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Reminder that you can find/follow the Media Lab on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, or on our website at . You can find all of the official MIT social media accounts at .

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“Today was fascinating.” Composer @arrahman visited MIT in July, taking a short course with @raskarmit and visiting @todopera , among other tours and activities.

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Her work at @MIT helped us reach the moon. Now, she's won a Presidential Medal of Freedom! Congrats to computer scientist #MargaretHamilton !

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"As the Spanish guitarist and composer Paco de Lucía once said, 'The hands find a way to do what the heart wants to say.'" @dagdevirencanan on what being an engineer means to her.

Women in Engineering: An Interview with Canan Dagdeviren

Meet Canan Dagdeviren, editorial board member for Advanced Intelligent Systems.

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“Leading the legendary Media Lab is a dream for me, and I can’t wait to help write the next chapter of this uniquely creative, impactful, compassionate community.” We’re thrilled to announce that @DavaExplorer will be the new director of the MIT Media Lab!

Dava Newman named director of MIT Media Lab

Dava Newman, MIT professor of aeronautics and astronautics, has been named the new director of the MIT Media Lab.

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Congratulations to @CDecoders head @dagdevirencanan on receiving the 2021 @NSF Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) award, and the @3M Non-Tenured Faculty award.

Canan Dagdeviren Receives NSF CAREER and 3M Non-Tenured Faculty Awards – MIT Media Lab

The awards will support Dagdeviren's research in the emerging field of widely deployed biosensing tools.

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Three researchers from MIT, including @CDecoders head @dagdevirencanan , have been selected to speak at @theNAEng ’s 25th annual US Frontiers of Engineering (USFOE) symposium.

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Labber @bunniestudios and @snowden publish an engineering paper on an “Introspection Engine” to protect smartphones

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Introducing AlterEgo: a #wearable that interfaces with your smart phone through internal vocalization, or "silent speech," created by @FluidInterfaces researcher Arnav Kapur. Learn more on MIT News: .

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Seymour Papert, educational-technology visionary, has passed away at 88

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"I say 'Fuck the patriarchy!' because being nice and polite got us nowhere...rude women are free women." — @monaeltahawy #DisobedienceAward

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We are thrilled to announce that #MeToo and #MeTooSTEM leaders @TaranaBurke , @McLNeuro , and @sherrymarts are the winners of the 2018 Media Lab #DisobedienceAward !

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Prof. @dagdevirencanan , head of the Media Lab's @CDecoders research group, has been selected for the 2023 season of @BBC100women ! Prof. Dagdeviren was recognized for her work developing a wearable ultrasound patch for early breast cancer detection.

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Enjoy the wit and wisdom of Marvin Minsky with this collection of Marvinisms. #CelebratingMinsky

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Announcing the $250K Media Lab #Disobedience Award: Nominate a person/group engaged in disobedience for public good!

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Out of 7,826 nominees, the Media Lab #Disobedience Award goes to Flint water crisis whistleblowers @MonaHannaA and Prof. Marc Edwards

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Congratulations to @civicMIT PhD student @jovialjoy , whom @FortuneMagazine has named “the conscience of the #AI revolution” in its 2019 list of #FortuneLeaders !

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A paper published today in @nature introduces #MachineBehavior : the interdisciplinary study of #AI systems as a new class of actors with unique behavioral patterns and ecology. @scalablecoop expands on framing an emerging field.

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“The whole point of Adafruit is to share with people the joy I have found making electronics.” Alum @adafruit tells @eandtmagazine how her company stays true to its mission

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Joi Ito has resigned as director, effective immediately. A letter from MIT's President Reif outlines next steps.

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Congratulations to all of the honorees in the MIT Future Founders Initiative Prize Competition, including winner Ellen Roche ( @ellentroche / @MIT_IMES ) and runners-up Polina Anikeeva ( @mit_dmse ) and Canan Dagdeviren ( @dagdevirencanan / @CDecoders / @medialab )!

Canan Dagdeviren selected as runner-up for MIT Future Founders Initiative Prize Competition – MIT...

The competition was co-hosted by MIT School of Engineering + the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship, alongside Northpond Ventures.

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This is what filter bubbles actually look like: Maps of Twitter activity show how political polarization manifests online and why divides are so hard to bridge: .

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As a @civicMIT student, @jovialjoy founded @AJLUnited to combat algorithmic bias in #AI and other systems

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Google’s Colaboratory is a free, collaborative data analysis and development tool

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We have a new website! Explore a completely redesigned experience to discover Media Lab research, news, and more:

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A research team led by Hugh Herr has developed the AMI, a new surgical procedure and neural interface that gives amputees precise, natural control of their prosthetic limbs.

Project Overview ‹ Agonist-antagonist Myoneural Interface (AMI) – MIT Media Lab

Humans can accurately sense the position, speed, and torque of their limbs, even with their eyes shut. This sense, known as proprioception, allows humans to pr…

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PhD student @jovialjoy is one of @techreview 's 35 Innovators Under 35 for her pioneering work fighting algorithmic bias in facial recognition and analysis technology. @AJLUnited

Joy Buolamwini

As a college student, Joy Buolamwini discovered that some facial-analysis systems couldn’t detect her dark-skinned face until she donned a white mask. “I was literally not seen by technology,” she...

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Happy New Year from the Media Lab! Here's to a curious, collaborative, antidisciplinary, and disobedient 2019.

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Partisanship, propaganda, and disinformation: Media maniuplation and #Election2016 @civicMIT & @BKCHarvard

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With his new research group Future Sketches, adjunct associate professor @zachlieberman hopes to carry on the legacy and tradition of Muriel Cooper at the Media Lab.

Zach Lieberman joins MIT Media Lab

Artist and educator Zach Lieberman has been appointed an adjunct associate professor of media arts and sciences at the MIT Media Lab. He is teaching courses and working on projects at the lab under...

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Congratulations to @mres ! His book Lifelong Kindergarten has been selected for a 2018 PROSE Award in Education Practice #PROSEAwards

Mitch Resnick's book Lifelong Kindergarten selected for a 2018 PROSE Award – MIT Media Lab

Lifelong Kindergarten: Cultivating Creativity through Projects, Passion, Peers and Play has been selected for a 2018 PROSE Award.

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Congratulations to @ishii_mit , whose pioneering work in human-computer interaction research has just been recognized with the 2019 ACM SIGCHI Lifetime Research Award! @SIGCHI

Hiroshi Ishii wins ACM SIGCHI Lifetime Research Award – MIT Media Lab

MAS professor recognized for a career of contributions to human-computer interaction.

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Meet our new director! @davaexplorer will become the director of the MIT Media Lab on July 1, 2021.

Media Lab’s new head

Aero-astro professor Dava Newman, noted for her pioneering spacesuit designs, will take over in July.

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“Instead of thinking about machine intelligence in terms of humans vs machines, we should consider the system that integrates humans and machines—not artificial intelligence but extended intelligence.” In @wireduk , @joi issues a call against reductionism.

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Argentinian artist Marta Minujín has created a replica of the Greek Parthenon from 100,000 banned books #DefianceML

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Why the Internet of Things isn’t the same as the new hardware movement: reflections from @JonBruner http://t.co/kXUddW1501 #IoT #SolidCon

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Introducing The Markup, a new venture incubated by the AI Initiative: Investigative journalism that seeks to uncover how institutions use and abuse tech in ways that harm people and damage society, founded by @JuliaAngwin , @SuePGardner , @thejefflarson .

AI Initiative Incubates The Markup, a New Investigative Journalism Venture Focused on Revealing the...

Today, The Markup, a new journalism venture founded by Sue Gardner, former head of the Wikimedia Foundation, and Julia Angwin and Jeff Larson, investigative journalists formerly at ProPublica,...

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#STEAM , not #STEM —Alum Richard Lachman explains why scientists need training in humanities and arts, to understand the social and ethical implications of their work

STEAM not STEM: Why scientists need arts training

Universities must train scientists to engage with the ethics of emerging technologies, rather than functioning as cogs in the engine of economic development. Integrating the arts into STEM can help.

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Lots of women are still coding. But @NPR explores what happened in 1984 to skew computer science toward men #STEM

Episode 576: When Women Stopped Coding

A lot of computing pioneers, the ones who programmed the first digital computers, were women. For decades, the number of women in computer science was growing. But in 1984, something changed.

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Learning Creative Learning is back! Led by the Lifelong Kindergarten group, join a community of educators, designers, parents, and learners exploring creativity through projects, peers, passion, and play. @mres

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A critical reading list toward ethical, transparent, and fair #AI , including @joi ’s essay on resisting reduction, and work from @ajlunited , @scalablecoop , @socialmachines , and Director’s Fellow @JuliaAngwin

Toward ethical, transparent and fair AI/ML: a critical reading list

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New from @medialab & @mitpress : JoDS, an open-access academic journal for design and science

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Researchers from the @CDecoders group and collaborators from MIT, Xi’an Technological University, and @harvardmed have designed a wearable ultrasound device that could allow people to detect tumors when they are still in early stages.

A wearable ultrasound scanner could detect breast cancer earlier

In hopes of improving the survival rate for breast cancer patients, MIT researchers designed a wearable ultrasound device that could allow women to detect tumors when they are still in early stages.

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It’s “essential…to stop thinking of our creative lives in terms of linear progress and think of them instead as cyclical, seasonal, and non-linear.” @austinkleon reflects on the creative learning spiral and @mres ’s new book, Lifelong Kindergarten

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Researchers in the @CDecoders group led by @dagdevirencanan , with collaborators from @MITEECS , @UBuffalo , and @astar_research , have designed a lightweight, wearable sensor that could help patients with ALS communicate. The new research appears in @natBME .

A wearable sensor to help ALS patients communicate

MIT researchers have designed a skin-like device that can be attached to the face and measure small movements such as a twitch or a smile. With this approach, patients with amyotrophic lateral...

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Dava Newman's appointment as director of the MIT Media Lab becomes effective today. Welcome, @DavaExplorer !

Dava Newman becomes director of MIT Media Lab – MIT Media Lab

Dava Newman is a visionary astronautics researcher, explorer, and expert on human adaptation to space.

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"Education is what people do to you, and learning is what you do for yourself." Watch @joi 's #TED talk from TED 2014 http://t.co/rpC0x3Uiw8

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The Beautiful Brain: @MITMuseum 's new exhibition features exquisite hand-drawings from neuroscience pioneer Santiago Ramón y Cajal, as well as interactive displays of expansion microscopy from @eboyden3 's group

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The @medialab ’s @scratch and @google announce the next generation of programming blocks for kids

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Get ready for automated, live fact-checking during the 2018 State of the Union address—the Tech & Check Cooperative will be beta testing it on January 30

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Prof. @dagdevirencanan , head of the @CDecoders research group, has been featured by the @AdvSciNews Rising Stars program, which highlights the work of early career researchers and celebrates the diversity of the international scientific community.

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Exploring the connections between MIT and #LEGO , from bricks to Mindstorms to the Women of NASA set

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Google has released Dataset Search, a dataset discovery tool to help researchers find data from sciences, governments, and some news organizations.

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“You are standing in an open field west of a white house, with a boarded front door. There is a small mailbox here.” Internet archivist @textfiles has uploaded the source code for Infocom’s text games and interactive fiction, including Zork, to GitHub.

Long Lost ‘Zork’ Source Code Uploaded to GitHub, But Few People Understand It

With access to the source code, a group of dedicated fans is now tinkering with the Zork Implementation Language (ZIL).

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Engaging digital learners in physical tinkering to encourage creative expression and playful, self-directed learning

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It’s not a MOOC, it’s a community—join a vibrant online experiment in Learning Creative Learning, starting tomorrow!

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"How do we build societal values into #AI ?" @Joi & @POTUS discuss extended intelligence and more in @WIRED

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“New forms of justice can emerge through art that engages with social, cultural, and political issues — ones that aren’t tied to codified laws and biased systems.” Introducing @ekeneijeoma ’s new @medialab research group, Poetic Justice.

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Try out DeepMoji and help teach AI about emotions, sentiment, and sarcasm

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Nominations are now open for the second annual Media Lab #DisobedienceAward ! This $250K prize will go to a person or group engaged in an extraordinary act of disobedience that impacts society in a positive way. Learn more and submit a nomination:

Group Overview ‹ Disobedience Award – MIT Media Lab

Disobedience Award

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Presenting Kino: "Living" wearables that can act as shape-changing jewelry, weather-responsive clothing, and more

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With collaborators from @urop_mit , @irmandyw and @cdecoders head @dagdevirencanan developed a way to incorporate removable electronic sensors into stretchy, machine-washable fabrics, enabling the creation of garments that monitor the wearer's vital signs.

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In the @washingtonpost , @emmabgo explores how computer science came to be dominated by men, and how scholars like @jovialjoy and organizations like @GirlsWhoCode are shifting the narrative.

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It's #CSEdWeek —check out the first-ever coding #GoogleDoodle , built with #Scratch Blocks! Get kids engaged in an #HourOfCode today

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"It's time for me to do my research and to answer those comments with my work. And so that’s what I did." @CDecoders head @dagdevirencanan is one of @inversedotcom 's Future 50—"a group of 50 people who will be forces of good in the 2020s.”

Canan Dagdeviren wants more women in STEM to “not give up”

Dagdeviren, a materials scientist at MIT, works t a singular lab developing "comfortable decoders" that listen to the body.

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We are devastated to learn of the execution of Bassel Khartabil, an open source developer and advocate

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Explore Scratch 3.0 and discover all the new ways to create, share, and learn with code! @scratch #Scratch3

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The @girlscouts are adding cybersecurity badges, as part of a new focus on #STEM learning for young women and girls

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Scratch has reached an amazing milestone—100 million global users! Congratulations to the @Scratch Team, and thank you to everyone who’s used Scratch to express themselves, explore, imagine, create, play, and remix.

Scratch hits a major milestone—100 million global users! – MIT Media Lab

Scratch, a coding platform for children, was developed by the Lifelong Kindergarten group at the Media Lab in 2007.

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Thrilled to welcome @NASA scientist Danielle Wood! Her group Space Enabled will harness space tech for life on Earth

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“This is a story of dreams coming true in roundabout ways.” In 2008, alum Jie Qi was a pre-med major inspired by Design and the Elastic Mind at @MuseumModernArt . Today, she's exhibiting work that grew out of her @medialab research in MoMA's Energy exhibit.

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

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“We need to make the rest of school, the rest of life, more like kindergarten—to playfully create things with each other.” @qz reports on @mres ’s approach to lifelong learning.

Why an MIT professor says we should all learn like kindergartners if we want to succeed

The inventor of Scratch on why we need to go back to basics to learn again.

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Marvin Minsky's "Society of Mind," a free course on #AI from @MITOCW via @doctorow

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Tech Trends 2017: 15 trends set to change how we live in the near future

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"If you use technology correctly, you can change opinions overnight." Pixar's John Lasseter on tech & storytelling http://t.co/tuyXjE7plb

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In MIT News, Shriya Srinivasan and Hugh Herr discuss a new "closed-loop" optogenetic system that can power a paralyzed limb.

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What makes it possible to adjust to change with speed and agility? Establishing a culture of preparedness, organization, and structure. @mitopenlearning looks at the ways @dagdevirencanan helped her @CDecoders group and students adjust to working remotely.

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Reconstructing historical Venice with a “time machine” built from 1,000 years of maps, images, manuscripts, & music

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We mourn the loss of @medialab professor and AI pioneer Marvin Minsky, 1927-2016

Marvin Minsky, Pioneer in Artificial Intelligence, Dies at 88 (Published 2016)

Professor Minsky laid the foundation for the field by demonstrating the possibilities of imparting common-sense reasoning to computers.

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By 2050, nearly a quarter of the world’s population will be over the age of 60—but too many digital interfaces and physical devices are designed without the needs of the elderly, or of anyone with physical limitations, in mind. Don Norman has had enough.

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"We want…kids of all ages to be able to explore and experiment and express themselves.” @mres talks to @hgse about making lifelong learning more like kindergarten, with a focus on projects, passion, peers, and play

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Digital archive of all @MuseumModernArt exhibitions, 1929 to today via @curiousoctopus

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“I create devices that can listen to and interpret the body,” says @CDecoders head @dagdevirencanan

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Director’s fellow @FCHWPO is working to create an educational program that empowers kids and teenagers with the knowledge and resources they need to break down barriers and improve their opportunities. @MLDFellows

Jaylen Brown on a mission to change inequality in education system

The Celtics guard is creating a program to provide opportunities for students unknowingly at risk of the system.

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On #InternationalWomensDay , revisit the long history of women in computer science.

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10 new principles of good design from @FastCoDesign , including transparency, long-term thinking, and an awareness of complex systems

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Targeted brain medication: Canan Dagdeviren, head of @CDecoders , and @MIT colleagues have developed an ultrathin needle system that can deliver doses of drugs to tiny, specific regions of the brain

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A few days before the vote to end #netneutrality , @medialab associate director Andy Lippman explains why we need to take a stand to prevent its destruction

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At 21, @FCHWPO 's interests include Spanish, history, finance, technology, meditation, philosophy, and social justice advocacy. During #MLTalks on 10/12, he'll share his ideas on all this and basketball too!

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Visiting scientist @davidrose explores the possibilities of gesture-based interactions with computers and smart devices

Why Gesture is the Next Big Thing in Design

With new cameras, sensors, and AI, it's time for design to get physical

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The @medialab is changing our software default to #FLOSS : new blog post by @Joi explains why

MIT Media Lab Changes Software Default to FLOSS*

By Joi Ito (@Joi)

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“The place that follows crazy ideas wherever they might lead.”

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“I am optimistic that there is still time to shift towards building ethical and inclusive #AI systems that respect our human dignity and rights.” Read @jovialjoy ’s essay in the Optimists issue of Time, guest-edited by @ava . #WomenInScience

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“Those who can produce digital technologies, and not only consume them, will be in charge of their own destiny.” Coding is more than a job skill, says alum @marinabers ; it’s a literacy for the 21st century

Coding as a Literacy for the 21st Century (Opinion)

To give today's kids a good chance to be a part of tomorrow's civic society, we need to start teaching them to code at the same time that we teach them how to read and write.

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A message from @MIT faculty reaffirming their shared values

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The great #AI awakening: The @nytimes explores the history and future of artificial intelligence

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Nominations are now open for the 2019 Media Lab #DisobedienceAward ! This $250,000 prize recognizes nonviolent, responsible, impact-driven acts of disobedience, and is open to individuals and groups in any field. Learn more and submit a nomination: .

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The Media Lab seeks a new tenure-track professor in an unspecified field—preferably one we’ve never heard of before

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Today, we honor #SeymourPapert ’s timeless ideas about play, experimentation, and learning. Watch live at 10am ET!

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Celebrating Marvin Minsky, the father of artificial intelligence

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@medialab

5 years

“The world is a lovely, splendid, and fascinating place. But most of all, to me, it is beautifully curious.” We are heartbroken to say goodbye to Steven Keating, @MITMechE and Mediated Matter group alum.

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