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Affective Computing

The Affective Computing group creates and evaluates new ways of bringing together Emotion AI and other affective technologies in order to m…

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Beyond the Cradle

Beyond the Cradle 2024MIT Media LabBuilding E14, 6th FloorBeyond the CradleThursday, April 4, 2024In-person with livestreamThis event will …

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Fluid Interfaces

​FLUID INTERFACESWhile today's devices put the world’s information at our fingertips, they do not help us with some of the cognitive s…

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Media Lab Research Theme: Future Worlds

The Challenge: To secure a sustainable future for all living thingsHow can we reduce harm to our planet and the future prospects of life on…

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Tangible Media

We live on the border between two worlds: our physical environment and cyberspace. People have developed sophisticated skill…

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Network Computing Systems

Network Computing Systems (aka: NeCSys) develops and maintains the Media Lab's advanced network and computing infrastructure. We create and…

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Media Lab Research Theme: Connected Mind + Body

The Challenge: To Transform Mental + Physical WellbeingAs mental health and physical ability challenges surge worldwide, driven by ine…

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Opera of the Future

The Opera of the Future group (formerly known as Hyperinstruments) explores concepts and techniques to help advance the future of musical c…

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Space Enabled

The mission of the Space Enabled research group is to advance justice in Earth's complex systems using designs enabled by space. Our messag…

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Nano-Cybernetic Biotrek

For more details visit: https://web.mit.edu/deblina-sarkar/The Nano-Cybernetic Biotrek (NCB) research group is an adventurous scientif…

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Human Dynamics

The Human Dynamics group uses the tools of computational social science to ask how we can better organize society, government, and companie…

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Development

How your support helps to achieve the vision Funding research: We rely on funding from corporate members, foundations, and individual …

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City Science

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…

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Media Lab Research Theme: Life with AI

The Challenge: To harness AI for humanity's leap forwardMachines are becoming more intelligent and more powerful every day. But, like all t…

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Responsive Environments

We explore how diverse and distributed sensors augment and mediate human experience, interaction, and perception, while developing new sens…

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Director's Fellows Program

The Director’s Fellows program was intended to create a diverse global network empowered by technology and creativity from the MIT Media La…

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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…

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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…

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Future Sketches

The Future Sketches group explores software as a medium for art and design, as well as how toolkits and pedagogical approach…

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COVID-19

Effective May 11, 2023, federal and Commonwealth of Massachusetts Covid-19 public health emergencies ended. As a result…

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Biomechatronics

We know from early Roman mosaics that physical rehabilitation and amplification technologies have been used during much of recorded history…

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Conformable Decoders

We live in an ocean of physical patterns: heartbeats, respiration, muscle movements, neural activity, tidal waves, airflow, ambient humidit…

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Sculpting Evolution

Evolution gave rise to every living thing and all of human culture, but evolved systems are very different from those designed by huma…

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Space Exploration Initiative

MIT Media Lab Space Exploration Initiative 

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Mediated Matter

The MIT Media Lab’s Mediated Matter group is no longer active. This site provides background on some of the people and projects that were a…

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MIT Center for Constructive Communication

Political, media and technological forces have driven us into isolated, like-minded camps hostile toward outside views and ripe for the spr…

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Poetic Justice

Founded spring of 2019 by artist Ekene Ijeoma, PJG researches social, political, and environmental issues and develops multimedia works usi…

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E14 and E15 Event Spaces

What are the Event SpacesThe MIT Media Lab event spaces are within buildings E14 and E15 and can accommodate a wide array of event size con…

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Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

To achieve our DEI aspirations, the Diversity and Leadership Committee and the DEI Working Group strategize, prioritize, and evaluate …

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Camera Culture

The Camera Culture group focuses on making the invisible visible—inside our bodies, around us, and beyond—for health, work, and connection.…

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Viral Communications

Viral Communications at the Media Lab is all about how systems scale. We premiered scalable video in the '90s, we built scalable mesh radio…

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Personal Robots

Personal RobotsThe Personal Robots group bridges the gap between intelligent personified technologies and human collaborative behavior. We …

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Community Biotechnology

The Community Biotechnology Initiative (CBI) works at the intersection of community organizing and movement building, collective intelligen…

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Signal Kinetics

The Signal Kinetics group invents wireless technologies to interconnect, sense, and perceive the physical world in ways that were not possi…

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Lifelong Kindergarten

The Lifelong Kindergarten group develops innovative technologies and cultivates caring communities to engage young people from diverse back…

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Molecular Machines

The Molecular Machines group is focused on pioneering the field of Avogadro scale engineering, which seeks to understand and approach the f…

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Media Lab Spinoffs

For more than three decades, the people of the Media Lab have spurred progress and change not just through academia, but across startups an…

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Digital Currency Initiative (DCI)

The internet enabled people to easily call each other without a phone company, send a document without a mail carrier, or publish an articl…

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Social Machines

As of 2021, the MIT Media Lab's Social Machines group has merged with the MIT Center for Constructive Communication. The Laboratory fo…

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Digital Learning + Collaboration Studio

The Digital Learning + Collaboration Studio designs tools and methods for more engaging, more equitable, online learning and collaboration …

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Critical Computing

The Critical Computing group explores ways that static and moving images can become primary tools for reflection and explanation. we devel…

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Things That Think

Things That Think is inventing the future of digitally augmented objects and environments. Toward this end, Things That Think researchers a…

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Collective Learning

The MIT Media Lab’s Collective Learning group is no longer active. This site provides background on some of the people and projects that we…

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Health 0.0

Research from Dr. Shah's lab creates novel intersections between deep learning, engineering, and medicine to discover novel biological and …

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ML Learning

The ML Learning Initiative has merged into the Digital Learning + Collaboration Studio!

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Scalable Cooperation

The MIT Media Lab’s Scalable Cooperation group is no longer active. This site provides background on some of the people and projects that w…

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Open Ocean

The MIT Media Lab’s Open Ocean Initiative is no longer active. This site provides background on some of the people and projects that were a…

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Open Agriculture (OpenAg)

The MIT Media Lab’s Open Agriculture Initiative is no longer active. This site provides background on some of the people and projects that …

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Center for Civic Media

The MIT Media Lab’s Center for Civic Media is no longer active. This site provides background on some of the people and projects that were …

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Civic Media

The MIT Media Lab’s Civic Media group is no longer active. This site provides background on some of the people and projects that were assoc…

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Object-Based Media

The MIT Media Lab’s Object-Based Media group is no longer active. This site provides background on some of the people and projects that wer…

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RAISE

RAISE (Responsible AI for Social Empowerment and Education) is a new MIT-wide initiative headquartered in the MIT Media Lab …

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Smart Cities

The research of the Smart Cities group focuses on intelligent, sustainable buildings, mobility systems, and cities. It explores the applica…

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PlusMinus

Technology is not neutral. We're inside of what we make, and it's inside of us. We're living in a world of connections—and it matters which…

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Ethics and Governance of Artificial Intelligence

The development, application, and capabilities of AI-based systems are evolving rapidly, leaving largely unanswered a broad range of import…

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Center for Mobile Learning

The Center for Mobile Learning invents and studies new mobile technologies to promote learning anywhere anytime for anyone. The Center focu…