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Poetic Justice

Exploring new forms of social justice through art
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City Science

Looking beyond smart cities
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Health 0.0
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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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Open Ocean

Open Ocean
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TESSERAE: Self-Assembling Space Architecture

The future of human habitation in space, from Low Earth Orbit (LEO) to planetary systems far beyond, lies in self-assembling, adaptive, a...
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Nano-Cybernetic Biotrek

Inventing disruptive technologies for nanoelectronic computation and creating new paradigms for life-machine symbiosis
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Lifelong Kindergarten

Engaging people in creative learning experiences
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Machine Learning from Biomarker Signatures and Correlation to Systemic Health Conditions

Imaging fluorescent disease biomarkers in tissues and skin is a non-invasive method to screen for health conditions. We report an automat...
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Research Area | Unorthodox Machine Learning Solutions for Cancer, Oral, and Infectious Diseases

Our published research findings listed below describe new paradigms for low-cost biomarker imaging and clinical diagnoses by obviating th...
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Non-Ionizing Imaging for Medical Diagnosis Instead of 2D Radiography and Cone-Beam Computed Tomography

Two-dimensional radiographs are commonly used for evaluating sub-surface hard structures of teeth, but they have low sensitivity for earl...
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Civic Media

Creating technology for social change
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Urban Swarms

Modern cities have to respond to the growing demands of more efficient and sustainable urban development, as well as an increased quality...
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Near-Infrared Transillumination Guides Administration of Dental 2D Radiography and Cone Beam Computed Tomography Imaging

Two-dimensional radiographs are commonly used for evaluating sub-surface hard structures of teeth, but they have low sensitivity for earl...
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Near-Infrared Imaging for Detecting Dental Caries

Two-dimensional radiographs are commonly used for evaluating sub-surface hard structures of teeth, but they have low sensitivity for earl...
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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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Inventing the future of digitally augmented objects and environments.
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kinetiX

kinetiX is a transformable material featuring a design that resembles a cellular structure. It consists of rigid plates or rods and elast...
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Mediated Matter

Designing for, with, and by nature
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Ultra-Scalable and Energy-Efficient Nanoelectronics

Electronics are ubiquitous in today’s world, with applications ranging from smart cities to health care, defense, economy, government, ed...
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A subthermionic tunnel field-effect transistor with an atomically thin channel

D. Sarkar, X. Xie, W. Liu, W. Cao, J. Kang, Y. Gong, S. Kraemer, P. M. Ajayan and K. Banerjee, “A subthermionic tunnel field-effect transistor with an atomically thin channel,” Nature, Vol. 526, No. 7571, pp. 91, 2015
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Sculpting Evolution

Exploring evolutionary and ecological engineering
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Biomechatronics

Enhancing human physical capability
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Machine Learning and Automated Segmentation of Oral Diseases Using Biomarker Images

We report a novel method that processes biomarker images collected at the point of care and uses machine learning algorithms to provide a...
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Responsive Environments

Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks
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Storytelling, STEM, and changing the conversation at Comic-Con

The Media Lab panel at San Diego Comic-Con covered inclusion, exploration, and the reciprocity between fiction and research at the Lab
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Mechatronic Systems

Mechanical, electrical, and dynamic control systems recreate biological behavior with synthetic hardware.

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Tangible Media

Seamlessly coupling the worlds of bits and atoms by giving dynamic physical form to digital information and computation
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Dynamic Traffic Prediction in Andorra: a Bayesian Network Approach

Data Fusion for Dynamic Traffic PredictionTraffic congestion has huge negative impacts on the productivity, health and personal live...
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LEGO Wayfinder

The LEGO Wayfinder project combines LEGO, robotics, and seawater into a playground of project-based learning and citizen science for budd...
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Multi-SPRING

OverviewWe have created a new customizable, multi-user research-through-play platform designed to facilitate social skill development for...
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2018 GSC Graduate Teaching Award

Neil Gaikwad, a PhD student in the Media Lab's Space Enabled research group, has received the GSC Graduate Teaching Award, an Institute A...
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At-Home Sleep Apnea Screening

A large proportion of the American population currently suffers from sleep disorders. Among them are patients with obstructive sleep apne...
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Biomarker Imaging with Mobile Phones

We built a low-cost and open source 405 nm imaging device to capture red fluorescence signatures associated with the oral biomarker porph...
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Detecting Biomarkers with Printable Paper Diagnostics

Paper diagnostics can be used for affordable and scalable biomarker detection. We propose new methods for stabilizing cellulose-based imm...
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Near-infrared transillumination guides administration of dental 2D radiography and CBCT imaging

K. Angelino, D. A. Edlund, G. Bhatia, S. Wu, P. Shah. "Near-Infrared Transillumination Guides Administration of Dental 2D Radiography and CBCT Imaging." 2017 IEEE 17th International Conference on Bioinformatics and Bioengineering. 2017. DOI: 10.1109/BIBE.2017.00-33
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Design and preliminary evaluation of a wearable device for mass-screening of sleep apnea

R. S. Puri, A. G. Athanassiadis, N. Gill, S. S. Sathya, G. Rathod, A. Wahi, G. Satat, M. Majmudar, P. Shah. "Design and preliminary evaluation of a wearable device for mass-screening of sleep apnea." 2016 IEEE 38th Annual International Conference of the Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC). pp. 1870-1873. IEEE, 2016. DOI: 10.1109/EMBC.2016.7591085
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Detection of Biomarkers of Periodontal Disease in Human Saliva Using Stabilized, Vertical Flow Immunoassays

E. Yee, S. Lathwal, P. Shah, H. Sikes. "Detection of biomarkers of periodontal disease in human saliva using stabilized, vertical flow immunoassays." ACS sensors 2.11 (2017): 1589-1593. DOI: 10.1021/acssensors.7b00745
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Clinical validation and assessment of a modular fluorescent imaging system and algorithm for detection and quantification of dental plaque

K. Angelino*, P. Shah*, D. Edlund, M. Mohit, G. Yauney. "Clinical validation and assessment of a modular fluorescent imaging system and algorithm for rapid detection and quantification of dental plaque." BMC Oral Health 17.1: 162. 2017. DOI: 10.1186/s12903-017-0472-4
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MIT Innovators: Matt Carney (Biomechatronics design engineer)

Matt Carney is a PhD student in the Biomechatronics group at the MIT Media Lab.
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Ecology, Evolution, and Engineering for Empowered Brains

EEEeb Spring 2018: April 15,  29; May 13, 27; June 3. To register, please visit this link.Sponsored and run by members of ...
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Hands-On Ecology: Fostering Neuroinclusivity in STEM Education

What counts here—first and last—is not so-called knowledge of so-called facts, but vision—seeing. Seeing here implies Schauen [to see] (a...
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Towards Photography Through Realistic Fog

G. Satat, M. Tancik and R. Raskar, "Towards Photography Through Realistic Fog", IEEE International Conference on Computational Photography (ICCP), (2018).
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DCP: Digital Construction Environment

The Digital Construction Environment is the first architectural-scale structure fabricated with the Digital Construction Platform (DCP). ...
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Object-Based Media

Changing storytelling, communication, and everyday life through sensing, understanding, and new interface technologies
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Circuit Stickers

Circuit Stickers is a toolkit for crafting electronics using flexible and sticky electronic pieces. These stickers are created by printin...
How buildings and cities can become more intelligently responsive to the needs and desires of their inhabitants.
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quanta

How we can construct information technology and intelligence from the fundamental building blocks of physical media: atoms and molecules.
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Boxie the Robot: Interactive Physical Agents for Story Gathering

How do we leverage people to make systems more intelligent, efficient, and successful? Is it worthwhile to involve people heavily in the ...
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