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The acquisition of training data is crucial for machine learning applications. Data markets can increase the supply of data, particularly i…
Designing Systems for Cognitive Support
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
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…
Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion
Acclaimed keyboardist Jordan Rudess’s collaboration with the Media Lab culminates in live improvisation between an AI “jam_bot” + the artist
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…
Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks
Future You, developed by Dr. Pat Pataranutaporn, allows users to explore possible futures by chatting with an older version of themselves.
Looking beyond smart cities
Invent new tangible and embodied interactions that inspire and engage people
There are currently UROP openings for this project. AttentivU is a neural AI platform for wireless non-invasive sensing of pers…
Connected Mind + Body | Revolutionizing the future of mental and physical wellbeing
By enabling users to chat with an older version of themselves, Future You aims to reduce anxiety + guide young people to make better choices
As AI evolves beyond screen assistants and into dimensional applications, decentralization emerges as the critical factor for unlocking i…
Designing tools, methods and systems that connect rather than divide us to create a healthier society
Blanchard, Lancelot*, Perry Naseck*, Eran Egozy, and Joseph A. Paradiso. 2024. “Developing Symbiotic Virtuosity: AI-Augmented Musical Instruments and Their Use in Live Music Performances.” An MIT Exploration of Generative AI, September. https://doi.org/10.21428/e4baedd9.69c11de7.
Future Worlds | Design and action for the future we want to live in
A massive audit of 1800+ AI text datasets, tracing their provenance and composition from origin to creation.The race to train language mode…
Advancing human wellbeing by developing new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion
Converting the patterns of nature and the human body into beneficial signals and energy
See for yourself how accurately you can identify AI-generated images at the DetectFakes Experiment and if you want to learn to sp…
The three-day, hands-on conference hosted by the MIT RAISE Initiative welcomed youths and adults from nearly 30 countries.
App Inventor is an intuitive, visual programming environment that allows everyone, even those with no prior coding experience, to build ful…
Extending expression, learning, and health through innovations in musical composition, performance, and participation
Do you hear the sound of a breath, or an ocean wave? A heartbeat, or thunder? Journey through a universe of shifting sonic identities …
Exploring new forms of social justice through art
Researchers created a tool that enables an AI practitioner to find data that suits their model, which could improve accuracy and reduce bias
By establishing correlations between sleep parameters and wellbeing indicators, our project hopes to further understanding of fluctuations …
Lu, C.*, Yu, Y.*, Karimireddy, S. P., Jordan, M. I., & Raskar, R. (2023). Federated Conformal Predictors for Distributed Uncertainty Quantification. Fortieth International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2023)
Responsible AI for Social Empowerment and Education: promoting equity in learning, education, + computational action to prepare diverse K-12
Say hello to FutureYou!*This project is oriented towards young people*Inspired by studies showing how increased "future self-continuity"—th…
People and intelligent machines in a creative, symbiotic loop
Organology: Real-Time Biometrics x Sound Synthesis October 19th @ 8:00 PMMIT Media Lab 3rd Floor AtriumWhat role does the body pl…
These grants aim to inspire MIT researchers to make a meaningful contribution to responsible technology development and deployment.
Spinoff company Pienso has developed a user-friendly AI builder that empowers domain experts to build solutions without writing code.
Andorra and the City Science research group at the MIT Media Lab are taking on the challenge of turning Andorra into an “Internationally Re…
Neural audio synthesis methods now allow specifying ideas in natural language. However, these methods produce results that cannot be easily…
3D reconstruction from a single-view is challenging because of the ambiguity from monocular cues and lack of information about occluded reg…
This technique could lead to safer autonomous vehicles, more efficient AR/VR headsets, or faster warehouse robots.
Cherep*, M., Singh*, N., & Shand, J. (2024, July). Creative Text-to-Audio Generation via Synthesizer Programming. International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)
Decentralized Society | Architecting the new internet for the good of the people
The startup Augmental allows users to operate phones and other devices using their tongue, mouth, and head gestures.
Singh*, N., Cherep*, M., & Shand, J. (2023, December). Creative Text-to-Audio Generation via Synthesizer Programming. In NeurIPS Machine Learning for Audio Workshop
Life with AI | Designing the future of smart systems to improve the human experience
They've been selected as Fellows in the fields of Machine Learning and Computer Vision.
Urban populations around the world are rapidly growing. To improve livability, urban residents must reduce dependency on fossil fuels and p…
The papers are intended as a resource for US policymakers.
Master’s student Chelsi Cocking combines her love for computer science and design in her research and outreach efforts at the Media Lab.
Exploring the essence of code as a creative medium
The SNAPSHOT study seeks to measure Sleep, Networks, Affect, Performance, Stress, and Health using Objective Techniques. It is an NIH-funde…
Mobility Choices is used to predict transportation mode choices of students at the University of Guadalajara (UdeG) within the Guadalajara …
City Science researchers are developing a slew of tangible and digital platforms dedicated to solving spatial design and urban planning cha…
According to WHO, epilepsy is the fourth most common neurological disease globally. CDC statistics show that 1 in 26 individuals in the U.S…
Abstract— Millions suffer from sleep disorders, and sleep clinics and research institutions seek improved sleep study methods. This paper p…
Cultivating Creativity | Catalyzing a global movement enabling everyone to unlock and unleash their individual and collective creativity
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Cultivating wisdom through evolutionary and ecological engineering
Swarms of robots will revolutionize many applications, from targeted material delivery to farming. However, the characteristics that make t…
Facemasks are used to reduce exposure to viruses and other environmental hazards such as air pollution, and integrating wearable electronic…
Making the invisible visible–inside our bodies, around us, and beyond–for health, work, and connection
Inventing, building, and deploying wireless sensor technologies to address complex problems in society, industry, and ecology
Engineering at the limits of complexity with molecular-scale parts