http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/topic/media-lab.html Media lab / media arts and sciences headlines from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology News Office. en-us http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/www/mitlogo-rss.jpg http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/topic/media-lab.html 88 31 Thu, 2 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EST http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2009/mobile-0702.html Several startup business ventures spawned by MIT students are using phones to help people, especially in developing nations, to raise their incomes, learn to read, get where they're going and even diagnose their ailments. Thu, 2 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EST http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2009/mobile-0702.html http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2009/knight-0623.html More than 250 students and professionals in the media business attended a conference hosted by MIT's Center for Future Civic Media and the Knight News Challenge, featuring in-depth discussions and presentations on an imaginative array of new media projects. Tue, 23 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EST http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2009/knight-0623.html http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2009/scratch-adv-0512.html On May 16, two years from the day of its initial launch, the Media Lab-developed programming language Scratch is being celebrated with events in more than 100 locations in 41 countries around the world, says its creator, Mitchel Resnick. Tue, 12 May 2009 00:00:00 EST http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2009/scratch-adv-0512.html http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2009/oxman-tt0506.html Media Lab student Neri Oxman creates art and structural designs that draw from the way nature works. That approach has already earned several of her works a place in the permenant collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Wed, 6 May 2009 00:00:00 EST http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2009/oxman-tt0506.html http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2009/time-0505.html Teams of programmers gathered May 2 for 'Processing Time,' a coding jam and competition organized by Assistant Professor of Digital Media Nick Montfort as part of the Boston Cyberarts Festival. Tue, 5 May 2009 00:00:00 EST http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2009/time-0505.html http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2009/ishii-0406.html At a time when ever more aspects of our lives are moving toward the virtual, online world Hiroshi Ishii seems to be swimming against that current: His aim is to bring the world of computers into more real and tangible form, seamlessly integrated with our daily lives. Mon, 6 Apr 2009 00:00:00 EST http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2009/ishii-0406.html http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2009/viola-visit-0319.html Video artist Bill Viola, winner of the Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts, sampled new technologies during a weeklong residency at MIT. Thu, 19 Mar 2009 00:00:00 EST http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2009/viola-visit-0319.html http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2009/chameleon-guitar-0203.html Built by a student at MIT's Media Lab the Chameleon Guitar -- so named for its ability to mimic different instruments -- is an electric guitar whose body has a separate central section that is removable. Tue, 3 Feb 2009 00:00:00 EST http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2009/chameleon-guitar-0203.html