LocationLower Level, MIT Media Lab DescriptionAgastya is a movement led by entrepreneurs, educators, scientists, teachers and children to r…
Co-founded by alum Srishti Sethi, Unstructured Studio provides free and low-cost creative learning opportunities to students in India.
P. Sainath, veteran journalist on rural affairs, poverty, and inequality in India, will be speaking at the Center for Civic Media.
The Sustainable Access in Rural India project (SARI) seeks to show that viable markets exist for information and communication services in …
Ethnographic field research that explores the Changpa nomads' cosmological orientation, practices of celestial navigation and traces lines …
These "autonomous sensing devices," which combine sensors as information providers with wireless communication systems, have enormous impli…
SingularityU Summits are two-day conferences held across the globe to help local leaders understand how exponentia…
LocationApeejay Stya University in Delhi, India DescriptionThe MIT Media Lab and Apeejay Stya University will co-host the second Design & I…
LocationWeSchool, Mumbai, India DescriptionThe Media Lab India Initiative is an effort by students and alumni from the MIT Media Lab to bri…
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The Mars Amity Research Station (MARS) whose construction is currently underway aims to be India's first party to establish a planetary sim…
LocationPune, India DescriptionThe MIT Media Lab and the College of Engineering, Pune are hosting the first Design & Innovation workshop in…
🚨Applications to the 2022 Co-Design Experience are now closed🚨OverviewThe development of technology in rural environments in Colombia is a…
The Godrej India Culture Lab with the Center for Civic Media - MIT Media Lab are proud to present The Past, Present, and Future of Civ…
arXiv:1801.06540 [cs.CY]
In this new show, AI artist Harshit Agrawal uses machine intelligence to talk about social justice and empathy.
Postdoctoral Associate
MIT designers explain their philosophy in a new book, “Resonant Games.”
Since the December 2012 gang-rape of "Nirbhaya" in Delhi, there has been a rise in coverage on issues of sexual harassment and violence aga…
Danielle Wood will speak as a guest at Indiana University of Pennsylvania's Science Inspires Series.
Harold Abelson and Siu-Cheung Kong. Computational Thinking Education in K–12. MIT Press, May 2022.
The City Science research group proposes that new strategies must be found to create the places where people live and work in addition to t…
On June 8, 2023, a delegation from the University of Guadalajara (UdeG) visited the MIT Media Lab to meet with faculty and researchers rega…
TerMITes have been installed in a women's restroom in India to better understand and help future development as the project expands.
Connolly, R., Ireland, J. & Ng, C. (2023). Observe the Sun: Adapting the Helioviewer Data Tool for Educational Use. In E. Langran, P. Christensen & J. Sanson (Eds.), Proceedings of Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference (pp. 1716-1721). New Orleans, LA, United States: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE). Retrieved June 24, 2023
Spinoff Learning Beautiful develops education materials that encourage kids to explore computer science concepts through physical learning.
Inventive Minds: Marvin Minsky on Education is a collection of six essays by artificial intelligence pioneer Marvin Minsky.
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Where is fashion education heading? Join us for a digital conversation on how fashion-technology is shaping future fashion creatives.3 roun…
In this workshop, entrepreneurs, stakeholders, community members, professors and students met to discuss safety, security and equity in Gua…
Sarkar among the 2023 SN 10: Scientists to Watch, early and mid-career scientists who are making extraordinary contributions to their field.
We are building autonomous agents that are socially and emotionally saturated in single-person (child-robot) or multi-party (child-parent-r…
A Distance Learning Model for Global Laboratory-Based Synthetic Biology Education Synthetic Biology ( SynBio) tools hold the…
Raechel Walker, Olivia Dias, Matt Taylor, and Cynthia Breazeal, “Alleviating the Danger Of A Single Story Through Liberatory Computing Education,” in Proceedings of the 2024 RESPECT Annual Conference (RESPECT 2024), Atlanta, GA, USA. ACM, New York, NY, USA
They feed data sets into special algorithms to create canvases; they’re showing at art events around the world.
“The work I’m doing is deeply rooted in the belief that you can plant seeds in people,” says graduate student Cecilé Sadler.
The third City Science Summit, kicked off October 1, 2019 in the HafenCity district of Hamburg.
Join us for an exciting conversation that explores the intersection of AI and education!
In this episode, we get the chance to talk to Anushka Shah, who works as a researcher at the Center for Civic Media, MIT Media Lab.
Sarkar, M. "TablaNet: A Real-Time Online Musical Collaboration System for Indian Percussion"
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The New England Aquarium was proud to collaborate with the MIT Media Lab and National Geographic on the latest Open Ocean initiative event.…
The mission of the Space Enabled research group is to advance justice in Earth's complex systems using designs enabled by space. Our messag…
P. Shah*, G. Yauney*, O. Gupta, V. Patalano II, M. Mohit, R. Merchant, SV Subramanian. BMJ Open (2018). 8:e018774. PMID: 29678964 * Equal contribution
The Academy consists of US members and international associates elected based on outstanding scholarship or leadership related to education.
Priyadarshi talks to Malini Goyal on a broad range of issues.
Distinguished Lecture byPresident Ricardo Villanueva LomelíPresident of the University of Guadalajara (Mexico)
Technologies designed with personalities and social interfaces are entering our homes in the form of social robots such as Jibo and Cozmo. …
This course focuses on data analytics, new urban systems, real-time simulation, and urban design strategies that can enable more entreprene…
A conversation with the founders and alumni of a provocative experiment in higher education.
Professor of Media Arts and Sciences; Toshiba Professor
Tejal Reddy, Randi Williams, Cynthia Breazeal. 2021. Text Classification for AI Education. In Proceedings of the 52nd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE’21).
Spaulding, S., Shen, J., Park, H., & Breazeal, C. (2021, May). Towards Transferrable Personalized Student Models in Educational Games. In Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems (pp. 1245-1253).
Each year the City Science Network hosts a talks series where City Science Labs present and share their research to the Network and collabo…
In “normal” times, the process of voting can be confusing enough for many Americans -- from whether and where they’re registered, to absent…
Open Learning Talks bring together leaders to discuss new research-based ideas, technologies, and efforts in education, at MIT and the world
When a die is picked up, it attempts to teach patterns, progressions of patterns, numbers, counting, arithmetic, and probability depending …
Perry, Eyal, et al. "How to grow (almost) anything: a hybrid distance learning model for global laboratory-based synthetic biology education." Nature Biotechnology (2022): 1-6.
LocationE14-633 DescriptionAll around us people are learning with the aid of new technologies: children are playing complex video games, wo…
To, A., Ali, S., Kaufman, G. Hammer, J. (2018). Integrating Curiosity and Uncertainty in Game Design. The New Science of Curiosity (pp. 169-203). New York, NY: Nova Science Publishers, Inc.
Classes offered by the Program in Media Arts and Sciences for the Fall 2023 semester
by Dan NovyFebruary 16-21, 2020. Katy Croff Bell and Dan Novy co-chaired two sessions at the Ocean Sciences Meeting 2020 in San Diego,…
We learn best when we are pursuing our passion and working with others in a project-based environment with a playful approach.
Promoters show off promising applications of the technology, but AI is not changing the world quite yet
The new Center will provide music education to students across North Texas, in cooperation with the Media Lab's Opera of the Future group.