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This award recognizes students who are building a better world.
Through an embodied, spatial audio experience, Collective Echos makes tangible a living library of human experiences.In the face of intensi…
Exploring new forms of social justice through art
Freedom Radio (in development) is an ongoing participatory artwork collecting multilingual thoughts and expressions of freedom across natio…
A Counting is an ongoing series of software-generated live-streamed sound and video works composed of an evolving neverending count fr…
"Autonomous operations are critical for the success, safety, and crew survival of NASA deep space missions beyond low Earth orbit, includin…
Cody Paige, MIT AeroAstro Contributors: Ferrous Ward, MIT AeroAstro; Don Derek Haddad, ResEnv; Jess Todd, MIT…
These grants aim to inspire MIT researchers to make a meaningful contribution to responsible technology development and deployment.
I have always been interested in the communities around coding.I love shader programming, I do it as a performance, but I have always felt …
As of August 2020, Ring has active partnerships with over 1400 law enforcement agencies across the US. These partnerships allow law enforce…
In “Scientific InQueery,” LGBTQ+ MIT faculty and graduate students describe finding community and living their authentic lives.
This award is given to students from Macau, Hong Kong, and Mainland China who have demonstrated academic prowess and community involvement.
This research shows how AI can support LGBTQIA+ advocacy, how technology might help create a more accepting + understanding society.
Hex House was co-founded by Char Stiles, a master's student in the Future Sketches research group.
AbstractDespite significant historical progress, discrimination and social stigma continue to impact the lives of LGBTQIA+ individuals. The…
People die twice.First, when they die.Then when they are forgotten.Rokusuke Ei (1933-2016)
Recipients of this award have shown commitment and passion for the community regardless of leadership position.
Professor Cynthia Breazeal, head of the Personal Robots research group, is among the honorees.
The research on Community-based Social Innovation focuses on the reshaping of urban spaces by human social behavior, incorporating an analy…
The second iteration of this hackathon featured 66 films and 400 participants from local institutions, other states, and countries.
Ruihan Zhang, a student in the Molecular Machines group, was lead organizer of this event in collaboration with MIT Film Makers Association
Symphony for the Koreas will be the latest installment of the celebrated City Symphony series. Over the next few years, Tod Machover and hi…
Media Lab alum Steve Mann, known as “the father of wearable computing,” talks to the MIT Alumni Association about his approach to new tech.
Several summer interns at the Media Lab talk about their experiences., the research they conducted, and what they learned.
A Distance Learning Model for Global Laboratory-Based Synthetic Biology Education Synthetic Biology ( SynBio) tools hold the…
The City Science Network is a collaboration of institutions + researchers sharing a the goal of enabling more livable, equitable communities
The MIT CCC participated in this year's Ars Electronica festival from September 6–10, 2023.
Human-AI Systems for Dialogue and Listening
Learn about the Living Knitwork Pavilion: an interactive architectural installation that combined textile arts + engineering at Burning Man.
Abisola Okuk, who began her career at MIT as an admin in the Lifelong Kindergarten group, talks to MIT News about finding her passion.
Mary Niskala, a senior administrative assistant, talks to MIT News about her proudest moments at the Institute.
Media Lab student Ayşe Guvenilir and MIT alumni Mariam Dogar and Maisha Munawwara Prome share work from their poetry anthology.
The 27 finalists will explore the technology’s impact on democracy, education, sustainability, communications, and much more.
Bühler, M. et al., 2023. Harnessing Digital Federation Platforms and Data Cooperatives to Empower SMEs and Local Small Communities, OBSERVER RESEARCH FOUNDATION. India.
In a post for the MIT Governance Lab, Media Lab grad student Leonard Francis Vibbi discusses his recent work in Sierra Leone.
A revolutionary new piece of civic infrastructure for more inclusive public input.Real Talk for Change is a collaboration between MIT’s Cen…
The Tidmarsh Living Observatory Portal is a research project that focuses on the design and fabrication of a pavilion that will genera…
Former Media Lab Professor Ethan Zuckerman speaks with The New York Times about the future of social media.
Catch David S. Kong on Joe Blair's Epic Human Podcast, as he discusses his mission to empower communities through biotechnology.
Jaleesa Trapp was the graduate student speaker at MIT's 49th annual Celebration of the Life and Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
TRANSFORM fuses technology and design to celebrate its transformation from still furniture to a dynamic machine driven by a stream of data …
Shape displays can be used to render both 3D physical content and user interface elements. We propose to use shape displays in three differ…
Global participation in MIT RAISE’s free K-12 program more than doubles in its second year.
Media Lab professor Tod Machover performed a new musical composition, "A Little Hub Symphony," during the SA+P advanced degree ceremony.
Q+A sessions on two research projects with contributors from MIT and the Media Lab will be livestreamed from the ISS on May 26 and May 28.
Scratch Mondays is an initiative to share the Scratch Day spirit to schools in Brazil. After having a big Scratch Day event in 2018 i…
The Axiom Mission 2 launch will carry a variety of research from the MIT Media Lab to the International Space Station (ISS) on May 21, 2023
Supported by the Space Exploration Initiative, the student-run HUMANS project aims to increase global representation in space.
Meet the MIT Morningside Academy for Design’s inaugural fellows, including Pedro Reynolds-Cuéllar and Francesca Riccio-Ackerman.
Deb Roy, director of the MIT Center for Constructive Communication, discusses his research and how technology can be used for social good.
ML Learning
Open Ocean
Creating technology for social change
ArtBoat is a tool for communities to make collaborative light paintings in public spaces and reimagine the future of their cities. &n…
As we know from our ‘maker’ classes and workshops, different capabilities and approaches can yield remarkable projects. Let’s facilitate a …
Your social media. Your rules.Gobo is an experiment, not a startup. We’re building it to change the conversation on social media and imagin…
Thousands of children participate in MIT-developed artificial intelligence curriculum.
David Sun Kong speaks with NEO.LIFE about science, activism, and how biotechnology can empower ordinary people.
Faculty leaders highlight innovations that can close longstanding knowledge gaps and reimagine how the world responds to the climate crisis.
A database of community conversations in various Boston neighborhoods launches publicly on Monday.
Annual MLK celebration at MIT features call to confront America’s history of racism in order to move forward.
Deb Roy talks to McKinsey about the many ways audience, voice, and medium combine to create compelling stories.
Can machines make us better citizens and conversationalists? Deb Roy thinks so.
The MIT spinout has been releasing iconic video games for more than 25 years.
Graduate student Lucy Du designs novel prosthetics and seeks to inspire others to pursue engineering.
Tech titans and upstarts alike are working to deepen our relationships with their robots.
Alex ‘Sandy’ Pentland speaks during a TEDxMIT event about how distributed data technologies can help community social structures.
Artificial intelligence is top-of-mind as Governor Baker, President Reif encourage students to “see yourself in STEM.”
Academic research groups, especially the ones directed by new junior faculty, are under pressure to produce high-quality work timely while …