We will feature research coming out of the Media Lab's special initiatives and spinoff companies.
Workshop topics range from AI to farming and are hosted by Media Lab researches or member companies.
Alum Mihir Sarkar looks back at the 10 years since his dissertation defense, and reflects on both the joys and the challenges of that time.
Zach Lieberman talks to arts curator Roddy Schrock about creative coding, his career path, the work of his group at the Media Lab, and more.
LocationBlackheart, 86 Rainey St. (21+) Description
A paper led by Ehsan Hoque, alum of the Affective Computing group, receives UbiComp's 10-Years Impact Award.
For the paper "Modeling the Co-evolution of Behaviors and Social Relationships Using Mobile Phone Data"
Affective Computing PhD student Matt Groh and other experts offer a few recommendations to help people recognize falsehoods online.
Revisit Human 2.0, a 2007 Media Lab symposium focused on the future of human adaptability.
Scratch Day @ MIT was one of over 1,110 such events around the world in May.
Hugh Herr and his Biomechatronics research group at the MIT Media Lab have developed the first powered ankle-foot prosthesis. The novel pro…
LocationMIT Media Lab Description
W. Cao, J. Kang, D. Sarkar, W. Liu and K. Banerjee, "2D Semiconductor FETs—Projections and Design for Sub-10 nm VLSI," in IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, vol. 62, no. 11, pp. 3459-3469, Nov. 2015.
"Real-Time Recognition of Physical Activities and Their Intensities Using Wireless Accelerometers and a Heart Rate Monitor," presented at&n…
WHIPLASH: How to Survive Our Faster Future, by Joi Ito and Jeff Howe. (Grand Central, $28.) Theories of technological change, optimisticall…
Events at the Andorra PavilionTuesday 11/1411:30 - 13:00 - Inauguration of the Andorra Pavilion15:00 - 15:30 - Apiumtech15:30 - 16:00 - FED…
W. Cao, J. Kang, D. Sarkar, W. Liu and K. Banerjee, "Performance evaluation and design considerations of 2D semiconductor based FETs for sub-10 nm VLSI," 2014 IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting, San Francisco, CA, 2014, pp. 30.5.1-30.5.4.
Sarkar among the 2023 SN 10: Scientists to Watch, early and mid-career scientists who are making extraordinary contributions to their field.
A conversation with Ethan Zuckerman, media scholar and inventor of the pop-up ad, on the original sin of advertising and the web’s lost deca
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LocationBusiness Innovation Factory, Providence, RI Description
Professor Dagdeviren was recognized for her work developing a wearable ultrasound patch for early breast cancer detection.
The recognition highlights his work at the Media Lab and his current position as chief minister of Sierra Leone.
LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-674 DescriptionAn accomplished entrepreneur, executive, and angel investor, Reid Hoffman has played an integral …
Scratch, a coding platform for children, was developed by the Lifelong Kindergarten group at the Media Lab in 2007.
Recent advancements in autonomous and intelligent machines introduce an unprecedented opportunity to reimagine how people live, work, and p…
The Root 100 is our annual list of the most influential African Americans, ages 25 to 45.
Outlining a plan to minimize risk at the Media Lab
Congratulations to Daniella DiPaola., current research assistant in the Personal Robots group!
The challenge of understanding pandemics, illustrated by the recent COVID-19 outbreak, has significantly impacted global health and economi…
Beginning in the early twentieth century, composition branched out into a variety of new representations, the most common being the graphic…
Spinoff Tulip, an E14 Fund company founded by alumni Natan Linder and Rony Kubat, has received a new round of investment financing.
Meet 100 inspiring, influential women from around the world, including Labbers Ayah Bdeir and Rana el Kaliouby.
Congratulations to Joy Buolamwini and Amanda Nguyen for being recognized in the "Advocates" category.
The Conformable Decoders group's new method to deliver drugs directly to the brain was selected to the Top 100 Science Spinoffs according t…
Commending a formidable variety of international change-makers driving digital transformation in government.
D. SARKAR, A. T. WASSIE, A. PAYNE, K. D. PIATKEVICH, D. ORAN, J.-B. CHANG, E. S. BOYDEN. Society for Neuroscience, 2016.
We are creating thirty-dollar, sunlight-readable, low-power, and high-resolution displays for laptop computers. We are focusing on the repl…
Varied important problems can be solved using surprisingly approximate arithmetic. We've designed a co-processor for such arithmetic that …