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AHA Seminar Series

Join us for the MIT Media Lab's Advancing Humans with AI (AHA) Seminar Series, where we bring together world experts on artificial intellig…

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New digital biomarkers and interventions to monitor and improve sleep and mental wellbeing

Imagine in the future, you are excited about a big day coming up when you have an interview for your dream job opportunity. You select on y…

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Teaching Machines to See Medicine: How AI is Learning to Think Like a Doctor Across Every Medical Specialty

When you visit a doctor, they don't just look at one thing. Your physician might listen to your heart, examine an X-ray, review your blood …

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City Science Lab @ Toronto

City Science Lab Toronto was established in cooperation with Toronto Metropolitan University.  The  groups plan to build and work…

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Cambridge Public School Outreach

By Cody Paige, Space Exploration InitiativeCollaborators: Jessica Todd, Madelyn Hoying, Palak Patel, Marianna Rogers, Leila FreitagWorking …

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MIT NANDA: Algorithms to Unlock The Internet of AI Agents

NANDA (Networked Agents and Decentralized AI) is an ambitious MIT initiative developing the foundational infrastructure for a true "Interne…

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E - LIG

​We introduce E-LIG, a laser-enabled, additive fabrication method for flexible, double-sided printed circuit boards (PCBs) with integrated …

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Re-Imaginando La Costanera - 2023

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LIMITER: the Microtonal Arcade Machine

LIMITER is a new musical instrument designed to incorporate game-like elements into an interface for justly intonated and microtonal c…

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People Overtrust AI-Generated Medical Advice despite Low Accuracy

This project presents a comprehensive analysis of how artificial intelligence (AI)–generated medical responses are perceived and evaluated …

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Voice to Insights

​During constituency listening processes (CLPs; e.g., town halls), leaders hear directly from community members about their needs and inter…

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AI for Smell and Taste

Advancements in AI have revolutionized how machines perceive and interact with the world. However, almost all current progress has been lim…

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Moodeng AI Challenge

Animal-Human-AI Interaction Design Challenge for Promoting Deeper Connection with Naturehttps://moodeng.media.mit.edu/This challenge w…

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Performing Performance Spaces: Expressing context in live music performances

Throughout history, our relationships with the places we inhabit have been inseparable from their auditory imprints, like reverberation in …

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Gastronomy and Beyond

Gastronomy and Beyond (G+B) aims to unite individuals who contribute to innovation in the realms of culture, products, territories, sustain…

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MindSpace3D: 3D Object Reconstruction from Brain Activity (EEG)

​Recent advances in visual decoding have demonstrated the feasibility of classifying and reconstructing perceived images from evoked brain …

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Algorithmic Inheritance: Surname Bias in AI Decisions Reinforces Intergenerational Inequality

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

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Large Population Models

Think about how a delayed shipment, a cancelled flight, or a glitchy app can disrupt your week. Now scale that up: a virus like COVID-19 co…

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Evaluating the Practical Privacy of Whirlpool CoinJoins

Bitcoin is the leading public permissionless digital currency. Bitcoin uses a public ledger to achieve strong security properties and doubl…

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ADESS: A Proof of Work Blockchain Protocol Modification to Deter Double-Spend Attacks

A principal vulnerability of a proof-of-work ("PoW") blockchain is that an attacker can re-write the history of transactions by forking a p…

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Designing Payment Tokens For Safety, Integrity, Interoperability, and Usability

Massachusetts Institute of Technology Digital Currency Initiative (MIT DCI) and Kinexys Digital Payments at J.P. Morgan collaborated on the…

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Theme | Attention, Memory + Learning

Projects related to the theme of how digital systems may support attention, memory, and learning.

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MirrorFugue

MirrorFugue is an installation for a player piano that evokes the impression that the "reflection" of a disembodied pianist is playing the …

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Microgravity Research Flights with the Space Exploration Intiative

The Space Exploration Initiative charters an annual ZERO-G parabolic flight for 10-15 projects and 25 researchers across MIT Media Lab, sev…

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OctoStudio

OctoStudio is a free coding app available at octostudio.orgOctoStudio transforms how young people use mobile phones and tablets, enabl…

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CityScope Gipuzkoa: Accessibility Tool

Gipuzkoa as a 30-minute accessible region Gipuzkoa is a unique region characterized by a dispersed population along the coast and…

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BuzzCam

The South American Bombus dahlbomii is one of the largest bee species in the world. It can grow up to 1.6 inches long and, because of its s…

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Targeted Nakamoto: A Bitcoin Protocol to Balance Network Security and Energy Consumption

In a Proof-of-Work blockchain such as Bitcoin mining hashrate is increasing in the block reward. An increase in hashrate reduces network &n…

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Space Architecture for DOMUS

Space Architecture: a Domus column by Valentina SuminiSpace architecture is rapidly evolving, merging design, engineering, and human factor…

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BioEssence

A wearable olfactory display that monitors cardio-respiratory information with the aspiration to support mental wellbeing.BioEssence is a w…

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Doodlebot - Creative AI learning

Doodlebot is a robot-based creative AI learning platform for high school students. It consists of an introduction to robotics, hardware, so…

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Far-UVC for airborne pathogen disinfection

Assessing the safety of Far-UVC – an emerging technology for airborne pathogen control. 

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Air sampling for virus detection

Examining the role of air sampling in pathogen biosurveillance. 

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Automatic Design of Personalized FPCB-Based Tactile Sensing Gloves

Tactile Sensing for AllResistive tactile sensing gloves have captured the interest of researchers spanning diverse domains, such as robotic…

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Re·Live: Recreating Past Environments as Immersive Walkable Virtual Reality Spaces

What if you could go back in time to your childhood homes? Or what if you could revisit an old vacation spot that you once visited? Or even…

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Quantum Urbanizable Booster (QUB)

We are developing an innovative platform that accelerates the simulation of humanized agent-based models (h-ABM) using real data sourced fr…

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Silverspot: exploring parameter space with sketches

With computation, it's easy to create systems that have a vast number of variations, but it's sometimes difficult to explore those systems.…

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Using satellites to monitor deforestation due to mining and forest management in Ghana

Gold mining has played a significant role in Ghana's economy for centuries. Regulation of this industry has varied over time and while indu…

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Can autonomy make bike-sharing more sustainable?

Autonomous bicycles have recently been proposed as a new and more efficient approach to bicycle-sharing systems, but how do they compare fr…

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Design as an Astronaut

A vision for human life on the MoonDesign as an Astronaut, presented at 19th International Architecture Exhibition,Intellige…

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Earth and Planetary Mission Control at Venice Biennale 2025

Exhibition: The Next Earth: Computation, Crisis, Cosmology Location: Palazzo Diedo, Venezia | May 10 – November 23, 2025Earth and Planetary…

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Climate Intelligence

Climate Intelligence focuses on the integration of cutting-edge technologies and systems thinking to address critical climate challenges.&n…

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AttentivU - Headphones

AttentivU Headphones is one of the form-factors of AttentivU system. AttentivU Headphones feature the total of 9 dry or semi-dry …

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Gaze to the Stars

What if public buildings could share our dreams, and reveal our intimate expressions of struggle and triumph? Inspired by the motto "p…

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Measuring Confusion using EEG and Eye-Tracking

There are currently  UROP openings for this project. Humans navigate an overwhelming amount of information flow daily,  part…

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NeuroChat

NeuroChat is a neuroadaptive AI tutor that combines generative AI with real-time EEG data to create a personalized, dynamic learning experi…

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Guadalajara Mobility Choices

Mobility Choices is used to predict transportation mode choices of students at the University of Guadalajara (UdeG) within the Guadalajara …

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Autonomous micro-mobility for food deliveries

Could we substitute cars by shared autonomous lightweight vehicles for food delivery? We have developed an agent-based simulation model tha…

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Zero Robotics

Zero Robotics is an educational program that hosts tournaments to teach middle and high school students to write code and program with robo…

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Moonshot: Benchmarks for Human Flourishing with AI

​Working Workshop on Benchmarks for Human Flourishing with AIWorkshop dates:  September 17-18, 2025 Deadline for application : Au…

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Moonshot: Atlas of Human-AI Interaction

Project OverviewThe Atlas of Human-AI Interaction is an innovative framework that maps the complex landscape of empirical findings in human…

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From Lab to Living Room: Gamifying AI Research

AI interfaces have evolved, yet they remain largely confined to chat and voice. Gamification offers a new avenue for research and education…

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Multifunctional Autonomous Micro-Mobility

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CLIMB: Data Foundations for Large Scale Multimodal Clinical Foundation Models

Recent advances in clinical AI have enabled remarkable progress across many clinical domains. However, existing benchmarks and models are p…

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Towards Socially-Intelligent Nonverbal Foundation Models

If we want AI to engage with us naturally—in classrooms, therapy, eldercare, and beyond—it needs to understand us, with or without words.&n…

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Space Fermentation

This research highlights opportunities to bring the rich culture of Earth-based fermentation practices to space to design beneficial applic…

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Multimodal AI for Education: Expanding Learning Beyond Text

Education is inherently multimodal—we don’t just learn through words, but also through visuals, interactions, and hands-on experiences. Whi…

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Connecting Through Comics: Co-creating creative digital tools for expressing complex emotions, with and for trauma-impacted youth

An estimated 20-48% of youth in the United States have been exposed to multiple types of trauma in their childhood. This developmental trau…

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Open Dance Lab: Digital Platform for Examining, Experimenting, and Evolving Intangible Cultural Data

We propose a computational approach to preserve traditional dance as living cultural heritage, exploring the use of technology to capture k…

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Emotional Self Voice

Emotions, shaped by past experiences, significantly influence decision-making and goal pursuit. Traditional cognitive-behavioral techniques…

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Deceptive Reasoning by AI Can Amplify Beliefs in Misinformation

ACM CHI 2025 · Research PublicationApril 2025In a randomized controlled trial study, “Deceptive Explanations by Large Language Models …

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Mirai: A Wearable Proactive AI "Inner-Voice" for Contextual Nudging

People often find it difficult to turn their intentions into real actions—a challenge that affects both personal growth and mental wellbein…

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Cities That Feel: Modeling Emotional Interactions and Collective Behavior in Cityscapes

This project simulates an urban environment where agents interact through conversations and their perception of the cityscape, influencing …

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Real-Time Safety Mapping Through Community Sensors

We developed a small, handheld sensor to track when and where people feel unsafe in urban areas that are still growing or changing. The dev…

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Safe Cities: Modeling Urban Mobility and Perceived Safety through Agent-Based Simulations

Walking is the most essential and human way to move through a city. When people feel safe doing so, streets come alive, communities connect…

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Understanding Language Model Usage and Trust in Academia

Language models (LMs) are revolutionizing knowledge retrieval and processing in academia. However, concerns regarding their misuse and erro…