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We’re in a modern Cambrian era, sorting through an explosion of technologies enabled by the Internet.
Cynthia Breazeal sits down for an interview with Glenn Zorpette at the 2018 IEEE Vision, Innovation, and Challenges Summit.
'Affective computing' measures subtle changes in stress and mental health.
Four Lab researchers caution against credulous acceptance of rosy humanistic pronouncements.
Massive global Moral Machine study reveals ethics preferences and regional differences
Much has changed since we introduced the first generation of our Scratch programming language and online community, back in 2007.
We asked futurists, tech execs, academics, researchers, and a sci-fi writer to imagine our tech-driven society in 20 years.
Wearables are already replacing traditional drugs and therapies—this year, they'll go further still.
Over the past decade, millions of kids around the world have used Scratch to code their own interactive games, stories, animations, and mor…
Rahwan, I. (2018). Society-in-the-loop: programming the algorithmic social contract. Ethics and Information Technology, 20(1), 5-14.
Global climate change is projected to change our planet this century and beyond.
An NYC exhibit imagines driverless buses and mobile medical units resembling Popemobiles.
Hao and Padman. Health Informatics Journal, published online Dec. 21, 2016. Published Sept. 1, 2018.
Hao, H., Padman, R., Sun, B. et al. Electron Commer Res (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10660-018-09324-5
Priyadarshi talks to Malini Goyal on a broad range of issues.
The Telemetron was created in response to a call from the MIT Media Lab’s Space Exploration Initiative.
BBC Click's Nick Kwek looks at some of the best technology stories of the week.
Fadel Adib is one of 25 recipients of the Office of Naval Research's 2019 Young Investigator Awards, and the only awardee from MIT.
Thoughts from the Media Lab's Space Enabled group and Space Exploration Initiative
Ekblaw, Ariel and Joseph Paradiso. "TESSERAE: self-assembling shell structures for space exploration." In Proceedings of the Annual Symposium of the International Association of Shell and Spatial Structures: Extra Planetary Architecture, p. 317 (2018).
Wood, D. & A. Weigel, “Architectures of Small Satellite Programs in Developing Countries,” Acta Astronautica, Vol 97, April – May 2014, pp 109-121.
Kazansky, Y., D. Wood and J. Sutherlun, “The Current and Potential Role of Satellite Remote Sensing in the Campaign Against Malaria,” Acta Astronautica, Vol 121, April – May 2016, Pages 292-305. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actaastro.2015.09.021
Study explores the micromechanisms underlying regional economic diversification.
Some say bigger is better, but researchers at MIT will tell you that when it comes to tech, smaller things are far more impressive.
For amputees, robotic limbs that move like the real thing and are controlled by the mind are a game changer.
Inventors play a critical role in fostering innovation, strengthening economies, and addressing everyday problems and grand challenges.
Misha Sra explains how galvanic vestibular stimulation (GVS) can improve VR experiences and open up new possibilities in gaming and beyond.
The technique, known as “implosion fabrication,” can be used to create nearly any shape imaginable.
Creating sociotechnical systems that shape our urban environments
Virtual reality can help realize mediated social experiences where we interact as richly with those around the world as we do with those ...
Brand, Stewart. Inventing the Future, Viking Adult (September 15, 1987)
The Festival of Invention and Creativity (FIC) is a great celebration of the inventive, collaborative, and hands-on spirit of...
Shriya S. Srinivasan, Benjamin E. Maimon, Maurizio Diaz, Hyungeun Song and Hugh M. Herr, Nature Communications, volume 9, article number: 5303 (2018)
B. E. Maimon, K. Sparks, S. S. Srinivasan, A. N. Zorzos, H. M. Herr, Spectrally distinct channelrhodopsins for two-colour optogenetic peripheral nerve stimulation. Nature Biomedical Engineering 2, 485–496 (2018).
Inaugural exhibition in the newly renovated space features work from 20 MIT Arts Scholars.
Careers with STEM caught up with Mitch Resnick, the inventor of Scratch, in a wide-ranging Q&A.
AI tools can absolutely make systems more equitable and fair, but they won’t succeed without our help.
Candia, Cristian and Jara-Figueroa, C. and Rodriguez-Sickert, Carlos and Barabási, Albert-László and Hidalgo, César A., Nature Human Behaviour, 2018, DOI:10.1038/s41562-018-0474-5
C. Jara-Figueroa, Bogang Jun, Edward L. Glaeser, and Cesar A. Hidalgo, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2018, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1800475115
The technology could revolutionize policing, medicine, even agriculture—but its applications can easily be weaponized.
Sareen is a research affiliate within the Fluid Interfaces group, and worked with lab founder Pattie Maes to develop the project.
iBiology features two introductory classes from CRISPR expert Kevin Esvelt, head of the Media Lab's Sculpting Evolution group.
A selection of recent press coverage on Elowan, a plant-robot hybrid designed by Harpreet Sareen and Pattie Maes.
A selection of recent press coverage on Tod Machover's newest opera, Schoenberg in Hollywood.
Unlike a normal edit, gene drive systems could lastingly alter or suppress local or global populations of a target species.
While plants at first glance look like static things, they are in fact very busy transmitting bio-electrochemical signals.
A Parsons and MIT researcher hooked up electrodes to a plant’s leaves to turn it into a robotic sensor.
Introducing Elowan, a robot-plant hybrid designed by Harpreet Sareen and Pattie Maes, both from MIT Media Lab.
As Collier gets ready to release his sophomore album, "Djesse," he's adding a new element to his musical world: other people.
Skrin is an exploration project on digitalized body skin surface using embedded electronics and prosthetics. Human skin is a means for pr...
We study augmentation of the creative writing process through a new text editor. This text editor presents short-length snippets from boo...
ReflectOns are objects that help people think about their actions and change their behavior based on subtle, ambient nudges delivered at ...
It's common for us to attach different emotions to each moment in our lives, but when we capture and interact with them, we are often con...
This work explores a technological answer to the perennial question "What's for dinner?" Few of us know with great certainty the exact fo...
The Context Manager is a generalized framework for connecting a variety of pervasive sensor technologies and output modalities to intelli...
People's tastes are their systems of aesthetic judgment and preference. Taste systems are generative; understanding the tastes of friends...
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