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David Kirkpatrick (left), Chairman of Plymouth Rock Studios, Cynthia Breazeal, co-director of Media Lab's Center for Future Storytelling, and Frank Moss, director of the MIT Media Lab, with Nexi, a mobile, dexterous social robot developed by Breazeal's Personal Robots research group.

Media Lab creates Center for Future Storytelling

Teams up with Plymouth Rock Studios to reinvent the movies

November 18, 2008

Tuning in to unconscious communication

MIT researchers discover revealing clues in conversations

October 21, 2008

Traditional flat screen displays (bottom left) present 2-D images. 3-D and 4-D displays have been proposed making use of lenslet arrays to shape a fixed outgoing light field for horizontal or bidirectional parallax (top left).

MIT developing super-realistic image system

'6-D' pictures can look just like the real thing

August 7, 2008

A screenshot from Scratch's 'Critters Cafe,' a critique group for programmers who want to focus on animation and story telling.

Created from Scratch

Worldwide users to share ideas on innovative programming tool

July 21, 2008

Media Lab celebrates co-founder Davenport's career

Symposium honors interactive media pioneer's legacy

June 25, 2008

Hope on the horizon: Digital Fabrication

May 21, 2008

A screenshot from AudiOdyssey, an experimental computer game designed by MIT and Singaporean students to be accessible to both the visually impaired community and mainstream gamers.

Singapore-MIT game lets visually impaired share the fun

May 13, 2008

MIT Media Lab announces two new associate directors

Will aid in defining strategic direction

May 6, 2008

Meet Nexi, the Media Lab's latest robot and Internet star

April 9, 2008

Would you steal a buck? How about a can of soda?

Dan Ariely probes how people make decisions in his new book, 'Predictably Irrational'

April 9, 2008

MIT Media Lab and Bank of America announce Center for Future Banking

Collaboration to create an innovative engine for consumer banking solutions

March 31, 2008

Voting for more than just either-or

March 14, 2008

NYTE's Globe Encounters visualizes in real time the volumes
of Internet data flowing between New York and cities around the world. The
size of the glow on a particular city location corresponds to the amount of
IP traffic flowing between that place and New York City. <a href="http://senseable2.mit.edu/nyte/images/hres/01%20nyte%20-%20globe%20encounters.tif"><strong>Full-size image</strong...

The city that never sleeps ... nor stops talking

February 18, 2008

Graduate student Adam Kumpf sits on the chair at the desk that he has made part of his clothing for the MIT visual design class Give Me Shelter.

Wearing their art on their sleeves

Grad students' fanciful clothing designs reflect emotions

January 3, 2008

John Maeda named president of Rhode Island School of Design

December 21, 2007

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