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Xiao Xiao

@xiaosquared

Technologist + Pianist. born in Beijing, raised in New Orleans, course 6 @MIT, currently PhD @MediaLab

 Boston, MA
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Joined October 2008
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On March 9, Professors @ishii_mit, Pattie Maes, + Joseph Paradiso spoke at the inaugural event for the Institute for Future Technologies (IFT) at the @poledevinci! The IFT aims to bring the Media Lab’s unique, transdisciplinary research culture to France. media.mit.edu/events/media-l…
Media Lab alumni launch Institute for Future Technologies in Paris, with keynotes from Joe Paradi...

Media Lab alumni launch Institute for Future Technologies in Paris, with keynotes from Joe Paradi...

AboutThe Institute for Futures Technologies (IFT) is a new space within the Pôle Léonard de Vinci in Paris (La Défense), which aims to bring the MIT Media Lab’…

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We're live! Help us pay the artists who helped me create my graphic novel! kickstarter.com/projects/tau… 2 teens on a post-climate-apocalypse Earth wield the ancient craft of #neuroscience against an oppressive World Gov... #scicomm #sciart #scifi #scifibooks #scicomics #openscience
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Inspiring TimTalk by ⁦@xiaosquared⁩ for @MIT2009 10yr reunion! Beautiful theremin performance and food for thought on making music more engaging and accessible for everyone
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"How do you go about learning something really difficult?" @xiaosquared shares Marvin Minsky's wisdom on cognitive mapping #MLTalks
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Numbers are in for Night #2 of Steer Roast! 300 community members joined us for bands, camaraderie, and an announcement that the Senior House Corporation has been established as a 501(c)(7) non-profit social club.
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DSL approved a courtyard capacity limit of 600 for Feast. Rangers estimated the final attendance numbers for the First Annual East Side Festival were 500-550 students and alumni!
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Numbers are in for Night #1 of Steer Roast! 169 attendees over 21, and 29 guests who got straight-edge X-es. Average times each guest came in and went out: 3x
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Alum @xiaosquared is building 3 interactive #VR experiences for Historic New Orleans Collection's 2018 exhibition mitsha.re/U1sK30eyyBc
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"No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin or his background or his religion..."
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Every child deserves the right to play.

Amazing Humans: Making children smile again

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MIT is “fixing” the low graduation rate in its low-income, LGBT-friendly dorm by kicking everyone out qz.com/1005761 via @qz
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Burn your instrument! @xiaosquared showing a piano in flame at #NIME2017. Damn, I want to burn a textile sensor now. – at Copenhagen, Denmark
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I just launched my very first #kickstarter. It's kinda crazy.. we're making a 90 second fan-film about @TeslaMotors kickstarter.com/projects/142…
Rural Revival - United States of Tesla

Rural Revival - United States of Tesla

We're leveraging Tesla's Project Loveday to reach a million skeptical rural Americans with a powerful message of consequence and hope!

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aeroMorph video is out! Great work by @OUJIFEI that I was happy and lucky to help with. vimeo.com/194560714
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For it is the lack of that empathy that allowed America to shrug as the marginalized shouted warnings.
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America's neglect of its own health comes directly from its stubborn insistence that nothing is as bad as it looks
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We are inextricably bound. We cannot wish this half of America away. But we can sure as hell challenge it.
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In honor of Marvin Minsky's birthday, Labber @xiaosquared reflects on her musical relationship with him mitsha.re/fVj6303bBZj
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A glimpse into the playful world of #SeymourPapert: A fond remembrance from alum @Idit on working with her mentor mitsha.re/r0tq302Vg26
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“Reflecting Music Through Movement: A Body-Syntonic Approach to Playing [with] the Piano” @xiaosquared’s PhD defense mitsha.re/4ZFw302wkjx
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