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How Data Killed Facts: Essayist and Harvard professor Jill Lepore in conversation with Andy Lippman. A wide-ranging discussion about facts, truth, media, and politics in the Internet age.

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Joe Paradiso, head of the Responsive Environments group, captured the feel of the atmosphere during zero gravity on the Space Exploration initiative's research flight.

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Algorithms are increasingly arbiters of forgiveness. They are used to decide who will get let out of jail, the amount that people pay in auto insurance premiums, and which neighborhoods will be overrun with cars sent there by a mapping algorithm. ProPublica Senior Reporter Julia Angwin discusses what she has learned about forgiveness in her series of articles on algorithmic accountability and the lessons we all need to learn for the coming AI future.

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Award-winning sci-fi author Neal Stephenson, who is also the chief futurist at Magic Leap, in conversation with Ariel Ekblaw, founder and lead of the Media Lab's Space Exploration Initiative, and Joe Paradiso, head of the Responsive Environments research group. #MLTalks

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Media Lab researchers, university students from across Europe, and corporate collaborators engage in a dialogue between machines, design, and humans. What are the signals that connect us? How do we make sense of the noise? Participants will collaborate in small teams guided by Media Lab mentors and invited experts. Together, we will create new technologies and use technology in new ways to answer these questions.

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Advancing Wellbeing Seminar Series

Speaker: Judson Brewer MD, PhD
Speaker Affiliation: University of Massachusetts Medical School
Date: Thursday, 2/15/2014

Over the past decade, there has been an explosion of interest in how contemplative practices such as meditation can inform science and how science can inform these practices. Recent advances have begun to unravel the mysteries of how mindfulness practice can affect learning processes leading to positive habit change. Using evidence from clinical trials of smoking cessation, this presentation will first map out how mindfulness targets key components of operant conditioning pathways. It will then detail neuroscientific findings from novice and expert meditators using traditional and real-time fMRI to link the subjective experience of effortless awareness that may be a key aspect of mindfulness, to regional brain activity in the default mode network. It will conclude with a discussion of how targeted neurofeedback may provide a “mental mirror” for augmenting mindfulness training.

More talks in this series can be found online at:
http://wellbeing.media.mit.edu

The Prior Art Archive is a new, open access system that allows anyone to upload their prior work and make it easily searchable by patent examiners. (see chapters below) Currently, patent examiners face barriers to finding and reviewing large swaths of existing prior art. This MIT-hosted and publicly accessible archive was created in collaboration with the USPTO and Cisco to address some of those barriers. We aim to make it easy for anyone to get their prior art in front of examiners and, as a result, significantly improve the quality of issued patents.

MIT Media Lab Director Joi Ito and USPTO Director Andrei Iancu are leading a half-day launch celebration at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences on October 3.

Chapter 1: 00:45 Welcome - Kate Darling, MIT
Chapter 2: 04:48 How this project started - Dan Lang, Cisco
Chapter 3: 15:55 Why MIT/Media Lab? - Joi Ito, MIT Media Lab
Chapter 4: 26:26 The Mission of USPTO & efforts to improve patent quality - Andrei Iancu, USPTO
Chapter 5: 43:39 The Prior Art Archive - Travis Rich, MIT Media Lab & Bhaskar Ranade, Cisco
Chapter 6: 1:05:39 Colleen V. Chien, Santa Clara University
Chapter 7: 1:18:22 - Mike J. Meurer, Boston University
Chapter 8: 1:53:25 - Panel: How can we keep improving patent quality and why does it matter?

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On July 21, 2016 we announced the creation of a $250K cash prize award for disobedience. This idea came after a realization that there’s a widespread frustration from people trying to figure out how can we effectively harness responsible, ethical disobedience aimed at challenging our norms, rules, or laws to benefit society.

And so we begin the process of searching for the first MIT Media Lab Disobedience Award recipient. The award will go to a person or group engaged in what we believe is extraordinary disobedience for the benefit of society. Specifically, we’d like to call out action that seeks to change society in positive ways and is consistent with a set of key principles. These principles include non-violence, creativity, courage, and taking responsibility for one’s actions. We’re seeking both expected and unexpected nominees. This could include–but isn’t limited to–those engaged in scientific research, civil rights, freedom of speech, human rights, and the freedom to innovate.

Learn more and nominate a person or group for the Disobedience Award at: https://www.media.mit.edu/posts/disob...

Excerpts from Media Lab director Joi Ito's talk at the 2018 Earth Day Energy Summit in Hawaii, hosted by Elemental Excelerator.

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There's no such thing as a "typical" Media Lab student. Current Media Arts and Sciences graduate students discuss their research, what it's like to work at the Media Lab, and why you should apply.

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FIBERBOTS is a digital fabrication platform fusing cooperative robotic manufacturing with abilities to generate highly sophisticated material architectures. The platform can enable design and digital fabrication of large-scale structures with high spatial resolution leveraging mobile fabrication nodes, or robotic "agent" designed to tune the material make-up of the structure being constructed on the fly as informed by their environment.

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In collaboration with the Department of Nuclear Science & Engineering and the MIT Media Lab, ACT presents Resynthesizer, a performance, installation, and public tour series of MIT Media Lab Professor Joe Paradiso’s modular synthesizer, temporarily installed within MIT’s internationally known Plasma Science and Fusion Center (PSFC).


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Structurally, zero gravity means that we do not have to contend with architecture's greatest arch-nemesis, gravity. This opens up a new world of possibilities where we can deploy structures that no longer have to counteract/resist gravitational force. We would like to explore new forms of rapid inflatable prototyping. Most importantly this prototype explores surfaces utilizing materials that would normally fail under gravity, yet flourish in zero gravity.

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The Media Lab's Space Exploration Initiative chartered a zero gravity research flight to allow students to conduct research experiments that make explicit use of the unique affordances of microgravity.

This flight was the initiative's first research deployment, and the first step toward realizing the mission statement of democratizing access to space. Projects ranged across disciplines: design, architecture, engineering, biology, music, robotics, and beyond. The researchers are imagining and prototyping for humanity's future in space, beyond the basic concerns of survival.

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Teaching outside the textbook: Virtual Reality at #MLBerlin has research scientist @scottgwald taping 3D interviews with Berliners who escaped to the West in the 1960s. Volumetric and immersive 3D environments will capture what it was like to escape in the glove compartment of a 1957 Cadillac.

Video by Elisa Cucinelli.

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