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Schoenberg in Hollywood: A new opera by Tod Machover

“Can a man know the truth and tell it to the greatest number and still be misunderstood? Can one man be of the many and still be known?” Sc…

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Intentional Inference of Emotions

Emotion recognition modeled as a goal-directed process!

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Artificial listener with social intelligence

A social robot modifies its behavior to change what you think about it!

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CE 2.0

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BaguaMarsh

This project takes the idea of the unity between heaven and man of the ancient Chinese philosophy I ching (Book of Changes), combines …

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Media Lab startup showcase: Spring 2018 member meeting

A video playlist portraying companies supported by the E14 Fund.

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Music, Mind and Machine

How to build intelligent music systems out of interacting audio-processing agents.

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City as Classroom, City as Laboratory

Often, we neglect to see the city as living, complex, and dynamic. However, shrouded by its masses of concrete and steel lie unique ecosyst…

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Field Experimentation in Boston's Intertidal Zone

The Intertidal Experimentation Workshop will take place September 29 and 30 (9am to 2pm) at the MIT Media Lab, open to students ages 8-14. …

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City Symphonies: Massive musical collaboration

The City Symphony project by the Opera of the Future group brings creative musical participation to everyone while encouraging collaboratio…

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Ed Boyden on minding your brain

A conversation between Ed Boyden and Tyler Cowen on optogenetics and expansion microscopy to storytelling and the nature of consciousness.

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Storytelling with volumetric displays

Mike Bove, head of the Object-Based Media group, on the current state of the technology and what his research team is working on.

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This city is a classroom

Avery Normandin and Devora Najjar are on a mission to build literacy and appreciation for urban ecology.

Communications Futures Program

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Ecology, Evolution, and Engineering for Empowered Brains

EEEeb Spring 2019: Urban OceansMarch 24, April 7 and 21, May 19, June 2 To register, please visit this link.…

Future Storytelling

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Consumer Electronics Laboratory

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Art, Science, Technology Inspires Walt Disney Imagineers at MIT Media Lab Event

“Happiness makes the world go round."

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Perspectives

The news is probably one of the first things people check in the morning, but how much does what you know and understand about the world de…

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Living Mobile

Enhancing mobile life through improved user interactions

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Science Fiction for tomorrow's day to day

Ariel Ekblaw speaks at Sónar+D

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Storytelling, STEM, and changing the conversation at Comic-Con

The Media Lab panel at San Diego Comic-Con covered inclusion, exploration, and the reciprocity between fiction and research at the Lab

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The Story Learning Machine

The Storytelling project uses machine-based analytics to identify the qualities of engaging and marketable media. By developing models with…

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Pintail: A Travel Companion for Guided Storytelling

Chowdhury, S. K. (2018). Pintail: A Travel Companion for Guided Storytelling.

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Silos, groupthink and knowledge ghettos

Dan Novy, MIT Media Lab engineer, is a strong advocate of bridging this gap, especially in media innovation.

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Realtime Detection of Social Cues

Realtime detection of social cues in children’s voicesIn everyday conversation, people use what are known as backchannels to signal to some…

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Machines now know how to terrorise humans

The Shelley Project studies how to produce horror stories as a result of collaboration between humans and artificial intelligence.

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AI is working to make moviegoers more emotional

An AI algorithm can predict which parts of a film will generate the greatest emotional responses in audiences.

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Telling Stories to Robots: The Effect of Backchanneling on a Child's Storytelling

Hae Won Park, Mirko Gelsomini, Jin Joo Lee, and Cynthia Breazeal. 2017. Telling Stories to Robots: The Effect of Backchanneling on a Child's Storytelling. In Proceedings of the 2017 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI '17).

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"El robot que escribe libros de terror" Oppenheimer Presenta # 1741

Research scientist Manuel Cebrian discusses Shelley with CNN en Español host Andrés Oppenheimer.

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AI is learning how to make you cry at the movies

New research can predict how plots, images, and music affect your emotions while watching a movie.

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AI in storytelling: Machines as cocreators

Computers don’t cry during sad stories, but they can tell when we will.

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A team of MIT scientists taught an AI to get emotional over movies

Artificial intelligence (AI) may not be ready to write the next blockbuster movie, but a team of AI researchers from the Massachusetts…

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A Bayesian Theory of Mind Approach to Nonverbal Communication for Human-Robot Interactions

Jin Joo Lee. A Bayesian Theory of Mind Approach to Nonverbal Communication for Human-Robot Interactions. PhD Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017.

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Backchannel Opportunity Prediction for Social Robot Listeners

HW Park, M Gelsomini, JJ Lee, T Zhu, and C Breazeal (2017). Backchannel Opportunity Prediction for Social Robot Listeners. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA).