Our world is full of signals, some of which we see and others which are invisible. These signals range from WiFi to brain waves. The perv...
The Director’s Fellows program is creating a diverse global network empowered by technology from the MIT Media Lab.MIT Media Lab Director...
Laboratory for Social Machines, MIT Media LabThe LSM team uses natural language processing, network science, machine learning, and user e...
The Camera Culture Group focuses on making the invisible visible–inside our bodies, around us, and beyond–for health, work, and connectio...
Over millennia, humans have invented various forms of social organization to govern themselves—from tribes and city states to kingdoms an...
The City Science research group proposes that new strategies must be found for creating the places where people live and work, and the mo...
How can wearable and immersive systems support personal growth and help us become the person we want to be? Building upon insights...
The mission of the Media Lab’s new Ethics initiative is to foster multi-disciplinary program designs and critical conversations around et...
Welcome!The MIT Media Lab Open Agriculture Initiative (OpenAg) is on a mission to create healthier, more engaging, and more inventive fut...
We live on the border between two worlds: our physical environment and cyberspace. People have developed sophisticated ski...
More than 30 years ago, Media Lab founding faculty member Seymour Papert laid the foundation for a new theory of learning through constru...
Robots are an intriguing technology that can straddle both the physical and social world of people. Inspired by animal and human behavior...
We explore how sensor networks augment and mediate human experience, interaction, and perception, while developing new sensing modalities...
Cultural Resonation is the underlying philosophy and energy that informs all aspects of our work. Code Next (CN) is a Media Lab collabora...
Humanity's capacity to engineer the living world is a collective concern that requires collective engagement. While synthetic biology has...
Health 0.0 is a new research program at the MIT Media Lab that brings together life sciences, biotechnology, foundations, universit...
Through the Hundred-Dollar Laptop initiative, the Media Lab is working with One Laptop per Child (OLPC), a non-profit association that jo...
The Design Fiction group is not accepting new students. The Design Fiction group designs projects to stimulate discussion about the ...
The Affective Computing group aims to bridge the gap between human emotions and computational technology. Current research addresses mach...
Data is ubiquitous in a world where our understanding of it is not. The Pixel Factory is a special interest group working to help people ...
The Emerging Worlds SIG is focused on emerging opportunities to address pressing challenges, and leapfrog existing solutions. Emerging Wo...
The Opera of the Future group (formerly known as Hyperinstruments) explores concepts and techniques to help advance the future of musical...
The ocean is vast. It covers more than 70% of the surface of our planet and holds 97% of the water on Earth. The ocean is exciting. ...
Today people leave digital breadcrumbs wherever they go, through smart phones, RFIDs, and more. The Human Dynamics group uses Reality Min...
The Lifelong Kindergarten group develops new technologies and activities that, in the spirit of the blocks and finger paint of kindergart...
Society today is shifting its trust from large, central systems to decentralized ones. These systems present a diffuse target for attack...
Media and technology are now core parts of civic and political engagement. We believe designing these digital tools and spaces for social...
We know from early Roman mosaics that physical rehabilitation and amplification technologies have been used during much of recorded histo...
The Collective Learning group at the MIT Media Lab focuses on how teams, organizations, cities, and nations learn. Our research addresses...
Communities need information to make decisions and take action: to provide aid to neighbors in need, to purchase an environmentally susta...
The Mediated Matter group focuses on Nature-inspired design and design-inspired Nature. We conduct research at the intersection of comput...
The Internet enabled people to easily call each other without a phone company, send a document without a mail carrier, or publish an arti...
MIT Media Lab Space Exploration Initiative In academic year 2016-2017, we launched the Media Lab Space Exploration initiative. The i...
The Space Enabled group advances justice and development by improving designs for complex systems. Our designs are enabled by space capab...
The Software Agents group investigates a new paradigm for software that acts like an assistant to a user of an interactive interface rath...
In contributing to the digital revolution, the Media Lab helped fuel a society where increasing numbers of people are obese, sedentary, a...
The development, application, and capabilities of AI-based systems are evolving rapidly, leaving largely unanswered a broad range of impo...
Our research is exploring a "constructionist" approach to the development of personal and community publishing tools in order to help inc...
We live in an ocean of physical patterns: heartbeats, respiration, muscle movements, neural activity, tidal waves, airflow, ambient humid...