The electro-holographic video display (Holovideo) project has spanned over decades, beginning back in 1989, and continues to be a main re...
The LEGO Papert Fellowships support three graduate students working at the intersection of creativity, play, learning, and new technology.
In this TED Talk, Affective Computing head Rosalind Picard explains how AI can help save lives.
The celebrated Kronos Quartet will give the first public presentation of Tod Machover’s new composition, GAMMIFIED.
Instead of doing one "year in review" post, we invited the Lab community to reflect upon 2018 and what's coming up in 2019.
Flavor, in addition to making our food delicious, is one way of sensing biochemical richness. A highly flavorful plant generally con...
Try Affective Network!Emotional contagion in online social networks has been of great interest over the past years. Previous studies have...
Who should decide whether, when, and how to alter the environment? These are hard questions, especially when the decisions will impact pe...
Learn more about our MLTalks series, including upcoming events.
In just three semesters, we have done a lot, and I cannot wait to experience our progress in Spring 2019 and beyond.
Biodiversity on planet Earth is under momentous threat, with extinction rates estimated between 100 and 1,000 times their pre-human level...
2019 marked the 10th anniversary of the awards.
Should workers worry about automation and AI?Many workers, policy makers, and researchers are asking themselves exactly this question. Bu...
Researchers say new facilities in space should be available to scientists from any country.
Most countries are projected to see their 65 and older population surpass the number of people under the age of 15 by 2050. The...
Algorithmic auditing has emerged as a key strategy to expose systematic biases embedded in software platforms, yet scholarship on the imp...
We are creating new communication interfaces for people with speech and language disorders, incorporating technologies like physiological...
The technology being developed can enable personalized interactions with an autistic child, helping therapists to engage their attention.
Programmable Water-Based Biocomposites for Digital Design and Fabrication across ScalesAguahoja is an exploration of nature’s design spac...
Joi Ito talks to Walter Isaacson about AI, ethics, biotech, and how being a DJ prepared him to become the director of the Media Lab.
Segregation is hurting our societies and especially our cities. But economic inequality isn't just limited to neighborhoods. The restaura...
Last spring, you could find me every morning alternately sitting in a storage closet, a multipurpose meeting room, and a book nook beside...
How can we add the missing "T" and "E" in preschool STEAM education?
Ed Boyden, Ernst Bamberg, Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann, Gero Miesenböck, and Georg Nagel awarded one of America's oldest science prizes.
TurboTrack is a 3D localization system for fine-grained robotic tasks, with unique capability to localize backscatter nodes with sub-cent...
MAS professor recognized for a career of contributions to human-computer interaction.
Peoples' mindsets, meaning their beliefs about their own intellectual abilities, affect their effort and thereby their performance on tas...
Communication technologies, from printing to social media, affect our historical records by changing the way ideas are spread and recorde...
Digital machine knitting is a highly programmable manufacturing process that has been utilized to produce apparel, accessories, and footw...
Do you know why a stringer is called a stringer? Jack did.
Rosalind Picard is nominated to the NAE for her contributions to affective and wearable computing.
On the occasion of his bicentennial, a list of 200 people who best embody the spirit and work of Frederick Douglass.
pH Sensor Benchmarking: A Protocol to Characterize pH Sensing Materials and Systems (Small Methods 2/2019)
New 3D imaging technique can reveal, much more quickly than other methods, how neurons connect throughout the brain.
The next generation of Scratch expands how, what, and where kids can create with code.
Avery Normandin and Devora Najjar are on a mission to build literacy and appreciation for urban ecology.
Highlights from the Andorra workshop
The Independent Games Festival (IGF) honors the most influential, innovative and acclaimed projects in independent game development.
"We are standing on the edge of a frontier in terms of our ability to see, understand, and share information about the oceans.”
Creative Capital awards support innovative and adventurous artists across the United States.
Congratulations to the winners and finalists of the 2018 World Technology Awards, including Arnav Kapur, M. Ehsan Hoque, and Affectiva.
Wearables are already replacing traditional drugs and therapies—this year, they'll go further still.
Neil Gaikwad, a third-year PhD student in the Space Enabled research group, has been selected as one of the 2019 Facebook Fellows.
Fadel Adib is one of 25 recipients of the Office of Naval Research's 2019 Young Investigator Awards, and the only awardee from MIT.
The technique, known as “implosion fabrication,” can be used to create nearly any shape imaginable.
Algorithmic FairnessSociety increasingly relies on machine learning models for automated decision making. Yet, efficiency gains from auto...
I would like to start with a mind-ingrained conversation at my 7th birthday party on the 4th of May, 1992, between my late grandfather an...
How do regions acquire the knowledge they need to diversify their economic activities? How does the migration of workers among firms and ...
Thoughts from the Media Lab's Space Enabled group and Space Exploration Initiative
A note of support to the trans community at the Media Lab and MIT
Assisting physicians and patients by novel computational processes at the point-of-care.
New optogenetic technique could help restore limb movement, treat muscle tremor.
In January 2019, artist Ekene Ijeoma will join the MIT Media Lab as an assistant professor.
#MeToo and #MeTooSTEM leaders recognized with $250,000 award
Elowan is a cybernetic lifeform, a plant in direct dialogue with a machine. Using its own internal electrical signals, the plant is inter...
Data for refugees is a big data challenge whereby Turk Telekom opens a large dataset of anonymized mobile phone records to research group...
Because the walls and halls of E14 and E15 are subject to building codes and approvals, we decided to create our own walls.
FIBERBOTS is a digital fabrication platform fusing cooperative robotic manufacturing with abilities to generate highly sophisticated mate...
Three research projects featured in The Road Ahead: Reimagining Mobility
Massive global Moral Machine study reveals ethics preferences and regional differences
We have developed a wireless system that leverages the inexpensive RFID tags already on hundreds of billions of products to sense potent...
We are surrounded by displays and technologies whose mechanisms are hidden from view. This work is an exploration of revealing the underl...
Social robots could potentially aid therapists working with autistic children in the future.
Collective memory and attention are sustained by two channels: oral communication (communicative memory) and the physical recording of in...
A rare glimpse into the creative life of Arnold Schoenberg.
The CRISPR-Cas9 system has proven to be a versatile tool for genome editing, with numerous implications in medicine, agriculture, bi...
Kate Darling's TED Talk
kinetiX is a transformable material featuring a design that resembles a cellular structure. It consists of rigid plates or rods and elast...
Cryptography techniques to screen synthetic DNA could help prevent the creation of dangerous pathogens, argues Professor Kevin Esvelt
Leveraging the web’s power to create open, community-sourced access to knowledge