Person

Hugh Herr

Professor of Media Arts and Sciences

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Hugh Herr @ DesignWest

LocationDesignWest Description

Thursday
April 25, 2013
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Augmented | Nova PBS episode featuring Hugh Herr

"Augmented" is a Nova PBS documentary episode that premiers Wednesday, 2/23, featuring Biomechatronics group head Hugh Herr.

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Hugh Herr Keynote @ EMBC 2011

LocationBoston, MA Description

Saturday
September 3, 2011
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Hugh Herr honored at Genius Gala 2022

On May 2, 2022, Hugh Herr (head of the Biomechatronics research group) will be honored at the 10th Genius Gala.

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Soft Robotics Podcast | Hugh Herr: "Bionics"

Biomechatronics group head Hugh Herr speaks with Marwa ElDiwiny on a recent episode of the IEEE RAS Soft Robotics podcast.

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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.

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Episode 46: Pioneer through the pandemic with professor + innovator, Dr. Hugh Herr

Biomechatronics head Hugh Herr discusses his research with the No Barriers USA podcast.

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Hugh Herr: Reinventing the Human Machine

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Hugh Herr @ TEDMED

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The new bionic man: How Hugh Herr is changing lives

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Hugh Herr is R+D Magazine's Innovator of the Year

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Guillermo Herrera-Arcos

Research Assistant

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Hugh Herr at TED 2014: Defeating Disability with Bionics

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Hugh Herr, Leader of the Bionic Age

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Hugh Herr, Princess of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research

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In Step with Hugh Herr

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The Secret Life of Scientists: Hugh Herr on PBS

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A bionic man: Hugh Herr strides forward on next-generation robotic legs

You’ll likely hear Hugh Herr before you see him.The charismatic leader of MIT’s biomechatronics research group wears two next-generation pr…

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How we'll become cyborgs and extend human potential | Hugh Herr @TED 2018

"During the twilight years of this century, I believe humans will be unrecognizable in morphology and dynamics from what we are today."

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The Weekend Interview With Hugh Herr: The Liberating Age of Bionics

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Double Amputee Hugh Herr Leads the Bionic Age

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Hugh Herr: Building a Better Bionic Leg

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Honorary Doctorates UT for Hugh Herr, Neelie Kroes, Christoph Gerber and Edward Tufte

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Joi Ito @ Reddit IAmA

LocationReddit iAmA DescriptionJoi Ito will answer questions about innovation and his new book, Whiplash: How to Survive Our Faster Future,…

Tuesday
December 6, 2016
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Hugh Herr's New Parts

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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.

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Hugh Herr and Technology's Extraordinary Capacity to Heal

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Ivan Herrero

Project

Conversational Health: Loneliness on Reddit

Loneliness is becoming a global epidemic. As many as 33 percent of Americans report being chronically lonely, with similar percentages bein…

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Amauche Emenari

Former Research Assistant

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Amanda Masson

Former Administrative Assistant

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Amanda J. Parkes

Former Visiting Scientist

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Going Dark: Collective action in the Reddit Blackout

How do people who lead communities on online platforms join together in mass collective action to influence platform operators? Going Dark …

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Hugh Herr Wins Popular Mechanics' Leadership Award

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Amanda Nguyen

Former Director's Fellow

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Aman Rana

Former Senior Research Support Associate

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Amanda Diehl

Communications & HQ Administrative Assistant

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Amanda Stoll

Former Program Assistant, Diversity & Student Support

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Amanda Ghassaei

Former Research Assistant

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Hugh Herr, Neri Oxman, Alumni Ben Fry and Casey Reas in Rolling Stone's Special Design Issue

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MIT researchers trained an AI to write horror stories based on 140,000 Reddit posts

Sometimes the scariest place to be is your own mind. Or Reddit at night.Shelley is an AI program that generates the beginnings of horror st…

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A legacy of curiosity in the name of Hugh Hampton Young

Congratulations to the Hugh Hampton Young Fellows, including Affective Computing researcher Kristy Johnson!

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Two Media Lab Students Among the Recipients of the Inaugural Amazon Robotics Fellowships

The Fellowships are aimed at helping students from underrepresented backgrounds establish careers in robotics, engineering, computer science

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AMA, an Application for Annotation, Monitoring, and Analysis of Behavioral Activity

Hernandez, J., Sano, A., Goodwin, M. S., Picard, R. W. "AMA, an application for Annotation, Monitoring, and Analysis of behavioral activity"; in the Extended Abstract of IMFAR 2012, Toronto, Canada, May 17-19, 2012.

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Herr Wins $250,000 Heinz Award

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Lauren Fratamico

Former Research Assistant

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Black Mobility and Safety Seminar: Black Progress with Hank Willis Thomas and Hugh Hayden

Tune in for the first event of the series featuring Hank Willis Thomas on September 8 at 2pm.

Tuesday
September 8, 2020
2:00pm — 3:00pm ET
Group

MIT Center for Constructive Communication

Political, media and technological forces have driven us into isolated, like-minded camps hostile toward outside views and ripe for the spr…

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Amazon MARS 2022: Day 2 Keynote

Be inspired by Rohit Prasad, SVP and Head Scientist, Alexa AI, Amazon, Tye Brady, Chief Technologist, Amazon Robotics, Dilip Kumar, VP, Phy…

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Ed Boyden one of 19 new Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigators

The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) has named 19 new HHMI Investigators, including Synthetic Neurobiology head Ed Boyden.

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Belen Saldias Fuentes

Research Assistant

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Anastasia Ostrowski named a 2022 Amazon Robotics Fellow

Anastasia Ostrowski, a PhD student in the Personal Robots group, is among five MIT PhD students honored with Amazon fellowships.

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Alumna Amanda Parkes @ SA+P

LocationRoom 3-133 DescriptionAmanda Parkes is a media designer whose work focuses on how digital technologies and smart materials can expa…

Friday
October 23, 2009
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For Your Reference: Amant Residency x Hex House

Char Stiles from Future sketches is speaking at Amant's For Your Reference in Brooklyn NYC.

Tuesday
November 21, 2023
6:30pm — 10:30pm ET
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Guillermo Herrera-Arcos receives fellowships from K. Lisa Yang ICoN Center and Government of Mexico

Guillermo Herrera-Arcos from the Media Lab's Biomechatronics group has received two fellowships in support of his PhD.

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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.

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It's OK that Amazon will (likely) get the .amazon domain

Ito shares his thoughts on the difficulty of making the right decisions in the face of what, to the public, appears to be obviously wrong.

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Participatory mapping and tool building in the Amazon

Join us on September 14 at noon for our first Civic Lunch talk of the semester with Emily Jacobi of Digital Democracy.Digital Democracy (Dd…

Thursday
September 14, 2017
12:00pm — 1:00pm ET
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Panel Discussion with Dr. John Herrington: Indigenous & Anticolonial Views of Human Activity in Space

John B Herrington, the first member of a federally recognized tribe to travel to space, will speak about Indigenous views of space activity.

Friday
May 14, 2021
11:30am — 1:00pm ET
Course

Human 2.0

Human 2.0 will cover the principles underlying current and future technologies for cognitive, emotional, social, and physical augmentation.

Project

Corporate surveillance of the commons + Amazon Ring

As of August 2020, Ring has active partnerships with over 1400 law enforcement agencies across the US. These partnerships allow law enforce…