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Media Lab Director Dava Newman is pictured in her office, standing beside one of the next-generation space suits, known as the BioSuit™, that she has developed with colleagues at MIT and in industry.
A generative AI model visualizes what floods in Texas might look like in satellite imagery. The original photo, of an unflooded rural area, is on the left, and the AI generated image, showing the same area covered in brown floodwaters, is in on the right. Credit: Pre-flood images from Maxar Open Data Program via Gupta et al., CVPR Workshop Proceedings. Generated images from Lütjen et al., IEEE TGRS.
A generative AI model visualizes what floods in Texas might look like in satellite imagery. The original photo, of an unflooded rural area, is on the left, and the AI generated image, showing the same area covered in brown floodwaters, is in on the right. Credit: Pre-flood images from Maxar Open Data Program via Gupta et al., CVPR Workshop Proceedings. Generated images from Lütjen et al., IEEE TGRS.
Media Lab Professor Pattie Maes, wearing a black top, stands in front of a gray background with a black border across the bottom.
Yunyi Zhu adjusts wires at her lab bench. Six insets show three objects before and after being reprogrammed: headphones, a shirt, and another shirt and arm cast. Credit: Mike Grimmett/MIT CSAIL
Front cover of "The Digitalist Papers: Artificial Intelligence and Democracy in America," featuring the names of lead faculty Erik Brynjolfsson, Alex Pentland, Nathaniel Persily, and Condoleezza Rice, and senior editor Angela Aristidou.
Four dancers—three human, one computer-generated—on a dark stage, washed in golden light.
Nine images, arranged in three rows of three, showing the 3D-printed glass bricks, which are shaped like figure 8s, in different configurations. Credit: Ethan Townsend
A woman wears Behnaz Farahi's "Caress of the Gaze," a 3D-printed vest that resembles a garment made of feathers, or flowers. The garment reacts to viewers' gazes.