We live in an ocean of physical patterns: heartbeats, respiration, muscle movements, neural activity, tidal waves, airflow, ambient humid...
The Camera Culture group focuses on making the invisible visible–inside our bodies, around us, and beyond–for health, work, and connectio...
MIT Media Lab Space Exploration Initiative In academic year 2016-2017, we launched the Media Lab Space Exploration initiative. The i...
Society today is shifting its trust from large, central systems to decentralized ones. These systems present a diffuse target for attack...
Laboratory for Social Machines, MIT Media LabThe LSM team uses natural language processing, network science, machine learning, and user e...
The mission of the Space Enabled Research Group is to advance justice in Earth's complex systems using designs enabled by space. Our mess...
Your brain mediates everything that you sense, feel, think, and do. The brain is incredibly complex–each cubic millimeter of your brain c...
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...
The Opera of the Future group (formerly known as Hyperinstruments) explores concepts and techniques to help advance the future of musical...
The Molecular Machines group is focused on pioneering the field of Avogadro scale engineering, which seeks to understand and approach the...
The Mediated Matter group focuses on Nature-inspired design and design-inspired Nature. We conduct research at the intersection of comput...
The Affective Computing group aims to bridge the gap between human emotions and computational technology. Current research addresses mach...
Living Mobile is not accepting new students at this time.We want to increase the value of computing for the times when we are away from c...
Today people leave digital breadcrumbs wherever they go, through smart phones, RFIDs, and more. The Human Dynamics group uses Reality Min...
How can wearable and immersive systems support personal growth and help us become the person we want to be? Building upon insights...
The Collective Learning group at the MIT Media Lab focuses on how teams, organizations, cities, and nations learn. Our research addresses...
Media and technology are now core parts of civic and political engagement. We believe designing these digital tools and spaces for social...
The City Science research group proposes that new strategies must be found for creating the places where people live and work, and the mo...
We know from early Roman mosaics that physical rehabilitation and amplification technologies have been used during much of recorded histo...
Welcome!The MIT Media Lab Open Agriculture Initiative (OpenAg) is on a mission to create healthier, more engaging, and more inventive fut...
The MIT Knowledge Futures Group (KFG) is a new joint initiative of the MIT Press and the MIT Media Lab. KFG's mission is to transform re...
Over millennia, humans have invented various forms of social organization to govern themselves—from tribes and city states to kingdoms an...
The Internet enabled people to easily call each other without a phone company, send a document without a mail carrier, or publish an arti...
Humanity's capacity to engineer the living world is a collective concern that requires collective engagement. While synthetic biology has...
The development, application, and capabilities of AI-based systems are evolving rapidly, leaving largely unanswered a broad range of impo...
We live on the border between two worlds: our physical environment and cyberspace. People have developed sophisticated ski...
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. ...
The Software Agents group investigates a new paradigm for software that acts like an assistant to a user of an interactive interface rath...
More than 30 years ago, Media Lab founding faculty member Seymour Papert laid the foundation for a new theory of learning through constru...
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...
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 Future Storytelling working group at the Media Lab is rethinking storytelling for the 21st century. The group takes a new and dynamic...
The Emerging Worlds SIG is focused on emerging opportunities to address pressing challenges, and leapfrog existing solutions. Emerging Wo...
The Lifelong Kindergarten group develops new technologies and activities that, in the spirit of the blocks and finger paint of kindergart...
Half of the world's population currently suffers from some form of physical or neurological disability. At some point in our lives, it is...
The Director’s Fellows program is creating a diverse global network empowered by technology from the MIT Media Lab.MIT Media Lab Director...
The mission of the Media Lab’s new Ethics initiative is to foster multi-disciplinary program designs and critical conversations around et...
Cultural Resonation is the underlying philosophy and energy that informs all aspects of our work. Code Next (CN) is a Media Lab collabora...
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 ...
Communities need information to make decisions and take action: to provide aid to neighbors in need, to purchase an environmentally susta...
In contributing to the digital revolution, the Media Lab helped fuel a society where increasing numbers of people are obese, sedentary, a...
Our research is exploring a "constructionist" approach to the development of personal and community publishing tools in order to help inc...