LocationLincoln, MA DescriptionIn conjunction with the 2001 Boston Cyberarts Festival, the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park presented Fl…
Flights of Fantasy is an interactive research and installation project that focuses on the acts of receiving and sending video messages. In…
Former Postdoctoral Associate
The Space Exploration Initiative charters an annual ZERO-G parabolic flight for 14-15 projects and 25 researchers across MIT Media Lab, sev…
Research Affilliate
What is cinema becoming? All around us--in the laboratory, in theme parks and museums, on optical media and home computers, across the WWW…
Former Administrative Assistant
Read about the 2022 zero gravity flight and the projects that flew. This is an annual event hosted by the Space Exploration Initiative.
This mission included participation from several departments at MIT and outside collaborators from across the globe.
Visiting Scientist
Founded in 2016 and now in our fifth year, we set our sights on space. The Space Exploration Initiative has since grown to 5…
Founded in 2016 and now in our fifth year, we set our sights on space. The Space Exploration Initiative has since grown to 5…
Space Enabled experiments study dynamics of liquid wax in microgravity to inspire future low cost satellite fuel options
Nataliya Kosmyna, Daniel Hails, Eugene Hauptmann, Christopher Markus, Zoe Lee, Gun Bolukbasi and Minsol Kim. "Using Wearable Brain Sensing Glasses during Zero-G Flight for Hyperscanning: Preliminary Study," AIAA 2023-4656. ASCEND 2023. October 2023.
Stober, Keith J,. M. Regina Apodaca M., including co-authors Alana Sanchez, Anika Kamath, Gabriel Owens-Flores, Gladys Chepkirui, Dinuri Rupasinghe, and Danielle Wood. "Paraffin & Beeswax Thermochemical Analysis & Centrifugal Casting Experiments & Simulations," IEEE Aerospace 2022, Big Sky, Montana, March 2022.
Space research, led by a diverse team of women scientists, will be presented at this year's AIAA Ascend Conference.
Cristina Quinn profiles Morgan Stickney, an elite swimmer who's the first person to undergo a bilateral Ewing amputation.
The Space Exploration Initiative supports research across and beyond MIT in two microgravity flights this spring.
A. Moreno, M. Regina, Javier Stober, Danielle Wood. "Using Agile Methodologies In The Development Of A Wax Hybrid Rocket," 3AF Space Propulsion Conference 2022, May 2022.
Danielle Wood appeared on Bloomberg Markets: The Close to discuss space sustainability, travel, and accessibility.
Project Overview The Space Grip Shoe (SGS) is an iconic concept presented across the history of space fiction, from 2001: A Space Odys…
From fantasy to sportswear: bioLogic creates Second Skin.
Timothy Bickmore, Amanda Gruber, Rosalind W. Picard
There was a time when neuroscientists could only dream of having such a problem. Now the fantasy has come true, and they are struggling to …
When is a sleeper actually asleep?
Danielle Wood quoted in Axios article by Miriam Kramer on space flight contests.
A selection of recent press coverage on Tod Machover's newest opera, Schoenberg in Hollywood.
Children are using voice-activated technology at far younger ages than other devices, but some parents worry they’re picking up rude habits
Maiden Flight is an autonomous biological laboratory environment designed for studying the impact of space flight on the sole reproductive …
Sra, M. "Spellbound: An activity-based outdoor mobile multiplayer game"
An MIT researcher is helping students bring their favorite sci-fi technologies to life.
When imagining human life in space, how will we express our humanity and creativity in an alien environment? Can the art we make both refle…
MIT Media Lab Space Exploration Initiative
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SEI Space Analog Mission Application 2022
Ekblaw, A., Cherston, J., Liu, F., Wicaksono, I., Haddad, D. D., Sumini, V., & Paradiso, J. A. (2023). From UbiComp to Universe—Moving Pervasive Computing Research Into Space Applications. IEEE Pervasive Computing.
The Space Exploration Initiative’s latest research flight explores work and play in zero gravity
Space Exploration Initiative director Ariel Ekblaw speaks with WIRED’s Ramin Skibba about the beginning and future of space tourism.
Democratizing access to space.
By Caroline JaffeOur planet’s warming climate presents an imminent and catastrophic challenge that will have far-reaching economic, so…
Wistort, R. "TofuDraw: Choreographing Robot Behavior through Digital Painting"
Aaron Bobick, Stephen Intille, Jim Davis, Freedom Baird, Claudio Pinhanez, Lee Campbell, Yuri Ivanov, Arjan Schutte, Andy Wilson
Judith Amores, Xavier Benavides, Patricia Maes
Ashok Veeraraghavan, Amit Agrawal, Ramesh Raskar, Ankit Mohan, Jack Tumblin
The exhibit display reflects the unusual nature of our interdisciplinary design and engineering practice at MIT.
Hae Won develops interactive social machines that deeply personalize to their users through long-term interaction.
Join us, as the MIT Media Lab's Space Exploration Initiative presents research results from the 14 projects that flew in Zero Gra…
Balsa-Barreiro, José and José Luis Lerma. 2014. A new methodology to estimate the discrete-return point density on airborne LiDAR surveys. International Journal of Remote Sensing 35(4): 1496-1510.
Aaron Quigley, Alan Dix, Wendy Mackay, Hiroshi Ishii, Jürgen Steimle
The Axiom Mission 2 launch will carry a variety of research from the MIT Media Lab to the International Space Station (ISS) on May 21, 2023
Gregory Charvat, Andrew Temme, Micha Feign, Ramesh Raskar
Our architecture takes a hybrid approach to microwaves and treats them like waves of light. Most other work places antennas in a 2D arrange…
Fall is here, hear the yell/Back to school, ring the bell
On November 14, the Boston Lyric Opera will present the World Premiere of Schoenberg in Hollywood, a new opera by Tod Machover, the Muriel …
Director; Apollo Professor of Astronautics
Time-of-flight (ToF) cameras are commercialized consumer cameras that provide a depth map of a scene, with many applications in computer vi…
We are exploring mathematical modeling of time-of-flight imaging problems and solutions.
A listing of academic offerings during Fall 2020 at the Media Lab.
Stober, K.J., Wanyiri, J., Sanchez, A., Jiwani, S., Hooper, M., Mazumder, M., Lifson, M., Joseph, C., and Wood, D., "An Investigation of the Laboratory-Based and Microgravity Centrifugal Casting of Paraffin Wax," IAC-19-A2.3.1.52725, 70th International Astronautical Congress, Washington, D.C., 21-25 October 2019
PROGRAM IN MEDIA ARTS AND SCIENCES, FALL 2019Full MIT class schedule online at MIT Office of the RegistrarUNDERGRADUATE SUBJECT LISTI…
Achuta Kadambi, Hang Zhao, Boxin Shi, Ramesh Raskar ACM Transactions on Graphics (ToG), Vol 35, Issue 2, Page 15
Achuta Kadambi, Hang Zhao, Boxin Shi, Ramesh Raskar
Paige, C., Ward, F., Haddad, D. D., MacNeil, J., McGaffigan, P., Ekblaw, A., & Newman, D. (2023). MIT Zero-G outreach initiative: Using experiment design and virtual reality to inspire the next generation of space scientists and engineers. Acta Astronautica, 212, 152-159.
Classes offered by the Program in Media Arts and Sciences for the Fall 2023 semester
Andreas Velten, Di Wu, Adrian Jarabo, Belen Masia, Christopher Barsi, Everett Lawson, Chinmaya Joshi, Diego Gutierrez, Moungi G. Bawendi, and Ramesh Raskar. 2012. Relativistic ultrafast rendering using time-of-flight imaging. In ACM SIGGRAPH 2012 Talks (SIGGRAPH ’12). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 41, 1. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/2343045.2343100
TerMITes are a wireless environmental sensor platform that enables designers and researchers with the necessary tools to capture envir…