Canan Dagdeviren joins the Media Lab

FlipFeed is a Google Chrome Extension that enables Twitter users to replace their own feed with that of another real Twitter user. Powered by deep learning and social network analysis, ...

Living Observatory is an initiative for documenting and interpreting ecological change that will allow people, individually and collectively, to better understand relationships between ecological processes, human lifestyle choices, and climate ...

Ito, Joi and Jeff Howe. Grand Central Publishing, 2016.

DuoSkin is a fabrication process that enables anyone to create customized functional devices that can be attached directly to the skin. Using gold metal leaf, a material that is cheap, ...

Tega is a new robot platform designed to support long-term, in-home interactions with children, with applications in early-literacy education from vocabulary to storytelling.

DataUSA is the most comprehensive site visualizing public data for the United States. Through interactive profiles, DataUSA makes available data from a variety of public sources, including the American Community ...

The project investigates how to make origami structure with inflatables with various materials. We introduce a universal bending mechanism that creates programmable shape-changing behaviors with paper, plastics and fabrics. We ...

Humanity has harnessed evolution to sculpt domesticated animals, crops, and molecules, but the process remains a black box. Which combinations of evolutionary parameters will enable us to discover the best ...

ML Learning

This project aims to show a different picture of the data behind the news, looking at how we analyze, represent, and interact with it.Video content is constantly created and added ...

When a piece of work is created or performed, the digital rights to that piece are oftentimes complex and spread across many different organizations and entities. This makes it difficult ...

We show that using thin slices (< 1 minute) of facial expression and body language data, we can train a deep neural network to predict whether two people in a ...

Terahertz time-gated spectral imaging for content extraction through layered structures.

The City Symphony project is a recent Opera of the Future initiative that brings creative musical participation to everyone, while encouraging collaboration between artists and amateurs, with symphony orchestras (and ...

The Synthetic Apiary proposes a new kind of environment, bridging urban and organismic scales by exploring one of the most important organisms for both the human species and our planet: ...

Misha Sra, Sergio Garrido-Jurado, Chris Schmandt, and Pattie Maes. 2016. Procedurally generated virtual reality from 3D reconstructed physical space. In Proceedings of the 22nd ACM Conference on Virtual Reality Software and Technology (VRST '16).

The Electome: Where AI Meets Political JournalismThe Electome project is a machine-driven mapping and analysis of public sphere content and conversation associated with the 2016 presidential election campaign. Through its ...

The Observatory of Economic Complexity (OEC) is the world's leading data visualization tool for international trade data. The OEC makes more than 50 years of international trade data available through ...

Center for Extreme Bionics

Open Agriculture (OpenAg)

Whether or not we're experts in the design language of objects, we have an unconscious understanding of the emotional character of their forms. EmotiveModeler integrates knowledge about our emotive perception ...

Novel technologies for Additive Manufacturing are enabling design and production at nature’s scale. We can seamlessly vary the physical properties of materials at the resolution of a sperm cell, a ...

Media Cloud is a platform for studying media ecosystems—the relationships between professional and citizen media, between online and offline sources. By tracking millions of stories published online, the system allows ...