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Authors include researchers from the Fluid Interfaces, Future Sketches, and Tangible Media research groups.
They've been selected as Fellows in the fields of Machine Learning and Computer Vision.
Media Lab alumni Ziv Epstein and Alexander Reben joined a panel discussion on the creative future of generative AI.
Professor Rosalind Picard talks about what gave her the inspiration to found a new field, Affective Computing.
The papers are intended as a resource for US policymakers.
MIT scientists address issues to bringing 2D magnetic materials into practical use, setting the stage for more energy-efficient computers
Ruihan Zhang, a student in the Molecular Machines group, was lead organizer of this event in collaboration with MIT Film Makers Association
The second iteration of this hackathon featured 66 films and 400 participants from local institutions, other states, and countries.
A number of Media Lab researchers and alumni are included in the cohort.
Researchers in the Media Lab’s City Science group discuss the role of AI in building cities where humans can thrive.
PhD student Shayne Longpre (Human Dynamics) discusses an open letter he co-authored with collaborators.
The list includes Habib Haddad, founding managing partner of the E14 Fund, and Rana el Kaliouby, co-founder and CEO of Affectiva.
This research shows how AI can support LGBTQIA+ advocacy, how technology might help create a more accepting + understanding society.
Researchers in the Affective Computing group have been invited to edit a series of articles in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Their paper won the award in the Theory + Methods category.
The Abu Dhabi Investment Authority Lab aims to encourage multidisciplinary collaboration and solve large-scale, complex problems.
In El País, researchers from Fluid Interfaces discuss their study that found users' beliefs about a chatbot influenced their interactions.
In a new working paper, researchers consider the most effective ways to label online content as AI-generated, misleading, or both.
Media Lab Professor Rosalind Picard and other experts discuss the opportunities and risks posed by rapid advances in AI.
The researchers precisely controlled an ultrathin magnet at room temperature, which could enable faster processors and computer memories.
Professor Deblina Sarkar receives a Nano Research Young Innovators Award in Bio-inspired Nanomaterials for 2023.
In a study published in Nature Medicine, alum Matt Groh, Prof. Rosalind Picard, and colleagues found assistance from an AI model can help.
On NPR’s Fresh Air, alum Dr. Joy Buolamwini (Civic Media) talks about the social implications of artificial intelligence.
Media Lab alum, Dr.Joy Buolamwini spoke to IEEE Spectrum about her work and her recent book, Unmasking AI.
The Harvard Business Review dives into a technology that Media Lab alum Simon Greenwold named in his 2003 master's thesis.
For The Atlantic, Professor Deb Roy, director of the MIT Center for Constructive Communication, imagines a new kind of social network.
On The World by PRX and WGBH, researcher Nataliya Kosmyna talks about advances in and potential applications for brain-computer interfaces.
In Psychology Today, author William Poundstone considers research from the Fluid Interfaces group in light of the Clever Hans effect.
Rosalind Picard’s unique technology is revolutionizing digital health.
Research from the Fluid Interfaces group finds that users' perceptions of an AI chatbot influence their interactions with the technology.
In Scientific American, PhD student Pat Pataranutaporn talks about how a user's impressions of AI chatbots may influence their interactions.
Wishing you a holiday season filled with love, peace, and joy of discovery.
The Media Lab is honored to have had its research and researchers highlighted in two 2023 end-of-year lists prepared by MIT News.
Jad Kabbara was selected for his research using generative AI for understanding community conversation.
Pat Pataranutaporn discusses the inspiration behind his research at the intersection of biological systems and digital technology.
The wearable device, designed to monitor bladder and kidney health, could be adapted for earlier diagnosis of cancers deep within the body.
Mentors are PhD students, postdocs, and researchers at top universities and research labs.
Invent new tangible and embodied interactions that inspire and engage people.
Inventing, building, and deploying wireless sensor technologies to address complex problems in society, industry, and ecology.
Cultivating wisdom through evolutionary and ecological engineering.
Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks
Building intelligent personified technologies that collaborate with people to help them learn, thrive, and flourish.
Extending expression, learning, and health through innovations in musical composition, performance, and participation.
Inventing disruptive technologies for nanoelectronic devices and creating new paradigms for life-machine symbiosis.
The Program in Media Arts and Sciences (MAS) and the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing (SCC) invite applications for this faculty position
Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion.
Designing systems for cognitive support
Converting the patterns of nature and the human body into beneficial signals and energy
Looking beyond smart cities.
Designing tools, methods and systems that connect rather than divide us to create a healthier society.
Making the invisible visible–inside our bodies, around us, and beyond–for health, work, and connection.
Enhancing human physical capability.
Advancing human wellbeing by developing new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion
Advancing justice in Earth's complex systems using designs enabled by space
Engineering at the limits of complexity with molecular-scale parts
Wearable Reasoner: Towards Enhanced Human Rationality through a Wearable AI Assistant
The MIT CCC participated in this year's Ars Electronica festival from September 6–10, 2023.
Human-AI Systems for Dialogue and Listening
A paper led by Ehsan Hoque, alum of the Affective Computing group, receives UbiComp's 10-Years Impact Award.
Robert Mahari, a PhD student in the Human Dynamics group, and other experts talk to Inside Higher Ed about copyright & generative AI tools.
In an interview with Chamber Music America, Media Lab Professor Tod Machover talks about AI and music.
Study shows users can be primed to believe certain things about an AI chatbot’s motives, which influences their interactions with the bot.
On the Technically Optimistic podcast, Prof. Rosalind Picard and others discuss the challenges of accountability and responsibility in AI.
Media Lab Professor Alex 'Sandy' Pentland, MIT CSAIL Director Daniela Rus, and Prof. Josh Tenenbaum discuss the future of intelligence.
The 27 finalists will explore the technology’s impact on democracy, education, sustainability, communications, and much more.
For BBC Science Focus, Media Lab research scientist Dr. Kate Darling considers the potential harms of mistreating robots.
With Ghost in the Machine, alum Misha Sra and collaborator Purav Bhardwaj invite participants to consider the anthropomorphization of AI,
Explore MIT Open Learning resources, including interviews with Media Lab Director Dava Newman, Professor Cynthia Breazeal, and more.
Sharifa Alghowinem, a research scientist at the Media Lab, explores personal robot technology that explains emotions in English and Arabic.
Media Lab alum Dr. Joy Buolamwini has been named to TIME's 100 Most Influential People in AI 2023.
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