A new production of Tod Machover's “VALIS,” an innovative opera based on the Philip K. Dick novel, was directed by Jay Scheib and featured baritone Davóne Tines and mezzo-soprano Anaïs Reno. Co-presented by MIT Media Lab / MIT Theater Arts / Opera Of The Future.
Sharifa Alghowinem, a research scientist with the MIT Media Lab’s Personal Robots Group, explores personal robot technology that explains human emotions in English and Arabic.