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MIT City Science has developed an international network of cooperative City Science LabsWe are developing concepts and key technology that …
Inventing, building, and deploying wireless sensor technologies to address complex problems in society, industry, and ecology
Many of society's most pressing challenges—from pandemic response to supply chain disruptions to climate adaptation—emerge from the collect…
People and intelligent machines in a creative, symbiotic loop
Designing Systems for Cognitive Augmentation
Creating human-AI symbiosis across scales and sensory mediums to enhance productivity, creativity, and wellbeing
Advancing justice in Earth's complex systems using designs enabled by space
We crowdsourced and published a first-of-its-kind open dataset that contains Amazon purchase histories, spanning 2018 to 2022, from more th…
Berke, A., Larson, K., Pentland, S. and Calacci, D., 2025. Measuring risks inherent to our digital economies using Amazon purchase histories from US consumers. arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.18774.
Advanced Data Visualizations for Climate IntelligenceMarked by heightened awareness and global concern over the climate crisis, the MI…
As climate-related disasters become more frequent, the need for actionable climate intelligence has never been greater. Earth Observa…
Climate Intelligence focuses on the integration of cutting-edge technologies and systems thinking to address critical climate challenges.&n…
A robust and resilient communication infrastructure is essential to the development of democratic processes and knowledge formation. Decent…
Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks
Life with AI | Designing the future of smart systems to improve the human experience
Future Worlds | Design and action for the future we want to live in
Decentralized Society | Architecting the new internet for the good of the people
Cultivating Creativity | Catalyzing a global movement enabling everyone to unlock and unleash their individual and collective creativity
Connected Mind + Body | Revolutionizing the future of mental and physical wellbeing
Advancing human wellbeing by developing new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion
Butlr, founded by former Media Lab researchers, uses insights from thermal sensors to make buildings safe and efficient.
By Rachel BellisleOverview:The Gravity Loading Countermeasure Skinsuit (GLCS or “Skinsuit”) is an intravehicular activity suit for astronau…
When imagining human life in space, how will we express our humanity and creativity in an alien environment? Can the art we make both refle…
We present the design, implementation, and evaluation of 𝑈2𝐵, a technology that enables scalable ad ultra-low power ocean IoT. At the…
Resilience Across Scales is a research theme that encompasses the work of a few Media Lab Principal Investigators and their research groups…
Different approaches and models have been used to detect driver’s stress and affective states, using physiology, facial expression, and sel…
zkTax is a zero-knowledge tax disclosure system that allows individuals to make provable claims about select information in their tax retur…
Catherine D’Ignazio, a Media Lab alum and current professor in the MIT Department of Urban Studies + Planning, talks about her new book.
My name is Raechel Walker. I'm a PhD student in the Personal Robots group. Here is a short description of my Data Activism Program:The Data…
City Science researchers are developing a slew of tangible and digital platforms dedicated to solving spatial design and urban planning cha…
A. Berke, D. Calacci, A. Pentland, and K. Larson. Evaluating Amazon Effects and the Limited Impact of COVID-19 With Purchases Crowdsourced from US Consumers. 2025. https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.10596
Inventing disruptive technologies for nanoelectronic devices and creating new paradigms for life-machine symbiosis
Enhancing human physical capability
Have you ever wondered what a friend would do if she was in your decision-making situation? Or thought about where a family membe…
Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion
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…
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
Building intelligent personified technologies that collaborate with people to help them learn, thrive, and flourish.
Designing, prototyping, and building the artifacts of our sci-fi space future
Audio-visual data set containing around 21.6 hours of parent-child interaction during story reading.The DAMI-P2C dataset consists of audio-…
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…
For details and recent updates visit: https://web.mit.edu/deblina-sarkar/Nanoelectronics has the potential to enable radical too…
Media Lab students and alums are among the winners and honorees for the 2024 MIT Prize for Open Data.
Looking beyond smart cities
Alex Berke, Robert Mahari, Sandy Pentland, Kent Larson, and Dana Calacci. 2024. Insights from an experiment crowdsourcing data from thousands of US Amazon users: The importance of transparency, money, and data use. Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 8, CSCW2, Article 466 (November 2024), 48 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3687005
We propose a computational approach to preserve traditional dance as living cultural heritage, exploring the use of technology to capture k…
We develop systems that support health and wellbeing, with a special focus on mental health. We design, study and apply technologies s…
As AI evolves beyond screen assistants and into dimensional applications, decentralization emerges as the critical factor for unlocking i…
Selected proposals seek to develop positive alternative visions for the future of algorithmic systems and their research communities.
Designing tools, methods and systems that connect rather than divide us to create a healthier society
A massive audit of 1800+ AI text datasets, tracing their provenance and composition from origin to creation.The race to train language mode…
The project purpose is to improve transparency, documentation, and informed use of datasets in AI.
See for yourself how accurately you can identify AI-generated images at the DetectFakes Experiment and if you want to learn to sp…
Extending expression, learning, and health through innovations in musical composition, performance, and participation
Longpre, S., Mahari, R., Chen, A. et al. A large-scale audit of dataset licensing and attribution in AI. Nat Mach Intell 6, 975–987 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s42256-024-00878-8
Exploring new forms of social justice through art
Freedom Radio (in development) is an ongoing participatory artwork collecting multilingual thoughts and expressions of freedom across natio…
A Counting is an ongoing series of software-generated live-streamed sound and video works composed of an evolving neverending count fr…
Researchers created a tool that enables an AI practitioner to find data that suits their model, which could improve accuracy and reduce bias
Data-driven strategies to meet the Dual Energy-Climate ChallengeThe global community stands at a critical juncture, facing the dual energy-…
Responsible AI for Social Empowerment and Education: promoting equity in learning, education, + computational action to prepare diverse K-12
Empowering communities through the life sciences + biotechnology
Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI), arXiv:2403.04893 [cs.AI] (or arXiv:2403.04893v1 [cs.AI] for this version) https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2403.04893 | Shayne Longpre* 1 Sayash Kapoor** 2 Kevin Klyman** 3 Ashwin Ramaswami 4 Rishi Bommasani 3 Borhane Blili-Hamelin 5 Yangsibo Huang 2 Aviya Skowron 6 Zheng-Xin Yong 7 Suhas Kotha 8 Yi Zeng 9 Weiyan Shi 10 Xianjun Yang 11 Reid Southen Alexander Robey
I have always been interested in the communities around coding.I love shader programming, I do it as a performance, but I have always felt …