Nataliya Kos'myna, Cindy Hsin-Liu Kao, and J. Nathan Matias are named 2026–27 Harvard Radcliffe Institute Fellows.
The MIT Press launched its Landmark Collection, featuring foundational works by Media Lab authors.
On NPR’s Fresh Air, alum Dr. Joy Buolamwini (Civic Media) talks about the social implications of artificial intelligence.
Media Lab alum, Dr.Joy Buolamwini spoke to IEEE Spectrum about her work and her recent book, Unmasking AI.
David Nuñez, an alum of the Media Lab’s Personal Robots research group, takes MIT Technology Review on a tour of the re-imagined Museum.
The awards recognize, support, and amplify the voices of extraordinary women who are dedicated to improving the lives of other women.
Media Lab alum Dr. Joy Buolamwini has been named to TIME's 100 Most Influential People in AI 2023.
The AJL, a nonprofit founded by alum Joy Buolamwini, is one of the 10 most innovative companies in artificial intelligence for 2020/2021.
Joy Buolamwini talks with Molly Wood about bias research that’s built into artificial intelligence and facial recognition technology.
Taxpayers should be wary of the U.S. government for pushing ID.me’s face-based biometric technology on them.
Congratulations to Daniella DiPaola., current research assistant in the Personal Robots group!
Media Lab alum, Arwa Michelle Mboya, wins Black Immersive Creators Grant for her "immersive Pole Show."
Explore MIT Open Learning resources, including interviews with Media Lab Director Dava Newman, Professor Cynthia Breazeal, and more.
Former Media Lab Professor Ethan Zuckerman speaks with The New York Times about the future of social media.
The segment highlighted Dr. Buolamwini's work on bias in AI.
Professors D'Ignazio and Klein received the award for their book, Data Feminism.
The honorees will be included in the October 2022 print issue of Fast Company Magazine.
Donald Trump and the coronavirus are all-consuming topics. What will happen to the rest of the world’s issues?
Among other experts, Ethan Zuckerman reminisces about human-curated web directories and the mule-powered web browser.
The rise of data privacy breaches and a look into policies that address these challenges
“Data scientists and visualization designers need to take their civic role very seriously in a pandemic,” says the MIT assistant professor.
How Fresh Is Your Feed? Social media promises to show you what's happening right now. We checked. It isn’t.
Artists and designers are working to address a major problem for marginalized communities in the data economy.
Ethan Zuckerman and other experts contextualize the real risks of the mobile internet.
The 2020 MIT Independent Activities Period (IAP) runs from January 6–January 31.
Joy Buolamwini was honored for her work exposing race and gender bias in commercial artificial intelligence (AI).
RETOS—an AI-powered web platform to facilitate, enhance, visualize, and predict connections between thousands of challenges posted by rural…
New research published in the International Journal of Communication
The Association of Internet Researchers has recognized alum Erhardt Graeff, now an assistant professor of social and computer science at Ol…
The MIT Media Lab is setting out to reimagine the tired old monthly enterprise with a “period hackathon."
Civic Media PhD student Pedro Reynolds-Cuellar serves as president of the association.
What are the fundamental questions that need to be answered within the next decade so that humanity and technology can grow side by side?
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Fortune Magazine has named Joy Buolamwini to its 2019 list of the World's Greatest Leaders.
Researchers detail a study's results to help determine how successfully newsrooms in five countries covered the shootings in New Zealand.
Public talk outlines ambitious plans to make his nation a hub for technology and innovation.
Instead of doing one "year in review" post, we invited the Lab community to reflect upon 2018 and what's coming up in 2019.
Joy Buolamwini identifies bias in algorithms and develops practices for accountability during design.
The 2019 Forbes 30 Under 30 list includes at least three members of the Media Lab community.
In this episode, we get the chance to talk to Anushka Shah, who works as a researcher at the Center for Civic Media, MIT Media Lab.
Establishing—and rewarding—provenance of stories that start with investigative journalism could shift the field for original reporting.
Joy Buolamwini showed facial-recognition systems consistently giving the wrong gender for famous women of color.
J. Nathan Matias and Joy Buolamwini are two of Fast Company's four design heroes.
A.I. systems are shaped by the priorities and prejudices…of the people who design them, a phenomenon that I refer to as "the coded gaze."
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"We have to continue to check our systems, because they can fail in unexpected ways."
Social media often goes very wrong. Making it right requires a vision for how social media can help, not harm, society.
A case study implemented by Inioluwa Raji under the guidance of Joy Buolamwini
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
All people are created equal, but in the eyes of the algorithm, not all faces are just yet.A new study from MIT and Microsoft res…
A new review of face recognition software found that, when identifying gender, the software is most accurate for men with light skin&n…
New research out of MIT’s Media Lab is underscoring what other experts have reported or at least suspected before: facial recognition techn…
Examination of facial-analysis software shows error rate of 0.8 percent for light-skinned men, 34.7 percent for dark-skinned women.
Real-world biases and artificial intelligence
Helping readers slow down, ask questions, and find reasoned opposing views may foster civil discourse online
“Welcome to the System! Together we will change the world!”These are the words I found scrawled at the bottom of a web page, right next to …
Shifting the narrative away from the issue being purely a law and order problem
We have Catherine D’Ignazio on the show this week to talk about feminist data visualization. Catherine is Assistant Professo…
…We may have helped create the AI monster here in the Hub, but it turns out we’re also the ones fighting to keep it on a leash, with a Just…
Our news is shaped by geographical and cultural proximity, the need for novelty, the frame of our existing narratives and how we value diffe
While Puerto Rico suffers after Hurricane Maria, much of the U.S. media (FiveThirtyEight not excepted) has been occupied with other things:…