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Aimee Mullins
Aimee Mullins (born 1976 in Allentown, Pennsylvania) is an American athlete, actress, and fashion model best known for her collegiate-level athletic accomplishments, despite a medical condition that resulted in the amputation of both of her legs.
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Andrew Lippman
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Dan Ariely
Dan Ariely (born 1968) is an Israeli professor of behavioral economics. He teaches at Duke University and is head of the eRationality research group at the MIT Media Lab.
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Fumihiko Maki
Fumihiko Maki (槇 文彦, Maki Fumihiko) (born Tokyo, September 6, 1928) is a Japanese architect and currently teaching at Keio University SFC. After studying at the University of Tokyo he moved to the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, and then to Harvard Graduate School of Design. In 1956, he took a post as assistant professor of architecture at Washington University in St. Louis, where he also was awarded his first commission: the design of Steinberg Hall (an art center) on the university's Danforth Campus. This building remained his only completed work in the United States until 1993, when he completed the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts building in San Francisco. In 2006, he returned to Washington University in St. Louis to design the new home for the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum and Walker Hall. He worked for Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill in New York and for Sert Jackson and Associates in Cambridge and founded Maki and Associates in 1965. In 1960 he returned to Japan to help establish the Metabolism Group. He often uses metal and glass materials.
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Hiroshi Ishii
is a Japanese computer scientist. He is a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Ishii pioneered the Tangible User Interface in the field of Human-computer interaction.
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Hugh Herr
Hugh Herr (born October 25, 1964) is an American rock climber, engineer and biophysicist.
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I.M. Pei
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Idit Harel Caperton
Idit Harel Caperton, Ph.D. (born September 18, 1958 in Tel Aviv, Israel) is an educational psychologist and epistemologist specializing in the study of the impact of computer-based new media technology on the social and academic development of children. Her research, along with that of Seymour Papert, has contributed to the development of constructionist learning theory, a hands-on approach to the use of technology as a tool in juvenile education and acculturation.
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Jerome Wiesner
Jerome Bert Wiesner (May 30, 1915 – October 21, 1994) was an educator, a Science Advisor to U.S. Presidents Eisenhower and (more formally) Kennedy and Johnson, an advocate for arms control, and a critic of anti-ballistic-missile defense systems. He was also an outspoken advocate for the exploration of outer space using only unmanned satellites, most notably in his consistent denouncement of Project Mercury and its follow-ups.
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John Hockenberry
John Hockenberry (born June 4, 1956) is an American journalist and host of public radio's [http://www.thetakeaway.org/ The Takeaway], a live national morning news program created by Public Radio International and WNYC New York, and editorial partners, WGBH Boston, The New York Times and the BBC World Service. A four-time Emmy Award winner, and three-time Peabody Award winner, Hockenberry has had broad experience as a journalist and commentator for more than three decades. He has reported from all over the world, in virtually every medium, having anchored programs for network TV, cable, and radio, and reported for magazines, newspapers, and online media. He is the author of two books, Moving Violations: War Zones, Wheelchairs and Declarations of Independence (ISBN 0-7868-8162-3) and A River Out Of Eden (ISBN 0-385-72150-1). He is a paraplegic, having suffered a spinal cord injury in a car crash at the age of 19.
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John Maeda
John Maeda (born 1966 in Seattle, Washington) is a Japanese-American graphic designer, computer scientist, university professor, and author. His work in design and technology explores the area where the two fields merge. He is the current President of the Rhode Island School of Design. At RISD, Maeda seeks to champion the necessary role that artists and designers play in the 21st century creative economy.
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Marvin Minsky
Marvin Lee Minsky (born August 9, 1927) is an American cognitive scientist in the field of artificial intelligence (AI), co-founder of Massachusetts Institute of Technology's AI laboratory, and author of several texts on AI and philosophy.
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Michael Chorost
Michael Chorost (born 1964) is an American writer and teacher. Born with severe loss of hearing due to rubella, his hearing was partially restored with a cochlear implant in 2001. He subsequently wrote a memoir of the experience, titled Rebuilt: How Becoming Part Computer Made Me More Human (Houghton Mifflin, 2005). It also exists in a paperback version with a different subtitle, Rebuilt: My Journey Back to the Hearing World. In August 2006 Rebuilt won the PEN/USA Book Award for Creative Nonfiction.
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Michael Graves
Michael Graves (born July 9, 1934) is an American architect. Identified as one of The New York Five, Graves has become a household name with his designs for domestic products sold at Target stores in the United States.
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Mitchel Resnick
Mitchel Resnick is LEGO Papert Professor of Learning Research, Director of the Okawa Center, and Director of the [http://llk.media.mit.edu Lifelong Kindergarten group] at the MIT Media Lab. Resnick currently serves as the head of the Media Arts and Sciences academic program, the academic program that grants master's degrees and Ph.Ds at the MIT Media Lab. Resnick's research group has developed a variety of educational tools that engage people in new types of design activities and learning experiences, including the "programmable bricks" that were the basis for the award-winning LEGO Mindstorms and StarLogo software. He co-founded the Computer Clubhouse, an award-winning network of learning centers for youth from under-served communities.
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Neil Gershenfeld
Neil Gershenfeld is a professor at MIT and the head of MIT's Center for Bits and Atoms, a sister lab spun out of the popular MIT Media Lab. His research interests are mainly in interdisciplinary studies involving physics and computer science, in such fields as quantum computing, nanotechnology, personal fabrication, and other research areas. His lab is currently located in the E15 building at MIT, but he has received funding to build a substantial extension to the building, shaped like a castle, which will house his lab in the future. His books include When Things Start to Think, The Nature of Mathematical Modeling, The Physics of Information Technology, and Fab, The Coming Revolution on Your Desktop - From Personal Computers to Personal Fabrication (ISBN 0-465-02745-8). In 2004, Gershenfeld was named to the Scientific American 50. The magazine has also named him Communications Research Leader of the Year. Classes at the Center include "How To Make (almost) Anything" (MAS 863) and "How To Make Something That Makes (almost) Anything" (MAS 961).
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Nicholas Negroponte
Nicholas Negroponte (born December 1, 1943) is a Greek-American architect best known as the founder and Chairman Emeritus of Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab, and also known as the founder of the One Laptop per Child Association (OLPC).
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Pattie Maes
Pattie Maes (born 1961 in Brussels, Belgium) is an associate professor in MIT's Program in Media Arts and Sciences. She founded and directed the MIT Media Lab's Fluid Interfaces group. Previously, she founded and ran the Software Agents group. She currently acts as the associate Department Head for the Media, Arts and Sciences Department. Prior to joining the Media Lab, Maes was a visiting professor and a research scientist at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab. She holds bachelor's and PhD degrees in computer science from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel in Belgium.
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Seymour Papert
Seymour Papert (born February 29, 1928 in Pretoria, South Africa) is an MIT mathematician, computer scientist, and educator. He is one of the pioneers of artificial intelligence, as well as an inventor of the Logo programming language.
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Susan Hockfield
Susan Hockfield (born March 24, 1951) is the sixteenth and current president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Hockfield's appointment was publicly announced on August 26, 2004, and she formally took office December 6, 2004, succeeding Charles M. Vest. Hockfield's official inauguration celebrations took place during the week of May 2, 2005. Her title is "President and Professor of Neuroscience," and she is the first woman and the first life scientist to hold the title of president of MIT.
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Walter Bender
Walter Bender is technologist and researcher who has made important contributions in the field of electronic publishing, media, and technology for learning. Bender is on leave as a Senior Research Scientist at the MIT Media Lab which he led as executive director between 2000 and 2006. More recently, Bender served as president of One Laptop per Child for Software and Content where he coordinated the development of software and content including the Sugar interface for the XO-1 Children's Machine computer.
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Dublin
Dublin (; locally or ) is the primate and capital city of Ireland. It is officially known in Irish as Baile Átha Cliath or Áth Cliath . The English name is derived from the Irish Dubh Linn (meaning "black pool"). The city has an urban population of over 1 million people and is located near the midpoint of Ireland's east coast, at the mouth of the River Liffey and at the centre of the Dublin Region. Originally founded as a Viking settlement, it evolved into the Kingdom of Dublin and became the island's primary city following the Norman invasion. It is currently ranked 29th in the Global Financial Centres Index, has one of the fastest growing populations of any European capital city, and is listed by the GaWC as a global city (with a ranking of Alpha), placing Dublin among the top 30 cities in the world. It is a historical and contemporary cultural centre for the country, as well as a modern centre of education, the arts, administration, economy and industry.
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India
India (), officially the Republic of India ( ; see also official names of India), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.18 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world. Mainland India is bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the west, and the Bay of Bengal on the east; and it is bordered by Pakistan to the west; Bhutan, the People's Republic of China and Nepal to the north; and Bangladesh and Burma to the east. In the Indian Ocean, mainland India and the Lakshadweep Islands are in the vicinity of Sri Lanka and the Maldives, while India's Andaman and Nicobar Islands share maritime border with Thailand and the Indonesian island of Sumatra in the Andaman Sea. India has a coastline of .
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Ireland
Ireland (,; , ; Ulster Scots: Airlann) is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island in the world. It lies to the northwest of continental Europe and is surrounded by hundreds of islands and islets. To the east of Ireland is Great Britain, separated from it by the Irish Sea. The island is divided between the Republic of Ireland, which covers just under five-sixths of the island, and Northern Ireland, a part of the United Kingdom, which covers the remainder and is located in the northeast of the island. The population of Ireland is approximately 6.2 million people. Just under 4.5 million live in the Republic of Ireland and just under 1.8 million live in Northern Ireland.
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MIT Media lab opens doors to new, modern facility
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MIT opened its doors on Friday for the official opening of its 163000 square foot expansion to the MIT Media Lab. By Justin Meisinger
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MIT Media Lab Medical Mirror
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You can check a person's vital signs — pulse, respiration and blood pressure — manually or by attaching sensors to the body. But a student in the Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology program is working on a system that could measure these health indicators just by putting a person in front of a low-cost camera such as a laptop computer's built-in webcam. Video: Melanie Gonick
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MIT Media lab shows off urban, electric vehicles
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MIT's electric vehicles for urban environments are showcases, including the folding CityCar and the electric bike attachment known as the GreenWheel. By Justin Meisinger
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BiDi Screen from MIT Media Lab (Bidirectional Screen)
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- Published: 11 Dec 2009
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A Thin, Depth-Sensing LCD for 3D Interaction More from cameraculture.media.mit.edu ==================================== Matthew Hirsch, Douglas Lanman, Henry Holtzman, Ramesh Raskar, MIT Media Lab web.media.mit.edu cameraculture.media.mit.edu eco.media.mit.edu The BiDi Screen is an example of a new type of I/O device that possesses the ability to both capture images and display them. This thin, bidirectional screen extends the latest trend in LCD devices, which has seen the incorporation of photo-diodes into every display pixel. Using a novel optical masking technique developed at the Media Lab, the BiDi Screen can capture lightfield-like quantities, unlocking a wide array of applications from 3-D gesture interaction with CE devices, to seamless video communication. web.mit.edu
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Eric Schmidt at MIT Media Lab
Eric Schmidt speaks with John Hockenberry at the 25th birthday of MIT Media Lab in Cambridge, Mass. on October 15, 2010. www.media.mit.edu
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sixthsensea wearable gestural interface MIT Media Lab
SixthSense is a wearable gestural interface that augments the physical world around us with digital information and lets us use natural hand gestures to interact with that information. By using a camera and a tiny projector mounted in a pendant like wearable device, SixthSense sees what you see and visually augments any surfaces or objects we are interacting with. It projects information onto surfaces, walls, and physical objects around us, and lets us interact with the projected information through natural hand gestures, arm movements, or our interaction with the object itself. SixthSense attempts to free information from its confines by seamlessly integrating it with reality, and thus making the entire world your computer. For more information, please visit the sixthsense project website : www.pranavmistry.com and www.communautes-numeriques.net www.toutwindows.com
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MIT Media Lab Relief
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Ars Electronica Festival 2009 www.aec.at
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MIT Media Lab - TaPuMa: Tangible Public Map
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TaPuMa is a digital, tangible public map that allows people to use their own belongings or the everyday objects they carry with them to access relevant, just-in-time information and to find locations of places or people. TaPuMa envisions that conventional maps can be augmented by using the unique identities and affordances of the everyday objects. The TaPuMa system uses a table-top environment where map and dynamic content is projected on the table. A camera mounted above the table identifies and tracks the locations of the objects on the surface. A software program identifies and registers the location of objects on the table. On the basis of identifications of the objects, the software program provides relevant information visualization to be shown on the table. The projector augments the table and objects on the table with projected digital information from overhead along with the map. The project explores a novel interaction mechanism where physical objects are used as interfaces to digital information. TaPuMa allows users to acquire information through tangible media, the things they carry. www.pranavmistry.com
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Mitchel Resnick - MIT Media Lab
Creativity can be nurtured and great ideas don't only appear from thin air! Professor Resnick spent many years contemplating how to best educate kids and feed their yearning desires to be critical thinking and creative individuals. Here, Resnick shares his insights into the minds of children, technology, and building a world for outside-of-the-box thinkers. A production of www.leadel.net, a project of The European Jewish Congress (http and made possible thanks to its President Moshe Kantor. Distributed by Tubemogul.
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BT and the MIT Media Lab
Koi fish programmed to play ping pong? Computerized wallets that correspond to your spending habits? See disruptive innovations like these and more as Jeff Patmore, Head of Strategic University Research at BT, and Steve Whittaker, BT Chief Research Professional, MIT Media Lab Visiting Scientist, take Howard Boville, Head of Financial Markets at BT, on an interactive tour of the BT labs within the MIT Media Lab. An integral part of their global innovation strategy, the labs allowing BT to engage with the business community to reframe challenges and promote collaboration.
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CATRA: Cataract Maps with Snap-on Eyepiece for Mobile Phones
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EyeCatra.com http Camera Culture Group - MIT Media Lab We measure cataracts in the human eye by crafting an optical solution on top of a mobile phone. The human subject looks through the eye piece and answers questions about peceived images. The key idea is that we can ask the subject to compare the sequence of images we show and these images are modified by the forward scatter of the cataract and sensed in the retina's foveal region. Current solutions rely on highly-trained clinicians to check the back scattering in the crystallin lens and test their predictions on visual acuity tests. Close-range parallax barriers create collimated beams of light to scan through sub-apertures scattering light as it strikes a cataract. User feedback generates maps for opacity, attenuation, contrast and local point-spread functions. The goal is to allow a general audience to operate a portable high-contrast light-field display to gain a meaningful understanding of their own visual conditions. The compiled maps are used to reconstruct the cataract-affected view of an individual, offering a unique approach for capturing information for screening, diagnostic, and clinical analysis.
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![石井裕[Hiroshi Ishii]@MIT Media Lab - 02/05](http://web.archive.org./web/20110908012105im_/http://i.ytimg.com/vi/srX-xUe1L18/0.jpg "石井裕[Hiroshi Ishii]@MIT Media Lab - 02/05")
石井裕[Hiroshi Ishii]@MIT Media Lab - 02/05
This movie is the itroduction of Hiroshi Ishii, a profeceer at MIT Media Lab. 「出過ぎた杭は打てない」
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Gandalf, MIT Media Lab, 1996
Gandalf was Kris Thorisson's 1996 Ph.D. thesis titled "Communicative Humanoids: A Computational Model of Psycho-Social Dialogue Skills", developed in the Advanced Human Interface Group (1992-5) and the Gesture and Narrative Language Group (1995-6) at the MIT Media Lab. Several people lent a hand in the programming, including Joshua Beers (body tracking), Hannes H. Vilhjalmsson (Gandalf's hand), Erin Panttaja (pitch tracking), and Steven Levis, Roland Paul, Nimrod War- shawsky & Calvin Yuen (Gandalf's face). Gandalf was developed in the Ymir cognitive architecture framework, which later evolved into the Constructionist Design Methodology (Thorisson et al. 2004) which has been used to develop dialogue skills for the Honda ASIMO robot (Ng-Thow-Hing et al. 2008, 2009). ------- Further details: xenia.media.mit.edu ------- Thórisson, KR (1999). A Mind Model for Multimodal Communicative Creatures and Humanoids. International Journal of Applied Artificial Intelligence, 13(4-5): 449-486. ------- Thórisson, KR, H. Benko, A. Arnold, D. Abramov, S. Maskey, A. Vaseekaran (2004). Constructionist Design Methodology for Interactive Intelligences. AI Magazine, 25(4): 77-90. Menlo Park, CA: American Association for Artificial Intelligence. ------- Ng-Thow-Hing, V., KR Thórisson, RK Sarvadevabhatla, J. Wormer, T. List (2009). The Cognitive Map architecture for facilitating human-robot interaction in humanoid robots. IEEE Robotics & Automation, March, 16(1):55-66.
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MIT Media Lab Huggable Robotic companion. Robo Dev. Conf. Nov. 18, 2008 -4
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tiltul.com MIT Media Lab Huggable Robotic companion. Robo Development Conference November 18, 2008 -4 Developed for healthcare, education, and social communication applications. robotic.media.mit.edu CIMG3642.AVI TilTul www.tiltul.com - Automate the Web
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MIT Media Lab - Scratch and Playing a banana phone
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Amon Millner and Mitchel Resnick play the banana skin with MIT's Scratch programme and the Scratch Board
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Mitchel Resnik at MIT Media Lab
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From BLC08
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MIT MEDIA LAB LOGO
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Joi Ito addresses MIT Media Lab for the first time by videoconference
One day after MIT's 4/25/2011 announcement that Joi Ito had been tapped to be the next director of the Media Lab, he spoke with researchers, staff and faculty via a Skype video conference from Jordan. Here is his initial address, plus a few questions from the crowd.
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RFID helps suggest exhibits at MIT Media Lab
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The MIT Media Lab has started employing RFID technology to help guide and track visitors to different exhibits while they're in the building.
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1985 MIT Media Lab Videodisc Holography Video
Chapter 6 of the MIT Media Lab's videodisc is entitled "Synthetic Holography." I was the writer/director/editor of this video chapter as a graduate student and member of the MIT Media Lab's Spatial Imaging Group (SPI) under the direction of late professor Stephen Benton. Note that majority of the work done at MIT at that time was Horizontal Parallax Only (HPO). We have made many advances since this video was produced. For example, most of Zebra Imaging's holographic technology is Full Parallax (including both Horizontal and Vertical parallax).
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Exploring Electronics at the MIT Media Lab
This is our first week looking at electronics. We explore the possibilities of electronics and computer programming at the MIT Media Lab. We visit Karen A. Brennan at the Lifelong Kindergarten Group and Leah Buechley of the High-Low Tech Group. FAIRYTALE FASHION- I will be making magical clothes for Fairytale Fashion. These might be clothes that have blooming flowers, living clothes that breathe, change color, transform. And guess what, YOU will be leading the design! Fairytale Fashion depends on your participation. How do you participate? Each Monday, FairytaleFashion.org will have a new video that introduces a technology like inflatables, deployable structures, muscle wire and microcontrollers. At the end of each video is a design question. Answer the weekly design questions on our website at fairytalefashion.org
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Cynthia L. Breazeal: Designing Sociable Robots, Biologically Inspired Intelligent Robots (co-editor with Yoseph Bar-Cohen)
Vanessa Stevens Colella, Eric Klopfer, Mitchel Resnick: Adventures in Modeling: Exploring Complex, Dynamic Systems with StarLogo
Rosalind W. Picard: Affective Computing
Neil Gershenfeld: When Things Start to Think
Nicholas Negroponte: Being Digital
Seymour Papert: The Children's Machine: Rethinking School in the Age of the Computer, Mindstorms: Children, Computers, and Powerful Ideas
Marvin Minsky, Seymour Papert: Perceptrons—Expanded Edition: An Introduction to Computational Geometry
Mitchel Resnick: Turtles, Termites, and Traffic Jams: Explorations in Massively Parallel Microworlds
Idit Harel Caperton: Children Designers
E Ink, which makes electronic paper displays
First Mile Solutions, which brings communications infrastructure to rural communities
Ambient Devices, which produces glanceable information displays
nTag Interactive, which makes interactive name tags
Mobule, an application for mobile phones that can instigate interactions between people.
Squid Labs, engineering consulting company
Wireless 5th Dimensional Networking, Inc. (acquired in 2006), which developed the first hybrid search engine
Nanda, a company that markets the Clocky alarm clock
Harmonix, game company creator of Guitar Hero.
reQall, a memory aid company.
Dimagi, a company that develops software for healthcare in the developing world.
Oblong industries
Elance
Sifteo, a company that has developed a tabletop gaming platform.
One Laptop per Child's XO laptop
Sugar Labs, designer of the One Laptop per Child's XO's Sugar graphical user interface
The Echo Nest, a music intelligence platform
SixthSense (device)
Official site
LabCAST
LabCAST Media Lab episode
Twitter account
The MIT Media Lab was founded by MIT Professor Nicholas Negroponte and former MIT President Jerome Wiesner (now deceased) and opened its doors in the Wiesner Building (designed by I.M. Pei), or the E15 building at MIT in 1985. It grew out of the work of MIT’s Architecture Machine Group, and remains within MIT School of Architecture and Planning.
Administration
On April 25, 2011, it was announced that the next director of the Media Lab will be Joichi Ito. Ito will succeed previous directors Nicholas Negroponte (1985-2000), Walter Bender (2000-2006), and Frank Moss (2006-2011).The Media Lab has approximately 70 administrative and support staff members. Associate Directors of the Lab are Hiroshi Ishii and Andrew Lippman. Pattie Maes and Mitchel Resnick are co-heads of the Program in Media Arts and Sciences. The Lab's Chief Knowledge Officer is Henry Holtzman.
Current research focus
"Inventing a better future" is the theme of the Media Lab's work. A current emphasis of Media Lab research, which encompasses the work of several research groups, is on human adaptability. This focus was highlighted by the May 9, 2007 symposium h2.0: new minds, new bodies, new identities. The event was organized by Hugh Herr and John Hockenberry, and featured Oliver Sacks, Michael Graves, Aimee Mullins, Michael Chorost, Susan Hockfield, among other speakers. The day-long program featured work that is blurring the distinction between "able bodied" and "disabled," demonstrating technologies at the neural-digital interface. Work represented emphasized the merging of technology with bodies and minds, altering the conceptions of human capability. New research initiatives were discussed, such as techniques to treat conditions such as Alzheimer's disease or depression, to sociable robots for monitoring the health of children or the elderly, to the development of smart prostheses that can mimic—and exceed—the capabilities of biological limbs. The symposium provided many examples of work that is the next step in the so-called "digital revolution." Research projects at the Media Lab aim to have a deep impact on humanity at large. This work, while initially intended for those considered to be "disabled," will ultimately improve life for all humanity.One of the founding focuses of the Media Lab was technology for the developing world, work that continues with projects such as the One Laptop per Child project and other work. Current projects at the Media Lab continue with this core value, which is expanded and enhanced by increased collaboration within the Media Lab itself, as well as across MIT and with the world at large.
Other research foci include machines with common sense, viral communications, "smart" prostheses, advanced sensor networks, innovative interface design, and sociable robots. Projects range from a program that can convert drawings to musical compositions, to wearable sensors for monitoring health, to electronic ink.
A large number of research groups focus on topics related to human computer interaction. While this includes traditional user interface design, most groups working on this take a broader view. Several groups are working on adding sensors and actuators of different sorts to common objects in the environment, to create "intelligent objects" that are aware of their surroundings, capable of predicting the user's goals and emotional state, and so can assist the user in a more effective way.
The Media Lab also does research into integrating more computational intelligence into learning activities. This includes software for learning but also "smart" educational toys such as programmable bricks like Lego Mindstorms and the PicoCricket. A number of groups are pursuing hybrid art-engineering projects, in developing new tools, media, and instruments for music and other forms of art.
Research at the Media Lab is creative. There is much hands-on building of demos and prototypes, which are then tested extensively and put through many iterations to see what happens when they are used.
The Media Lab maintains a detailed Web site research that is thoroughly updated several times per year.
Funding model
The Lab’s primary source of funding comes from corporate sponsorship. The Media Lab is unique in that it is almost 100% industrially funded. Rather than accepting funding on a per-project or per-group basis, the Media Lab asks sponsors to fund general themes of the Lab; sponsor companies can then connect with Media Lab research in a way that is more spontaneous, but at the same time companies are guided by structured relationships with specific members of the Lab's faculty and research staff, who assist the sponsor companies in deriving the greatest benefit possible from their sponsorship of the Media Lab. The Media Lab is also exploring new methods for making a connection between sponsor businesses and Lab research.In addition, specific projects and researchers are funded more traditionally through government institutions including the NIH, NSF, and DARPA. Also, consortia with other schools or other departments at MIT are often able to have money that does not enter into the common pool.
Intellectual property
Companies sponsoring the Lab at the "consortium" level or higher can share in the Lab’s intellectual property without paying license fees or royalties. Non-sponsors are precluded from making use of Media Lab developments for at least two years after technical disclosure is made to MIT and Media Lab sponsors. The Media Lab generates approximately 20 new patents every year.
Academic arm
The Media Arts and Sciences program is a part of MIT's School of Architecture and Planning, and includes three levels of study: a doctoral program, a master's of science program, and a program that offers an alternative to the standard MIT freshman year as well as a set of undergraduate subjects that may form the basis for a future joint major. All graduate students are fully supported (tuition plus a stipend) from the outset, normally by appointments as research assistants at the Media Laboratory, where they work on research programs and faculty projects, including assisting with courses. These research activities typically take up about half of a student’s time in the degree program.The Media Arts and Sciences academic program has a very close relationship with the Media Lab. The majority of the Media Lab faculty are professors of Media Arts and Sciences. With very few exceptions, students who earn a degree in Media Arts and Sciences have been predominantly in residence at the Media Lab, taking classes and doing research. Some students from other programs at MIT, such as Mechanical Engineering, or Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, do their research at the Media Lab, working with a Media Lab/Media Arts and Sciences faculty advisor, but earn their degrees (such as MEng or an MS in EECS) from other departments.
Buildings
The Media Lab has expanded with a new building designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Fumihiko Maki. The , six-story building features an open, atelier-style, adaptable architecture specifically designed to provide the flexibility to respond to emerging research priorities. High levels of transparency throughout the building's interior will make ongoing research visible, encouraging connections and collaboration among researchers.Work began on the building in mid-2007 and occupancy took place in 2009. Construction had been delayed for several years by funding issues related to the dot-com bubble.
Apart from the Media Lab, the building also hosts the List Visual Arts Center, the School of Architecture and Planning's Program in Art, Culture and Technology (ACT), and MIT's Program in Comparative Media Studies.
Faculty and academic research staff
Media Arts and Sciences faculty and academic research staff are principal investigators/heads of the Media Lab's various research groups. They also advise Media Arts and Sciences graduate students, and mentor MIT undergraduates. "Most departments accept grad students based on their prospects for academic success; the Media Lab attempts to select ones that will best be able to help with some of the ongoing projects."Currently there are more than 25 faculty and academic research staff members, and two emeritus professors, Marvin Minsky and Seymour Papert.
There are several named professorships in the Media Arts and Sciences program:
A full list of Media Lab faculty and academic research staff, with bios and other information, is available via the Media Lab Website.
Selected publications
Accomplishments
The MPEG-4 SA project developed at the Media Lab made structured audio a practical reality, the Aspen Movie Map (precursor to the ideas in Google Street View).Large numbers of Media Lab-developed technologies made it into products, such as the LEGO Mindstorms and the LEGO WeDo and the pointing stick in IBM laptops, the Benton hologram used in most credit cards, the Fisher-Price's Symphony Painter, the Nortel Wireless Mesh Network, the NTT Comware Sensetable, the Taito’s Karaoke-on-Demand Machine.
In 2001, MIT Media Lab collaborated to create two spin-offs: Media Lab Asia and Media Lab Europe. Media Lab Asia, based in India, was a result of cooperation with the Government of India but eventually broke off in 2003 after disagreement. Media Lab Europe, based in Dublin, Ireland, was founded with a similar concept in association with Irish universities and government. Media Lab Europe closed in January 2005.
Created collaboratively by the Computer Museum and the Media Lab, the Computer Clubhouse, a worldwide network of after-school learning centers, focuses on youth from underserved communities who would not otherwise have access to technological tools and activities.
In January 2005, the Lab's chairman emeritus Nicholas Negroponte announced at the World Economic Forum a new research initiative to develop a $100 laptop computer, a technology that could revolutionize how the world's children are educated. A non-profit organization, One Laptop per Child, was created to oversee the actual deployment, i.e., MIT will not manufacture or distribute the device.
Synthetic Neurobiology group reagents and devices for the analysis of brain circuits are in use by hundreds of biology labs around the world.
Honors and awards
The Media Lab Web site has a section "Annual report to the president" that shows major achievements on a year-to-year basis.
Spin-offs
Media Lab industry spin-offs include:
See also
References
External links
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