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Projects related to the theme of how digital systems may support attention, memory, and learning.
This project seeks to explore and further develop the concept of "Symbiotic Virtuosity," where artificial intelligence (AI) and human music…
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CoCo is a new live co-creative learning platform designed to empower educators to support young people in both physical and remote set…
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Cody Paige, MIT AeroAstro Contributors: Ferrous Ward, MIT AeroAstro; Don Derek Haddad, ResEnv; Jess Todd, MIT…
The Space Exploration Initiative charters an annual ZERO-G parabolic flight for 10-15 projects and 25 researchers across MIT Media Lab, sev…
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Ultrasound is widely used for tissue imaging such as breast cancer diagnosis; however, fundamental challenges limit…
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People die twice.First, when they die.Then when they are forgotten.Rokusuke Ei (1933-2016)
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We build technologies that interface with the sleeping mind. We track different sleep-stages using brain activity, muscle tensio…
Dive is a project to explore and induce lucid dreams using mobile devices.Lucid dreams are dreams in which you are aware that you're …
Targeted dream incubation (TDI) is a methodology for guiding (or “incubating”) dreams towards specific themes. Please read the FAQ below to…
InspirationSleep is a forgotten country of the mind. A vast majority of our technologies are built for our waking state, even though a thir…
The close relationship between touch, gesture, and sound plays a critical role in expressive musical performance. Many acoustic instruments…
This project hosts a few experiments of 2D visualization of 3D moving processes. All of the experiments relate to repeating, machine…
OctoStudio is a free coding app available at octostudio.orgOctoStudio transforms how young people use mobile phones and tablets, enabl…
A Distance Learning Model for Global Laboratory-Based Synthetic Biology Education Synthetic Biology ( SynBio) tools hold the…
Photorythms: a computational art-based inquiry of portrait photographyPhotorythms investigates whether computational methods such as facial…
Dreaming through Code Designing creative learning workshops for local organizations committed to introducing technology to kids in a n…
MM-RT is a tabletop tangible musical interface that employs electromagnetic actuators and small permanent magnets to physically induce soun…
SpeechBlocks is a medium that allows children (4-5 years old) to engage in open-ended play with writing. They can build arbitrary compositi…
“Can a man know the truth and tell it to the greatest number and still be misunderstood? Can one man be of the many and still be known?” Sc…
The City Symphony project by the Opera of the Future group brings creative musical participation to everyone while encouraging collaboratio…
This brief excerpt video shows a glimpse of some of Tod Machover’s innovative, unusual opera realized at—and with the collaboration of—the …
Music software that lets anyone compose music. The first music software program designed to teach students and adults how to compose music …
The Hyperinstruments project creates expanded musical instruments and uses technology to give extra power and finesse to virtuosic performe…