LocationMIT Media Lab, Third-Floor Atrium DescriptionChanges in the media world have been hard on journalists and unsettling for news consu…
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LocationMIT Media Lab, Third-Floor Atrium Description This talk has been postponed. We look forward to following Geetha Narayanan later in …
Damien Echols and Shaka Senghor in conversation on injustice, compassion, and redemption in relation to their prison memoirs.
David Sun Kong, Kevin Slavin, and special guests in conversation with Media Lab Director Joi Ito.
Faculty Perspectives is a new series inviting thoughtful speakers and innovators to inspire the Media Lab community and beyond.
The July edition of the Media Lab Focus series for member companies starts next week! The theme is New Health, and wil…
Co-founded by Professor Rosalind Picard, Empatica develops medical-grade wearables and algorithms for health monitoring and diagnostics.
The Media Lab Focus series for July 2021 will be around the theme of New Health.
The Media Lab Focus series for January 2021 will present research every week on the theme of Building the New Economy.
Cynthia Breazeal has been promoted to full professor and named associate director of the Media Lab. Both appointments are effective July 1.
Researchers in the Affective Computing group have been invited to edit a series of articles in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Aero-astro professor Dava Newman, noted for her pioneering spacesuit designs, will take over in July.
Professor Deblina Sarkar is the lead organizer and host of a new webinar series titled “IEEE New Frontiers in Biotechnology."
The MIT Media Lab's new website is yours to explore. Listen to this interview to delve into its design thinking.
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Alumni Nan-Wei Gong and Anirudh Sharma will deliver the 2022 C. Ashton Newhall Endowed Lecture at Elon University.
Newman is the first female director of the lab.
The screenings highlight stories of the Black community in the US featuring innovation, tradition, and courage.
The Challenge: To harness AI for humanity's leap forwardMachines are becoming more intelligent and more powerful every day. But, like all t…
The Challenge: To secure a sustainable future for all living thingsHow can we reduce harm to our planet and the future prospects of life on…
"A conversation. Not a conference."
Join us remotely as we go on curated research journeys focused on a monthly theme.
Listening to DisruptIn this session of the Media Lab Perspectives series, Deb Roy will engage his collaborator Kathy Cramer in co…
Joanne Leong, Yuehan Wang, Romy Sayah, Stella Rossikopoulou Pappa, Florian Perteneder, Hiroshi Ishii. 2019. SociaBowl: A Dynamic Table Centerpiece to Mediate Group Conversations. In CHI’19 Extended Abstracts, May 4–9, 2019, Glasgow, Scotland Uk. https://doi.org/10.1145/3290607.3312775
The Media Lab is thrilled to announce our inaugural cohort of Learning Innovation fellows for the 2016–2017 academic year.
Dava Newman is a visionary astronautics researcher, explorer, and expert on human adaptation to space.
Learn more about our MLTalks series, including upcoming events.
The Media Lab community brings creativity, expertise, and research to the pandemic
IEEE Pulse: From The Lab Episode 1: Canan Dagdeviren
Thursday May 27, 2021 …
The Media Lab is honored to have had its research and researchers highlighted in two 2023 end-of-year lists prepared by MIT News.
KnittedKeyboard II seeks is an interactive, textile-based musical device with the familiar layout of piano keys.
The following Media Lab community members participated in the thirty-fourth virtual conference on Neural Information Processing Systems.
In this session of the Media Lab Perspective Series, Future Sketches head Zach Lieberman will moderate a conversation with Sara Hendren.
The Challenge: To ignite creativity in the face of global challengesThe accelerating crises, disruptions, and disconnections in today’s soc…
In this session of the Media Lab Perspective Series, Media Lab director Dava Newman will moderate a conversation with Nicole Stott
Dava Newman, the new head of MIT’s Media Lab, wants the lab to take on bigger problems and reach out into the community.
Dava Newman talks to the Seneca Women’s Podcast Network about diversity, interdisciplinary research, and transforming ideas into reality.
The Challenge: To shape the future with decentralized technologiesOur world faces a range of complex challenges across multiple sector…
Festival of Learning is always a time of meeting new people while reconnecting with friends I haven't seen in a while, which has been espec…
Congrats to Fluid Interfaces PhD student Arnav Kapur and collaborators on the selection of AlterEgo by Time Magazine for this recognition.
Baju Joy, a PhD student in the Nano-Cybernetic Biotrek research group, will give a talk at the IEEE New Frontiers in Biotechnology Webinar.
To me, teaching equals sharing while learning.
Recognizing and interpreting group behaviors is much more challenging than that of individual behaviors. Firstly, the system must perform w…
Expert panelists discuss lessons learned from COVID-19 and progress made to better prepare our public health systems.
We're thrilled to welcome our friends at the Museum to Kendall Square!
Co-founded by Media Lab alum Alex Westner, Xander will introduce its first product, XanderGlasses, at CES 2023.
The Challenge: To Transform Mental + Physical WellbeingAs mental health and physical ability challenges surge worldwide, driven by ine…
In January 2024, members of the Media Lab traveled to Fribourg, Switzerland to conduct a workshop on sensing, interactions, and augmentation
Your gift makes it possible for our diverse and unique community to do our work—every day.By giving to one of the funds below, you become a…
In January 2019, artist Ekene Ijeoma will join the MIT Media Lab as an assistant professor.
Kate Darling, Cynthia Breazeal, and Pattie Maes of the Media Lab join Patricia Henderson for a conversation about extended intelligence.