Λ-2D: Exploration of Drawing as Programming Language, Ideas from Lambda Calculus

 An Exploration of Drawing as Programming Language, Featuring Ideas from Lambda Calculus | Continue reading

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Will technology save us from climate change?

Update (2/23/21): A recording of the talk has been uploaded at the bottom of this page.CLIMATE TALK: WILL TECHNOLOGY SAVE US FROM CLIMATE CHANGE?Present... | Continue reading

@media.mit.edu | 3 years ago

Overview ‹ Dormio: Interfacing with Dreams – MIT Media Lab

InspirationSleep is a forgotten country of the mind. A vast majority of our technologies are built for our waking state, even though a third of our lives are... | Continue reading

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Complex Economic Activities Concentrate in Large Cities

Human activities, such as research, innovation and industry, concentrate disproportionately in large cities. The ten most innovative cities in the United Sta... | Continue reading

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Media Lab to the MoMA: A Complicated Reality of Dreams Coming True

This is a story of dreams coming true in roundabout ways. How things inside are often not at all what they appear to be on the outside. | Continue reading

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Vespers: Augmentation with Bio-Hybrid Materials

Vespers is a collection of masks exploring what it means to design (with) life. From the relic of the death mask to a contemporary living device, the collect... | Continue reading

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A battery-free sensor for underwater exploration

Submerged system uses the vibration of “piezoelectric” materials to generate power and send and receive data. | Continue reading

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Guitar Machine

​We often imagine a future world filled with robots and artificial intelligence agents, where humans share their civilization with sentient beings made out o... | Continue reading

@media.mit.edu | 4 years ago

Open source curriculum for middle school students on the topic of AI

How do we raise conscientious consumers and designers of AI?Children today live in the age of artificial intelligence. On average, US children tend to receiv... | Continue reading

@media.mit.edu | 4 years ago

Joi Ito raised money from and invested with Jeffrey Epstein

I’m sure that most, if not all of you, have seen recent news stories about Jeffrey Epstein, and I owe it to you to address my prior affiliation with him.I me... | Continue reading

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Swarm

As bikes navigate city streets after dark, they are often equipped with lights. The lights make the bikes visible to cars or other bikers, and the hazards of... | Continue reading

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Group Overview ‹ Disobedience Award - MIT Media Lab

Disobedience Award | Continue reading

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FIBERBOTS: Design of a multi-agent, fiber composite digital fabrication system

FIBERBOTS is a digital fabrication platform fusing cooperative robotic manufacturing with abilities to generate highly sophisticated material architectures. ... | Continue reading

@media.mit.edu | 5 years ago

Dormio: Interfacing with dreams for creativity

Sleep is a forgotten country of the mind. A vast majority of our technologies are built for our waking state, even though a third of our lives are spent asle... | Continue reading

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The Universal Decay of Collective Memory and Attention

Collective memory and attention are sustained by two channels: oral communication (communicative memory) and the physical recording of information (cultural ... | Continue reading

@media.mit.edu | 5 years ago

Elowan: A plant-robot hybrid that drives itself towards light

Elowan is a cybernetic lifeform, a plant in direct dialogue with a machine. Using its own internal electrical signals, the plant is interfaced with a robotic... | Continue reading

@media.mit.edu | 5 years ago

Putting food-safety detection in the hands of consumers – MIT Media Lab

Simple, scalable wireless system uses the RFID tags on billions of products to sense contamination. | Continue reading

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Why Antitrust Makes Me Dizzy

It’s not about your wireless or cable bill, it’s about your right to learn. | Continue reading

@media.mit.edu | 5 years ago

Masque – Wearable that manipulates a user’s perception of their own respiration

 When the body senses itself internally and localizes its actions, it provides the basis for a material sense of self-existence. At the same time, the m... | Continue reading

@media.mit.edu | 5 years ago

Adventurous Science Fellows, MIT Media Lab

These new fellowships address the lack of support for groundbreaking science that does not fit within traditionally defined disciplines. | Continue reading

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Spinning data into sound

An interdepartmental collaboration brings out the music of nuclear fusion | Continue reading

@media.mit.edu | 5 years ago