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Space Enabled

Advancing justice in Earth's complex systems using designs enabled by space
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Dreaming through Code

Dreaming through Code Designing creative learning workshops for local organizations committed to introducing technology to kids in a n…
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Space Sustainability Rating

The Space Sustainability RatingThe Space Sustainability Rating design team—comprised of the World Economic Forum, the European Space Agency…
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ML Learning

ML Learning
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Scalable Cooperation

Reimagining human cooperation in the age of social media and artificial intelligence
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Collective Learning

Transforming data into knowledge
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Open Ocean

Open Ocean
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Open Agriculture (OpenAg)

Open Agriculture Initiative (OpenAg)
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Social Machines

Promoting deeper learning and understanding in human networks
Center for Civic Media
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Civic Media

Creating technology for social change
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Object-Based Media

Changing storytelling, communication, and everyday life through sensing, understanding, and new interface technologies
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Mediated Matter

Designing for, with, and by nature
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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 ...
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Smart textiles sense how their users are moving

Researchers develop a comfortable, form-fitting fabric that recognizes its wearer’s activities, like walking, running, and jumping.
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The Guardians
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Responsive Environments

Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks
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He sold his mental-health startup to Airbnb, then relaunched it as a nonprofit with a bigger mission

As a graduate student at MIT, Rob Morris struggled with mental health. Today, he wants to make it easier for others to find help online.
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Microgravity Hybrid Extrusion

Traditional additive manufacturing processes, especially those that make use of liquid resin as the feedstock, are constrained by the gra...
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Reimagining public health infrastructure in the 21st century

A new multidisciplinary field of public health technology should be established to modernize the nation’s health system.
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Pandemic Response Catalyst Conversations

The MIT Center for Collective Intelligence, MIT Media Lab’s Community Biotechnology Initiative, and MilliporeSigma—the lif...
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Actionable Auditing: Coordinated bias disclosure study

Algorithmic auditing has emerged as a key strategy to expose systematic biases embedded in software platforms, yet scholarship on the imp...
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Gender Shades

The Gender Shades project pilots an intersectional approach to inclusive product testing for AI.Algorithmic Bias PersistsGender Shades is...
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Space Exploration Initiative

Space Exploration Initiative
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City Science

Looking beyond smart cities
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Helping dairy farmers raise healthy cows

Labby has developed an optical milk scanner based on materials-sensing technology that dairy farmers can use to measure their cows' health.
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Ayah Bdeir on design, engineering and activism

Ayah Bdeir on her journey from Lebanon to MIT Media Lab, and why she started littleBits.
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Inaugural Day of AI brings new digital literacy to classrooms worldwide

Thousands of children participate in MIT-developed artificial intelligence curriculum.
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The Gravity Loading Countermeasure Skinsuit

By Rachel Bellisle
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MIT Media Lab trials modular tiles that self-assemble into "entirely novel type of space architecture"

Ariel Ekblaw talks about the TESSERAE project, which was tested on the Space Station during the recent Axiom Space AX-1 mission.
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TESSERAE: Self-Assembling Space Architecture

Overview: How will we build the coming generations of Space Architecture—the modules, space ships, and space stations that will ensc...
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Affective Computing

Advancing human wellbeing by developing new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion
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Fluid Expressions - Art and Craft in Microgravity

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...
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Fluid Interfaces

Designing Systems for Cognitive Support
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Creative Learning Design Tools

While text-editors (e.g. Google Docs, MS Word) might be useful for writing a lecture, they’re not an intuitive medium for designing exper...
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Poetic Justice

Exploring new forms of social justice through art
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Conformable Decoders

Converting the patterns of nature and the human body into beneficial signals and energy
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Beyond the Cradle

Beyond the Cradle
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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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Electronic Textile Sensors for Decoding Vital Body Signals: State-of-the-Art Review on Characterizations and Recommendations

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, 4, 2100223, 2022.
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Zenolith - An Interplanetary Time Device

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...
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AI-generated characters are here, they’re just not evenly distributed

The Fluid Interfaces group + NTT DATA hosted Virtual Beings + Being Virtual, a workshop exploring positive uses of AI-generated characters
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SpaceHuman 2.0

SpaceHuman is a soft robotics device designed to facilitate the exploration of environments with reduced gravity in a view of democratiza...
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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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Machinoia: Machine of Multiple Me

Our body and mind relate in ways which are extraordinarily enigmatic and seemingly incomprehensible. Recent findings exemplify this by sh...
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Viral Communications

Creating scalable technologies that evolve with user inventiveness
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KnittedKeyboard

In this work, we have developed  a textile-based interactive surface fabricated through machine knitting technology. Our prototype e...
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Lifelong Kindergarten

Engaging people in creative learning experiences
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Ariel Ekblaw: Space Colonization and Self-Assembling Space Megastructures

Ariel Ekblaw talks about leading the Space Exploration Initiative, self-assembling space architecture, science fiction, + long-term thinking
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Creative AI: A curriculum around creativity, generative AI, and ethics

As the presence of artificial intelligence expands significantly in children’s lives of learning and play, it is critical that students l...
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Xiao Xiao wins second place in the 2022 Guthman Musical Instrument Competition

For the project T-Voks: The Singing and Speaking Theremin. Congratulations!
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MM-RT

MM-RT is a tabletop tangible musical interface that employs electromagnetic actuators and small permanent magnets to physically induce so...
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BubbleSynth: Soap to Sound

BubbleSynth translates motion tracking and blob detection data collected from floating soap bubbles into sound, by using the size, positi...
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MIT clean tech companies to watch

Explore a few of the clean tech startups begun by MIT researchers and alumni, including Media Lab spinoffs Graviky Labs and Stable Auto.
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Reconfigurable space structures

Rapid prototyping platforms such as 3D printers used for digital fabrication are today able to manufacture custom objects for specific ta...
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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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MIT Center for Constructive Communication

MIT Center for Constructive Communication
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The New Rules of Data Privacy

Hossein Rahnama, a visiting professor at the Media Lab, and Alex ‘Sandy’ Pentland explore the new rules of data privacy.
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Xiao Xiao, PhD: Creative Technologist, MIT

Alum and research affiliate Xiao Xiao talks to “I Am a Scientist” about her work, which merges science with art.
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AttentivU

There are currently  UROP openings for this project.  All the details available via the link: https://www.braini.io/j...
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Peristaltic Suit

It is known that prolonged exposure to micro and hyper-gravity induces various acute health risks, such as osteoporosis, skeletal muscle ...
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RAISE

RAISE
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How to Train Your Robot

How to Train Your Robot is a curriculum for students in 5-8th grade to explore artificial intelligence and ethics. In this course, studen...
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Study: Digital literacy doesn’t stop the spread of misinformation

Digital literacy helps people identify misinformation — but it doesn’t necessarily stop them from spreading it.
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MIT Startup Exchange: Creating powerful synergies

The MIT Startup Exchange hosts events + arranges introductions that can lead to opportunities for emerging companies like ML spinoff Tulip.
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Biomechatronics

Enhancing human physical capability
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The data-driven future of storytelling: MIT’s Deb Roy on the message and the medium

Deb Roy talks to McKinsey about the many ways audience, voice, and medium combine to create compelling stories.
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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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Q&A: Dolapo Adedokun on computer technology, Ireland, and all that jazz

MIT EECS student and Mitchell Scholar hopes to play music in Dublin while working on his MS in intelligent systems.
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The promise and pitfalls of artificial intelligence explored at TEDxMIT event

MIT scientists discuss the future of AI with applications across many sectors, as a tool that can be both beneficial and harmful.
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Sculpting Evolution

Cultivating wisdom through evolutionary and ecological engineering