How/where do you look for people in fields that don’t yet have a name? #mltalks MacArthur Foundation

Got to rehearse this piece with an amazing #violinist the other day. Inspired to work on my articulation. So much more to learn! #theremin #etherwave #bach #violin #concerto #baroque… instagram.com/p/BkkSFYAnqC8/…

Doing an #mltalk tomorrow at 1pm in Inventive Minds, the book I co-edited and illustrated on the #AI pioneer Marvin Minsky’s essays about #education. media.mit.edu/events/mltalks…

"How do you go about learning something really difficult?" Xiao Xiao shares Marvin Minsky's wisdom on cognitive mapping #MLTalks

Seeing la vie en rose after premiering our singing #theremin project in beautiful #Brazil. Many thanks to LAM lab in Paris for the chance to combine my love for the theremin with their amazing research in speech… instagram.com/p/Bycnt7fHHn4/…

Inspiring TimTalk by ⁦Xiao Xiao⁩ for MIT Class of 2009 10yr reunion! Beautiful theremin performance and food for thought on making music more engaging and accessible for everyone

For its 100th birthday, we taught the #theremin how to speak and sing. Full video in bio. A collaboration glocq at LAM - Institut d’Alembert in #Paris . . . #theremin100 #moog #etherwave #piaf #french #song… instagram.com/p/BzQy1dLHG9v/…

In honor of my grandmother’s 92nd birthday today, here’s a Tang Dynasty poem that she taught me when I was growing up, performed with T-Voks on the theremin. I lived with my grandparents from age 1-8 while my… instagram.com/p/BzfwBWiH7qR/…

We're live! Help us pay the artists who helped me create my graphic novel! kickstarter.com/projects/tauns… 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

Introducing Minds in the Making, a new permanent art installation in downtown New Orleans that transforms a 4-story vintage elevator cage into different metaphors for the mind from antiquity to the present day. The… instagram.com/p/B4jH5dnn-40/…

Psyched for the launch of this initiative! Check out the stories of diverse scientists (including yours truly).

The police that illegally broke into Breonna Taylor's house and murdered her in her sleep have still not been charged - Please consider signing the petition. chng.it/cgdjdtxS via Change.org

Spent several months in #Armenia earlier this year. Sad about the violence in #Artsakh/NK. Hope international community can help mediate peaceful talks!

My friend just released a beautiful indie video game about the nature of memory, trauma, and art. Check it out on Steam. Please share if you think it’s cool. store.steampowered.com/app/1499990/Fo… instagram.com/stories/_xiaos…

The talking/singing theremin project I worked on made it to the semifinals in the Guthman Musical Instruments Competition. Would be grateful if you can take 2 seconds to vote for it here (gleam.io/g/8rBIG). No signup needed. Thanks! :-)

Super psyched to start my new role as Principal Investigator of a new research group at @DVIC_fr, Human Learning, where we will build interactive technologies for learning across domains. Here’s a talk I gave at DVIC last year:

Just posted a photo @ La Galerie du Génie de la Bastille instagram.com/p/CdEbP9YtxGY/…

Just posted a photo instagram.com/p/CdqVPQiNFp1/…

On March 9, Professors Hiroshi Ishii　石井 裕, Pattie Maes, + Joseph Paradiso spoke at the inaugural event for the Institute for Future Technologies (IFT) at the Pôle Léonard Vinci! The IFT aims to bring the Media Lab’s unique, transdisciplinary research culture to France. media.mit.edu/events/media-l…

Glad to be back st #chi23. Just presented my paper!