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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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City Science

Looking beyond smart cities
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Responsive Environments

Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks
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Fluid Interfaces

Designing Systems for Cognitive Support
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Theme | CityScope

City Science researchers are developing a slew of tangible and digital platforms dedicated to solving spatial design and urban planning cha…
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Theme | Mobility On-Demand

Urban populations around the world are rapidly growing. To improve livability, urban residents must reduce dependency on fossil fuels and p…
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Viral Communications

People and intelligent machines in a creative, symbiotic loop
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Media Lab Research Theme: Life with AI

Life with AI | Designing the future of smart systems to improve the human experience
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Signal Kinetics

Inventing, building, and deploying wireless sensor technologies to address complex problems in society, industry, and ecology
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AI and Accountability: Who is responsible for managing AI?

On the Technically Optimistic podcast, Prof. Rosalind Picard and others discuss the challenges of accountability and responsibility in AI.
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MIT scholars awarded seed grants to probe the social implications of generative AI

The 27 finalists will explore the technology’s impact on democracy, education, sustainability, communications, and much more.
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Space Enabled

Advancing justice in Earth's complex systems using designs enabled by space
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Voice Anonymization

Spoken language is an information-rich medium that combines words with various paralinguistic information such as emotion and prosody. In d…
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StoryLine: Exploring the intersection of visual storytelling and machine learning

McKinsey & Co. and LSM ask: Can we understand, and even predict, the relationship between video story content and audience consumption?
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Poetic Justice

Exploring new forms of social justice through art
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Sleep and Epilepsy: Demystifying the thousand-year-long conundrum

According to WHO, epilepsy is the fourth most common neurological disease globally. CDC statistics show that 1 in 26 individuals in the U.S…
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Media Lab Research Theme: Connected Mind + Body

Connected Mind + Body | Revolutionizing the future of mental and physical wellbeing
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Media Lab Research Theme: Future Worlds

Future Worlds | Design and action for the future we want to live in
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3 Voices: A Soft-Robotic Opera Transposing Singing Experience Across the Audience

3 Voices is an artistic research project that looks beyond conventional approaches of listening to music, and instead probes at the deeper …
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3DKnITS: Three-dimensional Knitted Intelligent Textile Sensor

Three-dimensional Digital Knitting of Intelligent Textile Sensor for Activity Recognition and Biomechanical MonitoringWe present an ap…
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City Science Lab @ Andorra

Andorra and the City Science research group at the MIT Media Lab are taking on the challenge of turning Andorra into an “Internationally Re…
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conformable Multimodal Sensory Facemask (cMaSK)

Facemasks are used to reduce exposure to viruses and other environmental hazards such as air pollution, and integrating wearable electronic…
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Conformable Decoders

Converting the patterns of nature and the human body into beneficial signals and energy
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Does AI hold the same values as we do?

During TEDxBentleyU, Belén C. Saldías Fuentes invited the audience to consider the cultural biases built into tools like ChatGPT.
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Modeling Contingent Behaviors in Multiparty Conversations

Recognizing and interpreting group behaviors is much more challenging than that of individual behaviors. Firstly, the system must perform w…
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Blockchain: A new framework for robotic swarm systems

Swarms of robots will revolutionize many applications, from targeted material delivery to farming. However, the characteristics that make t…
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Objects as Cameras

Press: - MIT News:  Using reflections to see the world from new points of view- TechXplore, EuropaPress, La Nacion …
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ACM ByteCast: Pattie Maes

On the ACM ByteCast podcast, Fluid Interfaces head Pattie Maes talks to host Rashmi Mohan about the passion that has shaped her career.
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A deep dive into deepfakes

On BBC’s The Forum, host Iszi Lawrence tries a tool developed by Media Lab researchers that tests users' ability to detect deepfakes.
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MIT Center for Constructive Communication

MIT Center for Constructive Communication
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Affective Computing

Advancing human wellbeing by developing new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion
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Sculpting Evolution

Cultivating wisdom through evolutionary and ecological engineering
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AttentivU

There are currently  UROP openings for this project. AttentivU is  a  device, in the  form factor of a pair of gla…
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FathomNet: A global image database for enabling artificial intelligence in the ocean

Katija, K., Orenstein, E., Schlining, B. et al. FathomNet: A global image database for enabling artificial intelligence in the ocean. Sci Rep 12, 15914 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-19939-2
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Human Dynamics

Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion
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Social Machines

Promoting deeper learning and understanding in human networks
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MIT-Pillar AI Collective announces first seed grant recipients

Six teams conducting research in AI, data science, + machine learning receive funding for projects with potential commercial applications.
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Conformal Prediction with Large Language Models for Multi-Choice Question Answering

Kumar, B.*, Lu, C.*, Gupta, G., Palepu, A., Bellamy, D., Raskar, R., & Beam, A. "Conformal Prediction with Large Language Models for Multi-Choice Question Answering." Neural Conversational AI Workshop at ICML 2023.
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Federated Conformal Predictors for Distributed Uncertainty Quantification

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)
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If art is how we express our humanity, where does AI fit in?

MIT Media Lab postdoc Ziv Epstein discusses issues arising from the use of generative AI to make art and other media.
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Tangible Media

Invent new tangible and embodied interactions that inspire and engage people
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Detect DeepFakes: How to counteract misinformation created by AI

Participate in the experiment at https://detectfakes.media.mit.eduCheck out our publications in PNAS, a workshop at IJCAI, and pre-pri…
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Personal Robots

Building intelligent personified technologies that collaborate with people to help them learn, thrive, and flourish.
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Using reflections to see the world from new points of view

A new computer vision system turns any shiny object into a camera of sorts, enabling an observer to see around corners or beyond obstruction
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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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Paper Dreams

Paper Dreams explores how human creativity can be supported by artificial intelligence.Prior research on AI and creativity has primarily fo…
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Data observability startup Metaplane lands investment from YC, others

Media Lab spinoff Metaplane, co-founded by alum Kevin Hu, recently closed an $8.4 million seed funding round.
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Future Sketches

Exploring the essence of code as a creative medium
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Collective Learning

Transforming data into knowledge
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Unveiling the Invisible

Tamiko Thiel, an innovator in VR/AR who studied computer graphics and visual imaging, talks about her work and her career.
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A conformable sensory face mask for decoding biological and environmental signals

Kim, J., Marcus, C., Ono, R., Sadat, D., Mirzazadeh, A., Jens, M., Fernandez S. V., Zheng, S., Durak, T., Dagdeviren, C.†, “Conformable Multimodal Sensory Facemask for Decoding Biological and Environmental Signals”, Nature Electronics, 5, 794–807, 2022. [Cover Image]
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Molecular Machines

Engineering at the limits of complexity with molecular-scale parts
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Health 0.0

Health 0.0
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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 f…
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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 automated…
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Machine Learning for Combined Classification of Fluorescent Biomarkers and Expert Annotations Using White Light Images

Biomarker imaging provides non-invasive indicators of disease and is used by human experts to augment disease diagnosis. It is, however, of…
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Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Clinical Development: A Translational Perspective

Technical summary: Future of clinical development is on the verge of a major transformation due to convergence of large new digital data so…
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Helping Emergency Care Physicians Diagnose Sepsis and Bacterial Infections with Machine Learning and Vision

General overview:Sepsis, a life-threatening complication of bacterial infection, leads to millions of worldwide deaths requires significant…
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AI Methods for Rapid Automated Staining and Destaining of Tissue Biopsies in Hospitals

General OverviewStaining of tissues sections using chemical and biological dyes has been used for over a century for visualizing various ti…
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Digital Clinical Trials with Novel Machine Learning and AI Architectures

Dr. Shah was an invited speaker and a contributor at The National Cancer Policy Forum developed workshop series at the The National Academi…
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Self-Learning AI Model Learns from Patient Data to Design Novel Clinical Trials

Technical summaryUnstructured learning problems without well-defined rewards are unsuitable for current reinforcement learning (RL) approac…
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Research Area | Emergent Neural Networks to Redesign Clinical Testing of Medicines and Learning from Real World Evidence

Research studies led by Dr. Shah, in collaboration with the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA),  have develope…
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Research Area | Application, Interpretability and Clinical Translation of Deep Learning Algorithms for Medical Images

Research studies led by Dr. Shah in his laboratory have created new paradigms for using low-cost images captured using simple optical …
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Privacy-Preserving Depressive Symptoms Estimation

The goal of this project is to develop techniques to remove identifying information from wearable and phone data to protect patients’ priva…
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Robot overcomes uncertainty to retrieve buried objects

This robotic system uses radio frequency signals, computer vision, and complex reasoning to efficiently find items hidden under a pile.
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Data-driven Humanitarian Mapping and Policymaking, 1st Worksop at the ACM SIGKDD 2020

Neil Gaikwad from the Space Enabled research group is co-organizing the KDD Workshop on Humanitarian Mapping.