Advance human wellbeing by developing new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion
Enhancing human physical capability
Making the invisible visible–inside our bodies, around us, and beyond–for health, work, and connection
Looking beyond smart cities
Converting the patterns of nature and the human body into beneficial signals and energy
Designing systems for cognitive enhancement
Exploring the essence of code as a creative medium
Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion
Engaging people in creative learning experiences
Designing for, with, and by nature
Engineering at the limits of complexity with molecular-scale parts
Inventing disruptive technologies for nanoelectronic devices and creating new paradigms for life-machine symbiosis
Extending expression, learning, and health through innovations in musical composition, performance, and participation
Building socially engaging robots and interactive technologies to help people live healthier lives, connect with others, and learn better
Exploring new forms of social justice through art
Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks
Cultivating wisdom through evolutionary and ecological engineering
Extending human and computer abilities in sensing, communication, and actuation through signals and networks
Promoting deeper learning and understanding in human networks
Advancing justice in Earth's complex systems using designs enabled by space
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