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Advancing justice in Earth's complex systems using designs enabled by space
Advancing human wellbeing by developing new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion
Looking beyond smart cities
Enhancing human physical capability
Promoting deeper learning and understanding in human networks
Deb Roy talks to McKinsey about the many ways audience, voice, and medium combine to create compelling stories.
Extending expression, learning, and health through innovations in musical composition, performance, and participation
Designing Systems for Cognitive Support
MIT EECS student and Mitchell Scholar hopes to play music in Dublin while working on his MS in intelligent systems.
Shuvo, I. I., Shah, A., Dagdeviren, C.†, “Electronic Textile Sensors for Decoding Vital Body Signals: State-of-the-art Review on Characterizations and Recommendations”, https://doi.org/10.1002/aisy.202100223, Advanced Intelligent Systems, 2022.
MIT scientists discuss the future of AI with applications across many sectors, as a tool that can be both beneficial and harmful.
Space Exploration Initiative
Inventing, building, and deploying wireless sensor technologies to address complex problems in society, industry, and ecology
Seamlessly coupling the worlds of bits and atoms by giving dynamic physical form to digital information and computation
Creating scalable technologies that evolve with user inventiveness
Cultivating wisdom through evolutionary and ecological engineering
Exploring new forms of social justice through art
Building intelligent personified technologies that collaborate with people to help them learn, thrive, and flourish.
Engineering at the limits of complexity with molecular-scale parts
Exploring the essence of code as a creative medium
Converting the patterns of nature and the human body into beneficial signals and energy
Making the invisible visible–inside our bodies, around us, and beyond–for health, work, and connection
“Us” aims to help people develop their sense of empathy. It uses machine learning to analyze interlocutors’ signals (e.g., tone of voice,...
Gramophone contributor Laurence Vittes spotlights Tod Machover’s “Death and the Powers,” an opera about robots and humans.
🚨Application to the 2022 Co-Design Experience here bit.ly/codesign2022 🚨Historically, the term technology transfer has been ass...
The Space Sustainability RatingThe Space Sustainability Rating design team—comprised of the World Economic Forum, the European Space Agen...
Can machines make us better citizens and conversationalists? Deb Roy thinks so.
Our body and mind relate in ways which are extraordinarily enigmatic and seemingly incomprehensible. Recent findings exemplify this by sh...
A new model shows that the more polarized and hyperconnected a social network is, the more likely misinformation will spread.
There are currently UROP openings for this project. All the details available via the link: https://www.braini.io/j...
The MIT spinout has been releasing iconic video games for more than 25 years.
Beyond the Cradle
Living Observatory is an initiative for documenting and interpreting ecological change that will allow people, individually and collectiv...
Affective Computing alum Seth Raphael talks to Slice of MIT about his career, and how he uses and creates tech-based magic to inspire people
Butlr's people-sensing platform uses body heat to provide actionable spatial insights for the built environment.
A conversation recently aired on Planetary Radio, hosted by Mat Kaplan of the Planetary Society, featuring SEI director Ariel Ekblaw.
Xiao Xiao, an alum and research affiliate of the Tangible Media group, recognized for her project T-Voks: The Singing and Speaking Theremin
InspirationSleep is a forgotten country of the mind. A vast majority of our technologies are built for our waking state, even though a th...
Engaging people in creative learning experiences
Spinoff DeepCure, co-founded by Molecular Machines head Joe Jacobson and alumni Kfir Schreiber and Thrasyvoulos Karydis, raised $40 million
Tech titans and upstarts alike are working to deepen our relationships with their robots.
When imagining human life in space, how will we express our humanity and creativity in an alien environment? Can the art we make both ref...
Alum Charles Holbrow talks about his work and shares his views on the past, present, and future of music and technology.
Opera of the Future alum Joe Chung writes that Boston is ideally suited to become a hub of the world’s longevity-innovation ecosystem.
We are working to build technology that interfaces with the sleeping mind. As the dreamer descends into sleep, we track different sl...
Caleb Harper discusses how machine learning-enabled "food computers" were used to find the optimal conditions to grow basil.
Note: On Oct. 25, 2021, the PLOS journal reporting the research associated with this project retracted the publication.Flavor, in ad...
Want the best Caprese salad or pesto you ever tasted? MIT researchers say they may be able to help.
Alex ‘Sandy’ Pentland speaks during a TEDxMIT event about how distributed data technologies can help community social structures.
Charlene Xia is a Media Lab alum now pursuing a PhD in MIT Mechanical Engineering, combining her passions for food and sustainability.
Artificial intelligence is top-of-mind as Governor Baker, President Reif encourage students to “see yourself in STEM.”
A lightweight research platform to develop autonomous technology Designed to transform bicycle-sharing systems into an on-demand mob...
Open Ocean
In recent years, there has been an increase in low-cost and open-source electronic and chemical sensors that hobbyists, concerned citizen...
On Earth, morning, noon, and night have their own specific meanings. The feeling of a second or a minute passing by, the shortening of th...
Humans can accurately sense the position, speed, and torque of their limbs, even with their eyes shut. This sense, known as proprioceptio...
Gravity Proof is a performance and mission to prepare and cook bread in space. Inspired by ancient recipes and archaeological bread ...
Digital Currency Initiative
Research finds Covid-19-related lockdowns led to a marked reduction in walking in lower-income areas of major metropolises.
By leveraging algorithms and unorthodox data sources, an MIT researcher has made Valencia a Covid-19 data pioneer
Opera of the Future PhD candidate Nicole L'Huillier discusses her multimedia artwork with WBUR.
A new multidisciplinary field of public health technology should be established to modernize the nation’s health system.
It is known that prolonged exposure to micro and hyper-gravity induces various acute health risks, such as osteoporosis, skeletal muscle ...
Vegas, A., et al. Combinatorial hydrogel library enables identification of materials that mitigate the foreign body response in primates., Nature Biotechnology, 34: 345-352, 2016. PMCID: PMC4904301
The design of next-generation bionic ankles and knees aims to improve bionic actuators on all metrics: range of motion, power density, ba...
The 2021 event, held in Kresge Auditorium and streamed live, was an unmistakable sign that MIT’s campus is up and running.
A proof of concept demonstration for a voxel-based reconfigurable space structure based on electromagnetically actuated picosatellites. I...
Sandy Pentland discusses national digital currencies and trade platforms, and how they could upend today's geopolitical hierarchies.
The MIT Center for Collective Intelligence, MIT Media Lab’s Community Biotechnology Initiative, and MilliporeSigma—the lif...
When you’re blind, you can’t hear when someone smiles, much less figure out whether that smile is genuine or polite. But I’m learning.