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MIT News: Media lab / media arts and sciences
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Media lab / media arts and sciences headlines from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology News Office.
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MIT Media Lab announces associate directors
MIT Media Lab Director Frank Moss today announced the appointment of two associate directors: Hiroshi Ishii and Andrew Lippman, both long-term, prominent researchers at the Lab.
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Defying logic, consistently
Unexpected and surprising connections are at the heart of research conducted by MIT Professor Dan Ariely, whose studies have demonstrated that people often make decisions that seem to defy logic--but they do so in very predictable, consistent ways.
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Meet Nexi, the Media Lab's latest robot star
A new experimental robot from the MIT Media Lab can slant its eyebrows in anger, or raise them in surprise, and show a wide assortment of facial expressions to communicate with people in human-centric terms.
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MIT, Bank of America collaborate on future banking
The MIT Media Laboratory and Bank of America today announced the creation of the Center for Future Banking, a collaboration that will seek to transform the ways banking will be conducted in rapidly changing social, economic, and information landscapes.
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Voting for more than just either-or
New computer software developed by MIT researchers promises to make preferential ranking systems just as easy as traditional voting -- and to give results that leave more people satisfied, particularly when there is a crowded field of candidates.
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