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Advancing human wellbeing by developing new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion
Exploring the essence of code as a creative medium
Looking beyond smart cities
Climate Intelligence focuses on the integration of cutting-edge technologies and systems thinking to address critical climate challenges.&n…
What if public buildings could share our dreams, and reveal our intimate expressions of struggle and triumph? Inspired by the motto "p…
Advancing justice in Earth's complex systems using designs enabled by space
Scalable AI Program for the Intelligent Evolution of Networks
Could we substitute cars by shared autonomous lightweight vehicles for food delivery? We have developed an agent-based simulation model tha…
A selection of recent press coverage on the Critical Matter research group's newest project , Gaze to the Stars.
Recent advances in clinical AI have enabled remarkable progress across many clinical domains. However, existing benchmarks and models are p…
We propose a computational approach to preserve traditional dance as living cultural heritage, exploring the use of technology to capture k…
Creating human-AI symbiosis across scales and sensory mediums to enhance productivity, creativity, and wellbeing
Inventing disruptive technologies for nanoelectronic devices and creating new paradigms for life-machine symbiosis
The underrepresentation of minoritized groups, particularly African Americans, is the longstanding reality of computing fields. Computing h…
Evolving Cultural Heritage through Collaborative Choreography with Generative Virtual CharactersThis project introduces an approach for tra…
Advanced Data Visualizations for Climate IntelligenceMarked by heightened awareness and global concern over the climate crisis, the MI…
Designing across the scale, imagining a transformative future
MIT City Science has developed an international network of cooperative City Science LabsWe are developing concepts and key technology that …
As AI evolves beyond screen assistants and into dimensional applications, decentralization emerges as the critical factor for unlocking i…
Have you ever wondered what a friend would do if she was in your decision-making situation? Or thought about where a family membe…
Inventing, building, and deploying wireless sensor technologies to address complex problems in society, industry, and ecology
Hossein Rahnama, a visiting professor at the Media Lab, and Alex ‘Sandy’ Pentland explore the new rules of data privacy.
People and intelligent machines in a creative, symbiotic loop
A tool for exploring the Media Lab’s research and synthesizing new project ideas.
Many of society’s most critical risks—from pandemic outbreaks to supply chain disruptions to cyber vulnerabilities—arise from the decisions…
Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion
Enhancing human physical capability
An exploration of how advances in deep learning and generative models can be used to help us synthesize our ideas.
Cultivating wisdom through evolutionary and ecological engineering
Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks
Building intelligent personified technologies that collaborate with people to help them learn, thrive, and flourish.
Extending expression, learning, and health through innovations in musical composition, performance, and participation
Designing tools, methods and systems that connect rather than divide us to create a healthier society
Designing Systems for Cognitive Augmentation
Making the invisible visible–inside our bodies, around us, and beyond–for health, work, and connection
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.
As climate-related disasters become more frequent, the need for actionable climate intelligence has never been greater. Earth Observa…
A robust and resilient communication infrastructure is essential to the development of democratic processes and knowledge formation. Decent…
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
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
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
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.
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