MLTalks: Jill Lepore, hosted by Andrew Lippman
AlterEgo is a closed-loop, non-invasive, wearable system that allows humans to converse in high-bandwidth natural language with mach...
Tod Machover shares his insights into the creation and community of "Philadelphia Voices."
Seeing through dense, dynamic, and heterogeneous fog conditions. The technique, based on visible light, uses hardware that is similar to ...
We cannot certify that an AI agent is ethical by looking at its source code.
2018 Canada Gairdner International Awardee “for the discovery of light-gated ion channel mechanisms, and for the discovery of optogenetics"
One of the eternal challenges of economic development is how to identify the economic activities that a country, city, or region should t...
TuringBox is a platform that makes it easier for social and behavioral scientists to study Artificial Intelligence algorithms. ...
EEEeb Spring 2018: April 15, 29; May 13, 27; June 3. To register, please visit this link.Sponsored and run by members of ...
Neri Oxman interviewed as one of CNN's "five top women in world architecture"
A conversation with the founders and alumni of a provocative experiment in higher education.
We investigated the spread of all of the verified news stories–verified as either true or false–distributed on Twitter from 2006 to 2017....
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Celebrating Brain Awareness Week with a look at some of the Media Lab's brain research
Space will be hackable. Space will be playful. Space grows ever more accessible to the space enthusiast.
A chemistry, design, and R&D collaboration with International Flavors and Fragrances, Inc.
What are the uncharted territories that remain in ocean exploration and storytelling?
Fluorescent sensor allows imaging of neurons' electrical communications, without electrodes
Structurally, zero gravity means that we do not have to contend with architecture's greatest arch-nemesis, gravity. This opens up a new w...
"Focus means something very different than zeroing in on a specific discipline."
Danielle Wood's TED Talk
Award-winning science fiction author Neal Stephenson
"I wanted to create something that would embody this intimacy with my family, with my homeland that I’d left."
A new Media Lab initiative seeks to connect humanity with ocean exploration
On Collective Debate, users take a test of their morality, then debate an artificial agent regarding a controversial claim: tha...
Media Lab researchers are teaming up with public librarians to design new projects and programs for libraries.
ProPublica Senior Reporter Julia Angwin discusses what she has learned about forgiveness in her articles on algorithmic accountability
The Gender Shades project pilots an intersectional approach to inclusive product testing for AI.Algorithmic Bias PersistsGender Shades is...
The new issue looks at designing a complex and unknowable future with machines
Recent advances in medications for neurodegenerative disorders are expanding opportunities for improving the debilitating symptoms suffer...
A correspondence between Gene Sharp and Albert Einstein
Since Alan Turing envisioned Artificial Intelligence (AI), a major driving force behind technical progress has been competition with huma...
Researchers should hold themselves morally accountable for all of the consequences of their work. That can require publicly acknowledging...
Celebrating the design pioneer whose work continues to inspire outspoken creativity.
State-of-the art liquid handling systems are generally pump-driven systems connected with valves and tubes. These systems are manually a...
Professor Martha Minow in conversation with Father Eric Salobir, the Venerable Tenzin Priyadarshi, Professor Max Tegmark, and Joi Ito.
Reimagining research for life in space
What would your city look like after a disaster? Deep Empathy is a collaboration between the Scalable Coope...
Presenting RFind, a new technology that allows us to locate almost any object with extreme accuracy by transforming low-cost, battery-fre...
The Conformable Decoders group is now home to a state-of-the-art cleanroom called the "YellowBox."
Take control of your social feed.Gobo is a social media aggregator with filters you control. You can use Gobo to control what’s edited ou...
The Observatory of Economic Complexity (OEC) is the world's leading data visualization tool for international trade data. The OEC makes m...
design(human)design is a tool that builds on insights about the design process inspired by research carried out at IDEO Cambridge. The id...
The problem of ethical decision making presents a grand challenge for modern AI research. Arguably the main obstacle to automating ...
How one collaborative month has changed Labbers' views of making stuff.
How ideas derived from art can lead to new technological concepts.
Emotional content is an important part of language. There are many use cases now showing that natural language processing is becoming an ...
Enlarging clinical samples for imaging to understand the building blocks of pathologies with nanoscale precision
MIT students get free legal guidance and support along the path to innovation.