media lab / media arts and sciences archive

MIT developing super-realistic image system - By producing "6-D" images, an MIT professor and colleagues are creating unusually realistic pictures that not only have a full 3-D appearance, but also respond to their environment, producing natural shadows and highlights. August 7, 2008

Created from Scratch - This week, users of MIT's easy-to-learn Scratch programming language are gathering for a conference on campus to discuss the software and its uses. Designed at the MIT Media Lab, the program lets anyone create and share video games and animated stories. July 21, 2008

Media Lab celebrates co-founder Davenport's career - Dozens of Media Lab faculty and alums gathered for a symposium June 20 to celebrate the career of Glorianna Davenport, head of the lab's Media Fabrics group and a longtime innovator in film, video, interactive media and new ways of storytelling. June 25, 2008

Hope on the horizon: Digital Fabrication - Neil Gershenfeld on digital fabrication. May 21, 2008

New game lets visually impaired share the fun - AudiOdyssey, a new computer game that simulates a deejay laying down musical tracks, has been developed by MIT and Singaporean students to make it possible for visually impaired people to play on a level field with their sighted friends. May 13, 2008

MIT Media Lab announces associate directors - MIT Media Lab Director Frank Moss today announced the appointment of two associate directors: Hiroshi Ishii and Andrew Lippman, both long-term, prominent researchers at the Lab. May 6, 2008

Defying logic, consistently - Unexpected and surprising connections are at the heart of research conducted by MIT Professor Dan Ariely, whose studies have demonstrated that people often make decisions that seem to defy logic--but they do so in very predictable, consistent ways. April 9, 2008

Meet Nexi, the Media Lab's latest robot star - A new experimental robot from the MIT Media Lab can slant its eyebrows in anger, or raise them in surprise, and show a wide assortment of facial expressions to communicate with people in human-centric terms. April 9, 2008

MIT, Bank of America collaborate on future banking - The MIT Media Laboratory and Bank of America today announced the creation of the Center for Future Banking, a collaboration that will seek to transform the ways banking will be conducted in rapidly changing social, economic, and information landscapes. March 31, 2008

Voting for more than just either-or - New computer software developed by MIT researchers promises to make preferential ranking systems just as easy as traditional voting -- and to give results that leave more people satisfied, particularly when there is a crowded field of candidates. March 14, 2008

The city that never sleeps ... nor stops talking - What does the telecommunications traffic flowing in and out of New York City reveal about the city that never sleeps? MIT researchers hope to find out with their novel project, the New York Talk Exchange. February 18, 2008

Wearing their art on their sleeves - MIT students are always in motion, so their projects for the visual design course, Give Me Shelter, featured clothes and accessories to help navigate the gaps between work and home, self-confidence and unease, and under- or over-stimulation. January 3, 2008

Maeda named president of RISD - Professor John Maeda, a world-renowned graphic designer, artist, and computer scientist at the MIT Media Laboratory, has been named president of the Rhode Island School of Design. December 21, 2007

Research director named for MIT civic media center - MIT's new Center for Future Civic Media has announced that Ellen Hume will join the center as research director, effective Jan. 28. Hume is currently founding director of the Center on Media and Society at the University of Massachusetts Boston. December 6, 2007

Cuter scooter defined by electricity, portability - It's energy efficient, it's clean, compact and simple, and, above all, it's very cool. All of these factors could be significant in getting people to adopt a lightweight, electrically powered scooter designed by an MIT professor and students. November 27, 2007

PLAZmA calls for entries - The School of Architecture and Planning is seeking submissions for its PLAZmA Digital Gallery, an electronic showcase of SA+P work and events displayed on nine large monitors set up in the school's public areas across campus. November 19, 2007

Reporting now from the future - A producer of the megahit computer game, "The Sims," and a folklorist who specializes in Harry Potter fan-fiction will join industry and academic leaders in the conference, Futures of Entertainment 2, to be held Nov. 16-17 at MIT. November 14, 2007

MIT's 'exoskeleton' lightens the load - Researchers at MIT have created a device to lighten the burden for soldiers and others who carry heavy packs and equipment. Their invention, known as an exoskeleton, can support much of the weight of a heavy backpack. September 19, 2007

Herr wins $250,000 Heinz Award - Professor Hugh Herr, a double amputee whose work has led to the development of new prosthetic innovations that merge body and machine, has won the 13th annual Heinz Award for Technology, the Economy and Employment. September 12, 2007

Robotic ankle research gets off on the right foot - An Army veteran who lost part of his leg in Iraq walked with more spring in his step Monday as he unveiled the world's first robotic ankle -- an important advance for lower-limb amputees that was developed by a team at MIT. July 23, 2007

Creating from Scratch - MIT Media Lab's Scratch aims to turn kids from media consumers into media producers. The new software enables kids to create their own interactive stories, games, music, and animation for the Web, but without having to learn complex programming languages. May 14, 2007

Technology meets humanity with adaptive devices - Forget cool new gadgets or killer-ap software. "We're hacking the human," said Frank Moss, director of MIT's Media Lab, in introducing "H2.0: New Minds, New Bodies, New Identities," the lab's May 9 symposium. May 11, 2007

Book portrays bold new campus architecture - The stories behind the conceptualization, design and construction of the Stata Center and four other major buildings are contained in William J. Mitchell's new book "Imagining MIT: Designing a Campus for the Twenty-First Century." April 26, 2007

Engineers' pulsing light silences overactive neurons - Scientists at the MIT Media Lab have invented a way to reversibly silence brain cells using pulses of yellow light, offering the prospect of controlling the haywire neuron activity that occurs in diseases such as epilepsy and Parkinson's disease. March 27, 2007

CMS fetes digital games, cultural research - The students, staff and faculty of MIT's Comparative Media Studies program showed they could walk the walk and talk the talk of transformative media technology when they turned the Stata Center lobby into an attention-grabbing interior landscape. February 28, 2007

Panel reviews four centuries of remixing the Bard - A panel of scholars discussed many of the cross-media interpretations of William Shakespeare's work at the MIT Communications Forum, "Remixing Shakespeare." February 23, 2007

IAP class finds greatness in cell-phone photos - Someday, perhaps, a Pulitzer Prize committee will add a category for cell-phone photographs. But for now, photographer and new media artist Gary Duehr has a message for would-be digital shutterbugs: Accept the medium for what it is. January 17, 2007

Media Lab plans 'sonic bath' for Music Library - The Lewis Music Library will be transformed into what Tod Machover, professor of media arts and sciences, calls a "sonic bath" next week as graduate students from the Media Laboratory join him in a collaboration with library staff to present "Library Music." January 10, 2007

McDowell urges focus, creativity before technology - Alex McDowell, a visiting artist and production designer of major films, has two views of the future. He could just lock himself up in a room and dream things up for the screen. Or, he could sit down with experts working on actual new technologies. December 28, 2006

SENSEable City reveals 'friendspotting' - MIT researchers today unveiled a new social networking application that will make it possible for anyone on the Institute's 168-acre campus to locate anyone else, via their laptop. December 13, 2006

New media, fan muscle will mold TV future - Experts--from network executives, academics and game designers to gadfly media artists--peered into the "Futures of Entertainment" at a two-day conference, Nov. 17-18, sponsored by the MIT comparative media studies program and the Convergence Culture Consortium. November 22, 2006

Mitchell maps 'techno-sensual comfort zones' - "Visions of the future from a particular moment always tell more about that moment than they ever tell about the future," MIT Professor William J. Mitchell told his listeners at a recent lunchtime gallery talk. November 7, 2006

A century of art crammed into a decade - New media art may be as subtle as a few digital white clouds floating across a sky-blue screen ("Super Mario Clouds," by Cory), or as audacious as the Yes Men, who famously posted an apology for the deaths at Bhopal, India, on a mock Dow Chemical web site. November 6, 2006

Machinima group animates life 'in-world' - Student researchers working with MIT professor Beth Coleman are exploring machinima, one branch of the rapidly evolving world of computer animation, in which they are experimenting with new modes of cinematic expression. October 27, 2006

Laptops will link global learners - The real star at an Oct. 19 lecture by Nicholas Negroponte was not the Media Lab co-founder himself but what he brought to the talk--a bright green and white model from his One Laptop Per Child project. October 24, 2006

Maki building launches new era for MIT Media Lab - MIT announced today that it will break ground in spring 2007 for a new Media Lab designed by Pritzker Prize-winning Japanese architect Fumihiko Maki. The expansion marks a new era of innovation for the Media Lab. September 26, 2006

'Making Comics' author decodes cartoons - In a dissection worthy of a science lab, comic book artist Scott McCloud analyzed the dynamics of action frames and word balloons, showing the conventions of comics to be as complex as those of any art form. September 20, 2006

MIT announces campus development program - MIT President Susan Hockfield has announced a major campus development program that will invest approximately three-quarters of a billion dollars in new and renovated facilities on the Institute's 154-acre Cambridge campus. September 13, 2006

eLens: A digital take on the streets where we live - A walk down the street may someday be as rich with information as the web, thanks to the emergence of location-aware technology. Not surprisingly, MIT is at the vanguard of this movement with a project called Electronic Lens (eLens). August 11, 2006

Three from MIT envision grow-your-own home - In the future, homeowners may grow their houses instead of building them. That's the vision of MIT architect Mitchell Joachim and colleagues, who have conceived a home that doesn't just use "green" design but is itself a living ecosystem. August 1, 2006

One teacher's thinking cap - Brian Kuhn, of the Coquitlam School District in British Columbia, fiddles with the pom-pom-twirling hat he helped build in a July 21 workshop held at the MIT Media Laboratory. July 24, 2006

Building a better violin bow? Sounds good! - Diana Young, a Ph.D. candidate in the Hyperinstruments Group of the MIT Media Lab, has developed a new electronic sensing system to measure minute changes in the position, acceleration and strain of a violin bow. July 6, 2006

Media Lab researcher gets into Monkey Business - Rachel Kern's office in the MIT Media Lab is quiet -- a bit too quiet -- when visitors drop by to hear about Monkey Business, her master's thesis and the latest research phase in the lab's Speech Interface Group. May 17, 2006

Media Lab project explores language acquisition - Associate Professor Deb Roy is recording nearly all of his new son's waking hours in an ambitious attempt to use these data to unravel the mystery of how humans naturally acquire language within the context of their primary social setting. May 15, 2006

Media Lab hosts workshop on body sensors - Experts in wireless sensing and implantable electronics convened at the MIT Media Lab recently for the Body Sensor Network 2006 International Workshop. April 12, 2006

Educators meet, discuss K-12 outreach - Working with K-12 students benefits both children and their college-aged mentors, said Professor Mitchel Resnick of the MIT Media Lab, who gave the keynote address at the first Continuum Conference on March 17. March 22, 2006

New directions for digital design on display - "Digital_minimal," a new exhibition in the School of Architecture and Planning's Wolk Gallery, explores a number of alternative directions for our digital future. March 1, 2006

Moss appointed Media Lab director - MIT has announced the appointment of Frank Moss as director of the Media Lab, effective Feb. 1. A seasoned entrepreneur and technology executive, Moss has built a diverse set of companies that are on the leading edge of technology. February 15, 2006

Ring masters - The winners in the MIT Hyperscore Ringtone Competition, held by Harmony Line Inc., were announced at a gala ceremony on Friday, Jan. 27. February 8, 2006

Students showcase 'Seamless' fashion - "Seamless: Computational Couture," a runway fashion event curated by MIT Media Lab graduate students, will present its second annual collection of technologically experimental clothing at the Museum of Science on Feb. 1. January 26, 2006

'Note'-worthy contest seeks new ringtones - Why have a cell phone that merely rings, beeps or squawks when you can create your own ringtone and compete for prizes while doing so? A new contest using MIT-developed software will let community members do just that. January 10, 2006

Postdoc drawn to sketching - When not working with mechanical devices to mimic and echo human actions, Max Berniker is drawing the human form. Now, his first exhibition, "10 Minutes With Max," is on view at the Wiesner Student Art Gallery. December 14, 2005

'Critters' offers humans perspective - "Critters" is now on view at the Media Test Wall in Building 56. It's a compilation of short videos by Francis Alys, David Claerbout and Sam Easterson that uses animal protagonists to offer a perspective on what it means to be human. November 30, 2005

Annan presents prototype $100 laptop - U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, joined by MIT Media Lab co-founder Nicholas Negroponte at the World Summit on the Information Society, unveiled the first working prototype of the $100 laptop, the central project of the nonprofit One Laptop per Child association. November 16, 2005

Technology will save TV, student says - Network TV is dead! Long live network TV! MIT graduate student Ivan Askwith foresees a "new age of television in which fans have the power to keep their favorite series in production" and producers create more elaborate and innovative shows. November 16, 2005

Professor sees static in future - Fans now generate more publicity for new TV shows than big corporate campaigns, but networks are not necessarily embracing these changes, according to Henry Jenkins, director of MIT's Comparative Media Studies Program. November 16, 2005

Student's work on view at MoMA - Designed for consumers to bring to the grocery store, Media Lab graduate student James Patten's "Swipe 'n' Gripe" scans bar codes and makes a clicking noise based on the environmental or ethical record of the manufacturer. November 2, 2005

$100 laptop idea taking off - Professor Nicholas Negroponte's plan to offer $100, hand-crank laptop computers to children in developing countries has drawn interest from several foreign leaders as well as Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney. October 5, 2005

Herr wins leadership award - Assistant Professor Hugh Herr of the Program in Media Arts and Sciences has won Popular Mechanics magazine's first annual Breakthrough Leadership Award for his work with prosthetics. October 5, 2005

'Future of the Car' talk highlights MISTI week - The cars of the future must work more like living things and less like living rooms on wheels if we are to mitigate problems of fuel consumption and traffic congestion, according to a panel of experts who discussed "The Future of the Car -- the Car of the Future." September 26, 2005

Researchers want to know what's music to your ears - Is one man's Mozart another man's migraine? It might be, if culture plays the dominant role in music perception. Two MIT students have designed an experiment to measure just how different--or similar--perceptions of music are across cultures. August 15, 2005

Tech Night to premiere Machover work - The Boston Pops Orchestra will perform "Jeux Deux," composed by Media Lab Professor Tod Machover on June 2 in Symphony Hall. A real-time video component will create abstract shapes that change with the music. June 16, 2005

'Seamless' show wired for success - "Seamless," a fashion show organized by students, inspired by reality television and intended as a chic yet provocative collision of bodies, clothing and technology will erupt at the MIT Media Lab on Friday, May 20. May 18, 2005

Musical journey spans the ages - Mary Farbood, a graduate student in the Media Lab, has helped develop computer software for modern composers. She also plays the harpsichord. April 27, 2005

'Clocky' earns grad student 15 minutes of fame - A relatively simple product designed to combat a common problem--oversleeping--is turning Media Arts and Science graduate student Gauri Nanda into a celebrity. April 5, 2005

The light fantastic - Betsy Connors, photographer, video artist and holographer, taught an IAP 2005 mini-course in holography at the MIT Museum and the Media Lab. February 2, 2005

Media Lab Europe closes its doors - The Board of directors of Media Lab Europe announced on Friday, Jan. 14 that the lab would be closing Feb. 1 due to a shortfall in financing. January 20, 2005

Research aims to restore amputee limb function - An MIT professor and colleagues from Brown University and the Providence Veterans Affairs Medical Center have begun a five-year, multidisciplinary research project to restore arm and leg function to amputees. December 10, 2004

Scientific American honors Gershenfeld, Selker - Two MIT faculty members--Neil Gershenfeld and Ted Selker--have been named to the "Scientific American 50," the magazine's annual list of leaders in science and technology. November 8, 2004

Smart city cars in the 21st century - As part of the MIT Media Lab's concept car research project with architect Frank Gehry and General Motors, the Media Lab will present "Concept Car: A Work in Progress" on the evening of Wednesday, Sept. 8. September 1, 2004

Technology encourages 'chance' encounters - Imagine your kindergarten sweetheart is standing next to you on the train platform, or the person sitting next to you in the theater happens to share your avid interest in antique trains. How would you ever know? June 9, 2004

News You Can Use - Campus services, events, and information. June 2, 2004

MIT impresses China TV crew - A camera crew from China Central Television recently taped interviews with more than two dozen MIT researchers, students and administrators and came away even more impressed with the Institute than when they arrived. May 5, 2004

Viewers interact with U.S. internment camps exhibit - "Beyond Manzanar" uses navigable 3-D game technology, projected life-size, to immerse viewers in an historical and cultural space and engage them as participants in history. April 28, 2004

Crew members describe filming 'Rings' trilogy in New Zealand - A location manager and production legal consultant for "The Lord of the Rings" revealed to MIT audience the inner workings of construction, management of set. March 3, 2004

Arthur, Arthur! - Arthur Ganson, a former MIT artist-in-residence, has a new medium for his work, animation, courtesy of the PBS cartoon show "Arthur." February 25, 2004

'Tools of mass construction' - Doctoral candidate Saul Griffith, whose inventions include a "desktop printer" for low-cost eyeglass lenses, has received the $30,000 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize for inventiveness. February 25, 2004

'Tools of mass construction' - Doctoral candidate Saul Griffith, whose inventions include a "desktop printer" for low-cost eyeglass lenses, has received the $30,000 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize for inventiveness. February 19, 2004

ArTtV brings MIT art to prime time television - Curator Randy Winchester is excited about MIT's newest art gallery. Open since the beginning of IAP, it's free to students and on TV, accessible 24 hours a day. February 11, 2004

Fractal tendrils - Martin Z. Bazant, associate professor of applied mathematics, and his group applied a new mathematical twist to a model called diffusion-limited aggregation (DLA), creating a remarkable image. February 4, 2004

International hip-hop at MIT - Associate Professor Thomas DeFrantz is planning a World Hip-Hop Summit at MIT in fall 2005, bringing together hip-hop scholars, artists, producers and activists from around the world. February 4, 2004

Fishy fun, fluid dynamics - A hands-on, student-made museum exhibit teaches visitors about fluid flow as they move like scuba divers through a virtual underwater environment and interact with realistic-looking animated fish. February 4, 2004

SAA offers new classes - Chinese brush paintingand Japanese raku clay-firing technique are some of the courses offered at MIT's Student Art Association (SAA) under the leadership of interim coordinator Clay Ward. February 4, 2004

Fractal tendrils - Martin Z. Bazant, associate professor of applied mathematics, and his group applied a new mathematical twist to a model called DLA, creating a fractal image. February 2, 2004

New book celebrates Wiesner - Jerome Wiesner, the 13th president of MIT, is portrayed in his own words and in essays by friends and colleagues in a new book. January 28, 2004

Hawley creates largest book - Michael Hawley of the MIT Media Lab made publishing history Monday with the release of the largest book ever published, as certified by Guinness World Records. December 17, 2003

Largest book is published - Michael Hawley of the MIT Media Lab will make publishing history today with the release of the largest book ever published, as certified by Guinness World Records™. December 15, 2003

Environmental Virtual Campus site is a big hit - MIT's Environmental Virtual Campus (EVC) is an award-winning web-based tool designed to aid colleges' compliance with federal environmental regulations and implement "green" practices. December 3, 2003

Science journalism, skepticism - Vijay Vaitheeswaran's MIT education prepared him well for his career as a journalist. He learned to be skeptical. December 3, 2003

Media Test Wall - Art lovers seeking a fix can satisfy their craving at the Media Test Wall's seventh program--selections of videos by U.K.-based collaborators John Wood and Paul Harrison. December 3, 2003

Arcade in classrooms - The Education Arcade, a new initiative involving MIT researchers, aims to transform the way video and computer games are used in the classroom. November 19, 2003

Games in the classroom - The Education Arcade, a new initiative involving MIT researchers, aims to transform the way video and computer games are used in the classroom. November 17, 2003

Magazine shoots 'red hot' grad student - Benjamin Fry, a graduate student in the Media Lab, was recently photographed by Men's Health magazine for a feature story on newsworthy, "red-hot" people. November 5, 2003

'Michael Joo' at List - The first survey of works by Michael Joo is currently on view at the List Visual Arts Center. October 29, 2003

Music library launched - 2 MIT students unveiled an electronic music library that will provide students, faculty and staff with on-demand access to thousands of classical and contemporary recordings. October 29, 2003

Arts News - News briefs about the arts at MIT. October 22, 2003

Zen and art of computers - Naoko Tosa and her collaborator Seigo Matsuoka created "The ZENetic Computer," an interactive installation that opens at the MIT Museum. October 22, 2003

Dreamy exhibit at Rotch - "Somnambulations," a multimedia installation about the role of dreams in our decision-making process, is on view at the Rotch Library of Architecture and Planning. September 17, 2003

Legal downloads explored - MIT is exploring a range of services that would allow legal access to digital music, according to Professor James D. Bruce, vice president for information systems. September 10, 2003

Biology: the ultimate robotics - Sawyer Fuller began looking at neuroscience to see what he could learn about the "brain of robotics." As he saw it, "what robots can do is extremely limited." September 3, 2003

Rockin' with RoBallet - A brief, shining moment in the basement of the MIT Media Lab may not look like a revolution in human learning -- after all, who hasn't seen school children dressed in sweats playing with computers? July 21, 2003

Commitment counts in TV - "Walking the Path," a new study of fans of "American Idol 2," indicates that loyal viewers of a television show are more likely to pay attention to the advertising. July 17, 2003

Web site gathers and displays information on government - In an attempt to provide American citizens with digital tools for participating in the democratic process, MIT Media Lab researchers have created the Government Information Awareness web site. July 2, 2003

Lab homes in on home life - A "living laboratory" operated jointly by MIT and TIAX will allow researchers and companies to study how new technologies, materials and design strategies will change the way people live. June 24, 2003

Freshmen explore Amazon - Freshmen in Terrascope designed and built interactive museum exhibits based on their year-long study of the Amazon rainforest. May 21, 2003

Modern technology helps studies of high-tech Civil War ships - In "Civil War High Tech: Excavating the Hunley and Monitor," panelists described why the two ships were so ingenious and how technologies have been key to locating them. May 14, 2003

An urban planning proposal for D.C. - A team of MIT students' proposal was progressive -- maybe too progressive for the judges in the Urban Land Institute's Gerald D. Hines Student Urban Design Competition. May 14, 2003

Toy Symphony to have U.S. premiere - The U.S. premiere of Professor Tod Machover's Toy Symphony will be performed April 26, uniting children, high-tech musical toys and professional musicians. April 24, 2003

"Collision 5" - Many forms of technological art are featured in "Collision 5, The Next Dimension," a hands-on, minds-on exhibition opening at the Compton Gallery. April 16, 2003

CAVS fellow's film screens - A video installation by filmmaker and artist Hisham Bizri, a research fellow at the Center for Advanced Visual Studies, premieres at the Bernard Toale Gallery. April 9, 2003

ICA documented by Media Lab - ICA and MIT Media Lab collaborated on a project called "Artifacts of the Presence Era" that tracks and documents the sound, light and traffic in the ICA. February 12, 2003

Mitchell heads MAS - William J. Mitchell, dean of the School of Architecture and Planning, has been appointed head of the Program in Media Arts and Sciences. November 20, 2002

Crop circles a hack? - Tomorrow night (Oct. 10), the Discovery Channel will put the spotlight on the only tradition of hacks that can compare to MIT's: crop circles. October 9, 2002

MIT grad directs Spielberg - John Underkoffler (S.B. 1988, S.M., Ph.D.) was the science and technology advisor for the film "Minority Report" July 17, 2002

Media Lab Asia names Sareen director - The Board of Directors of Media Lab Asia today announced the appointment of Bimal Sareen, 40, as its CEO and managing director. June 10, 2002

MIT-made films to be shown Friday - A first-time filmmaker cast seven friends in "Yum Yum Dim Sum," a kung-fu revenge flick which will be screened at the eighth annual MIT-Made Media Spectacle May 15, 2002

New media as an art form - The List Visual Arts Center's current exhibition, "tele-journeys," portrays collectively the intimate, personal journeys of young artists currently living and working in Western Europe. May 15, 2002

BollySpace melds film, digital media - Three graduate students from the Comparative Media Studies Programhave been suffering from sleepless nights lately, but not because of finals. May 8, 2002

Researchers control biological materials - Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology report in the January 10 issue of Nature that they can "speak" to DNA biomolecules with radio waves. January 9, 2002

Advertisers marketing 'cool' - Thomas Frank, author and editor of The Baffler, a journal of cultural criticism, gave a talk on "Trends in Advertising" on Nov. 8. November 28, 2001

Media Lab creates Center - The National Science Foundation has awarded $13.75 million to create a Center for Bits and Atoms at the Media Laboratory. November 28, 2001

NSF awards to create Center for Bits and Atoms - NSF awarded $13.75 million to create a Center for Bits and Atoms to explore how content of information relates to physical representation, from atomic nuclei to global networks. November 27, 2001

Digital Nations convenes - More than 250 government officials, educators, technologists and development specialists from more than 30 countries convened today at the MIT Media Laboratory to participate in the first meeting of Digital Nations. July 24, 2001

MIT, Indian gov. establish Media Lab - MIT and the government of India are establishing a one-year exploratory project to create the Media Laboratory Asia (MLA), conceived as an independent, non-profit organization. June 24, 2001

Event examines race in digital media - A multimedia event, "Race in Digital Space," opened a three-day conversation among academics, artists, musicians and technology activists. May 9, 2001

'Race in Digital Space' to celebrate - "Race in Digital Space," a conference celebrating the accomplishments of minorities using digital technologies, will be presented in the Wong Auditorium, Building E51. April 2, 2001

Architect Maki to give talk - Internationally acclaimed Tokyo-born architect Fumihiko Maki will present an architecture lecture titled "The Construction of Scenery" on Tuesday, March 20. March 14, 2001

Media Lab teams up with Karamazovs - What happens when science, juggling, music and comedy collide? You get a show that takes 14 hours to set up. February 7, 2001

'Facilities Engineering Handbook' sets standard - William L. Porter is one of a team of six editors to produce new handbook offering best practices for commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities engineering and management. January 4, 2001