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The Program in Media Arts and Sciences (MAS) and the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing (SCC) invite applications for this faculty position

Professor Deblina Sarkar has been awarded The Sontag Foundation’s Distinguished Scientist Award—one of three winners nationwide this year.

Professor Dagdeviren was recognized for her work developing a wearable ultrasound patch for early breast cancer detection.

She was recognized in for her work on the development of a soft, multifunctional wearable platform.

The wearable device, designed to monitor bladder and kidney health, could be adapted for earlier diagnosis of cancers deep within the body.

The City Science Network is a collaboration of institutions + researchers sharing a the goal of enabling more livable, equitable communities

The recognition highlights his work at the Media Lab and his current position as chief minister of Sierra Leone.

Mentors are PhD students, postdocs, and researchers at top universities and research labs.

We’re delighted to announce our 2023–24 cohort of PLIX Creative Learning AmbassadorsThese library professionals share our passion for hands…

Postdoctoral fellow Samantha Chan (Fluid Interfaces) and collaborators win Distinguished Paper Award at UbiComp 2023.

B. Joy and D. Sarkar, "Cell Rover: An Intracellular Antenna for Radio Communication in 3D Biological Systems," 2023 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and USNC-URSI Radio Science Meeting (USNC-URSI), Portland, OR, USA, 2023, pp. 1381-1382, doi: 10.1109/USNC-URSI52151.2023.10237858.

The low-cost FibeRobo is compatible with existing textile manufacturing techniques.

OctoStudio is a free coding app available at octostudio.orgOctoStudio transforms how young people use mobile phones and tablets, enabl…

Prof. Sarkar one of only two researchers worldwide to be named “MRS Early Career Distinguished Presenter” by the Materials Research Society.

Guillermo Herrera-Arcos from the Media Lab's Biomechatronics group has received two fellowships in support of his PhD.

Jason Hou, a PhD student in the Conformable Decoders research group, has been selected as a fellow for this NIH T32 grant.

Media Lab student Jessica Shand, of the Opera of the Future group, was named to the inaugural class of the 2023 SJA Fellowship.

A massive audit of 1800+ AI text datasets, tracing their provenance and composition from origin to creation.The race to train language mode…

The award recognizes technical achievements and contributions to society in the field of optical engineering.

Learn about the Living Knitwork Pavilion: an interactive architectural installation that combined textile arts + engineering at Burning Man.

Canan Dagdeviren, head of the Conformable Decoders group, is among the recipients of the 2023 Professor Amar G. Bose Research Grants.

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

PhD student Andrés Rico was named to MIT Technology Review’s "Innovators Under 35: Latin America" for 2023.

Prof. Deblina Sarkar and PhD student Shivam Kajale of the MIT Media Lab awarded Designing for Sustainability Funding with HPI collaborators.

Signal Kinetics members Sayed Saad Afzal, Waleed Akbar, Ahmed Allam, and Fadel Adib were honored with two Best Paper Awards at MobiCom 2023.

Media Lab alums, Rob Morris (Affective Computing) and J. Nathan Matias (Civic Media), are among 25 honorees for Mozilla's Rise 25 awards.

Castrol membership supports the AstroAnt Payload Program.

Study shows users can be primed to believe certain things about an AI chatbot’s motives, which influences their interactions with the bot.

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

The iconic sci-fi opera VALIS, first composed by Professor Tod Machover in 1987, reboots at MIT for a new generation.

The 27 finalists will explore the technology’s impact on democracy, education, sustainability, communications, and much more.

Five Media Lab students–Ila Kumar, Kimaya Lecamwasam, Cecilé Sadler, Aastha Shah, and Raechel Walker–win MIT Presidential Fellowship awards.

These five women at the MIT Media Lab are advancing aerospace science and research, driven by a love of our home planet.

Colin Marcus, a PhD student in the Conformable Decoders research group, has been selected for the EECS MathWorks Fellowship.

Baju Joy of the NCB research group receives the Whitaker Health Sciences Fellowship Award.

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

The system could be used for battery-free underwater communication across kilometer-scale distances to help monitor climate + coastal change

Labber Safinah Ali served as an educator & curriculum designer for the SRMP Machine program at the American Museum of Natural History

Sharifa Alghowinem, a research scientist at the Media Lab, explores personal robot technology that explains emotions in English and Arabic.

Tzofi Klinghoffer and Kushagra Tiwary are among the winners of the 2023 Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship for the North America Program.

This speculative design project from the Tangible Media group is supported by the MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology (CAST).

The new device, which can be incorporated into a bra, could allow more frequent monitoring of patients at high risk for breast cancer.

What would it be like if we could see our movement? Illuminate (2023, Chelsi Alise Cocking) is an interactive art installation in whic…

Alex Berke and Kent Larson of the Media Lab's City Science group co-authored a paper around these issues, recently published in Appetite.

The device detects the same molecules that cell receptors do, and may enable routine early screening for cancers and other diseases.

The new Center will provide music education to students across North Texas, in cooperation with the Media Lab's Opera of the Future group.

Researchers from the Media Lab and collaborators begin their second trip to Svalbard, a remote land of wind, ice, and beauty.

Global participation in MIT RAISE’s free K-12 program more than doubles in its second year.

Deblina Sarkar is building tiny nanoelectronic devices that could constantly monitor our bodies, fixing any anomalies they find.

“The work I’m doing is deeply rooted in the belief that you can plant seeds in people,” says graduate student Cecilé Sadler.

MIT professors Fadel Adib and Dina Katabi receive the ACM SIGMOBILE Test-of-Time Award for their paper, “See Through Walls with WiFi!”

MIT Media Lab postdoc Ziv Epstein discusses issues arising from the use of generative AI to make art and other media.

Six teams conducting research in AI, data science, + machine learning receive funding for projects with potential commercial applications.

In this age of climate change, the NFI's programs are addressed to those who wish to improve the quality of life in cities worldwide.

We're so proud of everything you've accomplished here, and can't wait to see what you do next.

This year's winners include Nicole Degnan, Director of Finance at the Media Lab, and Candido Monteiro, Facilities Assistant at the Media Lab

The HUMANS nanowafer, an MIT Space Exploration Initiative student-led project, will travel to the ISS this month, and later to the moon.

False assumptions about election malfeasance could create a “death spiral” for democracy — but also provide some hope for bipartisan repair.