This collaboration highlights Castrol’s ongoing commitment to driving innovation and pushing the boundaries of space exploration.

Learn more about all of the research groups, centers, and initiatives at the MIT Media Lab.

We’ll create transformative technologies, experiences, and systems that address the dual challenge of climate change and energy.

MLVoices is an ongoing occasional series featuring community members talking about their ideas, their work, their passions, and their lives.

Each of these discussions was dedicated to a timely, urgent topic.

To fully explore and understand the ocean, we need "all hands on deck."

LabCAST was the Media Lab's original video feature series. It ran from 2007–2016, highlighting dozens of research projects and initiatives.

The MLTalks series brings leading voices from a wide range of fields into the Media Lab for thought-provoking conversations, whic…

The Critical Matter group envisions a future for design that goes beyond the mere application of technology. Instead, it seeks to use techn…

We live in an ocean of physical patterns: heartbeats, respiration, muscle movements, neural activity, tidal waves, airflow, ambient humidit…

Course DescriptionMAS.941 supports Media Lab master’s students in developing ideas into clear, compelling, and rigorous thesis proposals. B…

The Responsive Environments group at the MIT Media Lab is collaborating with GRAMMY-winning keyboardist and CAST Visiting Artist Jordan Rud…

On the evening of Friday, October 24, 2025, a generative portal opened at the MIT Chapel. What you see inside will depend on you—and the ot…

MAS.834 Tangible Interfaces - Fall 2026Units: Units: G (Fall) 3-3-6 H-LEVEL Grad CreditWHEN:   Tuesday 1-4 pm WHERE:&nb…

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September 15, 2026: Application website opensOctober 9, 2026 : Virtual Open  House - This virtual event is an opportunity to…

Blanchard, L., Naseck, P., Liang, K., Tan, J., Lei, H., Huang, C.-Z. A., & Paradiso, J. (2026). Enhancing Expressive Musical Conversation in the jam_bot. Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression, 621--626. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20784228

Stephen Brade, Teng Ma, Lancelot Blanchard, Kimaya Lecamwasam, Carlos Mariano Salcedo, Suwan Kim, Perry Naseck, Andrew Li, Matthew R Michalek, Sebastian Franjou, and Anna Huang. 2026. Agents in Concert: A Case-Study of Bringing AI to the Stage in Practice. In Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI '26). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY

Boston Public Schools trains 25 AI Educator Ambassadors with Day of AI curriculum from MIT's RAISE to graduate every student AI literate.

Perry Naseck, Lancelot Blanchard, Madhav Lavakare, Kimaya Lecamwasam, and Joseph A. Paradiso. 2025. Physical Manifestation of Generative AI Music Systems for Live Performance. In Proceedings of the SIGGRAPH Asia 2025 Art Papers (SA Art Papers '25). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 28, 1–6. https://doi.org/10.1145/3757369.3767613

Perry Naseck, Brian D. Mayton, Lancelot Blanchard, and Joseph A. Paradiso. 2025. Generic Pan Tilt: Open Source Motion Control Platform for Entertainment and Research. In Adjunct Proceedings of the 38th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST Adjunct '25). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 37, 1–3. https://doi.org/10.1145/3746058.3758998

Lancelot Blanchard, Perry Naseck, Stephen Brade, Kimaya Lecamwasam, Jordan Rudess, Cheng-Zhi Anna Huang, & Joseph Paradiso. (2025). The jam_bot, a Real-Time System for Collaborative Free Improvisation with Music Language Models. Proceedings of the 26th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference, 755–762. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17811478

The fourth meeting of the Environment-Vulnerability-Decision-Technology (EVDT) Community.

We invite you to join the October meeting of the Environment-Vulnerability-Decision-Technology (EVDT) Community. The purpose of the EV…

We invite you to join the May meeting of the Environment-Vulnerability-Decision-Technology (EVDT) Community. The purpose of the EVDT C…

Today's EVDT meeting is postponed!We invite you to join the June meeting of the Environment-Vulnerability-Decision-Technology (EVDT) Commun…

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Former Director, MIT Media Lab; Apollo Professor of Astronautics

Former Research Assistant, Lifelong Kindergarten

Former Research Specialist

Former Research Assistant, Epistemology and Learning

Former Research Assistant, Epistemology and Learning

Former Research Assistant, Program in Media Arts & Sciences

Former Research Assistant, Sociable Media

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