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Media Lab students aim to take common interests offline to encourage real-life connections.
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Temple Grandin: Look at what people can do, not what they can’t
In talks at MIT, noted behavioral expert suggests encouraging skills of people with autism.
Teaching programming to preschoolers
System that lets children program a robot using stickers embodies new theories about programming languages.
Finger-mounted reading device for the blind
Audio feedback helps user scan finger along a line of text, which software converts to speech.
Temple Grandin to speak at MIT
Famed animal behavior expert and autism activist will give two public talks at the Media Lab.
Armory Show is “CULTURUNNERS’” next stop
“CULTURUNNERS” and ACT involve creative individuals across MIT to highlight artistic journeys and exchanges between the United States and the Middle East.
Inventing “civilization 2.0”
Conference explores how wearables and other technologies are changing how we connect and conduct business.
Consumer-friendly makers
Media Lab alumni’s success with “smart” gaming blocks led to an acquisition deal to make consumer drones.
Keeping health care clean
Startup’s smart devices track hand-washing in hospitals to help reduce the spread of infection.
Telling stories using computer science
Senior Shannon Kao’s knack for storytelling informs her research in computer graphics.
MIT team enlarges brain samples, making them easier to image
New technique enables nanoscale-resolution microscopy of large biological specimens.
Lincoln Laboratory hosts first "Make Your Own Wearables" workshop for high-school girls
Hands-on projects in wearable technology introduce girls to mechanical design and electrical engineering.
$118M gift from MIT alumnus will advance socially responsible and sustainable real estate development
Samuel Tak Lee MIT Real Estate Entrepreneurship Lab to include focus on China.
New horizons for self-assembling materials
3-D-printable materials deform to change surface area, enabling curvature rather than rigid folding.
3Q: Hacking Ebola health care
More than 100 spend a weekend devising better personal protections, diagnostics, and medical records in the face of a deadly disease.