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Could the Power of Curiosity End Illiteracy?

Media Lab alum Tinsley Galyean talks to the MIT Alumni Association about the power of curiosity.
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Fluid Interfaces

Designing Systems for Cognitive Augmentation
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Media Arts & Sciences Alumni Mentorship Program: Student Success Stories 2025

The initiative has connected over 130 students with alumni who provide guidance on navigating the workforce.
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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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City Science

Looking beyond smart cities
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Karl Sims and Alexander Mordvintsev on Merging Technology and Biology

Artists and engineers Karl Sims and Alexander Mordvintsev speak about the potential of artificial life and creativity with Peter Bauman.
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MIT Center for Constructive Communication

Designing tools, methods and systems that connect rather than divide us to create a healthier society
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Responsive Environments

Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks
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Media Lab alum Ben Fry contributes to $100M MacArthur-winning Sentinel project

Fathom Information Design, founded by alum Ben Fry, helped build Sentinel, winner of MacArthur’s $100M 100&Change award.
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Dr. Joy Buolamwini elected to the Legal Defense Fund Board of Directors

Media Lab alum Dr. Joy Buolamwini has been elected to the LDF Board of Directors, advancing work at the intersection of AI and civil rights.
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Space Exploration Initiative

Designing, prototyping, and building the artifacts of our sci-fi space future
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Cultivating a Supportive Sphere: Digital tools for social support amongst current and former foster-involved youth

Over 600,000 youth in the United States experience abuse or neglect each year. Youth who are deemed to be at risk of significant harm in th…
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Tangible Media

Invent new tangible and embodied interactions that inspire and engage people
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Future Sketches

Exploring the essence of code as a creative medium
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Biomechatronics

Enhancing human physical capability
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Media Lab alum Srishti Sethi receives Open Education Global Award 2025

Lifelong Kindergarten alumna Srishti Sethi recognized for advancing openness and equity in global education.
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The Genius Within Exhibit 2025 | Innovators for Purpose

Professor Danielle Wood and alum Dr. Joy Buolamwini are among those featured in The Genius Within art exhibition in Kendall Square.
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Media Lab alum Dan Novy participates in analog astronaut mission

Dan Novy, Media Lab alumnus, joins global analog astronaut mission simulating life on Mars in Armenia.
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Voice to Vision (V2V)

​Voice to VisionVoice to Vision (V2V) is a collaborative research and civic technology project that bridges the gap between community voice…
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Affective Computing

Advancing human wellbeing by developing new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion
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Space Enabled

Advancing justice in Earth's complex systems using designs enabled by space
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Opera of the Future

Extending expression, learning, and health through innovations in musical composition, performance, and participation
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The Jam_Bot wins 2025 MIDI Innovation Award

Perry Naseck, Lancelot Blanchard, and Jordan Rudess win 2025 MIDI Innovation Award for Jam_Bot, an AI-driven live performance system.
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Multisensory Intelligence

Creating human-AI symbiosis across scales and sensory mediums to enhance productivity, creativity, and wellbeing
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Xin Liu and Chloe Bensahel named finalists for 2025 Falling Walls Science Breakthroughs of the Year

Xin Liu and Chloe Bensahel are finalists in the Art and Science category at the 2025 Falling Walls Science Summit.
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Community Biotechnology

Empowering communities through the life sciences + biotechnology
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Media Lab Community Members receive 2025–26 CAST Grants

Three members of the Media Lab community have received grants as part of MIT CAST’s 2025–26 projects.
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Lifelong Kindergarten

Engaging people in creative learning experiences
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Alum Sam Rodriques named to Time100 AI 2025 List

Sam Rodriques, alum of the Synthetic Neurobiology research group, is recognized in the Innovators category of TIME100 AI 2025.
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Rendezvous Robotics raises funding to develop technology for self-assembling space structures

A startup has raised an initial round of funding to commercialize a technology that could create large structures in orbit.
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'Near Telepathic' Wearable Lets You Communicate Silently With Devices

Boston startup AlterEgo unveiled a wearable built on MIT research that converts silent muscle signals into speech, aiming to reshape how we
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AlterEgo

AlterEgo is a  non-invasive, wearable, peripheral neural interface that allows humans to converse in natural language with machin…
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Personal Robots

Building intelligent personified technologies that collaborate with people to help them learn, thrive, and flourish.
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Qian Janice Wang Named Master of Wine

Qian Janice Wang has been named a Master of Wine—the first residing in Denmark—by the Institute of Masters of Wine.
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Human Dynamics

Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion
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Camera Culture

Making the invisible visible–inside our bodies, around us, and beyond–for health, work, and connection
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Spinoff Three Space Lab secures $3 million in seed funding

Three Space Lab, founded by Fluid Interfaces alum Scott Greenwald, raises $3M to expand its AI-driven VR real estate platform.
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Jordan and the jam_bot: A Human-AI Co-Created Live Music Performance

On September 21st, 2024, we concluded a year-long collaboration with GRAMMY-winning keyboardist Jordan Rudess, culminating in a sold-out pe…
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“FUTURE PHASES” showcases new frontiers in music technology and interactive performance

MIT concert, featuring electronic and computer-generated music, was a part of the 2025 International Computer Music Conference.
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Ehsan Hoque Named Letten Prize 2025 Finalist

The award honors impactful early-career research in health, development, and environment.
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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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Design + Education: an interview with Paola Antonelli

Paola Antonelli shares her perspective on design as a deeply educational and social practice.
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Supporting mission-driven space innovation, for Earth and beyond

Aurelia Institute serves as a research lab, an education and outreach center, and a policy hub for the space industry.
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Music and Technology Intertwined

Graduate program in music technology and computation brings new dimension to interdisciplinary offerings
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At MIT, musicians make new tools for new tunes

Students at MIT Music Technology use design to push the frontier of digital instruments and software for human expression and empowerment.
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Alum Daniel Pillis wins Best Presentation at the Generative AI for Design Workshop 2025

This presentation explored the application of real time stable diffusion to improve the efficiency of virtual production workflows.
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MicroPET: Investigation of Biodegradation of PET Plastics in Spaceflight

MicroPET is an autonomous payload for enzymatic reactions and microbial cultivation with fully programmable serial passaging and sampl…
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Why AI hardware needs to be open

An iPhone for AI would be a big mistake. Here’s what we need to build instead.
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AI can’t really be your ‘companion.’ We need new words for things like that.

The difference between a copilot and a ‘c0pilot.’
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TED: How to build in space for life on Earth

At TED2025, alum Ariel Ekblaw unveiled TESSERAE—self-assembling space habitats using magnetized tiles to build in microgravity.
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Research spotlight: Eran Egozy on blending music and technology

Media Lab alum talks about founding MIT’s new Music Technology and Computation Graduate Program.
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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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Bridging Earth and space, and art and science, with global voices

Prof. Craig Carter’s precision design for a student-led project now on the moon encodes messages from around the world on a silicon wafer
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Randi Williams ’16: AI technologist and education advocate headlines 2025 URCAD

The story of an MIT Media Lab alumna who is making AI education accessible to youth and using technology to empower diverse learners.
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Earth Mission Control (EMC)

Advanced Data Visualizations for Climate IntelligenceMarked by heightened awareness and global concern over the climate crisis, the MI…
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Ask an Engineer: Will we ever run out of music? As long as someone is listening, the beat will go on.

Media Lab alum Eran Egozy tells MIT Engineering that the potential for new musical creations is, for all practical purposes, infinite.
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VocalCords: Exploring Tactile Interaction with the Singing Voice

The close relationship between touch, gesture, and sound plays a critical role in expressive musical performance. Many acoustic instruments…
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Scratch

Scratch is the world's most popular coding community for kids. Millions of kids around the world are using Scratch to program their ow…
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MIT engineers prepare to send three payloads to the moon

Data from the devices will help future astronauts navigate the moon’s south polar region and search for frozen water.
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Media Lab Research Theme: Life with AI

Life with AI | Designing the future of smart systems to improve the human experience
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Media Lab Research Theme: Future Worlds

Future Worlds | Design and action for the future we want to live in
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Media Lab Research Theme: Decentralized Society

Decentralized Society | Architecting the new internet for the good of the people
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Media Lab Research Theme: Cultivating Creativity

Cultivating Creativity | Catalyzing a global movement enabling everyone to unlock and unleash their individual and collective creativity
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Media Lab Research Theme: Connected Mind + Body

Connected Mind + Body | Revolutionizing the future of mental and physical wellbeing
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Creating smart buildings with privacy-first sensors

Butlr, founded by former Media Lab researchers, uses insights from thermal sensors to make buildings safe and efficient.
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MM-RT

MM-RT is a tabletop tangible musical interface that employs electromagnetic actuators and small permanent magnets to physically induce soun…
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The Entrepreneur’s Attorney: A penchant for the cutting edge

Alum Brent Britton, now an intellectual property attorney, talks to Boston University School of Law.
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The Interview: Carsten Höller + Adam Haar

Alum Adam Haar and artist Carsten Höller talk about the Dream Hotel—a collaboration that began with Höller’s 2021 MIT CAST residency.
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3 Questions: Catherine D’Ignazio on data science and a quest for justice

Catherine D’Ignazio, a Media Lab alum and current professor in the MIT Department of Urban Studies + Planning, talks about her new book.
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A Dream Hotel with Carsten Höller

We are working with MIT CAST Visiting Artist Carsten Höller to build prototypes for a Dream Hotel museum exhibition which will translate ex…
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