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SpaceCHI 2026 will take place at the NASA Ames Research Center and online September 24–25, 2026. Submissions are due July 17.

SpaceCHI adopts a broad interdisciplinary scope, welcoming papers and posters on a wide range of subjects related to human-computer interaction in space exploration.

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Tod Machover, Muriel R. Cooper Professor of Music and Media and Faculty Director of the MIT Media Lab, will receive the George Peabody Medal for Outstanding Contributions to Music and Dance in America, the highest honor bestowed by the Peabody Conservatory.

Machover joins a roster of previous recipients that includes Stevie Wonder, Yo-Yo Ma, Herbie Hancock, Ella Fitzgerald, and Leonard Bernstein.

"Tod Machover's genuinely groundbreaking and prescient work at the intersection of music and technology, along with an overall and broad impact on the American music scene, make him an ideal recipient for the Peabody Medal," said Peabody Institute Dean Fred Bronstein.

Machover is recognized for creating music that breaks traditional artistic and cultural boundaries and for developing technologies that expand music's possibilities for everyone. His current projects include The Overstory, an opera based on Richard Powers' Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, set to premiere in spring 2028, and a new work for orchestra and live AI that will be premiered by the Boston Symphony Orchestra in fall 2026.

Machover will also deliver the commencement addresses at the Peabody Conservatory's 2026 Graduation ceremonies on May 20 in Baltimore.

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