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We explore how AI-systems can effectively assist human reasoning processes by building and evaluating combined human+AI information process…
Cognitive biases detrimentally influence decision-making across a spectrum of domains, including healthcare, electoral behavior, and organi…
Most reasoning happens when people around us challenge our assumptions and motivates us to logically assess our claims, reasons, and b…
FiberCircuits: A Miniaturization Framework To Manufacture Fibers That Embed Integrated Circuits• Keywords:Embedded Systems, Wearables,…
October in Cambridge means the annual colorful show of trees reabsorbing their nutrients in preparation for the winter. The fancy word for …
The NASA Science Mission Directorate (SMD) Science Activation (SciAct) program connects NASA Science with diverse learners of all ages in w…
An estimated 20-48% of youth in the United States have been exposed to multiple types of trauma in their childhood. This developmental trau…
The 2025 Technology Leadership Circle builds on the momentum of the 2024 Fostering Futures Forum, an event co-hosted with Foster America at…
The Anemoia Device is a scent-memory machine that distills analogue photographs into bespoke fragrances.Guided by a generative AI models an…
Join us for the MIT Media Lab's Advancing Humans with AI (AHA) Seminar Series, where we bring together world experts on artificial intellig…
Nano-Implants for Wireless Brain Interfacing
What if public buildings could share our dreams, and reveal our intimate expressions of struggle and triumph? Inspired by the motto&nb…
To facilitate real-world applications of personal sensing such as, triggering a mobile intervention or detecting early depression ons…
Recent advances in visual decoding have demonstrated the feasibility of classifying and reconstructing perceived images from evoked brain …
In arid climates, the atmosphere is a source of water, but its extraction is energy-prohibitive.Many countries have arid climates in signi…
Advancements in AI have revolutionized how machines perceive and interact with the world. However, almost all current progress has been lim…
Can AI Predict Human Happiness? Researchers Simulate Well-Being for 64,000 Individuals WorldwideA new study reveals both promise and peril …
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Digital Currency Initiative (MIT DCI) and Kinexys Digital Payments at J.P. Morgan collaborated on the…
This paper provides an overview of blockchain technology and smart contracts and explains how they enable multiple parties to deploy and ex…
EchoBLUE is an accurate, scalable, and low power system that enables full 3D localization of robots in complex, unstructured underwater env…
MiFly is a self-localization system for drones that works indoors, including in the dark and low-visibility settings. Instead of …
A vision for human life on the MoonDesign as an Astronaut, presented at 19th International Architecture Exhibition,Intellige…
The fidelity with which neural networks can now generate content such as music presents a scientific opportunity: these systems appear to h…
Gastronomy and Beyond (G+B) aims to unite individuals who contribute to innovation in the realms of culture, products, territories, sustain…
Think about how a delayed shipment, a cancelled flight, or a glitchy app can disrupt your week. Now scale that up: a virus like COVID-19 co…
Advances in machine learning have recently enabled the synthesis of text, images, audio and video data, in what is referred to as Generativ…
When you visit a doctor, they don't just look at one thing. Your physician might listen to your heart, examine an X-ray, review your blood …
Humanizing Agent-Based Models (h-ABM) emerges as a pioneering technique to simulate real-world behaviors, aiming to seamlessly bridge …
Background and MotivationGeometric patterns are a prominent form of abstract ornamentation found throughout the Islamic world, characteriz…
Gold mining has played a significant role in Ghana's economy for centuries. Regulation of this industry has varied over time and while indu…
🥵 Reconstruction of perceived images from the brain is currently a hot topic in brain imaging space. 💸💸💸 However, previous approaches have …
We are building an intelligent musical partner that play duets with you and teaches music. This research teaches us how to design mor…
What does it take to get a group of strangers to open up?DisCourse is a curated dinner series that transforms a meal between strangers int…
Sign up to try our new sleep enhancement app! It will be available later this year.Sleep++ aims to improve sleep quality by stimulating the…
Global biodiversity faces threats from climate change and human disturbance, which affect many species, especially large predators. These t…
KnitworkVR is an immersive virtual experience designed to simulate the Living Knitwork Pavilion showcased at Burning Man, through the use o…
The underrepresentation of minoritized groups, particularly African Americans, is the longstanding reality of computing fields. Computing h…
We are collaborating with youth service organizations across Pennsylvania (NET Centers and Adelphoi) to identify opportunities to supp…
The City Science Lab@Guadalajara is a collaboration with the University of Guadalajara (UdeG), a network composed of 15 campuses within the…
MIT City Science is working with HafenCity University to develop digital tools to enable more livable communities. In one project, the team…
Andorra and the City Science research group at the MIT Media Lab are taking on the challenge of turning Andorra into an “Internationally Re…
The Community Carbon Impact is a data visualization installation created by the MIT City Science group for the Boston Museum of Science's y…
Speculating on life in Zero G, with magnetic cloths that dock us to give us a sense of gravity.
OverviewGammaCap is a modular, personal-scale device that delivers synchronized 40 Hz light and sound stimulation—integrated seamlessly int…
The MIT City Science team will work with the Diputación Foral de Gipuzkoa and Mubil Fundazioa on a new collaboration to create the City Sci…
CoCo is a new live co-creative learning platform designed to empower educators to support young people in both physical and remote set…
The Generative Vertical Land Use project aims to revolutionize urban planning by developing a cutting-edge algorithm that generates the ide…
The study of human behavior in urban environment is an important field in city sciences. However, it's usually not easy to collect behavior…
The Kharkiv Masterplan Visualization Tool is a forward-thinking platform within the CityScope framework, developed in collaboration with th…
We’re creating a new global research network to understand how cryptocurrencies and digital currencies help people financially flourish—and…
Perspective Aware AI can improve the way we interact in office spaces, even if remotely. We collaborated with MITRE on a project using…
Artificial Intelligence is no longer just an IT matter. It is rapidly transforming complex enterprises, regulated industries and financial…
We are all familiar with image formats such as JPEGs, PNGs, BMPs, and GIFs, which primarily focus on compression algorithms and photonics. …
Health is becoming a very important area of focus for us. Our team is building a number of medical agents across from monitoring to consult…
Human AI Agents capture and represent an entity's identity in a Chronicle learned from its data(E.g. Model employees, businesses, other soc…
Our work here explores a new way of visualizing information through what the team calls Chronicles—adaptive data graphs that evolve with ea…
Hossein Rahnama was interviewed for the Documentary - Artificial Immortality
Voice to VisionVoice to Vision (V2V) is a collaborative research and civic technology project that bridges the gap between community voice…
The way we move, glance, and react reveals more than we realise—patterns that reflect our minds in motion. Yet much of this behavioural int…
Explore 563 trillion possible 7×7 grids on an infinite canvas, embedding MIT Media Lab's entire visual identity system.
Mood on Move leverages the potential of widely available commercial smartwatches to infer and monitor mood states in real-world settings. U…
Finding Your Voice investigates the complexities of self-voice recognition and agency, focusing on the neurological processes that shape ho…
Our research group designs various hardware and software platforms that can be used to do scientific experiments or implement a particular …
Projects related to the theme of how digital systems may support attention, memory, and learning.