More than 100 companies have spun out of the Media Lab.
The Conformable Decoders group's new method to deliver drugs directly to the brain was selected to the Top 100 Science Spinoffs according...
Control of quantum systems is becoming increasingly relevant in magnetic resonance imaging, quantum computation, and quantum instrumentat...
Spinner is a Lab-wide sensor network platform designed to detect and capture fragmented events of human behavior that can be collected an...
Spin is a photography turntable system that lets you capture how your DIY projects come together over time. With Spin, you can create GIF...
Endor, a predictive analytics startup originating at MIT Media Lab and co-founded by former Media Lab post-doc Dr. Yaniv Altshuler, has b...
The SpiderBot is a suspended robotic gantry system that provides an easily deployable platform from which to print large structures. The ...
Amanda Ghassaei, a former editorial staffer at Instructables and current grad student in the Center for Bits and Atoms at MIT’s Media Lab...
An interdepartmental collaboration brings out the music of nuclear fusion
Media manipulation technologies have the power to vanish people from photographs. Yet their souls live on in the deep memory of these alg...
M. Popovic, A. Hofmann, and H. Herr. Zero spin angular momentum control: Definition and applicability, 4th IEEE/RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, vol. 1, pp. 478–493, 2004.
Recht, B. "Spingineering: Quantum Control in the Presence of Relaxation"
Tiffany Tseng, Mitchel Resnick
The center’s goal is to treat a wide spectrum of disabilities through the development of advanced bionics.
A video playlist portraying companies supported by the E14 Fund.
Murali, K. "An Approach to Bridging Atom Optics and Bulk Spin Quantum Computation"
Slotkin, J., Pritchard, C., Luque, B., Ye, J., Layer, r., Lawrence, M., O’Shea, T., Roy, R., Zhong, H., Vollenweider, I., Edgerton, V., Courtine, G., Woodard, E. and Langer, R., Biodegradable scaffolds promote tissue remodeling and functional improvement in non-human primates with acute spinal cord injury, Biomaterials, 123: 63-76, 2017.
Elizabeth Tsai, Michal Firstenberg, Jared Laucks, Lehnert, Benjamin, Yoav Sterman, Neri Oxman
A new MIT Media Lab device takes a page from Spiderman to help astronauts navigate while weightless.
Kevin Fan, Jochen Huber, Suranga Nanayakkara, Masahiko Inami
Featuring dozens of Media Lab startups + nonprofits with interactive demos and opportunities to meet and identify potential collaborations.
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Assistant Professor of Media Arts and Sciences
LocationMIT, Room 7-431(Long Lounge) DescriptionTake a broad perspective: evolutionary theory provides us with an unpredictably deep conn...
Financial Officer
Leo Bonanni Vargas, G., Chao, N., Pueblo, S., and Ishii, H.
Transhumanism: Searching for the Spirit in the Machine
Research Affiliate, Oblong
Research Assistant
Professor Martha Minow in conversation with Father Eric Salobir, the Venerable Tenzin Priyadarshi, Professor Max Tegmark, and Joi Ito.
The mission of the Space Enabled research group is to advance justice in Earth's complex systems using designs enabled by space. Our mess...
Han X., Qian X., Stern P., Chuong A. and Boyden E.S. (2009) Informational Lesions: Optical Perturbation of Spike Timing and Neural Synchrony Via Microbial Opsin Gene Fusions, Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience 2:12.
The Spatial Imaging group develops new technology and interfaces for high-quality 3-D displays. Their research includes hardcopy holograp...
Speakeasy is a community-based telephone service that connects multilingual volunteers, non-English speaking immigrants, and social servi...
Research Assistant
MIT Media Lab Space Exploration Initiative
An astronaut's ability to leverage the sense of touch is substantially reduced when wearing a protective, pressurized spacesuit. We imagi...
Kahn, I., Knoblich, U., Desai, M., Bernstein, J., Graybiel, A.M., Boyden, E.S., Buckner, R.L., Moore C.I. (2013) Optogenetic drive of neocortical pyramidal neurons generates fMRI signals that are correlated with spiking activity, Brain Research, 1511:33-45.
Han, X. and Boyden, E. S. (2007) Multiple-color optical activation, silencing, and desynchronization of neural activity, with single-spike temporal resolution, PLoS ONE 2(3): p. e299.