LocationMIT Media Lab, E14 6th Floor DescriptionJoin the Facebook eventCo-HostsMIT Media LabCenter for Civic MediaThe Berkman Center for In…

Fadel Adib reflects on the whirlwind first year of his group, Signal Kinetics.

Chris Schmandt

Ars Electronica FestivalSeptember 5-9, 2019 at POSTCITY, Linz, Austria 50 years after the Apollo 11 lunar landing, we are seeing …

Alum Mihir Sarkar looks back at the 10 years since his dissertation defense, and reflects on both the joys and the challenges of that time.

Urrea, C. "One to One Connections: Building a Community Learning Culture"

Sponsored by the US Department of State, the Fulbright US Student Program offers grants in over 150 countries.

Revisit Human 2.0, a 2007 Media Lab symposium focused on the future of human adaptability.

It’s been a turbulent 2017 here at the Media Lab and in the world beyond.

Thoughts from the Media Lab's Space Enabled group and Space Exploration Initiative

Greater Boston’s annual festival of ideas finds new avenues for celebrating and connecting innovators.

Former Research Affiliate

Scratch Day @ MIT was one of over 1,110 such events around the world in May.

By Joi Ito, Director, MIT Media Lab

Professor Paul Liang will speak, and External Relations Director Mirei Rioux will host a Media Lab booth at this conference in Bangkok.

A positioning paper in "PRESENCE: Virtual and Augmented Reality" that presents the design principles behind TeleAbsence

A collaborative network of makerspaces has spread from MIT across the country, helping communities make their own products.

Sara V. Fernandez, a first-year graduate student in the Conformable Decoders group, was selected as the sole MIT awardee of the 2024 Amazon…

A visiting scientist from NHK, Takahito Ito joined the Lab as a company member and left as a crew member.

In December of 1968, the first human voyage to the moon catapulted the population of Earth into a new era of space exploration and self-ref…

Baju is at the forefront of developing subcellular-sized magnetic devices designed to wirelessly modulate and monitor biological systems.

A look at the special touches that DLCS has added to its process for onboarding new group members.

An initial experiment with cloud-enabled audio production software.A collection of docker containers work together to stream the audio and …

GeekWire reports on research that people were less likely to visit socioeconomically different areas while returning to pre-pandemic habits.

LocationE14-6th Floor DescriptionMusic | MACHINES will be a full day and evening experience at MIT’s new Media Lab Complex celebrating the …

View awards and recognitions received by members of the Media Lab community during the 2024 fiscal year (July 1, 2023 through June 30,…

In many disciplines, innovation has reshaped the sports landscape.

Researchers hope the system can zero in on the right patients to enroll in clinical trials, to speed discovery of drug treatments

The Foresta a Venezia Project × EarthDNASymposium & Exhibition | May 23, 2025 | Venice, Italy Location: Scuola Grande di San …

A paper led by Ehsan Hoque, alum of the Affective Computing group, receives UbiComp's 10-Years Impact Award.

"Out of those approximately 17,000 articles, I profoundly enjoyed and learned from this one, written by Alex Berke, MIT Media Lab."

Former Director's Fellows Program Alumnus

Bell was a high school intern with the Fluid Interfaces group, where he helped to develop assistive cognitive tools.

Nina Lutz, "A Year (2020) of (almost) Daily (code) Sketches"

In the Boston Globe, Media Lab director Dava Newman shares her vision for the future.

For the paper "Modeling the Co-evolution of Behaviors and Social Relationships Using Mobile Phone Data"

Jacob Collier calls from Chile, where he’s in the middle of a South American tour. He’s a long way from the London bedroom where he got his…

The MIT Quarter Century Club recognized Andrew Lippman, head of the Media Lab's Viral Communications group, as a 50-Year Achiever in 2022.

Space Exploration Initiative director Ariel Ekblaw speaks with WIRED’s Ramin Skibba about the beginning and future of space tourism.

2018: A year defined by a PhD | A study, analyses, and a writing spree.

MIT Libraries and MIT Media Lab collaborate on Public Library Innovation Exchange

In this visual brainstorming, we present the next 30 years of VR in a set of concept designs.

For years African countries have championed the idea of solving the continent’s myriad of problems with innovation and innovative thinkers.

The extremely dextrous robot features a 24-joint human-hand-like design and took only four minutes to complete the task.

Imagine a virtual reality mapping environment designed to perfectly replicate a city’s streets and buildings—in 1978.

LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-633 DescriptionProfessor Naimark's presentation is available online.[click link to view in your browser; right c…

Biomechatronics researcher Tyler Clites and Synthetic Neurobiology researcher Fei Chen are among the 2019 Forbes 30 Under 30 honorees.

How We Will Connect To Our Networked Future in a Post-IoT World

Former Director's Fellow

Meet members of the Space Enabled research group and experience their celebration of the original Earthrise photo.

Leaders often have to decide whether to delegate projects to individuals or a group. According to a new study, it should depend on the task.

Reflecting on the 30th anniversary of the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA), a feature on Sasha Costanza-Chock’s book Design Justice

MIT spinoff C16 Biosciences, whose founders met in the Media Lab's Revolutionary Ventures course, has developed an alternative to palm oil,

Sourcemap is a Media Lab spinoff founded by Leo Bonanni, an alum of the Tangible Media group.

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Former Director's Fellow

Meet 100 inspiring, influential women from around the world, including Labbers Ayah Bdeir and Rana el Kaliouby.