LocationMIT Media Lab, 6th Floor DescriptionKevin Hu and Alexis Hope on FOLD:Imagine reading about the 2008 housing crisis without knowing …
LocationMIT Media Lab Description
Unlike a normal edit, gene drive systems could lastingly alter or suppress local or global populations of a target species.
A visiting scientist from NHK, Takahito Ito joined the Lab as a company member and left as a crew member.
From improving your mood to focusing your creativity, scientists at MIT’s Dream Lab want to prove the power of dreams.
XR technology is becoming increasingly important in a world where the need to know intersects with the need to experience.
LocationMIT Media Lab, 3rd Floor Atrium Description
LocationMIT Media Lab Description
To members of the Media Lab community,As we pass the mid-way point of summer, a worldwide movement to combat racial oppression and anti-…
As a graduate student at MIT, Rob Morris struggled with mental health. Today, he wants to make it easier for others to find help online.
Seventy percent of nations have deep-sea environments within their maritime Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZs), yet only 16 percent of them ar…
This hackathon aims to explore how projection can tap into our personal life to allow us to be healthier, better versions of ourselves.
Recent advancements in autonomous and intelligent machines introduce an unprecedented opportunity to reimagine how people live, work, and p…
How one collaborative month has changed Labbers' views of making stuff.
Lessons from a month in a Chinese knitting plant.
IdeaA lab is where unique ideas are generated and early prototypes are synthesized. A factory is where designs are mass produced and qualit…
A research group from MIT’s Media Lab has leveraged commercially available technology to transmit holographic video over the internet.And l…
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Artists, engineers, hackers, creative technologists, innovators, entrepreneurs. If you have a passion for art and want to see how technolog…
Learn how to get started on BioHacking, and how might we create a bio-digital system.
Co-founded by alum Srishti Sethi, Unstructured Studio provides free and low-cost creative learning opportunities to students in India.
Advertisers are beginning to explore ways to market products to people while they sleep. A group of scientists talked to NPR about the risks
The Challenge: To shape the future with decentralized technologiesOur world faces a range of complex challenges across multiple sector…
LocationSan Francisco, CA Description
LocationMIT Media Lab, 6th Floor DescriptionComedy Hack Day, an initiative by Director's Fellow Baratunde Thurston's company Cultivated Wit…
Lederman, O. "Hacking Innovation - Group Dynamics in Innovation Teams"
Public libraries are one of most trusted public institutions in the U.S. and increasingly provide a broad range of education services, rang…
Want the best Caprese salad or pesto you ever tasted? MIT researchers say they may be able to help.
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The Washington Post reports on research from the Media Lab’s Fluid Interfaces group & Harvard Medical School that naps could aid creativity.
LocationMoonshine, 303 Red River DescriptionWhat if we could charge our phones while sitting in the park? What if wifi on the go was never …
LocationRoom 9ABC, Austin Convention Center Description#sxsw #HackAttn #MLSXSWSuperstorms, bombings and protests around the globe are chall…
LocationOnline Description
I’m sure that most, if not all of you, have seen recent news stories about Jeffrey Epstein, and I owe it to you to address my prior affilia…
In this project we investigate how the process of building a circuit can be made more organic, like sketching in a sketchbook. We integrate…
Be My Guest! is currently on display at the Vantaa Art Museum, Finland until December 3, 2023 as part of their "SYSTEMS" exhibition.At the …
Be My Guest! will be performed at the Museum of Fine Arts, Brussels (BOZAR) in December 2023.
A group at MIT’s Media Lab known as the “Dream Team” thinks you can harness your unconscious mind with tech you can wear to bed.
Media Lab researchers are teaming up with public librarians to design new projects and programs for libraries.
"When the Make the Breast Pump Not Suck! hackathon, a collection of roughly a hundred and fifty engineers, designers, midwives, and parents…
Ruihan Zhang, a student in the Molecular Machines group, was lead organizer of this event in collaboration with MIT Film Makers Association
Public libraries and the MIT Media Lab are kindred spirits. Together, we hope to design new programs for libraries across the U.S.
Man of My Words is a wearable self-feedback voice changer for women to challenge internalized sexism. The experience is designed in two par…
To help explain how this works is Ramesh Raskar, an associate professor at MIT’s Media Lab.
MACH, My Automated Conversation coacH, is a system for people to practice social interactions in face-to-face scenarios. MACH consists of a…
The Lifelong Kindergarten group and Brazilian Creative Learning Network invites participants in the Creative Schools Program to the Lab.
"Guidelines for Lab Design: Health and Safety Considerations"
Eric von Hippel, Joseph A. Paradiso,
Featuring dozens of Media Lab startups + nonprofits with interactive demos and opportunities to meet and identify potential collaborations.
NBA star, Polynesian voyager, Stockton mayor among the new cohort working to build bridges between MIT and the world.
Hua, Yining*, Hang Jiang*, Shixu Lin, Jie Yang, Joseph M. Plasek, David W. Bates, and Li Zhou. "Using Twitter Data to Understand Public Perceptions of Approved versus Off-label Use for COVID-19-related Medications." Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (2022). *Equal Contribution.
There’s a huge opportunity to improve agriculture with gene editing. But we need to give CRISPR a chance.
Mohammed (Ehsan) Hoque, Matthieu Courgeon, Jean-Claude Martin, Bilge Mutlu, Rosalind W. Picard
The Challenge: To ignite creativity in the face of global challengesThe accelerating crises, disruptions, and disconnections in today’s soc…
LocationMIT Media Lab, Bartos Theater DescriptionShaka Senghor was one of the first group of Director's Fellows at the Media Lab. On March …
Be My Guest! is currently on display at the Vantaa Art Museum, Finland until December 3, 2023 as part of their "SYSTEMS" exhibiti…
Joseph A. Paradiso, John Heidemann, Thomas G. Zimmerman