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The OpenAg™ Food Server is a shipping container-sized, controlled environment agriculture technology that can be built to utilize hydropo...
The Open Water Data project explores data physicalization as a path to community engagement and action on important environmental issues....
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Today's students have grown up in a world of rapidly evolving technology, and they are natural-born experimenters, programmers, and tinke...
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Open Agriculture Initiative (OpenAg)
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The Signal Kinetics group, led by professor Fadel Adib at MIT, has a postdoc opening in underwater acoustic systems.
Advancing wellbeing by using new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion
Rosalind Picard and Kate Darling join other experts to discuss how and why humans empathize with machines.
Congratulations to alum David Moinina Sengeh, who has been named as one of the World Economic Forum’s Young Global Leaders.
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Extending human and computer abilities in sensing, communication, and actuation through signals and networks
Teleportation may have to wait.
Mechanical mentors try to find their place as teacher’s helpers.
Exploring new forms of social justice through art
Civic Entertainment is a project based at the Center for Civic Media that explores the intersection of civic engagement with film, televi...
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As devices aggregate more contextual data about users, they may learn to offer assistance without explicit instruction.
Most countries are projected to see their 65 and older population surpass the number of people under the age of 15 by 2050. The...
Researchers present a user-centered design approach to creating intelligent social technologies to empower and help older adults at home.
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Looking beyond smart cities
Advancing justice in Earth's complex systems using designs enabled by space
Researchers say new facilities in space should be available to scientists from any country.
We have described validation of novel machine learning architectures for designing faster, safer, and more efficacious digital medicines ...
Real World Data (RWD) and Real World Evidence (RWE) are playing an increasing role in healthcare decisions to support innovative&nbs...
Paper Dreams explores the various modes of creativity that can be enabled by artificial intelligence.A fair amount of current research ha...
Joi Ito talks to Walter Isaacson about AI, ethics, biotech, and how being a DJ prepared him to become the director of the Media Lab.
For decades, the International Space Station (ISS) has operated as a bastion of international cooperation and a unique testbed for microg...
We must proactively tackle the economic, social, and societal implications that accompany the widespread deployment of AI technology. In ...
Researchers find that, in published AI research, industry is overtaking academia, and the diversity of fields represented has declined.
Gravity anchors all existence on Earth.It pulls a chaotic world to one single point in every moment of life. Even though gravity is every...
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Converting the patterns of nature and the human body into beneficial signals and energy
Ed Boyden, Ernst Bamberg, Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann, Gero Miesenböck, and Georg Nagel awarded one of America's oldest science prizes.
Joi Ito ponders the fearmongering and lack of rigorous research surrounding kids and screen time.
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Future of clinical development is on the verge of a major transformation due to convergence of large new digital data sources, the comput...
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Center for Extreme Bionics
Research projects show creative ways MIT students are connecting computing to other fields.
Communication technologies, from printing to social media, affect our historical records by changing the way ideas are spread and recorde...
MIT Media Lab’s new interactive “Atlas of Inequality” shows that “segregation is not just about where you live, but what you do."
Anirudh Sharma was at a conference in India when he noticed black particles accumulating on his white shirt.
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Leaders from government, philanthropy, academia, and industry say collaboration is key to make sure AI serves the public good.