Editing Media Lab Europe (section)

==Work==
The lab focused on innovation in digital technology and human-machine interaction. MLE was said to have managed to recreate the creative play research atmosphere of the MIT Media Lab.{{Citation needed|date=March 2008}} By 2004 MLE was in full swing, and in the lab's short lifespan the researchers produced 21 refereed journal articles, 59 refereed full papers for conferences, and 62 refereed shorter papers for conferences, for a total of 142 refereed works. The facility achieved international recognition for a range of its work including [[Electroencephalography|EEG]] based mind-computer interfaces; the BumpList and Iso-phone. The latter two projects received honorary mention at the 2004 [[Prix Ars Electronica]]. Furthermore, MLE researchers regularly contributed to international research forums of the [[European Commission]],<ref>[http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/research/index_en.html European Commission] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091016104131/http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/research/index_en.html |date=16 October 2009 }}</ref> the [[Association for Computing Machinery]], and others concerned with advancing technologies and their constructive uses.

MLE held a highly successful international conference on ''New Interfaces for Musical Expression'' (NIME-02)<ref>[https://archive.today/20040906145513/http://hct.ece.ubc.ca/nime/ New Interfaces for Musical Expression]</ref> in May 2002. In May 2004, in conjunction with Ireland's hosting of the EU Presidency, MLE and the Department of Education and Science assembled ''New Futures for Learning in the Digital Age''.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20040415111724/http://www.newfuturesforlearning.ie/ New Futures for Learning in the Digital Age]</ref> MLE also organised an associated international symposium ''Incremental Progress or Fundamental Change?'',<ref>[http://fundamentalchange.carolstrohecker.info/ Incremental Progress or Fundamental Change?]</ref> featuring Prof. [[Seymour Papert]], to question attitudes and progress in digital learning.

===Recognition issue===
MIT refused to accredit any degrees coming from the lab and re-iterated this refusal in 2005 when the Irish government sought accreditation as a condition of renewed funding. Concerns had been raised by the Irish academic community as early as 2001, in the Wall Street Journal.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Armstrong|first=David|date=2001-07-05|title=Irish Eyes Aren't All Smiling on MIT's Media Lab Import|language=en-US|work=The Wall Street Journal|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB99421022627070814|access-date=2021-05-07|issn=0099-9660}}</ref>