Event

Kevin Esvelt at TEDxCambridge

LocationBoston Opera House DescriptionTEDxCambridge celebrates the remarkable innovation, creativity, and inspiration found within New Engl…

Thursday
June 9, 2016
Person

Kevin Esvelt

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

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Kevin Esvelt and Ramesh Raskar @ EmTech

LocationMIT Media Lab DescriptionEmTech is your opportunity to discover future trends and to understand the technologies that will drive th…

Tuesday — Thursday
October 18, 2016 —
October 20, 2016
Event

Catalyst Conversations: Tod Machover and Kevin Esvelt

LocationMIT Media Lab, Bartos Theater DescriptionIn a world capable of destroying itself, composer Tod Machover and evolutionary biologist …

Monday
March 28, 2016
Event

Kevin Esvelt @ Marsilius-Vorlesungen, Universität Heidelberg

Wisely Engineering Shared Ecosystems: Leveraging gene drive to ensure open and community-responsive genetic engineering research …

Thursday
June 1, 2017
4:00pm ET
Post

Kevin Esvelt selected for the Inverse Future 50

Kevin Esvelt has been named as one of the Inverse Future 50, “a group of 50 people who will be forces of good in the 2020s.”

Article

Cracking the Genetic Code with Kevin Esvelt

Kevin Esvelt leads the Sculpting Evolution Group at MIT. Their work explores “evolutionary and ecological engineering and responsive science

Event

Kevin Esvelt testifies before Senate Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Spending Oversight (ETSO)

Professor Esvelt's testimony focused on the risks of identifying pandemic-capable viruses.

Wednesday
August 3, 2022
2:30pm ET
Person

Kevin Wong

Former Research Assistant

Article

Kevin Esvelt to Join the MIT Media Lab

Event

ML @ TEDxCambridge

LocationHarvard University, Northwest Labs, 52 Oxford Street DescriptionProfessor Sandy Pentland, PhD student Elliott Hedman, and alumnus J…

Saturday
November 19, 2011
Person

Kevin Dunnell

Research Assistant

Article

Beyond Malaria: Kevin Esvelt at Effective Altruism Global 2016

Person

Kevin Davis

Director of Facilities

Person

Kevin Andersen

Former Visiting Scientist, LEGO

Article

Strategies for Responsible Gene Editing: Op-Ed by Kevin Esvelt

Event

Iyad Rahwan @ TEDxCambridge

LocationBoston Opera House Description

Thursday
September 29, 2016
Article

Gene drives could stop the world's oldest problems. Kevin Esvelt wants to make sure they don't start any.

Esvelt's career has gone from straight science into ethics and safety.

Person

Kevin Zeng Hu

Former Research Assistant

Post

M. Ehsan Hoque and Kevin Esvelt named to 2016 list of 35 Innovators Under 35

The people in the 16th annual celebration of young innovators are disrupters and dreamers.

Person

Kevin Mattheus Moerman

Former Research Affiliate

Person

Kevin Slavin

Former Research Affiliate

Article

I'm Kevin Esvelt, head of the Sculpting Evolution group at the MIT Media Lab and an inventor of CRISPR gene drive - AMA!

I'm a strong advocate of more open science, and my group tries to carefully consider our moral obligations and publicly admit mistakes.

Article

The Power of Metadata: Deepak Jagdish and Daniel Smilkov at TEDxCambridge

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Kevin Slavin @ MarketplaceLIVE

LocationSan Francisco, CA Description

Thursday
December 5, 2013
Event

Kevin Hu Dissertation Defense

Automating Data Visualization through RecommendationDemand for data visualization has exploded in recent years with the increasing availabi…

Wednesday
May 1, 2019
4:15pm ET
Event

Advancing Wellbeing Seminar Series: Kevin Slavin

LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-633 DescriptionOur tastes and predilections for food are based neither on instinct or information, but cultural …

Wednesday
September 10, 2014
Event

Kevin O'Connell Speaks at New Space Age Conference

Kevin O'Connell will speak at the Fireside Chat - Lunar Station panel.

Friday
April 29, 2022
3:00pm ET
Post

Kevin O'Connell Hosts Dr. Zolana Joao on Space Economy Podcast

Kevin O'Connell, former director at the Office of Space Commerce, interviewed Dr. Zolana Joao on the 3rd episode of Space Economy Insights.

Article

Kevin O'Connell Space News Op-Ed on Mission Authorization

Kevin O'Connell, formerly at the Office of Space Commerce, writes about "Practical applications of a space mission authorization framework."

Post

Space Enabled Welcomes Affiliated Researcher Kevin O'Connell

Kevin M. O'Connell, Founder and CEO of Space Rising LLC, joins Space Enabled as Affiliated Researcher.

Event

Kevin O'Connell testifies before US Senate Subcommittee about Space Traffic Management

Space Enabled Affiliated Researcher Kevin O'Connell is among the witnesses who will testify before this Senate Committee hearing.

Person

Jianghong Min

Former Research Assistant

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Danielle Wood & Kevin O'Connell Speak at Space Sector Market Conference

Danielle Wood will speak at the Space Sustainability Panel at the Space Sector Market Conference, held virtually and in-person in Cambridge.

Wednesday
September 29, 2021
9:00am — 10:30am ET
Person

Jeantine Lunshof

Former Research Scientist/Ethicist

Event

Space Enabled Affiliates Kevin O'Connell and Moriba Jah Testify at Congressional Hearing

Kevin O'Connell and Moriba Jah testify at hearing about "Space Situational Awareness: Guiding the Transition to a Civil Capability."

Thursday
May 12, 2022
10:00am ET
Article

Alumnus Kevin Brooks: The Storyteller

Article

Experts debate research at the heart of lab leak theory. Who won?

Kevin Esvelt and Gigi Gronvall join Ryan Grim and Emily Jashinky to discuss Gain of Function research, and Covid Origin Theory.

Article

Information Hazards

MIT biologist Kevin Esvelt discusses the biology of the pandemic and how gain-of-function research jeopardizes public safety.

Event

Weaving indigenous knowledge and science in environmental decision making

Doug Jones in conversation with Kevin Esvelt.

Wednesday
October 16, 2019
11:00am — 12:00pm ET
Article

CRISPR gene drives and the future of evolution

Professor Kevin Esvelt talks to science journalist Hannah Thomasy about the power—and the risks—of biotechnology.

Event

Planning the future after COVID-19

Kevin Esvelt, Kent Larson, Esteban Moro, Sandy Pentland, Beth Porter, Ron Rivest, and Ramesh Raskar will each present a short talk.

Saturday
April 4, 2020
9:00am — 10:00am ET
Article

Opinion: Manipulating viruses and risking pandemics is too dangerous. It’s time to stop.

Kevin Esvelt calls on the research community to build defenses against future pandemics, not attempt to discover viruses that cause them.

Event

Knotty Objects

Day One | ICA BostonOpening Remarks | Joi ItoIntroduction | Paola Antonelli, Neri Oxman, and Kevin SlavinLecture | Anthony Dunne and Fiona …

Wednesday — Thursday
July 15, 2015 —
July 16, 2015
Article

Contact tracing: So promising. So invasive.

Kevin Esvelt, master's student Anika Ullah, and other experts talk about bi-directional contact tracing, privacy, and halting Covid-19.

Article

We can change the DNA of an entire species—in the wild

On Should This Exist?, Sculpting Evolution head Kevin Esvelt grapples with the potential benefits and consequences of gene drive.

Article

A community-guided genome editing project can fight Lyme disease

Kevin Esvelt writes about the Sculpting Evolution group’s project to immunize mice against Lyme disease through gene editing.

Video

Planning the future after Covid-19

Saturday April 4, 2020 …

April 6, 2020
Article

We lost to SARS-CoV-2 in 2020. We can defeat B-117 in 2021

Esvelt and Lipsitch lay out a path for slowing the spread of B.1.1.7, and ensuring that we're better prepared for future pandemics.

Article

How to make Covid the last pandemic

A new paper published by Kevin Esvelt lays out a blueprint for preventing, preparing for, and responding to future pandemics.

Event

The Future of Therapeutics, AI, and Beyond

Agenda for Monday, February 26, 2024 (Agendas are subject to change)This event is by invitation only, and a referral by Media Lab member co…

Monday
February 26, 2024
10:30am — 5:30pm ET
Project

Understanding Molecular Evolution

Humanity has harnessed evolution to sculpt domesticated animals, crops, and molecules, but the process remains a black box. Which combinati…

Event

Forbidden Research

In a world where seemingly anything is possible, there are still lines of inquiry and research that—for a host of reasons—remain forbidden.…

Thursday
July 21, 2016
Article

Part 1: Gene Drive; Part 2: Gene Drive and Local Drive

iBiology features two introductory classes from CRISPR expert Kevin Esvelt, head of the Media Lab's Sculpting Evolution group.

Article

FAQ: Could exposure to the common cold reduce the severity of Covid-19 infection?

Read the FAQ that accompanies the op-ed by Kevin Esvelt and Carolyn P. Neuhaus, which answers questions about the research they're proposing

Article

This gene technology could change the world. Its maker isn’t sure it should.

How does one scientist deal with the potential ramifications of his own creation?

Project

Mice Against Ticks - Preventing tick-borne disease by permanently immunizing mice

Lyme disease is the most common vector-borne infection in North America. People are infected when bitten by ticks; ticks are typically infe…

Article

If you care about the future of Earth, you must care about the human species

How biologist Kevin Esvelt came to know the planet, in his own words.

Article

How emerging technologies can help us fight the new coronavirus

Sculpting Evolution head Kevin Esvelt shares how emerging technologies can help us fight the new coronavirus.

Event

Responsible Data in the Time of Pandemic: GAEN-based Contact Tracing and Challenges

Tune in to the livestream at 12pm August 20 for Responsible Data in the Time of Pandemic: GAEN-based Contact Tracing and Challeng…

Thursday
August 20, 2020
12:00pm — 3:00pm ET
Event

Wisely Engineering Shared Ecosystems: Leveraging gene drive to ensure open and community-responsive genetic engineering research

Increasingly powerful technologies have enabled us to dramatically reshape ecosystems around the world, but we have never deliberately alte…

Thursday
June 1, 2017
4:00pm — 5:00pm ET