Rob Hemsley, a research assistant at the Media Lab, was on hand to demonstrate two of his projects.
In 1996, he returned to MIT, serving as the director of research at the Media Lab and taught courses on art and design.
The Media Lab had a working prototype on display today, which demonstrated the size and basic functionality, but didn't have an adjustable picture.
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As part of a revamped business plan, the paper developed the Media Lab, a sophisticated digital agency that provides a full range of online marketing services to merchants.
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In the Media Lab's implementation, an iPad is used to display a static news page with flashing colored bands at the top, representing just a few vertical pixels on the LCD.
Back in the early 1980s, this media guru drummed up some money from a lot of publishing, entertainment and technology companies and set up the Media Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Negroponte, who formerly headed up the Media Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, agrees, but says Intel is thwarting sales of OLPC's XO laptop by selling a similar product, Classmate, in the same markets.
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.
When Nicholas Negroponte, a tech guru at the celebrated Media Lab at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, launched the initiative in 2005, the vision was grandiose, but the implementation seemed beguilingly simple.
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.
Shimi was developed in collaboration with the Media Innovation Lab at IDC Herzliya and led by Professor Guy Hoffmann.
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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.
"If you are capturing your life as you walk around and you can simply and easily filter through that when you get home and get the important shots, that is going to be of great value to people, " said Mr Robson, manager of the Bristol Digital Media Lab.
These were invented by Joseph Jacobson, a researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's well-known Media Lab, who is one of the company's founders.
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.
The smart bag, called Build Your Own Bag (bYOB), is just one object that can be constructed using computerized fabric patches designed by a team of engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab.
The One Laptop Per Child non-profit association, first announced by Nicholas Negroponte , founder and chairman of Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media lab at the World Economic Forum last January, claims the machine will "be able to do almost everything except store huge amounts of data".
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