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Invent new tangible and embodied interactions that inspire and engage people
Extending expression, learning, and health through innovations in musical composition, performance, and participation
Longpre, S., Mahari, R., Chen, A. et al. A large-scale audit of dataset licensing and attribution in AI. Nat Mach Intell 6, 975–987 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s42256-024-00878-8
A massive audit of 1800+ AI text datasets, tracing their provenance and composition from origin to creation.The race to train language mode…
Advancing justice in Earth's complex systems using designs enabled by space
Inventing disruptive technologies for nanoelectronic devices and creating new paradigms for life-machine symbiosis
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
CoCo is a new live co-creative learning platform designed to empower educators to support young people in both physical and remote set…
"Autonomous operations are critical for the success, safety, and crew survival of NASA deep space missions beyond low Earth orbit, includin…
Xander, a Media Lab spinoff company dedicated to enhancing communication for individuals with hearing challenges, has successfully complete…
Media Lab SEI’s 2024 microgravity flight features 37 parabolas and projects focused on health in space, walking in zero gravity, and more!
Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks
Designing tools, methods and systems that connect rather than divide us to create a healthier society
Designing, prototyping, and building the artifacts of our sci-fi space future
Responsible AI for Social Empowerment and Education: promoting equity in learning, education, + computational action to prepare diverse K-12
Decentralizing trust and disrupting power structures with cryptographic peer-to-peer exchange and distributed systems
Empowering communities through the life sciences + biotechnology
Engaging people in creative learning experiences
Converting the patterns of nature and the human body into beneficial signals and energy
Media Lab alum Ramesh Srinivasan, now a professor at UCLA, talks to the Daily Bruin about his new podcast, Utopias.
The prestigious honor society announces more than 250 new members, which includes Tod Machover, head of Opera of the Future.
Designing Systems for Cognitive Support
Cody Paige, MIT AeroAstro Contributors: Ferrous Ward, MIT AeroAstro; Don Derek Haddad, ResEnv; Jess Todd, MIT…
For details and recent updates visit: https://web.mit.edu/deblina-sarkar/Nanoelectronics has the potential to enable radical too…
People and intelligent machines in a creative, symbiotic loop
The allure of AI companions is hard to resist. Here’s how innovation in regulation can help protect people.
Advancing human wellbeing by developing new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion
Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion
Fellows are selected based on their potential to contribute to NASA’s goal of creating innovative new space technologies.
Alum Rébecca Kleinberger (Opera of the Future) considers ways of building games that work for birds' unique needs.
Advanced Data Visualizations for Climate IntelligenceMarked by heightened awareness and global concern over the climate crisis, the MI…
Explore books on learning and education recommended by Media Lab Professor Cynthia Breazeal and others from MIT Open Learning.
HexSense is a kind of sensor node that can be ballistically deployed to the desired area and collect data of interest. Each sensor node is …
With the fast-paced advancements in launch capabilities and space architecture, one can envision the introduction of large-scale structures…
Looking beyond smart cities
The Space Exploration Initiative charters an annual ZERO-G parabolic flight for 10-15 projects and 25 researchers across MIT Media Lab, sev…
The Space Exploration Initiative supports research across and beyond MIT in two microgravity flights this spring.
The Space Exploration Initiative’s latest research flight explores work and play in zero gravity
Jospin Hassan has drawn on curriculum developed by MIT RAISE and the Personal Robots group to build + share data science and AI skill sets.
Enhancing human physical capability
Building intelligent personified technologies that collaborate with people to help them learn, thrive, and flourish.
See for yourself how accurately you can identify AI-generated images at the DetectFakes Experiment and if you want to learn to sp…
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…
To sustain long term human presence on the moon, the problem of exposure to ionizing radiation must be addressed to protect astronauts’ lon…
The lunar Navigation and Observation Mobile Architecture Design (lunarNOMAD) is a modular inflatable mobile science laboratory. lunarNOMAD …
With the growing presence of commercial spaceflight and NASA’s Lunar Artemis program, plans to establish a permanent lunar presence are in …
With NASA planning permanent bases in space and on the moon, MIT students develop prototypes for habitats far from planet Earth.
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.
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.
Convergence: Artistic Exploration from Nature to SocietyNARLabs, Taipei, Taiwan May 10 - August 10, 2024 Guided by the Taiwa…
The Design
Life with AI | Designing the future of smart systems to improve the human experience
Ultrasound is widely used for tissue imaging such as breast cancer diagnosis; however, fundamental challenges limit…
This award is given to students from Macau, Hong Kong, and Mainland China who have demonstrated academic prowess and community involvement.
WORLDING workshop organizers collaborated with research scientist Dr. Rachel Connolly to co-design their first-ever in-person event.
Inspired by her aunt’s battle with cancer, Canan Dağdeviren developed a wearable ultrasound monitor that can screen women between checkups.
Former Media Lab Professor W. Russell Neuman and other experts talk to CNET about the potential impacts of chatbots based on generative AI.
Ultrasound-induced transdermal drug delivery (sonophoresis) has long lingered in the by-lanes of academic and industrial research, and has …
Beyond the Cradle
They've been selected as Fellows in the fields of Machine Learning and Computer Vision.
Connected Mind + Body | Revolutionizing the future of mental and physical wellbeing
Media Lab alumni Ziv Epstein and Alexander Reben joined a panel discussion on the creative future of generative AI.
The papers are intended as a resource for US policymakers.
Exploring the essence of code as a creative medium
We are working to design healing socio-digital interventions with and for youth who have experienced traumatic events in their homes, e.g.…
Tod Machover’s first opera (he has now composed many more groundbreaking ones) was VALIS, and it made history when it premiered for the 10t…
A lightweight research platform to develop autonomous technology Designed to transform bicycle-sharing systems into an on-demand mobil…
Critical thinking is an essential human skill. Despite the importance of critical thinking, research reveals that our reasoning ability suf…
The iconic sci-fi opera VALIS, first composed by Professor Tod Machover in 1987, reboots at MIT for a new generation.