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A virtual hearing on "Exposure Notification and Contact Tracing: How AI Helps Localities Reopen Safely and Researchers Find a Cure"

A modern-day Renaissance man, Hawley pioneered the internet of things and won the Van Cliburn amateur piano competition.

A voice portrait of major US cities starting with NYC. We invite you to: experience the NYC edition by watching at a-counting.u...

New molecule for imaging calcium in neurons reduces crosstalk from neighboring neurons.

Discussions on how space technologies and geospatial applications contribute to better outcomes in critical fields around the world.

A 48-hour creative exchange between more than 40 artists and creative technologists.

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

Cynthia Breazeal has been promoted to full professor and named associate director of the Media Lab. Both appointments are effective July 1.

The MIT Autonomous Bicycle Project proposes that autonomous bicycles could serve as an alternative to current bike sharing models.

In response to the Covid-19 pandemic, and the need for PPE, a diverse team came together to produce the "Open Standard Respirator, Model 1"

Paradiso, J.A. and Siewiorek, D., “Attention Paid vs. Paying Attention in Pervasive Computing,” Guest Editors’ Introduction for the Special Issue of IEEE Pervasive Computing on ‘Managing Attention - Human and machine focus in Pervasive Computing,’ Vol. 19, April-June 2020, pp. 8-12

During these uncertain times, we would like to thank the Teaching Assistants that helped make the transition to remote teaching.

The highly prestigious R00 award is from the National Institute of General Medical Science (NIGMS) of the National Institute of Health.

By Hila Mor, Yu Tianyu, Ken Nakagaki, Benjamin Harvey Miller, Yichen Jia, Hiroshi IshiiThe Venous Materials project envisions a new way t...

Congratulations to all who graduated during the 2019-2020 academic year!

The rise of data privacy breaches and a look into policies that address these challenges

Applied computational biology discoveries vastly expand the range of CRISPR’s access to DNA sequences.

A day for learning, sharing, making, creating, and debating at the MIT Media Lab.

Spring 2020 research updates from the Media Lab

Joe Paradiso shares his experience running the Responsive Environments group, teaching classes, among other things during the Covid-19 era.

MIT lab offers a model for cost savings, productivity, and safety; principles may also facilitate efficient reopening in the future.

MIT Governance Lab and the Institute for Governance Reform work with the government of Sierra Leone to conduct rapid-response surveys.

New research published in the International Journal of Communication

Congratulations to Ehsan Hoque, an alum of the Affective Computing group!

Alex Berke and Kent Larson, City Science group, MIT Media Lab (2020).

Online meetings are not worse than in-person, and they can even be better in many ways, but they are definitely different.

Bringing project-based work online in two very different contexts: a middle school robotics course and a university product design studio.

Pentland, Alex, Alexander Lipton, and Thomas Hardjono. "Building the New Economy." MITP Works in Progress. Draft DOI: 10.21428/ba67f642.0499afe0.

Virtual CityScope Champs-Élysées is an interactive and immersive platform that explores the future of Paris’ most important street.

This award is given out annually by the MIT Graduate Student Council and presented at the Awards Convocation ceremony.

Organizational support for COVID-19 response at the Media Lab

Congratulations to all of the winners of the 2020 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize, including Biomechatronics PhD student Shriya Srinivasan.

Team designs antibody-like receptor proteins that can bind to cytokines, as possible strategy for treating coronavirus and other infections.

The Carr Center for Human Rights Policy announces its newest cohort of Technology and Human Rights Fellows.

Let’s jumpstart a new infrastructure for industry, health, learning, and the people.

The rapid advancement of electronic devices and fabrication technologies has further promoted the field of wearables and smart textiles. ...

Aguahoja—a winner of Fast Company’s 2020 World Changing Ideas Awards—rethinks the paradigm of recycling.

Work, school and social gatherings will be mostly virtual for months to come. It's time to explore new ways of seeing and interacting online

New generative AI technologies (such as the Generative Adversarial Network, or GAN) can allow us to imagine new species. Hidden within th...

How do you spot a DeepFake? How good are DeepFake videos? How well can ordinary people tell the difference between a video manipulated by...

The new LEGO Papert Fellows will spend one week at LEGO headquarters in Denmark to share ideas and collaborate on projects.

The Guardians Project aims to use the same game design principles used in mobile games to help people form beneficial long-term habits an...

This is a unique time to engage and teach children about the benefits and limitations of technology.

Safe Paths is an MIT-led, free, open source technology that enables jurisdictions and individuals to maximize privacy, while also ma...

RF-EATS is a new system that can verify the authenticity of food and liquids in closed containers without opening them or requiring ...

"Space belongs to all countries—every country deserves equal opportunities to pursue scientific achievement for societal benefit."

Team Pulse of the Ocean becomes an Explorer Prize winner in the DISCOVER Competition—the first stage of the Ocean Observing Prize.

Kevin Esvelt has been named as one of the Inverse Future 50, “a group of 50 people who will be forces of good in the 2020s.”

A cohort of transdisciplinary researchers will study effects of sustained microgravity

Entrepreneurial science award recognizes scientists whose work opens up “new dimensions of economic progress."

Congratulations to Pat Pataranutaporn, Angela Vujic, David Kong, Pattie Maes, and Misha Sra!

A collaboration between CAST visiting artist Thom Kubli, Hiroshi Ishii, and members of the Tangible Media group.

The award recognizes a recent, highly significant contribution to the application of chemistry in the study of proteins.

Nine groups of artists are selected to be on board Sojourner 2020, which will be launched into low Earth orbit for about 30 days.

Berke, Alex, et al. Beautiful Symmetry: A Coloring Book about Math. MIT Press (February 2020).

A five-story mixed-use structure in Roxbury represents a new kind of net-zero-energy building, made from wood.

How to Train Your Robot Companion is a curriculum for students in 5-8th grade to explore artificial intelligence and ethics. In this cour...

E14 Venture Summit celebrates the diversity of spinoff companies from the Media Lab.

We believe that knowledge belongs to everyone.

This is a two-part project. One part is about reality. The other part is science fiction. Both are about mobile, blockchain, and cryptogr...