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DescriptionAlzheimer’s disease (AD) is the most common form of dementia, currently affecting over 5 million people in the USA alone. Age-re…
Ophelia Dalh and Dr. Megan Murray of Partners in Health in conversation with David Moinina Sengeh and Joi Ito.
Masashi Kawamura explores the world of design and interaction, working on music videos, product design, and social apps.
DescriptionIn his talk, Dr. Nock will describe recent findings from epidemiologic studies on the prevalence, characteristics and risk facto…
B. Alan Wallace in conversation with Ethics Initiative Director Tenzin Priyadarshi and Media Lab Director Joi Ito.
DescriptionSleep deficiency and circadian disruption are endemic in our 24/7 society. Both are particularly prevalent on college campuses, …
DescriptionThis talk is part of the Advancing Wellbeing seminar series at the MIT Media Lab. For information about future talks, please joi…
For much of the last 25 years the focus of nutritional advice has been to reduce total fat intake and consume large amounts of carbohydrate…
Archaeologist Sarah Parcak in conversation with Media Lab Director Joi Ito.
TRANSFORM fuses technology and design to celebrate its transformation from a piece of still furniture to a dynamic machine driven by a stre…
Ocean Exploration Trust and National Geographic ocean explorer Dr. Katy Croff Bell in conversation with Media Lab Director Joi Ito.
Judith Donath in conversation with Center for Civic Media Director Ethan Zuckerman and Media Lab Director Joi Ito.
The CityHome is an ultra-efficient, responsive urban home, providing a hardware and software ecosystem for personal space customization. A …
Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. Chief Creative Officer Rob Pardo in conversation with Media Lab Director Joi Ito.
American geneticist, molecular engineer, and chemist George Church in conversation with Media Lab Director Joi Ito.
Technology Driving Global Media and Finance: Peter Grauer, Vladimir Kliatchko, and Shawn Edwards in conversation at the Media Lab.
ScratchJr is a new version of the Scratch programming language designed for children ages five to seven. Using ScratchJr, kids can build th…
AbstractDr. Ratey will address the connection between exercise and the brain's performance and the benefits of utilizing movement to pre
How to Love and Criticize Technology at the Same Time: Jaron Lanier in conversation with Ken Perlin, Hiroshi Ishii, and Pattie Maes.
ABSTRACTSleep plays a critical role in normal memory processing and mental health, beyond its obvious role in helping us maintain attention
Shaka Senghor and Martha Minow in conversation with Media Lab Director Joi Ito.
Chris Woebken in conversation with Kevin Slavin.
Colleen Macklin in conversation with Media Lab Director Joi Ito.
Founder and Executive Director of the Sughar Empowerment Society Khalida Brohi in conversation with Media Lab Director Joi Ito.
Director for International Freedom of Expression Jillian York in conversation with Director for Center for Civic Media Ethan Zuckerman.
What if we could train a robot the way we train a pet? With the TAMER project, a technically unskilled user can teach a robot tasks and cor…
Daniel Suarez writes Sci-Fi thrillers focused on technology-driven change, and is a past speaker at TED, NASA, Google, Microsoft, and Amazon
Mark Bauman in conversation with Media Lab Director Joi Ito.
Jack Schulze in conversation with Kevin Slavin.
IDEO's David and Tom Kelly in conversation with Media Lab Director Joi Ito.
Contemporary 3D printing and traditional craft rarely meet in the same creation. The Hybrid Basketry project merges these two distinct trad…
MACH, My Automated Conversation coacH, is a system for people to practice social interactions in face-to-face scenarios. MACH consists of a…
Founder and Director of The Governance Lab Beth Noveck in conversation with Media Lab Director Joi Ito.
Damien Echols and Shaka Senghor in conversation on injustice, compassion, and redemption in relation to their prison memoirs.
WaaZam is a creative telepresence system that allows people to be together in the same window during a networked video session. The goal of…
Former Disney CTO Greg Brandeau and collaborative community artist Josh Sarantitis in conversation with Media Lab Director Joi Ito.
Kickstarter's Yancey Strickler in conversation with Media Lab Director Joi Ito.
Susan Crawford in conversation with Center for Civic Media Director Ethan Zuckerman.
Baratunde Thurston in conversation with Media Lab Director Joi Ito.
Need a favor? Reach is a project that merges inherently local communications with user requests or offers of services. It is built atop dat…
Music has been shown to be an essential part of the human experience---every known society engages in music. However, as universal as it ma…
Infinity-by-Nine makes viewing ordinary video more immersive. This system projects extensions to the screen, taking advantage of the reduce…
Professor Mitra’s work has resulted in the training and development of a million young Indians, some being the poorest children in the world
Ever played piano on bananas? With Makey Makey and an alligator clip, you can connect the internet to just about anything.
Mood Meter is an interactive installation that encourages, recognizes, and monitors the smiles of a community, providing an indicator of em…
Howard Rheingold in conversation with Joi and Mimi Ito.
What if materials could defy gravity, so that we could leave them suspended in mid-air? ZeroN is a physical and digital interaction element…
Towards a Global Brain: Tim O'Reilly in conversation with Director of Center for Civic Media Ethan Zuckerman.
Reid Hoffman in conversation with Media Lab Director Joi Ito.
Out of (Line of) Sight, But Not Out of View. The Camera Culture group at the Media Lab has created CORNAR: Looking around Corners with Femt…
One Way Forward: Lawrence Lessig in conversation.
NewsFlash uses a unique screen-to-phone data exchange to provide an interactive way to experience current events through dynamic interactio…
Mediated Matter research integrates computational form-finding strategies with biologically inspired fabrication in order to enhance the re…
Boxie is a mobile interactive robotic camera built with the goal of actively capturing stories about its environment and the people within …
IDEO's Tim Brown in conversation with Media Lab Director Joi Ito.
LightBridge is a 10,000 pixel dynamic display created for the FAST Festival of Art, Science and Technology in celebration of MIT’s 150th an…
Part of a suite of portable projects for eyecare, CATRA is a new way to detect and quantify cataracts. CATRA is a compact eyepiece attached…
A chain reaction between the arts and the sciences, MIT’s Festival of Art, Science and Technology was a year-long celebration of creativity…
Qooqle is a mobile system that frees us from the confines of search boxes by integrating digital information directly into our everyday act…
The Junkyard Jumbotron lets you take a bunch of random laptops, cellphones and tablets and stitch them together into a large, virtual displ…
Music | Machines - Professor Tod Machover in conversation with the team from Death and the Powers.
There’s no such thing as a “typical” Media Lab student. Current Media Arts and Sciences graduate students discuss their research, what it’s…
Tod Machover describes the premiere of his recent opera, Death and the Powers.
Check out a preview of Professor Tod Machover’s latest opera, Death and the Powers, which will premiere in Monaco in September and then tou…
MIT Media Lab researchers have created a quick, simple, and inexpensive way to use mobile phones to measure refractive errors of the eye, i…
LuminAR reinvents the traditional incandescent bulb and desk lamp, evolving them into a new category of robotic, digital information device…
In this 2010 video, William Mitchell, then a Media Lab professor and former dean of the MIT School of Architecture and Planning, tells the …
iCalm is a small, wearable, wireless sensor platform for long-term sensing of physiological information along with low-cost connectivity to…
People express and communicate their mental states—such as emotions, thoughts, and desires—through facial expressions, vocal nuances, gestu…
The Comm.unity platform enables mobile devices to discover and communicate with each other in close proximity. It also transforms these dev…