LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-674 DescriptionAn accomplished entrepreneur, executive, and angel investor, Reid Hoffman has played an integral …

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Reid Hoffman in conversation with Media Lab Director Joi Ito.

Reid Hoffman in conversation with Media Lab Director Joi Ito.

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Reid Hoffman likes to say, “With great power comes great responsibility.” Usually, he’s referring to tech companies like the ones he has fo…

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Former Postdoctoral Associate

Former Research Assistant

Former Financial Officer

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Scratch, a coding platform for children, was developed by the Lifelong Kindergarten group at the Media Lab in 2007.

Spinoff Tulip, an E14 Fund company founded by alumni Natan Linder and Rony Kubat, has received a new round of investment financing.

"No single company report tells the whole story,” says Shayne Longpre, a recent PhD graduate from the MIT Media Lab.

Video: AI for all, not just a few.

Commending a formidable variety of international change-makers driving digital transformation in government.

Augmental co-founders have been recognized in the Social Impact category of the 2023 Forbes 30 Under 30 list.

Professor Hugh Herr is among the top Forbes 100 innovators advancing accessibility.

Former Labber Rana el Kaliouby, current CEO and co-founder of Affectiva, talks with Reid Hoffman during an episode of Masters of Scale.

We’re starting to get a better sense of how chatbots are affecting us—but there’s still a lot we don’t know.

Something peculiar and slightly unexpected has happened: people have started forming relationships with AI systems.

Professor Dagdeviren was recognized for her work developing a wearable ultrasound patch for early breast cancer detection.

LocationCourtyard Marriott, Rio Grande Ballroom, 300 E. 4th St. Description#sxsw #How2CreateThis is not a panel about “Aha! moments.” There…

Bridging the gap between the humanities, the social sciences, and computing by addressing the global challenges of artificial intelligence.

A. L. Thomaz, G. Hoffman, C. Breazeal

Interview with Joi Ito about the first-ever Disobedience Award

Using Earth Observation-Informed Modeling to Inform Sustainable Development Decision-Making

tl;dr: Agents interact differently than humans—no cognitive limits on coordination. Our internet wasn't designed for this. We need new desi…

Jack Reid publishes "Systems engineering applied to urban planning and development: A review and research agenda."

New program, Advancing Wellness, combines academics with on-the-ground initiatives to promote better health at MIT and beyond.

CNBC profiles Headspace Health, which was formed through a merger between spinoff Ginger and meditation + mindfulness app company Headspace.

Jack Reid will present on his research as part of a seminar series organized around science, technology, and innovation for the common good.

The international IEEE Aerospace Conference is organized to promote interdisciplinary understanding of aerospace systems.

Jack Reid was selected as a Future Space Leader for 2022 by the Future Space Leaders Foundation (FSLF).

In 2016 hundreds of famous people died. David Bowie, Prince, Muhammad Ali, Fidel Castro, Carrie Fisher, Gene Wilder, George Michael, Vera R…

Twenty innovators and trailblazers were selected out of a pool of candidates to pitch their idea that breaks down scientific and social wall

Xander plans to launch its first product, XanderGlasses, designed for people with hearing loss or auditory processing challenges.

Former Visiting Scholar

Breazeal, C., Scassellati, B.

Cynthia Breazeal, head of the Personal Robots research group, has been named to the inaugural TIME100 AI list in the 2025 Thinkers category.

Teshima 8 Million Lab is the first Shinto shrine worshipping a genetically engineered life—a silkworm created in Sputniko!'s new work Red S…

The center is funded by a $24 million gift to MIT’s McGovern Institute for Brain Research from philanthropist Lisa Yang.

AI tools have the potential to enhance human capabilities and improve users' ability to make critical decisions.

MLTalks with Douglas Rushkoff, hosted by Kate Darling

Research Update: Breakthrough in Population-Scale Simulations with Adaptive AgentsWe're excited to announce that our paper "On the limits o…

Boston.com reports on research conducted by Human Dynamics head Sandy Pentland, visiting professor Esteban Moro, and collaborators.

The Soffen Memorial Fund Committee selected Golda Nguyen and Jack Reid for their research success, interdisciplinary work, and service.

Xander, a Media Lab spinoff company dedicated to enhancing communication for individuals with hearing challenges, has successfully complete…

P. Sainath, veteran journalist on rural affairs, poverty, and inequality in India, will be speaking at the Center for Civic Media.

Kim, Y., Gu, K., Park, C., Park, C., Schmidgall, S., Heydari, A. A., Yan, Y., Zhang, Z., Zhuang, Y., Liu, Y., Malhotra, M., Liang, P. P., Park, H. W., Yang, Y., Xu, X., Du, Y., Patel, S., Althoff, T., McDuff, D., & Liu, X. (2026). Capable language models can outgrow the benefits of collaboration. Nature Machine Intelligence, 8, 1157–1172. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42256-026-01268-y

Former Media Lab Professor W. Russell Neuman and other experts talk to CNET about the potential impacts of chatbots based on generative AI.

Media Lab spinoff Butlr, co-founded by Honghao Deng and Jiani Zeng, raises $20 million in a Series A funding round.

The talk focuses on what the Living Observatory project team learned about the benefits of wetland restoration on retired cranberry farmland

The startup Spatial uses an augmented reality platform to make people feel like they’re working side by side.

Forbes highlights spinoff Figur8 and its most recent funding round, which raised $12 million.

Kate Darling hosts a talk with Douglas Rushkoff, discussing his new book and the various topics related to it.

Throughout his career, Professor Hal Abelson has worked to make information technology more accessible to people of all ages.

On the Aging Equal Podcast, Dr. Anastasia Ostrowski talks about co-designing social robots and her work collaborating with older adults.

The Root 100 is our annual list of the most influential African Americans, ages 25 to 45.

Fathom Information Design, founded by alum Ben Fry, helped build Sentinel, winner of MacArthur’s $100M 100&Change award.

G. Hoffman, C. Breazeal

G. Hoffman, C. Breazeal