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NEW HOME FOR INNOVATION, DESIGN, AND THE ARTS
The Media Lab has expanded into a new, six-floor structure with approximately 163,000 square feet of laboratory, office, and meeting space designed by the Tokyo-based architectural firm of Maki and Associates. Together with the existing Wiesner Building (designed by MIT alumnus I. M. Pei), the complex will serve as a showplace for new concepts in design, communications systems, and collaborative research. The goal is to ignite a new energy and connectivity within the two-building complex, and then extend this energy beyond our walls—to our sponsors and to the world at large.
The complex also houses the List Visual Arts Center, the School of Architecture + Planning's Program in Art, Culture and Technology, and MIT's Program in Comparative Media Studies. A key component of the building is the Okawa Center for Future Children, focused on children, learning, and developing nations, established through a $27-million donation from Isao Okawa, the late chairman of CSK Corp. and SEGA Enterprises, Ltd.
PROJETOS EM ANDAMENTO: 397
3D Telepresence Chair / 4k Comics / Aerial Volumetric Light-Field Display /.Ambi-Blinds / Bottles&Boxes: Packaging with Sensors / Consumer Holo-Video / Crystal Ball / Dressed in Data / Holoshop / SurroundVision / Optogenetics and Synthetic Biology Tools / /Prototype Strategies for Treating Brain Disorders /Tools for Mapping the Molecular Structure of the Brain / Tools for Recording High-Speed Brain Dynamics / Understanding Normal and Pathological Brain Computations /Collective Memory / Data Visualization: The Pixel Factory / Immersion / StreetScore /.The Economic Complexity Observatory / The Language Group Network /The Network Impact in Success / The Privacy Bounds of Human Mobility / City Symphonies: Massive Musical Collaboration / Facial Expression Analysis Over the Web / Mapping the Stress of Medical Visits / 6D Display / Media Cloud Brazil / ZL Vortice /Mapping the Globe /
TOP 25 PRODUCTS OR PLATFORMS SPUN OUT OF MEDIA LAB RESEARCH
Amazon Kindle, Sony Reader, Barnes & Noble nook (all use electronic ink technology developed at the Media Lab) / XO Laptop, developed by spin-off One Laptop per Child Guitar Hero, developed by spin-off Harmonix Music Systems/ LEGO Mindstorms / CityCar, a stackable, folding electric car, commercialized by DenokInn and branded as the Hiriko / MPEG-4 Structured Audio / BiOM, the first bionic lower-leg system for amputees, commercialized by spin-off iWalk Scratch programming language for kids SeatSentry Smart /Air Bag systems, Media Lab sensor technology commercialized by NEC Corporation / NETRA/CATRA, low-cost eye diagnostic tools for mobile phones, being brought to market by spin-off Eye/ NETRA Collaborative filtering recommendation technology g-speak, developed by spin-off Oblong Industries, first seen in Minority Report Reality mining, for interpreting human behavior, commercialized by spin-offs including Ginger.io, Sociometric Solutions, and Cogito Wireless Mesh Networks, developed by Nortel Open Mind Common Sense, collecting general knowledge for computer learning via crowdsourcing 3D digital holographic printing, commercialized by spin-off Zebra Imaging, Inc. Q Sensor, for emotion measurement, commercialized by spin-off Affectiva Audio Spotlight, brought to market by spin-off Holosonics Sourcemap, open-source, supply-chain mapping Computer Clubhouse Network, sponsored by the Intel Foundation Hyperscore music composition software, commercialized by spin-off Harmony Line, Inc. The Echo Nest machine-learning platform for music Tangible IP Network Designer and the Tangible Business Process Analyzer, developed by NTT Comware Photomosaics, brought to market by spin-off Runaway Technology, Inc. Mercury RFID Readers, commercialized by spin-off ThingMagic
