Event

Hacking Journalism @ Media Lab

LocationMIT Media Lab, 6th Floor DescriptionKevin Hu and Alexis Hope on FOLD:Imagine reading about the 2008 housing crisis without knowing …

Saturday — Sunday
June 7, 2014 —
June 8, 2014
Event

Science Hack Day @ Media Lab

LocationMIT Media Lab Description

Saturday — Sunday
January 24, 2015 —
January 25, 2015
Article

Gene drive should be a nonprofit technology

Unlike a normal edit, gene drive systems could lastingly alter or suppress local or global populations of a target species.

Post

My Media Lab year

A visiting scientist from NHK, Takahito Ito joined the Lab as a company member and left as a crew member.

Article

An MIT lab is building devices to hack your dreams

From improving your mood to focusing your creativity, scientists at MIT’s Dream Lab want to prove the power of dreams.

Post

Hacking Reality

XR technology is becoming increasingly important in a world where the need to know intersects with the need to experience.

Event

Breathe Respiratory Hackathon @ Media Lab

LocationMIT Media Lab, 3rd Floor Atrium Description

Saturday — Sunday
September 19, 2015 —
September 20, 2015
Event

Media Lab Breast Pump Hackathon

LocationMIT Media Lab Description

Saturday — Monday
September 20, 2014 —
September 22, 2014
Article

Media Lab Students Hack Kinect for Cooler Videoconferencing

Post

Media Lab Public Statement on Racism

​​​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-…

Article

He sold his mental-health startup to Airbnb, then relaunched it as a nonprofit with a bigger mission

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.

Project

My Deep Sea, My Backyard

Seventy percent of nations have deep-sea environments within their maritime Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZs), yet only 16 percent of them ar…

Event

Hack with Samsung 2022

This hackathon aims to explore how projection can tap into our personal life to allow us to be healthier, better versions of ourselves.

Friday — Sunday
September 23, 2022 —
September 25, 2022
Event

City Robotics: $10K Design•a•Hack•a•thon for People-Centric Mobility

Recent advancements in autonomous and intelligent machines introduce an unprecedented opportunity to reimagine how people live, work, and p…

Saturday — Monday
September 15, 2018 —
September 17, 2018
9:00am — 11:00pm ET
Post

Hacking Manufacturing: research on the factory floor

How one collaborative month has changed Labbers' views of making stuff.

Article

Hacking in a factory

Lessons from a month in a Chinese knitting plant.

Person

Paris Myers

Project

Hacking Manufacturing 2017

IdeaA lab is where unique ideas are generated and early prototypes are synthesized. A factory is where designs are mass produced and qualit…

Article

Real-Time Princess Leia Holography Via Kinect Hack

A research group from MIT’s Media Lab has leveraged commercially available technology to transmit holographic video over the internet.And l…

Person

Alexis Hope

Former Research Assistant

Person

Tesha Myers

Former Fiscal Officer

Event

Breakout Session: Kinect Hacks

Description

Tuesday
February 22, 2011
Event

MIT Hacking Arts 2017

Artists, engineers, hackers, creative technologists, innovators, entrepreneurs. If you have a passion for art and want to see how technolog…

Saturday — Sunday
November 11, 2017 —
November 12, 2017
Event

Bio-Digital Hacking Workshop

Learn how to get started on BioHacking, and how might we create a bio-digital system.

Article

This Toronto-based nonprofit provides creative education to over 2,000 children in rural India

Co-founded by alum Srishti Sethi, Unstructured Studio provides free and low-cost creative learning opportunities to students in India.

Article

The consequences of hacking our dreams

Advertisers are beginning to explore ways to market products to people while they sleep. A group of scientists talked to NPR about the risks

Group

Media Lab Research Theme: Decentralized Society

The Challenge: To shape the future with decentralized technologiesOur world faces a range of complex challenges across multiple sector…

Event

Joi Ito @ Hacking the Human Body

LocationSan Francisco, CA Description

Thursday
November 5, 2015
Event

Comedy Hack Day with Baratunde Thurston

LocationMIT Media Lab, 6th Floor DescriptionComedy Hack Day, an initiative by Director's Fellow Baratunde Thurston's company Cultivated Wit…

Saturday — Sunday
September 21, 2013 —
September 22, 2013
Publication

Hacking Innovation - Group Dynamics in Innovation Teams

Lederman, O. "Hacking Innovation - Group Dynamics in Innovation Teams"

Project

Public Library Innovation Exchange

Public libraries are one of most trusted public institutions in the U.S. and increasingly provide a broad range of education services, rang…

Article

MIT researchers hacked agriculture to create what may be the tastiest basil on earth

Want the best Caprese salad or pesto you ever tasted? MIT researchers say they may be able to help.

Person

Nataliya Kos'myna

Research Scientist

Article

Want to be more creative? Try dream-hacking while you sleep

The Washington Post reports on research from the Media Lab’s Fluid Interfaces group & Harvard Medical School that naps could aid creativity.

Publication

Hacking Voice Assistants: Speculative Design As Resistance In The Age Of Surveillance Capitalism

Event

Smart Urban Furniture, Hacking Ubiquitous Infrastructure

LocationMoonshine, 303 Red River DescriptionWhat if we could charge our phones while sitting in the park? What if wifi on the go was never …

Sunday
March 9, 2014
Event

#MLSXSW: Hacking Attention: Media, Technology & Crisis

LocationRoom 9ABC, Austin Convention Center Description#sxsw #HackAttn #MLSXSWSuperstorms, bombings and protests around the globe are chall…

Monday
March 10, 2014
Event

Jie Qi @ Hack Your Notebook Day

LocationOnline Description

Wednesday
July 9, 2014
Post

My apology regarding Jeffrey Epstein

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…

Project

Hacking the Sketchbook

In this project we investigate how the process of building a circuit can be made more organic, like sketching in a sketchbook. We integrate…

Project

Be My Guest! A Dinner Event Hosted by Artificial Intelligence

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 …

Event

BOZAR PERFORMANCE: Be My Guest! A Dinner Event Hosted by Artificial Intelligence

Be My Guest! will be performed at the Museum of Fine Arts, Brussels (BOZAR) in December 2023.

Friday
December 8, 2023
7:00pm — 9:00pm ET
Article

These sleep engineers could help you hack your dreams

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.

Post

An Exchange Program for Public Librarians

Media Lab researchers are teaming up with public librarians to design new projects and programs for libraries.

Article

Hacking the Breast Pump

"When the Make the Breast Pump Not Suck! hackathon, a collection of roughly a hundred and fifty engineers, designers, midwives, and parents…

Post

MIT AI for Filmmaking Hackathon 2023 Brings Dreams to Life

Ruihan Zhang, a student in the Molecular Machines group, was lead organizer of this event in collaboration with MIT Film Makers Association

Post

Introducing the Public Library Innovation Exchange (PLIX)

Public libraries and the MIT Media Lab are kindred spirits. Together, we hope to design new programs for libraries across the U.S.

Project

Man of My Words

Man of My Words is a wearable self-feedback voice changer for women to challenge internalized sexism. The experience is designed in two par…

Article

WATCH: Can my phone tell if I’ve been near someone with COVID-19?

To help explain how this works is Ramesh Raskar, an associate professor at MIT’s Media Lab.

Project

MACH: My Automated Conversation coacH

MACH, My Automated Conversation coacH, is a system for people to practice social interactions in face-to-face scenarios. MACH consists of a…

Event

Designing Public Policy for Creative School Systems

The Lifelong Kindergarten group and Brazilian Creative Learning Network invites participants in the Creative Schools Program to the Lab.

Thursday — Saturday
April 7, 2022 —
April 9, 2022
Event

Canan Dagdeviren at Harvard School of Public Health

"Guidelines for Lab Design: Health and Safety Considerations"

Tuesday
June 12, 2018
Publication

User Innovation and Hacking

Eric von Hippel, Joseph A. Paradiso,

Event

Media Lab Venture Summit 2020

Featuring dozens of Media Lab startups + nonprofits with interactive demos and opportunities to meet and identify potential collaborations.

Tuesday — Wednesday
January 28, 2020 —
January 29, 2020
8:30am — 7:00pm ET
Post

Announcing the 2019 Media Lab Director’s Fellows

NBA star, Polynesian voyager, Stockton mayor among the new cohort working to build bridges between MIT and the world.

Publication

Using Twitter Data to Understand Public Perceptions of Approved versus Off-label Use for COVID-19-related Medications

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.

Article

The public doesn’t trust GMOs. Will it trust CRISPR?

There’s a huge opportunity to improve agriculture with gene editing. But we need to give CRISPR a chance.

Publication

MACH: My Automated Conversation coacH

Mohammed (Ehsan) Hoque, Matthieu Courgeon, Jean-Claude Martin, Bilge Mutlu, Rosalind W. Picard

Group

Media Lab Research Theme: Cultivating Creativity

The Challenge: To ignite creativity in the face of global challengesThe accelerating crises, disruptions, and disconnections in today’s soc…

Event

Shaka Senghor: Writing My Wrongs

LocationMIT Media Lab, Bartos Theater DescriptionShaka Senghor was one of the first group of Director's Fellows at the Media Lab. On March …

Wednesday
March 16, 2016
Event

VANTAA ART MUSEUM EXHIBITION: Be My Guest! A Dinner Event Hosted by Artificial Intelligence

Be My Guest! is currently on display at the Vantaa Art Museum, Finland until December 3, 2023 as part of their "SYSTEMS" exhibiti…

Friday — Sunday
September 29, 2023 —
December 3, 2023
Publication

Guest Editors' Introduction: Hacking is Pervasive

Joseph A. Paradiso, John Heidemann, Thomas G. Zimmerman