fbpx
Wikipedia

MIT Media Lab

The MIT Media Lab is a research laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, growing out of MIT's Architecture Machine Group in the School of Architecture. Its research does not restrict to fixed academic disciplines, but draws from technology, media, science, art, and design.[3] As of 2014, Media lab's research groups include neurobiology,[4] biologically inspired fabrication,[5] socially engaging robots,[6] emotive computing,[7] bionics,[8] and hyperinstruments.[9]

MIT Media Lab
Established1985; 39 years ago (1985)[1]
Budget$80 million[2]
Field of research
Technology, multimedia, sciences, art, design
DirectorDava Newman
LocationCambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Websitewww.media.mit.edu

The media lab was founded in 1985 by Nicholas Negroponte and former MIT President Jerome Wiesner, and is housed in the Wiesner Building (designed by I. M. Pei), also known as Building E15. The lab has been written about in the popular press since 1988, when Stewart Brand published The Media Lab: Inventing the Future at M.I.T., and its work was a regular feature of technology journals in the 1990s. In 2009, it expanded into a second building.[10]

The media lab came under scrutiny in 2019 due to its acceptance of donations from convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. This led to the resignation of its director, Joi Ito,[11] and the launch of an "immediate, thorough and independent" investigation into the "extremely serious" and "deeply disturbing allegations about the engagement between individuals at the Media Lab and Jeffrey Epstein" by president of MIT.[12][13]

In December 2020, Dava Newman, professor of aeronautics and astronautics and former deputy administrator of NASA under Obama, was named the new director of the MIT Media Lab.[14]

Administration edit

The founding director of the lab was Nicholas Negroponte, who directed it until 2000. Later directors were Walter Bender (2000–2006), Frank Moss (2006–2011),[15] and Joi Ito (2011-2019) who resigned in connection with the Jeffrey Epstein scandal.[11] Dava Newman took the position in July, 2021,[16] the first woman to do so.

As of 2014, the media lab had roughly 70 administrative and support staff members. Associate directors of the lab were Hiroshi Ishii and Andrew Lippman. Pattie Maes and Mitchel Resnick were co-heads of the program in media arts and sciences, and the lab's chief knowledge officer was Henry Holtzman.

The media lab has at times had regional branches in other parts of the world, such as Media Lab Europe and Media Lab Asia, each with their own staff and governing bodies.[17][18]

Funding model edit

The lab's primary funding comes from corporate sponsorship. Rather than accepting funding on a per-project or per-group basis, the lab asks sponsors to fund general themes; sponsors can then connect with media lab research. Specific projects and researchers are also funded more traditionally through US government institutions including the NIH, NSF, and DARPA. Also, consortia with other schools or other departments at MIT are often able to have money that does not enter into the common pool.

MIT Media Lab has an approximately $75 million annual operating budget.[19]

Intellectual property edit

Companies sponsoring the lab can share in the lab's intellectual property without paying license fees or royalties. Non-sponsors cannot make use of media lab developments for two years after technical disclosure is made to MIT and media lab sponsors. The media lab generates approximately 20 new patents every year.[citation needed]

Research at the lab edit

Some recurring themes of work at the media lab include human adaptability,[20] human computer interaction, education and communication, artistic creation and visualization, and designing technology for the developing world. Other research focus includes machines with common sense, sociable robots, prosthetics, sensor networks, musical devices, city design, and public health. Research programs all include iterative development of prototypes which are tested and displayed for visitors.[21]

Each of these areas of research may incorporate others. Interaction design research includes designing intelligent objects and environments. Educational research has also included integrating more computation into learning activities - including software for learning, programmable toys, and artistic or musical instruments. Examples include Lego Mindstorms, the PicoCricket, and One Laptop per Child.[22]

The lab has over twenty research groups.[23]

Academic program edit

The media arts and sciences program is a part of MIT's school of architecture and planning, and includes three levels of study: a doctoral program, a master's of science program, and a program that offers an alternative to the standard MIT freshman year as well as a set of undergraduate subjects that may form the basis for a future joint major. All graduate students are fully supported (tuition plus a stipend) from the outset, normally by appointments as research assistants at the media laboratory, where they work on research programs and faculty projects, including assisting with courses. These research activities typically take up about half of a student's time in the degree program.

The media arts and sciences academic program have a close relationship with the media lab. Most media lab faculty are professors of media arts and sciences. Students who earn a degree in media arts and sciences have been predominantly in residence at the media lab, taking classes and doing research. Some students from other programs at MIT, such as mechanical engineering, or electrical engineering and computer science, do their research at the media lab, working with a media lab/Media Arts and Sciences faculty advisor, but earn their degrees (such as MEng or an MS in EECS) from other departments. Over 1,000 students apply to the MAS program and the admission is less than 5% per year.

Buildings edit

 
The new media lab expansion (Building E14). Original Wiesner Building (E15) is visible at left.

In addition to the media lab, the combined original Wiesner building (E15) and new (E14) buildings also host the List Visual Arts Center, the School of Architecture and Planning's Program in Art, Culture and Technology (ACT), and MIT's Program in Comparative Media Studies.

In 2009, the media lab expanded into a new building designed by Pritzker Prize-winning Japanese architect Fumihiko Maki.[24] The local architect of record was Leers Weinzapfel Associates, of Boston. The Maki building has predominantly glass walls, with long lines of sight through the building, making ongoing research visible and encouraging connections and collaboration.[25]

Faculty and academic research staff edit

Media arts and sciences faculty and academic research staff are principal investigators/heads of the media lab's various research groups. They also advise media arts and sciences graduate students and mentor MIT undergraduates. "Most departments accept grad students based on their prospects for academic success; the media lab attempts to select ones that will best be able to help with some of the ongoing projects."[26]

As of 2014, there are more than 25 faculty and academic research staff members, including a dozen named professorships. A full list of media lab faculty and academic research staff, with bios and other information, is available via the media lab website.[27]

As of August 2019, Alex Pentland is professor of media arts and sciences, Toshiba Professor and Media Lab Entrepreneurship Program Director.[28]

Connections to Jeffrey Epstein edit

In August 2019, director Joi Ito said that the organization had received funding from multimillionaire convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein through foundations Epstein controlled; that Ito had visited several of Epstein's residences; and that Epstein had invested "in several of my funds which invest in tech startup companies outside of MIT".[29][30] Ito later admitted to taking $525,000 in funding from Epstein for the lab. In 2019, media lab founder Nicholas Negroponte expressed support for Ito's decision to accept the funding from Epstein.[31] Also in 2019, a federal court deposition was unsealed in which Virginia Giuffre stated that Epstein's associate directed her to have sex with former media lab professor Marvin Minsky.[32][33][34][35]

In September 2019, it was revealed by emails leaked to Ronan Farrow of The New Yorker that Ito and Peter Cohen, the MIT Media Lab's director of development and strategy at the time, have worked for years to solicit anonymous donations from Epstein despite Epstein being marked as Disqualified by the university as a donor. Ito has referred to Epstein as "fascinating".[36]

Ito resigned due to the scandal shortly after the New Yorker article[11] and the President of M.I.T. announced an "immediate, thorough and independent" investigation to be led by an outside law firm into the "extremely serious" allegations.[12]

On January 10, 2020, the executive committee of the MIT Corporation, the institute's governing board, released the results of Goodwin Procter's fact-finding regarding interactions between Jeffrey Epstein and the Institute.[37] The report revealed that Epstein made 10 donations through various entities to MIT totaling $850,000, including nine donations, totaling $750,000, made after his 2008 conviction. In 2002, four years before Epstein's first arrest for a sex offense, Epstein made a $100,000 donation to MIT through a charitable foundation to support the research of Professor Marvin Minsky (former Toshiba Professor of media arts and sciences, media lab). Epstein's $100,000 donation in May 2013 was intended to be used at Joi Ito's discretion. His donations in November 2013 and in July and September 2014, totaling $300,000, were made to support research by Joscha Bach, a media lab research fellow from Germany whom Epstein introduced to Ito in 2013. Bach declined to be interviewed for Goodwin Procter's fact-finding.[38] Epstein's other donations to the media lab between 2015 and 2017, totaling $350,000, were made to support Professor Seth Lloyd (Professor of Mechanical Engineering, $225,000), and Professor Neri Oxman (associate professor of media arts and sciences, $125,000).

Shortly after signing a petition in support of Ito, attorney and political activist Lawrence Lessig argued that the undesirable nature of donations to academic institutions from criminals like Epstein, whose fortune does not derive from their crimes, is partially mitigated if the donations are anonymous. He argues that it was "a mistake to take this money, even if anonymous," but that "if you take them, at least don't give the criminal a chance to publicly launder his reputation". "Everyone seems to treat it as if the anonymity and secrecy around Epstein's gift are a measure of some kind of moral failing," Lessig wrote. "I see it as exactly the opposite."[39][40]

The Boston Globe reported it had seen emails indicating Bill Gates had donated $2.2 million to the media lab through Epstein.[41]

Other funding controversies edit

On March 24, 2018, Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman visited MIT and prompted protests.[42] Salman's non-profit foundation MiSK was a member company of the lab until 2018.[43] According to The New York Times, a sizable part of the annual budget of the lab comes from corporate patrons, who pay at least $250,000 each year. Prince Mohammed's personal foundation was among the roughly 90 members at their time of membership.[44]

Selected publications edit

Books

  • Hidalgo, Cesar A. (June 2, 2015). Why Information Grows. Basic Books. p. 256. ISBN 9780465048991.
  • Breazeal, Cynthia L. (May 2002). Designing Sociable Robots. MIT Press. p. 282. ISBN 9780262025102.
  • Bar-Cohen, Yoseph; Breazeal, Cynthia L. (May 13, 2003). Biologically Inspired Intelligent Robots. SPIE Press. p. 406. ISBN 9780819448729.
  • Ariely, Dan (2008). Predictably Irrational. HarperCollins Publishers. p. 349. ISBN 9780061353246.
  • Shrobe, Howard; Shrier, David L.; Pentland, Alex (2018). New Solutions for Cybersecurity. MIT Press. p. 504.
  • Moss, Frank (June 7, 2011). The Sorcerers and Their Apprentices: How the Digital Magicians of the MIT Media Lab Are Creating the Innovative Technologies That Will Transform Our Lives. Crown Business. p. 272. ISBN 9780307589101.
  • Harel, Idit (August 1991). Children Designers. Ablex Publishing. ISBN 9780893917883.
  • Maeda, John (August 21, 2006). The Laws of Simplicity. MIT Press. p. 128. ISBN 9780262134729.
  • Maeda, John (May 7, 1999). Design by Numbers. MIT Press. p. 256. ISBN 9780262133548.
  • Ito, Joi; Howe, Jeffrey (December 6, 2016). Whiplash: How to Survive Our Faster Future. Grand Central Publishing. p. 320. ISBN 9781455544592.
  • Minsky, Marvin; Papert, Seymour (January 1969). Perceptrons: An Introduction to Computational Geometry. MIT Press. p. 258. ISBN 9780262130431.
  • Minsky, Marvin (November 13, 2007). The Emotion Machine: Commonsense Thinking, Artificial Intelligence, and the Future of the Human Mind. Simon & Schuster. p. 400. ISBN 9780743276641.
  • Minsky, Marvin (March 15, 1988). Society of Mind. Simon & Schuster. p. 336. ISBN 9780671657130.
  • Resnick, Mitchel (January 10, 1997). Turtles, Termites, and Traffic Jams: Explorations in Massively Parallel Microworlds. MIT Press. p. 184. ISBN 9780262680936.
  • Gershenfeld, Neil (January 12, 1999). When Things Start to Think. Henry Holt and Co. p. 225. ISBN 9780805058741.
  • Negroponte, Nicholas (January 3, 1996). Being Digital. Vintage. p. 272. ISBN 9780679762904.
  • Picard, Rosalind W. (July 31, 2000). Affective Computing. MIT Press. p. 306. ISBN 9780262661157.
  • Papert, Seymour (April 29, 1994). The Children's Machine: Rethinking School in the Age of the Computer. Basic Books. p. 256. ISBN 9780465010639.
  • Papert, Seymour (August 4, 1993). Mindstorms: Children, Computers, and Powerful Ideas. Basic Books. p. 252. ISBN 9780465046744.
  • Benton, Stephen A.; Bove, V. Michael Jr. (April 2008). Holographic Imaging. Wiley. p. 288. ISBN 9780470068069.
  • Resnick, Eric; Mitchel (11 July 2001). Adventures in Modeling: Exploring Complex, Dynamic Systems with StarLogo. Teachers College Press. p. 192. ISBN 9780807740828.
  • Mitchell, William J. (March 9, 2007). Imagining MIT: Designing a Campus for the Twenty-First Century. MIT Press. p. 152. ISBN 9780262134798.
  • Mitchell, William J. (September 17, 2004). Me++: The Cyborg Self and the Networked City. MIT Press. p. 269. ISBN 9780262633130.

Outputs and spin-offs edit

Some media lab-developed technologies made it into products or public software packages, such as the Lego Mindstorms, LEGO WeDo and the pointing stick in IBM laptop keyboards[citation needed], the Benton hologram used in most credit cards, the Fisher-Price's Symphony Painter,[45] the Nortel Wireless Mesh Network,[46] the NTT Comware Sensetable,[47] the Taito's Karaoke-on-Demand Machine.[48] A 1994 device called the Sensor Chair used to control a musical orchestra was adapted by several car manufacturers into capacitive sensors to prevent dangerous airbag deployments.[49][50]

The MPEG-4 SA project developed at the Media Lab made structured audio a practical reality[51] and the Aspen Movie Map was the precursor to the ideas in Google Street View.

In 2001, two research centers were spun off: Media Lab Asia and Media Lab Europe. Media Lab Asia, based in India, was a result of cooperation with the Government of India but eventually broke off in 2003 after a disagreement. Media Lab Europe, based in Dublin, Ireland, was founded with a similar concept in association with Irish universities and government, and closed in January 2005.

Created collaboratively by the Computer Museum and the media lab, the Computer Clubhouse, a worldwide network of after-school learning centers, focuses on youth from underserved communities who would not otherwise have access to technological tools and activities.[52]

Launched in 2003, Scratch[53] is a block-based programming language and community developed for children 8–16, and used by people of all ages to learn programming.[54] Millions of people have created Scratch projects in a wide variety of settings, including homes, schools, museums, libraries, and community centers.

In January 2005, the lab's chairman emeritus Nicholas Negroponte announced at the World Economic Forum a new research initiative to develop a $100 laptop computer. A non-profit organization, One Laptop per Child, was created to oversee the actual deployment, MIT did not manufacture or distribute the device.

The Synthetic Neurobiology group created reagents and devices for the analysis of brain circuits are in use by hundreds of biology labs around the world.

In 2011, Ramesh Raskar's group published their femto-photography technique, that is able to image the movement of individual light pulses.[55]

In 2013, the Media Lab launched E14 Fund as a program to support and invest in MIT Media Lab startups.[56] In 2017, E14 Fund[57] launched its first seed stage venture fund to invest in the MIT Media Lab startup community. It invested in companies like Formlabs, Affectiva, Tulip, Wise Systems, Figur8 and more.[58]

Spin-offs edit

Media Lab industry spin-offs include:[59]

  • Affectiva, commercializing software that detects emotions in pictures of faces[60]
  • Ambient Devices, which produces glanceable information displays
  • Dimagi, a company that develops software for healthcare in the developing world.
  • E Ink, which makes electronic paper displays that power the Amazon Kindle and Barnes & Noble Nook.
  • Elance
  • EyeNetra, which makes eye tests as $2 clip-ons for mobile phones, including potential use to correct vision for virtual reality displays.[61]
  • First Mile Solutions, bringing communications infrastructure to rural communities[62]
  • Formlabs makes high-resolution, desktop 3D printers (spin out from Center for Bits and Atoms)
  • Groundhog Technologies, global leader in mobility intelligence and its applications on geo-analytics, geo-marketing, and network optimization.
  • Harmonix, game company creator of Rock Band and Guitar Hero.
  • Holosonics selling "audio spotlight" speakers using sound from ultrasound technology
  • Nanda, a company that markets the Clocky alarm clock
  • Oblong Industries, creators of the digital screen used by Tom Cruise in Minority Report[63]
  • One Laptop per Child's XO laptop[64]
  • Physiio International, merged with Empatica; manufacturer of wearable medical sensors[65][66]
  • Potion Design, an interactive design firm
  • RadioSherpa, an online guide for HD Radio stations. acquired by Tune-in.
  • reQall, a memory aid company.[67]
  • Salient Stills, a video resolution enhancement and video forensics company founded in 1996, acquired by DAC in 2013.[68] The combined entity has been rebranded Salient Sciences.
  • Sifteo, a company that has developed a tabletop gaming platform that grew out of Siftables.
  • Squid Labs, engineering consulting company[67]
  • Supermechanical, manufacturer of Twine, a wifi interface for various environmental sensors; and Range, a smartphone-connected thermometer[69]
  • The Echo Nest, a music intelligence platform[70]
  • Wireless 5th Dimensional Networking, Inc.[71] (acquired in 2006),[72] which developed the first hybrid search engine
  • Zebra Imaging, a digital holographic display company

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ "Inventing the future" – Corporate brochure
  2. ^ Overview of the MIT
  3. ^ MIT Media Lab. "Fact Sheet". Retrieved 2012-09-12.
  4. ^ MIT Media Lab. "Synthetic Neurobiology". Retrieved 2014-06-26.
  5. ^ MIT Media Lab. "Mediated Matter". Retrieved 2014-06-26.
  6. ^ MIT Media Lab. "Personal Robots". Retrieved 2014-06-26.
  7. ^ MIT Media Lab. "Affective Computing". Retrieved 2014-06-26.
  8. ^ MIT Media Lab. "Biomechatronics". Retrieved 2014-06-26.
  9. ^ MIT Media Lab. "Mediated Matter". Retrieved 2014-06-26.
  10. ^ "MIT Capital Projects: Media Lab Complex, Building E14". capitalprojects.mit.edu. Retrieved 2018-01-11.
  11. ^ a b c Tracy, Marc; Hsu, Tiffany (2019-09-07). "Director of M.I.T.'s Media Lab Resigns After Outcry Over Jeffrey Epstein Ties". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-09-07.
  12. ^ a b Farrow, Ronan (2019-09-07). "How an Élite University Research Center Concealed Its Relationship with Jeffrey Epstein". The New Yorker. ISSN 0028-792X. Retrieved 2019-09-07.
  13. ^ "MIT Media Lab director resigns after criticism for financial ties to Jeffrey Epstein". NBC News. 7 September 2019. Retrieved 2019-09-07.
  14. ^ "Dava Newman named director of MIT Media Lab". MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 22 December 2020. Retrieved 2020-12-22.
  15. ^ John Markoff (April 26, 2011). "M.I.T. Media Lab Names a New Director". New York Times. Retrieved 2011-04-25.
  16. ^ Space engineer takes over as head of the MIT Media Lab
  17. ^ MIT Media Labs, India. "Design Innovation Workshop 2015". Retrieved 2015-01-23.
  18. ^ Aniruddha Mysore. . Archived from the original on 2015-02-22. Retrieved 2015-01-25.
  19. ^ "Funding and Support". MIT Media Lab. Retrieved 2019-08-21.
  20. ^ "MIT Media Lab: h2.0 Symposium Archive". h20.media.mit.edu. Retrieved 2018-01-11.
  21. ^ "MIT Media Lab Featured Research".
  22. ^ "Picocricket.com". Retrieved 2011-10-23.
  23. ^ "MIT Media Lab Research Groups".
  24. ^ Campbell, Robert (December 6, 2009). "Media Lab aims to elevate transparency". The Boston Globe.
  25. ^ "Web.MIT.edu". 2006-09-26. Retrieved 2011-10-23.
  26. ^ Timmer, John. "Building The Next Big Thing: 25 Years of MIT's Media Lab". Wired News. October 24, 2010.
  27. ^ "Media.MIT.edu". Retrieved 2011-10-23.
  28. ^ "Alex 'Sandy' Pentland". MIT. Retrieved 31 August 2019.
  29. ^ Ito, Joi. "My apology regarding Jeffrey Epstein". MIT Media Lab. Retrieved 2019-08-21.
  30. ^ Tracy, Marc; Hsu, Tiffany (2019-08-16). "Director of M.I.T. Media Lab Apologizes for Ties to Jeffrey Epstein". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-08-21.
  31. ^ Chen, Angela; Hao, Karen (2019-09-05). "MIT Media Lab founder: Taking Epstein's money was justified". MIT Technology Review. Retrieved 2020-09-24.
  32. ^ "Jeffrey Epstein's alleged 'sex slave' reveals the men she claims she was forced to sleep with". Retrieved 8 August 2019.
  33. ^ "AI pioneer accused of having sex with trafficking victim on Jeffrey Epstein's island". Retrieved 8 August 2019.
  34. ^ "Jeffrey Epstein Accuser Names Powerful Men in Alleged Sex Ring". Retrieved 8 August 2019.
  35. ^ "Jeffrey Epstein Sent Girl to Governor and Senator for Sex, She Testified". Retrieved 8 August 2019.
  36. ^ "Pedophile Fundraising". The New Yorker. 7 September 2019. Retrieved 2019-09-07.
  37. ^ "MIT and Jeffrey Epstein". MIT and Jeffrey Epstein. Retrieved 2020-01-11.
  38. ^ "Report Concerning Jeffrey Epstein's Interactions with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology" (PDF). January 10, 2020: 10 – via Report. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  39. ^ Lessig, Lawrence. "On Joi and MIT". Retrieved 2019-09-12.
  40. ^ Piper, Kelsey (11 September 2019). "Why MIT Media Lab thought it was doing right by secretly accepting Jeffrey Epstein's money". Retrieved 2019-09-12.
  41. ^ Melinda Gates began meeting with divorce lawyers in 2019, when reports of Bill’s ties to Jeffrey Epstein surfaced, according to report
  42. ^ "Why a Saudi Prince's Visit to Harvard and MIT Drew Protests". The Chronicle of Higher Education. April 19, 2018.
  43. ^ "MiSk Foundation". 23 April 2017.
  44. ^ Sokolove, Michael (2019-07-03). "Why Is There So Much Saudi Money in American Universities?". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-09-08.
  45. ^ "Media.MIT.edu". Archived from the original on 2012-08-05. Retrieved 2011-10-23.
  46. ^ "Media.MIT.edu". Archived from the original on 2012-08-05. Retrieved 2011-10-23.
  47. ^ "Media.MIT.edu". Archived from the original on 2012-08-04. Retrieved 2011-10-23.
  48. ^ "Media.MIT.edu". Archived from the original on 2012-08-05. Retrieved 2011-10-23.
  49. ^ "Joshua R. Smith, Ph.D".
  50. ^ http://resenv.media.mit.edu/pubs/papers/2003-05-JoeP-NIME03-final.pdf[bare URL PDF]
  51. ^ . Archived from the original on 2007-12-09.
  52. ^ . Archived from the original on 2011-05-11. Retrieved 2011-10-23.
  53. ^ Resnick, Mitchel; Maloney, John; Hernández, Andrés; Rusk, Natalie; Eastmond, Evelyn; Brennan, Karen; Millner, Amon; Rosenbaum, Eric; Silver, Jay; Silverman, Brian; Kafai, Yasmin (2009). "Scratch: Programming for All" (PDF). Communications of the ACM. 52 (11): 60–67. doi:10.1145/1592761.1592779. S2CID 9390203.
  54. ^ Shapiro, Jordan. "Your Five Year Old Can Learn To Code With An IPad App". Forbes.
  55. ^ "Media.MIT.edu". Retrieved 2013-03-30.
  56. ^ "Search results". www.google.com.[better source needed]
  57. ^ "Home". e14fund.com.
  58. ^ "Portfolio".
  59. ^ . MIT Media Lab. Archived from the original on 2017-12-03. Retrieved 2018-01-11.
  60. ^ "About Us".
  61. ^ "EyeNetra Wants To Create Prescription Virtual Reality Screens". forbes.com. Retrieved 2015-10-19.
  62. ^ . Archived from the original on 2011-10-24. Retrieved 2011-10-23.
  63. ^ "Oblong.com". 2016-10-09. Retrieved 2011-10-23.
  64. ^ Bajak, Frank (2007-12-25). "MIT spinoff's little green laptop a hit in remote Peruvian village". Boston.com. Retrieved 2018-01-29.
  65. ^ "From iCalm to Q Sensor to Physiio to Empatica".
  66. ^ "Real-time physiological signals | E4 EDA/GSR sensor".
  67. ^ a b . MIT Media Lab. Archived from the original on 2017-12-03. Retrieved 2018-01-29.
  68. ^ "Xconomy: Salient Stills Sold to Audio-Tech Firm DAC". Xconomy. 2013-07-15. Retrieved 2018-01-01.
  69. ^ "Founded in 2011, Supermechanical grew out of designer/software developer John Kestner's graduate work at the MIT Media Lab, where he explored ways to incorporate connectivity into the physical interfaces of everyday objects." [1]
  70. ^ . the.echonest.com. Archived from the original on 2016-10-07. Retrieved 2016-10-24.
  71. ^ "WI5D.net". Retrieved 2011-10-23.
  72. ^ . Panthaen.com. Archived from the original on 2011-09-28. Retrieved 2011-10-23.

External links edit

  • Official website

42°21′38″N 71°05′15″W / 42.36045°N 71.08737°W / 42.36045; -71.08737

media, research, laboratory, massachusetts, institute, technology, growing, architecture, machine, group, school, architecture, research, does, restrict, fixed, academic, disciplines, draws, from, technology, media, science, design, 2014, update, media, resear. The MIT Media Lab is a research laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology growing out of MIT s Architecture Machine Group in the School of Architecture Its research does not restrict to fixed academic disciplines but draws from technology media science art and design 3 As of 2014 update Media lab s research groups include neurobiology 4 biologically inspired fabrication 5 socially engaging robots 6 emotive computing 7 bionics 8 and hyperinstruments 9 MIT Media LabEstablished1985 39 years ago 1985 1 Budget 80 million 2 Field of researchTechnology multimedia sciences art designDirectorDava NewmanLocationCambridge Massachusetts United StatesWebsitewww wbr media wbr mit wbr eduThe media lab was founded in 1985 by Nicholas Negroponte and former MIT President Jerome Wiesner and is housed in the Wiesner Building designed by I M Pei also known as Building E15 The lab has been written about in the popular press since 1988 when Stewart Brand published The Media Lab Inventing the Future at M I T and its work was a regular feature of technology journals in the 1990s In 2009 it expanded into a second building 10 The media lab came under scrutiny in 2019 due to its acceptance of donations from convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein This led to the resignation of its director Joi Ito 11 and the launch of an immediate thorough and independent investigation into the extremely serious and deeply disturbing allegations about the engagement between individuals at the Media Lab and Jeffrey Epstein by president of MIT 12 13 In December 2020 Dava Newman professor of aeronautics and astronautics and former deputy administrator of NASA under Obama was named the new director of the MIT Media Lab 14 Contents 1 Administration 1 1 Funding model 1 2 Intellectual property 2 Research at the lab 3 Academic program 4 Buildings 5 Faculty and academic research staff 6 Connections to Jeffrey Epstein 7 Other funding controversies 8 Selected publications 9 Outputs and spin offs 9 1 Spin offs 10 See also 11 References 12 External linksAdministration editThe founding director of the lab was Nicholas Negroponte who directed it until 2000 Later directors were Walter Bender 2000 2006 Frank Moss 2006 2011 15 and Joi Ito 2011 2019 who resigned in connection with the Jeffrey Epstein scandal 11 Dava Newman took the position in July 2021 16 the first woman to do so As of 2014 update the media lab had roughly 70 administrative and support staff members Associate directors of the lab were Hiroshi Ishii and Andrew Lippman Pattie Maes and Mitchel Resnick were co heads of the program in media arts and sciences and the lab s chief knowledge officer was Henry Holtzman The media lab has at times had regional branches in other parts of the world such as Media Lab Europe and Media Lab Asia each with their own staff and governing bodies 17 18 Funding model edit The lab s primary funding comes from corporate sponsorship Rather than accepting funding on a per project or per group basis the lab asks sponsors to fund general themes sponsors can then connect with media lab research Specific projects and researchers are also funded more traditionally through US government institutions including the NIH NSF and DARPA Also consortia with other schools or other departments at MIT are often able to have money that does not enter into the common pool MIT Media Lab has an approximately 75 million annual operating budget 19 Intellectual property edit Companies sponsoring the lab can share in the lab s intellectual property without paying license fees or royalties Non sponsors cannot make use of media lab developments for two years after technical disclosure is made to MIT and media lab sponsors The media lab generates approximately 20 new patents every year citation needed Research at the lab editSome recurring themes of work at the media lab include human adaptability 20 human computer interaction education and communication artistic creation and visualization and designing technology for the developing world Other research focus includes machines with common sense sociable robots prosthetics sensor networks musical devices city design and public health Research programs all include iterative development of prototypes which are tested and displayed for visitors 21 Each of these areas of research may incorporate others Interaction design research includes designing intelligent objects and environments Educational research has also included integrating more computation into learning activities including software for learning programmable toys and artistic or musical instruments Examples include Lego Mindstorms the PicoCricket and One Laptop per Child 22 The lab has over twenty research groups 23 Academic program editThe media arts and sciences program is a part of MIT s school of architecture and planning and includes three levels of study a doctoral program a master s of science program and a program that offers an alternative to the standard MIT freshman year as well as a set of undergraduate subjects that may form the basis for a future joint major All graduate students are fully supported tuition plus a stipend from the outset normally by appointments as research assistants at the media laboratory where they work on research programs and faculty projects including assisting with courses These research activities typically take up about half of a student s time in the degree program The media arts and sciences academic program have a close relationship with the media lab Most media lab faculty are professors of media arts and sciences Students who earn a degree in media arts and sciences have been predominantly in residence at the media lab taking classes and doing research Some students from other programs at MIT such as mechanical engineering or electrical engineering and computer science do their research at the media lab working with a media lab Media Arts and Sciences faculty advisor but earn their degrees such as MEng or an MS in EECS from other departments Over 1 000 students apply to the MAS program and the admission is less than 5 per year Buildings editFurther information Wiesner building nbsp The new media lab expansion Building E14 Original Wiesner Building E15 is visible at left In addition to the media lab the combined original Wiesner building E15 and new E14 buildings also host the List Visual Arts Center the School of Architecture and Planning s Program in Art Culture and Technology ACT and MIT s Program in Comparative Media Studies In 2009 the media lab expanded into a new building designed by Pritzker Prize winning Japanese architect Fumihiko Maki 24 The local architect of record was Leers Weinzapfel Associates of Boston The Maki building has predominantly glass walls with long lines of sight through the building making ongoing research visible and encouraging connections and collaboration 25 Faculty and academic research staff editMedia arts and sciences faculty and academic research staff are principal investigators heads of the media lab s various research groups They also advise media arts and sciences graduate students and mentor MIT undergraduates Most departments accept grad students based on their prospects for academic success the media lab attempts to select ones that will best be able to help with some of the ongoing projects 26 As of 2014 update there are more than 25 faculty and academic research staff members including a dozen named professorships A full list of media lab faculty and academic research staff with bios and other information is available via the media lab website 27 As of August 2019 update Alex Pentland is professor of media arts and sciences Toshiba Professor and Media Lab Entrepreneurship Program Director 28 Connections to Jeffrey Epstein editIn August 2019 director Joi Ito said that the organization had received funding from multimillionaire convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein through foundations Epstein controlled that Ito had visited several of Epstein s residences and that Epstein had invested in several of my funds which invest in tech startup companies outside of MIT 29 30 Ito later admitted to taking 525 000 in funding from Epstein for the lab In 2019 media lab founder Nicholas Negroponte expressed support for Ito s decision to accept the funding from Epstein 31 Also in 2019 a federal court deposition was unsealed in which Virginia Giuffre stated that Epstein s associate directed her to have sex with former media lab professor Marvin Minsky 32 33 34 35 In September 2019 it was revealed by emails leaked to Ronan Farrow of The New Yorker that Ito and Peter Cohen the MIT Media Lab s director of development and strategy at the time have worked for years to solicit anonymous donations from Epstein despite Epstein being marked as Disqualified by the university as a donor Ito has referred to Epstein as fascinating 36 Ito resigned due to the scandal shortly after the New Yorker article 11 and the President of M I T announced an immediate thorough and independent investigation to be led by an outside law firm into the extremely serious allegations 12 On January 10 2020 the executive committee of the MIT Corporation the institute s governing board released the results of Goodwin Procter s fact finding regarding interactions between Jeffrey Epstein and the Institute 37 The report revealed that Epstein made 10 donations through various entities to MIT totaling 850 000 including nine donations totaling 750 000 made after his 2008 conviction In 2002 four years before Epstein s first arrest for a sex offense Epstein made a 100 000 donation to MIT through a charitable foundation to support the research of Professor Marvin Minsky former Toshiba Professor of media arts and sciences media lab Epstein s 100 000 donation in May 2013 was intended to be used at Joi Ito s discretion His donations in November 2013 and in July and September 2014 totaling 300 000 were made to support research by Joscha Bach a media lab research fellow from Germany whom Epstein introduced to Ito in 2013 Bach declined to be interviewed for Goodwin Procter s fact finding 38 Epstein s other donations to the media lab between 2015 and 2017 totaling 350 000 were made to support Professor Seth Lloyd Professor of Mechanical Engineering 225 000 and Professor Neri Oxman associate professor of media arts and sciences 125 000 Shortly after signing a petition in support of Ito attorney and political activist Lawrence Lessig argued that the undesirable nature of donations to academic institutions from criminals like Epstein whose fortune does not derive from their crimes is partially mitigated if the donations are anonymous He argues that it was a mistake to take this money even if anonymous but that if you take them at least don t give the criminal a chance to publicly launder his reputation Everyone seems to treat it as if the anonymity and secrecy around Epstein s gift are a measure of some kind of moral failing Lessig wrote I see it as exactly the opposite 39 40 The Boston Globe reported it had seen emails indicating Bill Gates had donated 2 2 million to the media lab through Epstein 41 Other funding controversies editOn March 24 2018 Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman visited MIT and prompted protests 42 Salman s non profit foundation MiSK was a member company of the lab until 2018 43 According to The New York Times a sizable part of the annual budget of the lab comes from corporate patrons who pay at least 250 000 each year Prince Mohammed s personal foundation was among the roughly 90 members at their time of membership 44 Selected publications editBooks Hidalgo Cesar A June 2 2015 Why Information Grows Basic Books p 256 ISBN 9780465048991 Breazeal Cynthia L May 2002 Designing Sociable Robots MIT Press p 282 ISBN 9780262025102 Bar Cohen Yoseph Breazeal Cynthia L May 13 2003 Biologically Inspired Intelligent Robots SPIE Press p 406 ISBN 9780819448729 Ariely Dan 2008 Predictably Irrational HarperCollins Publishers p 349 ISBN 9780061353246 Shrobe Howard Shrier David L Pentland Alex 2018 New Solutions for Cybersecurity MIT Press p 504 Moss Frank June 7 2011 The Sorcerers and Their Apprentices How the Digital Magicians of the MIT Media Lab Are Creating the Innovative Technologies That Will Transform Our Lives Crown Business p 272 ISBN 9780307589101 Harel Idit August 1991 Children Designers Ablex Publishing ISBN 9780893917883 Maeda John August 21 2006 The Laws of Simplicity MIT Press p 128 ISBN 9780262134729 Maeda John May 7 1999 Design by Numbers MIT Press p 256 ISBN 9780262133548 Ito Joi Howe Jeffrey December 6 2016 Whiplash How to Survive Our Faster Future Grand Central Publishing p 320 ISBN 9781455544592 Minsky Marvin Papert Seymour January 1969 Perceptrons An Introduction to Computational Geometry MIT Press p 258 ISBN 9780262130431 Minsky Marvin November 13 2007 The Emotion Machine Commonsense Thinking Artificial Intelligence and the Future of the Human Mind Simon amp Schuster p 400 ISBN 9780743276641 Minsky Marvin March 15 1988 Society of Mind Simon amp Schuster p 336 ISBN 9780671657130 Resnick Mitchel January 10 1997 Turtles Termites and Traffic Jams Explorations in Massively Parallel Microworlds MIT Press p 184 ISBN 9780262680936 Gershenfeld Neil January 12 1999 When Things Start to Think Henry Holt and Co p 225 ISBN 9780805058741 Negroponte Nicholas January 3 1996 Being Digital Vintage p 272 ISBN 9780679762904 Picard Rosalind W July 31 2000 Affective Computing MIT Press p 306 ISBN 9780262661157 Papert Seymour April 29 1994 The Children s Machine Rethinking School in the Age of the Computer Basic Books p 256 ISBN 9780465010639 Papert Seymour August 4 1993 Mindstorms Children Computers and Powerful Ideas Basic Books p 252 ISBN 9780465046744 Benton Stephen A Bove V Michael Jr April 2008 Holographic Imaging Wiley p 288 ISBN 9780470068069 Resnick Eric Mitchel 11 July 2001 Adventures in Modeling Exploring Complex Dynamic Systems with StarLogo Teachers College Press p 192 ISBN 9780807740828 Mitchell William J March 9 2007 Imagining MIT Designing a Campus for the Twenty First Century MIT Press p 152 ISBN 9780262134798 Mitchell William J September 17 2004 Me The Cyborg Self and the Networked City MIT Press p 269 ISBN 9780262633130 Outputs and spin offs editSome media lab developed technologies made it into products or public software packages such as the Lego Mindstorms LEGO WeDo and the pointing stick in IBM laptop keyboards citation needed the Benton hologram used in most credit cards the Fisher Price s Symphony Painter 45 the Nortel Wireless Mesh Network 46 the NTT Comware Sensetable 47 the Taito s Karaoke on Demand Machine 48 A 1994 device called the Sensor Chair used to control a musical orchestra was adapted by several car manufacturers into capacitive sensors to prevent dangerous airbag deployments 49 50 The MPEG 4 SA project developed at the Media Lab made structured audio a practical reality 51 and the Aspen Movie Map was the precursor to the ideas in Google Street View In 2001 two research centers were spun off Media Lab Asia and Media Lab Europe Media Lab Asia based in India was a result of cooperation with the Government of India but eventually broke off in 2003 after a disagreement Media Lab Europe based in Dublin Ireland was founded with a similar concept in association with Irish universities and government and closed in January 2005 Created collaboratively by the Computer Museum and the media lab the Computer Clubhouse a worldwide network of after school learning centers focuses on youth from underserved communities who would not otherwise have access to technological tools and activities 52 Launched in 2003 Scratch 53 is a block based programming language and community developed for children 8 16 and used by people of all ages to learn programming 54 Millions of people have created Scratch projects in a wide variety of settings including homes schools museums libraries and community centers In January 2005 the lab s chairman emeritus Nicholas Negroponte announced at the World Economic Forum a new research initiative to develop a 100 laptop computer A non profit organization One Laptop per Child was created to oversee the actual deployment MIT did not manufacture or distribute the device The Synthetic Neurobiology group created reagents and devices for the analysis of brain circuits are in use by hundreds of biology labs around the world In 2011 Ramesh Raskar s group published their femto photography technique that is able to image the movement of individual light pulses 55 In 2013 the Media Lab launched E14 Fund as a program to support and invest in MIT Media Lab startups 56 In 2017 E14 Fund 57 launched its first seed stage venture fund to invest in the MIT Media Lab startup community It invested in companies like Formlabs Affectiva Tulip Wise Systems Figur8 and more 58 Spin offs edit This section may require cleanup to meet Wikipedia s quality standards The specific problem is A list drawn directly from the MIT site this should be more selective and worked into paragraphs Please help improve this section if you can January 2018 Learn how and when to remove this template message Media Lab industry spin offs include 59 Affectiva commercializing software that detects emotions in pictures of faces 60 Ambient Devices which produces glanceable information displays Dimagi a company that develops software for healthcare in the developing world E Ink which makes electronic paper displays that power the Amazon Kindle and Barnes amp Noble Nook Elance EyeNetra which makes eye tests as 2 clip ons for mobile phones including potential use to correct vision for virtual reality displays 61 First Mile Solutions bringing communications infrastructure to rural communities 62 Formlabs makes high resolution desktop 3D printers spin out from Center for Bits and Atoms Groundhog Technologies global leader in mobility intelligence and its applications on geo analytics geo marketing and network optimization Harmonix game company creator of Rock Band and Guitar Hero Holosonics selling audio spotlight speakers using sound from ultrasound technology Nanda a company that markets the Clocky alarm clock Oblong Industries creators of the digital screen used by Tom Cruise in Minority Report 63 One Laptop per Child s XO laptop 64 Physiio International merged with Empatica manufacturer of wearable medical sensors 65 66 Potion Design an interactive design firm RadioSherpa an online guide for HD Radio stations acquired by Tune in reQall a memory aid company 67 Salient Stills a video resolution enhancement and video forensics company founded in 1996 acquired by DAC in 2013 68 The combined entity has been rebranded Salient Sciences Sifteo a company that has developed a tabletop gaming platform that grew out of Siftables Squid Labs engineering consulting company 67 Supermechanical manufacturer of Twine a wifi interface for various environmental sensors and Range a smartphone connected thermometer 69 The Echo Nest a music intelligence platform 70 Wireless 5th Dimensional Networking Inc 71 acquired in 2006 72 which developed the first hybrid search engine Zebra Imaging a digital holographic display companySee also editBates s chip Living lab Object Based Media Group SixthSense device Wiesner buildingReferences edit Inventing the future Corporate brochure Overview of the MIT MIT Media Lab Fact Sheet Retrieved 2012 09 12 MIT Media Lab Synthetic Neurobiology Retrieved 2014 06 26 MIT Media Lab Mediated Matter Retrieved 2014 06 26 MIT Media Lab Personal Robots Retrieved 2014 06 26 MIT Media Lab Affective Computing Retrieved 2014 06 26 MIT Media Lab Biomechatronics Retrieved 2014 06 26 MIT Media Lab Mediated Matter Retrieved 2014 06 26 MIT Capital Projects Media Lab Complex Building E14 capitalprojects mit edu Retrieved 2018 01 11 a b c Tracy Marc Hsu Tiffany 2019 09 07 Director of M I T s Media Lab Resigns After Outcry Over Jeffrey Epstein Ties The New York Times ISSN 0362 4331 Retrieved 2019 09 07 a b Farrow Ronan 2019 09 07 How an Elite University Research Center Concealed Its Relationship with Jeffrey Epstein The New Yorker ISSN 0028 792X Retrieved 2019 09 07 MIT Media Lab director resigns after criticism for financial ties to Jeffrey Epstein NBC News 7 September 2019 Retrieved 2019 09 07 Dava Newman named director of MIT Media Lab MIT News Massachusetts Institute of Technology 22 December 2020 Retrieved 2020 12 22 John Markoff April 26 2011 M I T Media Lab Names a New Director New York Times Retrieved 2011 04 25 Space engineer takes over as head of the MIT Media Lab MIT Media Labs India Design Innovation Workshop 2015 Retrieved 2015 01 23 Aniruddha Mysore MIT Media Labs Design Innovation Workshop Report Archived from the original on 2015 02 22 Retrieved 2015 01 25 Funding and Support MIT Media Lab Retrieved 2019 08 21 MIT Media Lab h2 0 Symposium Archive h20 media mit edu Retrieved 2018 01 11 MIT Media Lab Featured Research Picocricket com Retrieved 2011 10 23 MIT Media Lab Research Groups Campbell Robert December 6 2009 Media Lab aims to elevate transparency The Boston Globe Web MIT edu 2006 09 26 Retrieved 2011 10 23 Timmer John Building The Next Big Thing 25 Years of MIT s Media Lab Wired News October 24 2010 Media MIT edu Retrieved 2011 10 23 Alex Sandy Pentland MIT Retrieved 31 August 2019 Ito Joi My apology regarding Jeffrey Epstein MIT Media Lab Retrieved 2019 08 21 Tracy Marc Hsu Tiffany 2019 08 16 Director of M I T Media Lab Apologizes for Ties to Jeffrey Epstein The New York Times ISSN 0362 4331 Retrieved 2019 08 21 Chen Angela Hao Karen 2019 09 05 MIT Media Lab founder Taking Epstein s money was justified MIT Technology Review Retrieved 2020 09 24 Jeffrey Epstein s alleged sex slave reveals the men she claims she was forced to sleep with Retrieved 8 August 2019 AI pioneer accused of having sex with trafficking victim on Jeffrey Epstein s island Retrieved 8 August 2019 Jeffrey Epstein Accuser Names Powerful Men in Alleged Sex Ring Retrieved 8 August 2019 Jeffrey Epstein Sent Girl to Governor and Senator for Sex She Testified Retrieved 8 August 2019 Pedophile Fundraising The New Yorker 7 September 2019 Retrieved 2019 09 07 MIT and Jeffrey Epstein MIT and Jeffrey Epstein Retrieved 2020 01 11 Report Concerning Jeffrey Epstein s Interactions with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology PDF January 10 2020 10 via Report a href Template Cite journal html title Template Cite journal cite journal a Cite journal requires journal help Lessig Lawrence On Joi and MIT Retrieved 2019 09 12 Piper Kelsey 11 September 2019 Why MIT Media Lab thought it was doing right by secretly accepting Jeffrey Epstein s money Retrieved 2019 09 12 Melinda Gates began meeting with divorce lawyers in 2019 when reports of Bill s ties to Jeffrey Epstein surfaced according to report Why a Saudi Prince s Visit to Harvard and MIT Drew Protests The Chronicle of Higher Education April 19 2018 MiSk Foundation 23 April 2017 Sokolove Michael 2019 07 03 Why Is There So Much Saudi Money in American Universities The New York Times ISSN 0362 4331 Retrieved 2019 09 08 Media MIT edu Archived from the original on 2012 08 05 Retrieved 2011 10 23 Media MIT edu Archived from the original on 2012 08 05 Retrieved 2011 10 23 Media MIT edu Archived from the original on 2012 08 04 Retrieved 2011 10 23 Media MIT edu Archived from the original on 2012 08 05 Retrieved 2011 10 23 Joshua R Smith Ph D http resenv media mit edu pubs papers 2003 05 JoeP NIME03 final pdf bare URL PDF MPEG 4 Structured Audio Archived from the original on 2007 12 09 Computerclubhouse org Archived from the original on 2011 05 11 Retrieved 2011 10 23 Resnick Mitchel Maloney John Hernandez Andres Rusk Natalie Eastmond Evelyn Brennan Karen Millner Amon Rosenbaum Eric Silver Jay Silverman Brian Kafai Yasmin 2009 Scratch Programming for All PDF Communications of the ACM 52 11 60 67 doi 10 1145 1592761 1592779 S2CID 9390203 Shapiro Jordan Your Five Year Old Can Learn To Code With An IPad App Forbes Media MIT edu Retrieved 2013 03 30 Search results www google com better source needed Home e14fund com Portfolio Media Lab spinoff companies MIT Media Lab Archived from the original on 2017 12 03 Retrieved 2018 01 11 About Us EyeNetra Wants To Create Prescription Virtual Reality Screens forbes com Retrieved 2015 10 19 Firstmilesolutions com Archived from the original on 2011 10 24 Retrieved 2011 10 23 Oblong com 2016 10 09 Retrieved 2011 10 23 Bajak Frank 2007 12 25 MIT spinoff s little green laptop a hit in remote Peruvian village Boston com Retrieved 2018 01 29 From iCalm to Q Sensor to Physiio to Empatica Real time physiological signals E4 EDA GSR sensor a b Spinoff Companies MIT Media Lab MIT Media Lab Archived from the original on 2017 12 03 Retrieved 2018 01 29 Xconomy Salient Stills Sold to Audio Tech Firm DAC Xconomy 2013 07 15 Retrieved 2018 01 01 Founded in 2011 Supermechanical grew out of designer software developer John Kestner s graduate work at the MIT Media Lab where he explored ways to incorporate connectivity into the physical interfaces of everyday objects 1 The Echo Nest the echonest com Archived from the original on 2016 10 07 Retrieved 2016 10 24 WI5D net Retrieved 2011 10 23 Panthean com Panthaen com Archived from the original on 2011 09 28 Retrieved 2011 10 23 External links editOfficial website 42 21 38 N 71 05 15 W 42 36045 N 71 08737 W 42 36045 71 08737 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title MIT Media Lab amp oldid 1204741975, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

article

, read, download, free, free download, mp3, video, mp4, 3gp, jpg, jpeg, gif, png, picture, music, song, movie, book, game, games.