To me, teaching equals sharing while learning.
In 2017, the MIT Media Lab set its sights on space. Just over two years later, the Space Exploration Initiative has grown ...
The RadioTalk corpus includes speech recognition transcripts sampled from talk radio broadcasts in the United States between October of 2...
Based on high precision sensing technology, NEC and the Affective Computing group are aiming to lead people towards healthier lifestyles.
Researchers hope the system can zero in on the right patients to enroll in clinical trials, to speed discovery of drug treatments
Tod Machover and Charles Holbrow discuss how they're building the tools and platforms for a culture of living music
Our planet’s warming climate presents an imminent and catastrophic challenge that will have far-reaching economic, social, and political ...
In an interview with Medgadget, Canan Dagdeviren talks about the mission and ethos of Conformable Decoders
Autonomous vehicles (AVs), drones, and other types of robots will revolutionize our way of traveling and understanding urban space. In or...
“First and foremost we’re a community-builder,” says Habib Haddad, a managing partner of the venture fund.
New Harvard-MIT deep reinforcement learning algorithm optimizes pain management.
Steven Keating inspired millions with his research-driven approach to battling cancer and his advocacy for open patient health data
We often imagine a future world filled with robots and artificial intelligence agents, where humans share their civilization with sentie...
When they’re valued as design research partners, older adults feel empowered to contribute to technology design.
By Chelsea Barabas, Karthik Dinakar and Colin Doyle
The class introduced students from all backgrounds to the emerging areas of biodesign, biotechnology, and synthetic biology.
In 2015, the director general of the European Space Agency (ESA), Jan Wörner, introduced the concept of the “Moon Village.” Inspired by t...
NBA star, Polynesian voyager, Stockton mayor among the new cohort working to build bridges between MIT and the world.
Interacting with a robotic teddy bear invented at MIT boosted young patients’ positive emotions, engagement, and activity level.
How do you image a city that doesn't exist? DeepScope is a novel platform for interactive, real-time, and setup-less urban design vi...
Putting together this exhibit helped me to reflect on both my personal and academic lives.
What our experiment in the desert taught us about social networks and human cooperation.
How do your kicks collaborate with mental health?
As bikes navigate city streets after dark, they are often equipped with lights. The lights make the bikes visible to cars or other bikers...
Our PLIX Facilitation Kits are designed to make it easy for librarians to offer creative learning programs to their patrons.
Celebrating Hiroshi Ishii's mentorship and groundbreaking research
Congratulations to all who graduated during the 2018-2019 academic year!
We present a review paper that analyzes how early design decisions can affect the regulatory approval process downstream.
Congratulations to all of the honorees! We are so proud of you all.
Guillermo Bernal believes virtual reality should be more expressive.
A team led by the Space Enabled group, ESA, and the World Economic Forum will address waste in Earth’s orbit
The exhibition includes work from a number of Media Lab researchers and alumni.
The projects on board the Media Lab's first suborbital rocket flight
The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) is a private, non-profit society of distinguished scholars.
The exhibition includes work from several Media Lab researchers and groups, including Neri Oxman, Joy Buolamwini, and the OpenAg Initiative.
Pip Mothersill lives and thrives at the junction of design and engineering.
Congratulations, Arnav!
This year, 120 curious students were honored at the Curiosity Challenge Celebration, along with Dr. Danielle Wood, 2019 Curious Scientist.
Machines powered by artificial intelligence (AI) increasingly mediate our social, cultural, economic, and ...
Fortune Magazine has named Joy Buolamwini to its 2019 list of the World's Greatest Leaders.
The electro-holographic video display (Holovideo) project has spanned over decades, beginning back in 1989, and continues to be a main re...
In this TED Talk, Affective Computing head Rosalind Picard explains how AI can help save lives.
Try Affective Network!Emotional contagion in online social networks has been of great interest over the past years. Previous studies have...
The LEGO Papert Fellowships support three graduate students working at the intersection of creativity, play, learning, and new technology.
Flavor, in addition to making our food delicious, is one way of sensing biochemical richness. A highly flavorful plant generally con...
Who should decide whether, when, and how to alter the environment? These are hard questions, especially when the decisions will impact pe...
In just three semesters, we have done a lot, and I cannot wait to experience our progress in Spring 2019 and beyond.
The technology being developed can enable personalized interactions with an autistic child, helping therapists to engage their attention.
Researchers say new facilities in space should be available to scientists from any country.
Algorithmic auditing has emerged as a key strategy to expose systematic biases embedded in software platforms, yet scholarship on the imp...
Biodiversity on planet Earth is under momentous threat, with extinction rates estimated between 100 and 1,000 times their pre-human level...
We are creating new communication interfaces for people with speech and language disorders, incorporating technologies like physiological...
MAS professor recognized for a career of contributions to human-computer interaction.
How can we add the missing "T" and "E" in preschool STEAM education?
Peoples' mindsets, meaning their beliefs about their own intellectual abilities, affect their effort and thereby their performance on tas...
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.
Communication technologies, from printing to social media, affect our historical records by changing the way ideas are spread and recorde...
New 3D imaging technique can reveal, much more quickly than other methods, how neurons connect throughout the brain.
Since the release of Scratch in 2007, young people around the world have programmed and shared more than 15 million Scratch projects . Th...
In January 2019, artist Ekene Ijeoma will join the MIT Media Lab as an assistant professor.
Collective memory and attention are sustained by two channels: oral communication (communicative memory) and the physical recording of in...
We have developed a wireless system that leverages the inexpensive RFID tags already on hundreds of billions of products to sense potent...
A rare glimpse into the creative life of Arnold Schoenberg.
kinetiX is a transformable material featuring a design that resembles a cellular structure. It consists of rigid plates or rods and elast...
More ocean data has been collected in the last two years than in all previous years combined, and we are on a path to continue to break t...
The Compton Prizes are the highest awards presented by the Institute to students and student organizations.
OpenAg is invited to showcase its latest Food Computer design in the Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial, the Barbican Centre, and the V&A Museum
Civic Media PhD student Pedro Reynolds-Cuellar serves as president of the association.
Local artists explore the state of climate change today in “Untold Possibilities at the Last Minute,” an exhibition on view at Cambridge ...
The Golden Mouse is a “Best of Show” award that recognizes the best overall submission to the CHI Video Showcase.