) in December 2023.
In My Shoes is an eight episode indie video series created by professor Cesar Hidalgo. The series follows the personal and professional lif…
We provide a software and hardware toolkit for creating an on-body network of tactile and ambient information accessories, connecting peopl…
Sunny Jolly, Daniel Smalley, James Barabas, V. Michael Bove, Jr.
Jolly, S. "An Updatable Three-Dimensional Display via Direct Optical Fringe Writing of Computer-Generated Holographic Stereograms in Photorefractive Polymer"
Zinman, A. "Me, Myself, and My Hyperego: Understanding People through the Aggregation of Their Digital Footprints"
Be My Guest! is currently on display at the Vantaa Art Museum, Finland until December 3, 2023 as part of their "SYSTEMS" exhibiti…
Jaewoo Chung, Chris Schmandt
In Solange Knowles’ 2016 single “Don’t Touch My Hair” she explained the sensitivities of Black women like herself who don’t want people to …
Joi Ito ponders the fearmongering and lack of rigorous research surrounding kids and screen time.
Sunny Jolly, V. Michael Bove, Jr.
V. Michael Bove, Jr.
Jaewoo Chung, Kuang Xu, Andrea Colaço, Chris Schmandt, Victor O.K. Li
Children are using voice-activated technology at far younger ages than other devices, but some parents worry they’re picking up rude habits
Randi Williams, Christian Vazquez, Stefania Druga, Pattie Maes, Cynthia Breazeal. “My Doll Says It's OK: Voice-Enabled Toy Influences Children's Moral Decisions.” IDC. 2018
To help explain how this works is Ramesh Raskar, an associate professor at MIT’s Media Lab.
The rise in popularity of the Weblog, and the development of its many variants such as photoblogs, vlogs, moblogs, and tumblelogs, demonstr…
M. Ehsan Hoque
Carty, M.J. and Herr, H.M. The Agonist-Antagonist Myoneural Interface. Hand Clinics. 2021 Aug;37(3):435-445. doi: 10.1016/j.hcl.2021.04.006. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34253316/
Herr HM, Carty MJ. The Agonist-antagonist Myoneural Interface. Tech Orthop. 2021 Dec;36(4):337-344. doi: 10.1097/bto.0000000000000552. PMID: 34866774; PMCID: PMC8630671.
LocationTED, Long Beach, CA Description
LocationMIT Media Lab, E14 Third-Floor Atrium DescriptionTom Steinberg is founder of MySociety.org, a project based in the UK which has bui…