The interactive feature has provided more than just novel entertainment, though: the MIT Media Lab scientists behind the demonstration have used it to collect an enormous trove of facial expression data that will contribute to research on human-computer interaction.
They are PhD students at the MIT Media Lab and have an all-star record related to other cool tech projects like the Scratch programming language.
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He has put together a committee of 35 advisors, including John Henry Clippinger, a research scientist at the MIT Media Lab Human Dynamics Group, Microsoft researcher Mary Czerwinski, and Jon Hall of the United Nations Development Project.
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His group produced the first (tiny) movie-like holograms in the early 1990s at the MIT Media Lab.
In 2000, he was a Fulbright postdoctoral fellow at the MIT Media Lab.
To find out what works, Teixeira went directly to consumers, partnering with the MIT Media Lab and Waltham, Mass.
Bluefin Labs, which came out of the MIT Media Lab, provides data and services to brands, agencies and TV networks.
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Nicholas Negroponte is founder and chairman of the One Laptop per Child non-profit association, and formerly co-founder and director of the MIT Media Lab.
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Julius is the initiator of a project called Unleashing the Wealth of Nations and a resident entrepreneur at the MIT Media Lab in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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Neri Oxman, an architect and professor at the MIT Media Lab, is working on one such set of research using 3-D printing technology for buildings.
John Maeda of the Rhode Island School of Design (formerly of the MIT Media Lab) and Jon Gebbia of AirBnB sat down together to talk about creativity within business.
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Pentland is also head of the MIT Media Lab Entrepreneurship program, and has co-founded or served in an advisory role to several big data analytics startups such as Ginger.io and Sense Networks.
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That's an overly simplistic explanation for the six-sided display on hand at the MIT Media Lab today, which is quite limited in its current form, but could eventually serve an enormous variety of applications.
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To suss out the characteristics of the most-compelling television ads, Harvard Business School professor Thales Teixeira conducted a series of experiments, in conjunction with the MIT Media Lab and Affectiva, a local emotion-tracking software company.
Light-based communication seems to wind throughout the MIT Media Lab -- it is a universal language, after all, since many devices output light, be it with a dedicated LED or a standard LCD, and have the capacity to view and interpret it.
The visualization presented here was created by MIT Media Lab student Alex Simoes and can be used to compare the "Development Tree" or "HDI tree" for a pair of countries.
By the time I was 5 feet away, the computer at MIT's Media Lab knew I was intrigued.
When the MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Media Lab researchers behind Formlabs submitted their fundraising campaign to Kickstarter, they made a virtue of the quality of the print-outs they could offer.
Sheth, an IIT grad, later did research at MIT's Media Lab but dropped out of the Ph.
In 1996, he returned to MIT, serving as the director of research at the Media Lab and taught courses on art and design.
Last year, two MIT media lab grads set out to make the Internet of Things closer to reality by connecting everyday objects to humans in a natural way.
Set to hit the shelves next month, Mindstorms is the outgrowth of Lego's longtime collaboration with MIT's Media Lab.
While it's not all of the potential bullying statements that could be made online, MIT Media Lab scientists have a knowledge base of about 1 million statements.
Elena Corchero, a research associate at MIT's Media Lab Europe has produced a range of accessories for the ecologically minded fashionista.
Hurricane Hackers, a website from MIT's Media Lab which offers real-time information on projects related to the storm, has been receiving very high levels of traffic.
While patrolling the halls of the CHI 2013 Human Factors in Computing conference in Paris, we spied a research project from MIT's Media Lab called "Smarter Objects" that turns Minority Report tech on its head.
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