B. Alan Wallace in conversation with Ethics Initiative Director Tenzin Priyadarshi and Media Lab Director Joi Ito.

B. Alan Wallace in conversation with Ethics Initiative Director Tenzin Priyadarshi and Media Lab Director Joi Ito.

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.

Former Research Assistant, Visible Language Workshop

Former Research Assistant, Intelligent Agents

Graduate Student

David Sun Kong, Kevin Slavin, and special guests in conversation with Media Lab Director Joi Ito.

Former Research Affiliate

Faculty Perspectives is a new series inviting thoughtful speakers and innovators to inspire the Media Lab community and beyond.

Media Lab researchers share insights on innovation, technology, and health in recent interviews featured on Bloomberg Businessweek.

Co-founded by Professor Rosalind Picard, Empatica develops medical-grade wearables and algorithms for health monitoring and diagnostics.

The July edition of the Media Lab Focus series for member companies starts next week! The theme is New Health,  and wil…

The Challenge: To harness AI for humanity's leap forwardMachines are becoming more intelligent and more powerful every day. But, like all t…

Tune in for the next event of this spring, featuring Tanya Wallace-Gobern and Thomas Shapiro, on April 6 at 1pm.

Join us remotely as we go on curated research journeys focused on a monthly theme.

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

Listening to DisruptIn this session of the Media Lab Perspectives series, Deb Roy will engage his collaborator Kathy Cramer in co…

Relive the Reunion! 

Learn more about our MLTalks series, including upcoming events.

Thursday May 27, 2021 …

Join us for our online seminar series event hosted by MIT Media Lab's Advancing Humans with AI (AHA) research program. This event feat…

IEEE Pulse: From The Lab Episode 1: Canan Dagdeviren

A number of Media Lab community members will showcase their work.

The following Media Lab community members participated in the thirty-fourth virtual conference on Neural Information Processing Systems.

The Media Lab Director’s Fellows connect a global network of visionary leaders with the Lab's interdisciplinary research culture.…

Join MIT Media Lab’s membership program to access cutting-edge research, talent, and innovation shaping tomorrow’s technologies.

We’re happy to welcome HCLTech as the newest member of the MIT Media Lab—joining a global network of organizations working together to shap…

Dell Technologies and MIT explore AI’s evolving business impact—offering insights and advice from top industry thought leaders.

The Media Lab community brings creativity, expertise, and research to the pandemic

"A conversation. Not a conference."

Expert panelists discuss lessons learned from COVID-19 and progress made to better prepare our public health systems.

Recognizing and interpreting group behaviors is much more challenging than that of individual behaviors. Firstly, the system must perform w…

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…

MIT Media Lab celebrates four faculty promotions, July 2026: Dagdeviren, Esvelt, and Wood granted tenure; Fadel Adib to Full Professor

A group of Media Lab community members traveled to Japan in late January 2025 to host a series of presentations for current and prospective…

Honeywell + MIT Media Lab unite to shape future tech, merging academic insight with industry in AI, aviation, energy, and more.

In January 2024, members of the Media Lab traveled to Fribourg, Switzerland to conduct a workshop on sensing, interactions, and augmentation

Editor’s Note: This blog was written jointly with OpenAI and the MIT Media Lab. It also appears here. 

Co-founded by Media Lab alum Alex Westner, Xander will introduce its first product, XanderGlasses, at CES 2023.

The theme for this year's competition was Generative Voice AI Solutions.

We introduce SociaBowl, a dynamic table centerpiece to promote positive social dynamics in 2-way cooperative conversations. A centerpiece s…

Kate Darling, Cynthia Breazeal, and Pattie Maes of the Media Lab join Patricia Henderson for a conversation about extended intelligence.

The Media Lab Focus series for November 2020 will present research every week on the theme of Telecreativity.

Please join us for an exciting journey in recent advances in nanotechnology and bioengineering.

The following Media Lab community members are participating in the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting this year.

In this session of the Media Lab Perspective Series, Future Sketches head Zach Lieberman will moderate a conversation with Sara Hendren.

Part of a collaboration between the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence, the Lab’s Community Biotechnology Initiative, and MilliporeSigma

The Media Lab Focus series for July 2021 will be around the theme of New Health.

For more than three decades, the people of the Media Lab have spurred progress and change not just through academia, but across startups an…

The theme for the ML Focus series for September 2021 will be on Aging.

A number of Media Lab and MIT projects and spinoffs were recognized.

Media Lab researchers are participating in UIST 2025, fostering a discussion around innovations in human-computer interfaces.

The following Media Lab groups and projects are represented at CHI 2019

MIT Media Lab map updated October, 2025

A variety of Media Lab community members will participate in the SIGGRAPH 2026 Conference.

Media Lab MOSAIC (MAS Outreach for Students Advancing Inclusion & Community)Date: Tuesday, November 25Time: 4:30 - 6:30 PMLocation: MIT…