Article Research

RFID stickers could signal contaminated food

MIT researchers have found a way to check many items instantly, non-invasively, and from a distance—using the RFID tags.
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Disobedience Award

Disobedience Award
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Building with Bio in “How to Grow Almost Anything” Class

Molecular biology fundamentally computes to build; it is an information processing system.-Neil Gershenfeld, director of MIT Center for B...
June 21, 2019
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Black Rock Atlas

Burning Man is a magical place that gets the best of human creativity and collaboration to flourish. To further understand what makes thi...
Archived
Article Research

Student Inventor Wins $30,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize for 'Tools of Mass Construction'

Griffith attributes his inventiveness to his nurturing parents, an artist and an engineer who reside in his hometown of Sydney, Australia.
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Tree Computer

The Tree Computer is a robotic greenhouse built to explore plant stress, health, longevity, and productivity across a wide rang...
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Social Machines

Promoting deeper learning and understanding in human networks
Article Research

Watch this device translate silent thoughts into speech

For people who can’t speak out loud due to illness or injury, AlterEgo might return their ability to communicate in real time.
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PlusMinus

PlusMinus
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Deep Image of the City

DeepScope is a novel platform for interactive, real-time, and setup-less urban design visualization.  It attempts to substitute comm...
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Fluid Interfaces

Designing wearable systems for cognitive enhancement
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The Future of Neuroimplantable Devices: A materials science and regulatory perspective

​The past two decades have seen unprecedented progress in the development of novel materials, form factors, and functionalities in neuroi...
Article Research

Rosalind Picard: Affective Computing, Emotion, Privacy, and Health | Artificial Intelligence Podcast

In an interview with MIT research scientist Lex Fridman, Rosalind Picard discusses affective computing, privacy, diversity in tech, and more
Article Research

Could plants be the future of interface design?

Core77 reports on the Fluid Interfaces group’s work in cyborg botany.
Publication Research

Recent Progress in Electrochemical pH-Sensing Materials and Configurations for Biomedical Applications

Ghoneim, M. T., Nguyen, A., Dereje, N., Huang, J., Moore, G. C., Murzynowski, P. J. , Dagdeviren. C.†, ACS Chemical Reviews, 119(8), 5248-5297, 2019. [Invited Review Paper]
Publication Research

The Future of Neuroimplantable Devices: A Materials Science and Regulatory Perspective

Obidin, N., Tasnim, F., Dagdeviren, C.†, Advanced Materials, 1901482, 2019. [Invited Review Paper]
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How do materials choices and design decisions affect the regulatory pathway for neuroimplantable devices?

We present a review paper that analyzes how early design decisions can affect the regulatory approval process downstream.
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Conformable Decoders

Converting the patterns of nature and the human body into beneficial signals and energy
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City Science

Looking beyond smart cities
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Democratizing Science

The Democratizing Science project is opening up MIT Media Lab research in the form of STEAM learning programs in three elementa...
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ML Learning

ML Learning
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Creating 3-D images, with regular ink

MIT startup Lumii helps manufacturers replicate the visual effects of holograms on their printed materials.
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Argus: Water monitoring through nanosensors inside living plants

Our traditional manufacturing, fabrication, and electronics have been centered around synthetic and completely artificial techniques. Com...
Publication Research

Deep Image of the City: A generative approach to urban-design visualization
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City Science Network
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Elowan: A plant-robot hybrid

Elowan is a cybernetic lifeform, a plant in direct dialogue with a machine. Using its own internal electrical signals, the plant is inter...
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Data Dancing

Every day, data about our environment, education, routes, and other aspects of our lives become available. Yet most people often struggle...
Article Research

Motion-sensing shrubs and robo-Venus flytraps: Inside the world of Cyborg Botany

“A plant absorbing water acts as a natural motor, their photosynthesis as optoelectronics, their growth as a 3D printer, and so on.”
Thesis Research

Agent-based Programming Interfaces for Children: Supporting Blind Children in Creative Computing through Conversation

Thesis: Tina Quach. Agent-based Programming Interfaces for Children: Supporting Blind Children in Creative Computing through Conversation. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. May 2019.
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City as Classroom, City as Laboratory

Often, we neglect to see the city as living, complex, and dynamic. However, shrouded by its masses of concrete and steel lie unique ecosy...
Project Research

Climate CubeSat Co-Building Outreach Program (C3)

The Media Lab Space Exploration Initiative is driven by an effort to democratize the future of space exploration. As such, we a...
Post Research

Tangible influence: A stroll through Hiroshi Ishii’s living legacy

Celebrating Hiroshi Ishii's mentorship and groundbreaking research
Publication Research

Huggable: The Impact of Embodiment on Promoting Socio-emotional Interactions for Young Pediatric Inpatients

Jeong, Sooyeon, et al. "Huggable: The Impact of Embodiment on Promoting Socio-emotional Interactions for Young Pediatric Inpatients." Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ACM, 2018.
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JoDS: Journal of Design and Science

Launched in early 2016, the Journal of Design and Science (JoDS) captures the antidisciplinary ethos of the MIT Media Lab. Like the Lab, ...
Sept. 28, 2016
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CivicLink

Major political campaigns and nonprofit organizations use bespoke systems to organize, inform, and solicit members. These top-down system...
Post Research

Exhibiting at the Media Lab: Canan Dagdeviren reflects on exhibiting student work

Putting together this exhibit helped me to reflect on both my personal and academic lives.
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Internships in MIT's Signal Kinetics Group - Summer 2018

​We have four openings for visiting students (internships) in the summer of 2018 in the Signal Kinetics group directed by Prof. Fadel Adi...
Project Research

Ocean Cultures

The Māori of Aotearoa (New Zealand) have a long and deep connection to their island and ocean ecosystem. Concepts such as ...
Project Research

P2PSTORY: Dataset of children as storytellers and listeners in peer-to-peer interactions

Understanding social-emotional behaviors in storytelling interactions plays a critical role in the development of interactive and educati...
Publication Research

Assessing Children's Perception and Acceptance of a Social Robot

Kory-Westlund, J. M., & Breazeal, C. (2019). Assessing Children's Perception and Acceptance of a Social Robot. Proceedings of the 18th ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference (IDC) (pp. 38-50). ACM: New York, NY.
Publication Research

Meta-weighted Gaussian Process Experts for Personalized Forecasting of AD Cognitive Changes

Rudovic, O., Utsumi, Y., Guerrero, R., Peterson, K., Rueckert, D., Picard, R. W. "Meta-weighted Gaussian Process Experts for Personalized Forecasting of AD Cognitive Changes" Machine Learning for Healthcare Conference (ML4HC2019), August 2019.
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Space Enabled

Advancing justice in Earth's complex systems using designs enabled by space
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Affective Computing

Advance human wellbeing by developing new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion
Article Research

For young activists, a new cause: period parity

The MIT Media Lab is setting out to reimagine the tired old monthly enterprise with a “period hackathon."
Project Research

3D Mobility

Unfolding the way we move. Mobility has shaped the built environment since humans started settling together. From industrial towns t...
Publication Research

Towards Empathetic Car Interfaces: Emotional Triggers while Driving

Zepf, S., Dittrich, M., Hernandez, J., Schmitt, A. "Towards Empathetic Car Interfaces: Emotional Triggers while Driving," In the Late Breaking Work of CHI, Glasgow, UK, May 2019.
Project Research

[bike] swarm

As bikes navigate city streets after dark, they are often equipped with lights. The lights make the bikes visible to cars or other bikers...
Gallery Research

[bike] swarm: synchronization & network
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Earthlings—Space Exploration Initiative open call for artworks in low Earth orbit

What are the opportunities and challenges in the creation of art for space, and art depicting space and space technologies?
Project Research

Space Food and Sensory Experiences

The human experience of food extends far beyond that of mere nourishment. Debriefs with astronauts tell us that food is a key creature co...
Project Research

Emotional Beasts Parte Dos: NeuroKnit

NeuroKnit is the interplay between the physical and virtual that is explored in response to the current lack of culture, expression, and ...
Post Research

Guillermo Bernal wins 2019 Schnitzer Prize

Guillermo Bernal believes virtual reality should be more expressive.
Gallery Research

NeuroKnit

Close up  images from the NeuroKnit project.
Project Research

CityScope LivingLine Shanghai

College of Design and Innovation of Tongji University, Shanghai, and the MIT Media Lab's City Science group are co-developing a version o...
Project Research

The Interplanetary Cookbook

The MIT Media Lab Space Exploration Initiative is developing “The Interplanetary Cookbook”—a collection of thought-provoking recipes, too...
Publication Research

Split learning for health: Distributed deep learning without sharing raw patient data

Praneeth Vepakomma, Otkrist Gupta, Tristan Swedish, Ramesh Raskar. Split learning for health: Distributed deep learning without sharing raw patient data, arXiv.org, ICLR 2019 AI for Social Good Workshop (2018).
Publication Research

Flash Photography for Data-Driven Hidden Scene Recovery

Flash Photography for Data-Driven Hidden Scene Recovery. Matthew Tancik, Guy Satat, Ramesh Raskar, arXiv:1810.11710 (2018).
Publication Research

Light-Field for RF

Light-Field for RF. Manikanta Kotaru, Guy Satat, Ramesh Raskar, Sachin Katti, arXiv:1901.03953 (2019).
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Data Markets to support AI for All: Pricing, Valuation and Governance

Ramesh Raskar, Praneeth Vepakomma, Tristan Swedish, Aalekh Sharan. Data Markets to support AI for All: Pricing, Valuation and Governance, arXiv:1905.06462 (2019).
Publication Research

Reducing leakage in distributed deep learning for sensitive health data

Praneeth Vepakomma, Otkrist Gupta, Abhimanyu Dubey, Ramesh Raskar. Reducing Leakage in Distributed Deep Learning for Sensitive Health Data, ICLR 2019 AI for Social Good Workshop (2019).
Project Research

Social Physics of Unemployment

Earlier studies proved that behavior is highly shaped and constrained by one's social networks, and demonstrated ways in which individual...
Publication Research

A Review of Homomorphic Encryption Libraries for Secure Computation

Sai Sri Sathya, Praneeth Vepakomma, Ramesh Raskar, Ranjan Ramachandra, Santanu Bhattacharya. arXiv:1812.02428
Project Research

Technology Design for Coffee Production

In the Civic Media group, we are exploring new theoretical frameworks for design, and novel design education methodologies that serve a f...
Project Research

Personalized Animated Movies

Storytelling is a fundamental way in which human beings understand the world. Imagine watching a movie telling the story of your life, ho...
Publication Research

Context is Key: New Approaches to Neural Coherence Modeling

McClure, David, Shayne O’Brien, and Deb Roy. “Context Is Key: New Approaches to Neural Coherence Modeling.” ArXiv:1812.04722 [Cs, Stat], December 5, 2018. http://arxiv.org/abs/1812.04722.
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Looking Around Corners

Using a femtosecond laser and a camera with a time resolution of about one trillion frames per second, we recover objects hidden out of s...