3 Questions: Ariel Ekblaw on building beautiful architecture in space

The Outstanding UROP Student Awards recognize students who have made outstanding contributions as undergraduate researchers.

Two installations at the Venice Architecture Biennale and the Guggenheim Bilbao invite visitors to explore the future of urban mobility

Kevin O'Connell and Moriba Jah testify at hearing about "Space Situational Awareness: Guiding the Transition to a Civil Capability."

I’d like to continue to make these connections, between traditional practices in my country and the things I’ve learned abroad.

Danielle Wood will speak in the plenary session on "Protecting Latin America’s Biodiversity" in Panama.

The Unsung Hero Award from the Office of Graduate Education recognizes students who have shown commitment and passion for the community.

This year's conference featured a hybrid-onsite structure from April 30–May 5 in New Orleans, LA.

If fewer mice carry Lyme, the scientists say, fewer ticks that bite them would become infected.

Du's research focuses on conformable piezoelectric electronics for women’s healthcare monitoring.

Chameleon is a wall mounted sensor system that uses machine learning to classify building activity.We present the system as an alternativ...

Congratulations to Yun, Chelsi, and Cecilé on receiving this fellowship!

On May 2, 2022, Hugh Herr (head of the Biomechatronics research group) will be honored at the 10th Genius Gala.

The programs are designed to foster an understanding of how artificial intelligence technologies work, including their social implications.

Award recipients are selected based on their academic achievements and dedication to their graduate research works.

The 3D Knit BioSuit™ is a multidisciplinary, collaborative work involving multiple groups at MIT and MIT spinoff Ministry of Supply.

This award recognizes individuals who have made contributions with major impact on the field of nanotechnology.

MIT AI Hardware program has featured Nano Cybernetic Biotrek’s (NCB’s) research on energy-efficient and environmentally sustainable hardw...

He was recognized for his innovative contributions to wireless sensing and for networking advances in challenging environments.

Ariel Ekblaw talks about leading the Space Exploration Initiative, self-assembling space architecture, science fiction, + long-term thinking

A team of Boston surgeons and scientists has developed a new approach to amputation.

Supported by a $100 million founding gift, the academy will deepen the integration of design across the Institute and beyond.

Congratulations to project team researchers Irmandy Wicaksono, Don Derek Haddad, and collaborator Loni Landon!

Dava Newman will talk about her groundbreaking spacesuit, the BioSuit™, as part of the Smithsonian’s celebration of women and girls in STEM

Inspired by the human ear, a new acoustic fabric converts audible sounds into electrical signals.

Read a post by Mitch Resnick, who was inspired by an email exchange with Ukrainian educator Olesia Vlasii.

Collaboration with Federal Reserve Bank of Boston yields progress in understanding how a digital currency might be developed in the future.

"Augmented" is a Nova PBS documentary episode that premiers Wednesday, 2/23, featuring Biomechatronics group head Hugh Herr.

The SLAS Innovation Award is a $10,000 cash prize recognizing the work behind one exceptional podium presentation.

Annual MLK celebration at MIT features call to confront America’s history of racism in order to move forward.

Ishii gave his award lecture "Evolving Visions" at the International Symposium on Human-Computer Interaction virtually on February 11, 2022.

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

Chelsi Cocking shares her thoughts on how the design industry can better foster, support, and grow design talent in the Black community.

Fellowship program honors ACM members whose specific accomplishments drive innovation and make broader advances possible.

Collective intelligence methodology identifies key findings to accelerate the pace of innovation and build health resilience.

Danielle Wood will speak at the session "Outer Space: Projecting Histories and Futures onto the Stars."

The project won first place and the Audience Choice Award in the SEPTA for All: Augmenting Transit with Augmented Reality competition.

Alongside her other roles, Breazeal will focus on the future of digital technologies + their applications in education at MIT Open Learning.

MIT scientist Rosalind Picard collaborates with clinicians to develop tools for mental health care delivery.

Congrats to Praneeth Vepakomma on receiving a 2022 Meta PhD Research Fellowship in the Applied Statistics category.

IEEE Electron Device Society (EDS) highlighted the research journey of Deblina Sarkar, an assistant professor at MIT and AT&T Career ...

The more social behaviors a voice-user interface exhibits, the more likely people are to trust it, engage with it, and think it competent.

Shuvo, I. I., Shah, A., Dagdeviren, C.†, “Electronic Textile Sensors for Decoding Vital Body Signals: State-of-the-art Review on Characterizations and Recommendations”, https://doi.org/10.1002/aisy.202100223, Advanced Intelligent Systems, 4, 2100223, 2022.

Congratulations to Labbers Hiroshi Ishii and Nataliya Kosmyna on receiving these grants from the Council for the Arts at MIT (CAMIT).

His work will focus on refining Ethical Computing Protocol as a tool and resource for researchers and practitioners.

Using a new robotic platform, researchers can simultaneously track hundreds of microbial populations as they evolve new proteins.

Biomechatronics group head Hugh Herr speaks with Marwa ElDiwiny on a recent episode of the IEEE RAS Soft Robotics podcast.

Gramophone contributor Laurence Vittes spotlights Tod Machover’s “Death and the Powers,” an opera about robots and humans.

Matthew Groh, Ziv Epstein, Chaz Firestone, Rosalind Picard. "Deepfake detection by human crowds, machines, and machine-informed crowds." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Jan 2022, 119 (1) e2110013119; DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2110013119

Researchers encourage positive use cases of AI-generated characters for education and well-being.

Graduate student Lucy Du designs novel prosthetics and seeks to inspire others to pursue engineering.

FG is the premier international forum for research in image and video-based face, gesture, and body movement recognition.

Deblina Sarkar is recognized as one of the eight scientists leading next generation research by United For Medical Research.

The NAI Fellows Program highlights academic inventors who have demonstrated a spirit of innovation.

S. Kajale*, S. Yadav*, Y. Cai, B. C. Joy, D. Sarkar (* co 1st authors), iScience (2021): 103513

Spacecraft wrapped in sensor-rich electronic textiles could double as scientific instruments

Zhang has also been invited to deliver the 20th Schrödinger lecture on December 17, 2021.

The 2022 Forbes 30 Under 30 list honors "bold risk-takers putting a new twist on the old tools of the trade" + includes a few Media Labbers.

View recent awards and recognitions received by members of the Media Lab community in the modules attached here.

The Academy’s mission is to stimulate cross-disciplinary scientists of all disciplines, leading artists, and practitioners of governance.

MIT Future Founders Initiative announces prize competition to promote female entrepreneurs in biotech.

FlowIO is a project led by Responsive Environments PhD student Ali Shtarbanov that redesigns the role of pneumatics in soft robotics.

This fireside chat will feature Dava Newman, Tony McGuiness of Above and Beyond, and other panelists in a discussion on climate change.

Robotic textiles could help performers and athletes train their breathing, and potentially help patients recovering from postsurgery changes

Nine Graduate Social and Ethical Responsibilities of Computing (SERC) Scholars have been chosen by MIT Schwarzman College of Computing.

The special issue serves an introduction of the "classics" as to modalities in the recognition of (human) affective states.

“Growing together, remaining apart: The role of digital technology in former guerrilla fighters’ social capital."

The film was a semi-finalist at the Flickers Rhode Island Film Festival and will be released online following a private screening at the Lab

Danielle Wood was quoted in an article exploring alternatives to strategies of conquest and settlement of the Moon and Mars.

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

Tree Clocks was selected as the winning project at the Code Cypher hosted by MIT CAST.