The "300M IT Edition" project is a collaboration between the Media Lab, MIT's Aero/Astro Department, DaimlerChrysler, and Motorola. Using t…

People speak as many as 800 languages in New York alone. With A Counting, Ekene Ijeoma aims to represent every single one.

The Lifelong Kindergarten research group at the MIT Media Lab develops and studies new technologies and activities that engage children in …

To date, more than 300 mid- to large-size trees have already been planted.

D. SARKAR, A. T. WASSIE, A. PAYNE, K. D. PIATKEVICH, D. ORAN, J.-B. CHANG, E. S. BOYDEN. Society for Neuroscience, 2016.

Illuminate was featured in the AI, Metaverse + Virtual: Best Installation or Experience category.

IBM is developing a solution specialized in healthcare and life science by integrating more than 300 million pieces of medical data&nb…

D. SARKAR, A. WASSIE, J. KANG, T. TARR, A. TANG, T. A. BLANPIED, E. S. BOYDEN. "Iterative Direct Expansion Micrography." Neuroscience 2019, 1550-1551.

On May 2, 2022, Hugh Herr (head of the Biomechatronics research group) will be honored at the 10th Genius Gala.

Congrats to Praneeth Vepakomma on receiving a 2022 Meta PhD Research Fellowship in the Applied Statistics category.

Noah Jones has been named a finalist for the 2022 Meta PhD Research Fellowship in the Computational Social Science category.

We present the design, implementation, and evaluation of Van Atta Acoustic Backscatter (VAB), a technology that enables long-range, ultra-l…

“Engineering is all about iterative design and failing. I’m probably going to fail 8 times…that 9th time or 10th time? I’m gonna nail it."

The Context-Aware Computing group uses "context knowledge" such as where we are, how we feel and what we have done to drive machines to us…

E14-674 Multi Purpose Room

Alaa Algargoosh, a postdoctoral fellow in the Opera of the Future group, won two prizes at the 2023 MIT Research Slam Competition.

C16 Biosciences, whose founders met in the Media Lab's Revolutionary Ventures course, is producing a substitute for palm oil.

Sheena Talma will discuss the co-design process for a deep-sea program in Seychelles.

In Dezeen, learn more about Butlr, a spinoff co-founded by former Labbers Honghao Deng and Jiani Zeng.

Cathy Mengying Fang, Auren R. Liu, Valdemar Danry, Eunhae Lee, Samantha W.T Chan, Pat Pataranutaporn, Pattie Maes, Jason Phang, Michael Lampe, Lama Ahmad, and Sandhini Agarwal. How AI and Human Behaviors Shape Psychosocial Effects of Chatbot Use: A Longitudinal Controlled Study, 2025.

Dava Newman, the new head of MIT’s Media Lab, wants the lab to take on bigger problems and reach out into the community.

Ngetich, Gladys Chepkirui, Stober, K.J., Wood, D., "Numerical Simulation of Centrifugal Casting of Paraffin Wax: Influence of Rotational Speed and Fluid Viscosity," AIAA Propulsion and Energy Forum, August 2021.

Aline Eid, Jack Rademacher, Waleed Akbar, Purui Wang, Ahmed Allam, and Fadel Adib. 2023. Enabling Long-Range Underwater Backscatter via Van Atta Acoustic Networks. In ACM SIGCOMM 2023 Conference (ACM SIGCOMM ’23), September 10, 2023, New York, NY, USA. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 19 pages

Cynthia Breazeal has been chosen as one of two recipients of this award for the paper, "Emotion and Sociable Humanoid Robots."

They were honored in the Students and Education categories respectively.

Nan-Wei Gong, Chiu-Yen Wang, Joseph A. Paradiso

Mark Feldmeier, Joseph A. Paradiso

Joseph A. Paradiso, Kai-yuh Hsiao

Karen Brennan, Andres Monroy-Hernandez, Mitchel Resnick

The grant will enable PLIX to deliver to build capacity for 300 librarians to implement creative STEAM learning programs in their libraries.

Harrer S, Shah P, Antony B, Hu J. Artificial Intelligence for Clinical Trial Design. Trends Pharmacol Sci. 2019 Aug;40(8):577-591. doi: 10.1016/j.tips.2019.05.005. PMID: 31326235.

Cummings School and MIT are working with Massachusetts citizens to deploy immune mice as frontline soldiers in the war against the disease.

Shekar, S., Pataranutaporn, P., Sarabu, C., Cecchi, G. A., & Maes, P. (2025). People Overtrust AI-Generated Medical Advice despite Low Accuracy. NEJM AI, AIoa2300015.

Since its 2015 debut by an MIT team, expansion microscopy has advanced research on kidneys, seeds, Alzheimer’s, viruses, and more.

ATTENTION: New pricing and policies were launched on March 15th, 2025.  Any event requests submitted before March 15th will be unaffec…

Ghoneim, M.T. and Hussain, M.M., 2017. Highly Manufacturable Deep (Sub‐Millimeter) Etching Enabled High Aspect Ratio Complex Geometry Lego‐Like Silicon Electronics. Small, 13(16).

With the release of our “Resisting Reduction” issue of the Journal of Design and Science, the MIT Press and the MIT Media Lab are also plea…

Hernandez, J., Hoque, M. E., Drevo, W., Picard, R.W., "Mood Meter: Counting Smiles in the Wild", Proceedings of International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp), Pittsburgh, PA, September 5-8, 2012.

Civic Media alum Charlie DeTar talks to the MIT Alumni Association about his work with Literati, using technology for social good, and more.

Eagle, N. "Machine Perception and Learning of Complex Social Systems"

LaPenta, J. "Real-time 3-d Localization using Radar and Passive Surface Acoustic Wave Transponders"

Lomas del Centinela is a growing community on a hilltop in Zapopan, Guadalajara, Mexico. It borders the Bosque del Centinela, an important …

Ito, J. (2018, November). Lecture: The Limits of Ethical A.I. Science and Democracy Lecture, Harvard Program on Science, Technology & Society. Cambridge, MA.

Schannel van Dijken will present on a traditional Polynesian voyaging canoe (Va’a)-based culture and environmental education program.

The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) has named 19 new HHMI Investigators, including Synthetic Neurobiology head Ed Boyden.

Making Musical Magic Live : Inventing Modern Production Technology for Human-Centric Music Performance. https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/129893.

Chin, R. "Smart Customization: Making Evidence-Based Environmental Decisions"

Sharon, T. "An Advanced Driver Warning Framework Incorporating Educational Warnings"

Pat Pataranutaporn, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USANattavudh Powdthavee, Nanyang Technological Universi…

Large Population Models for a simple audience

Their awards aim to support and prepare students to navigate the changing world.

MIT faculty members are among 19 top scientists selected from across the nation.

Xu, S., Zhang, Y., Cho, J., Lee, J., Huang, X., Jia, L., Fan, J.A., Su, Y., Su, J., Zhang, H., Cheng, H., Lu, B., Yu, C., Chuang, C., Kim, T.I., Song, T., Shigeta, K., Kang, S., Dagdeviren, C., Petrov, I., Braun, P.V., Huang, Y., Paik, U., Rogers, J.A. Nature Communications, 4, 1543, 2013.

For much of the last 25 years the focus of nutritional advice has been to reduce total fat intake and consume large amounts of carbohydrate…

Johnson, K.T.* & Narain, J.*, Maes, P., Picard, R.W., "Augmenting Natural Communication in Nonverbal Individuals with Autism," International Society for Autism Research (INSAR), Seattle, Washington, May 2020. (*Co-first authors/equal contribution)

Knaian, A. "Design of Programmable Matter"