Past Major Events
Frequent and varied events—such as lectures, colloquia, symposia, and workshops—play an active role in the continuing vitality and momentum of the Media Lab.
Oct 15 10
Sep 24 10 12:00am - Sep 26 10 12:00am
Host/Chair:
Tod Machover
May 14 10 12:00am - Jan 09 11 12:00am
Why Design Now
Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum

Why Design Now? is the fourth installation in the National Design Triennial exhibition series launched by Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum in 2000. The Triennial provides a sample of contemporary innovation, looking at what progressive designers, engineers, entrepreneurs, and citizens are doing in diverse fields and at different scales around the world. Included are practical solutions already in use as well as experimental ideas designed to inspire further research. A few projects will provoke controversy, answering some questions while raising others.

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May 05 10 2:30pm - 5:00pm

Speakers include:

Speaker: Judy Brown (MIT / Wellesley)
Miller Puckette (UCSD / PD)
Brian Whitman (The Echo Nest)
Dan Ellis (Columbia University)
Michael Casey (Dartmouth)
Richard Boulanger (Berklee / CSound)
Youngmoo Kim (Drexel)
Paris Smaragdis (Adobe)
Mihir Sarkar (MIT)

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Mar 29 10 12:00am - Mar 30 10 12:00am
ICCP logo
Host/Chair:
Ramesh Raskar

The field of Computational Photography seeks to create new photographic functionalities and experiences that go beyond what is possible with traditional cameras and image processing tools.

Archived Webcast available (ML login required).

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Sep 15 09 8:30am - Sep 16 09 5:30pm

On September 15-16, 2009, the MIT Media Laboratory will host a first-of-its-kind workshop to explore how the latest digital technologies can be applied to better understand and preserve our natural environment, locally, regionally, and on a global scale.

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Sep 03 09 12:00am - Sep 08 09 12:00am
IMPETUS
Ars Electronica Festival 2009

The 2009 Ars Electronica Campus Exhibition features current work of the faculty and students from the MIT Media Lab in Cambridge MA. From its inception almost thirty years ago, the Media Lab has taken an unorthodox research approach to envisioning the impact of emerging technologies on everyday life—technologies that promise to fundamentally transform our most basic notions of human capabilities. The lab attracts designers, computer designers, engineers, artists, and scientists, divergent in background and practice.

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Jun 20 08 8:00am - 6:30pm
Glorianna Davenport

A symposium celebrating the career of Glorianna Davenport.

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May 09 07
h20

A one-day symposium exploring the innovative research focused on human 2.0—the new science of human adaptability, hosted by John Hockenberry.

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May 10 04
Designing Bits & Pieces

A symposium hosted by the MIT Media Lab and the Consumer Electronics Association, hosted by Walt Mossberg.

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