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Inventing disruptive technologies for nanoelectronic devices and creating new paradigms for life-machine symbiosis
Scalable AI Program for the Intelligent Evolution of Networks
Enhancing human physical capability
Converting the patterns of nature and the human body into beneficial signals and energy
Advancing justice in Earth's complex systems using designs enabled by space
Alirezaie, Marjan, Hossein Rahnama, and Alex Pentland. "Structural Learning in the design of Perspective-Aware AI Systems using Knowledge Graphs." Proceedings of the AAAI. 2024.
City Science researchers are developing a slew of tangible and digital platforms dedicated to solving spatial design and urban planning cha…
In recent years, Generative AI technology has risen in popularity and has been promoted for its creative potential. However, applications o…
Ultrasound is widely used for tissue imaging such as breast cancer diagnosis; however, fundamental challenges limit…
Perspective-Aware AI (PAI) is a new approach to AI that goes beyond simply avoiding bias. It focuses on understanding, representing, and in…
Have you ever wondered what a friend would do if she was in your decision-making situation? Or thought about where a family membe…
Bell was a high school intern with the Fluid Interfaces group, where he helped to develop assistive cognitive tools.
Designing across the scale, imagining a transformative future
Education, particularly in STEM and social sciences, often struggles to engage students due to traditional teaching methods that feel detac…
Say hello to FutureYou!Imagine stepping into a time machine and having a conversation with your future self. What would you ask? What unex…
The MIT senior and undergraduate researcher in the Conformable Decoders group will pursue graduate studies in the UK.
Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion
Designing Systems for Cognitive Support
KnitworkVR is an immersive virtual experience designed to simulate the Living Knitwork Pavilion showcased at Burning Man, through the use o…
Visiting Media Lab Professor Hossein Rahnama talks to Emily Chang about the potential impact of Human-AI agents.
This project aimed at enhancing the social-emotional and educational experiences of Arabic-speaking refugee children. The project leverages…
Platnick, D., Alirezaie, M., & Rahnama, H. (2024). Enabling Perspective-Aware Ai with Contextual Scene Graph Generation. Information, 15(12), 766. https://doi.org/10.3390/info15120766
Creating human-AI symbiosis across scales and sensory mediums to enhance productivity, creativity, and wellbeing
Director Dava Newman talks with ILP as part of their Faculty Feature, discussing her work at the MIT Media Lab.
Engineering at the limits of complexity with molecular-scale parts
Cultivating wisdom through evolutionary and ecological engineering
The acquisition of training data is crucial for machine learning applications. Data markets can increase the supply of data, particularly i…
Foundation models have become invaluable in advancing the medical field. Despite their promise, the strategic deployment of LLMs for effect…
Media Lab alum + MIT DUSP Prof Catherine D’Ignazio thinks carefully about how we acquire and display data—and why we lack it for many things
MemPal was selected in the Health category.
The theme for this year's competition was Generative Voice AI Solutions.
The method could help communities visualize and prepare for approaching storms.
Poole-Dayan, Elinor, Deb Roy, and Jad Kabbara. "LLM Targeted Underperformance Disproportionately Impacts Vulnerable Users." arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.17737 (2024).
Building intelligent personified technologies that collaborate with people to help them learn, thrive, and flourish.
This project seeks to explore and further develop the concept of "Symbiotic Virtuosity," where artificial intelligence (AI) and human music…
Acclaimed keyboardist Jordan Rudess’s collaboration with the Media Lab culminates in live improvisation between an AI “jam_bot” + the artist
Designing, prototyping, and building the artifacts of our sci-fi space future
Many tasks are not easily defined and/or too complex for supervised machine learning approaches. For these reasons, a technique known as&nb…
Depending on the operational environment of an autonomous system, a great deal of perceptual uncertainty may be introduced to an object det…
Navigation for autonomous UAVS (unmanned aerial vehicles) is a complex problem and physical field testing of associated tasks introduces a …
With the advent of real-time photorealism (RTPR), virtual environments are now able to achieve higher degrees of engagement than ever befor…
Audio-visual data set containing around 21.6 hours of parent-child interaction during story reading.The DAMI-P2C dataset consists of audio-…
CommunityLM is a research program from MIT Center for Constructive Communication (CCC) and MIT Media Lab. We are devoted to developing soci…
Spoken language is an information-rich medium that combines words with various paralinguistic information such as emotion and prosody. In d…
This project is supported by the Abdul Latif Jameel Clinic for Machine Learning in Health (J-Clinic), the National Institutes of Healt…
Our Oceans IoT technologies enable new applications in climate and ecological monitoring, aquaculture, energy, and robotic navigation. …
Latent Lab - Navigating Innovation: Interactive Data Exploration & InspirationLatent Lab is an AI-driven, graphical knowledge expl…
Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks
2D Spintronic and Neuromorphic Devices for Sustainable Artificial Intelligence
Media Lab researcher Nikhil Singh and alums Aruna Sankaranarayanan and Matt Groh discuss ways that deepfakes may affect the 2024 elections.
Future You, developed by Dr. Pat Pataranutaporn, allows users to explore possible futures by chatting with an older version of themselves.
Professor Alex ‘Sandy’ Pentland was among the experts participating in a panel discussion on how AI may affect the 2024 elections.
Media Lab students and alums are among the winners and honorees for the 2024 MIT Prize for Open Data.
In Scientific American, Dr. Pat Pataranutaporn and others consider the ways that art shapes our understanding of and interactions with AI.
Looking beyond smart cities
Invent new tangible and embodied interactions that inspire and engage people
Labber Mark Weber and others are releasing an experimental version of an AI model for detecting money laundering on Bitcoin's blockchain.
Humanizing Agent-Based Models (h-ABM) emerges as a pioneering technique to simulate real-world behaviors, aiming to seamlessly bridge …
Engaging people in creative learning experiences
We propose a computational approach to preserve traditional dance as living cultural heritage, exploring the use of technology to capture k…
An embodied virtual agent is a promising oracle for delivering appropriate just-in time interventions. We aim to build a system and design …
The rapid advancement of Generative AI (GenAI) technologies presents new opportunities to support daily living for older adults. This proje…
CityFlow is a versatile tool that allows users to design, evaluate, and visualize urban solutions through an llm-integrated, case-based sys…
Projects related to the theme of how digital systems may support attention, memory, and learning.
Crossroads is an interactive social game where players dig deep into each other's past experiences by collaboratively generating and r…
People have to remember an ever-expanding volume of information. To help with this, we developed Memoro, a wearable and audio-based person…