Technical summaryUnstructured learning problems without well-defined rewards are unsuitable for current reinforcement learning (RL) appro...
Civic Entertainment is a project based at the Center for Civic Media that explores the intersection of civic engagement with film, televi...
If we are unable to adapt to climate change, it may amplify the marginal gap between citizen need and government assistance.
Technique can capture a scene at multiple depths with one shutter click—no zoom lens needed
The Media Lab panel at San Diego Comic-Con covered inclusion, exploration, and the reciprocity between fiction and research at the Lab
Personalized machine-learning models capture subtle variations in facial expressions to better gauge how we feel
The Community Biotechnology Initiative at the MIT Media Lab is organizing the second annual Global Summit on Community Biotechn...
This blog post summarizes the key findings of our new paper Unpacking the polarization of workplace skills published in Science Advances ...
The Mediated Atmosphere project envisions a smart office that is capable of dynamically transforming itself to enhance occupants' work ex...
Emotional content is an important part of language. There are many use cases now showing that natural language processing is becoming an ...
All Hands on Deck will convene leaders in ocean exploration to imagine new ways to empower an inclusive global community of explorers.
EngageME: Personalized machine learning and humanoid robots for measuring affect and engagement of children with autismEngageME is a proj...
Embodied theories of language propose that the way we communicate verbally is grounded in our bodies. Nevertheless, the way a second lang...
Rapid urbanization causes a need for new mobility modes which may not be totally dependent on cars.
It’s not about your wireless or cable bill, it’s about your right to learn.
Announcing the Global Council on Extended Intelligence
DIVE is a web-based data exploration system that lets non-technical users create stories from their data without writing code. DIVE ...
Best wishes to the MAS grads
We'd like to introduce you to a very special neuroscience project that we are currently conducting in the setting of a traditional fine a...
Professor Fadel Adib has won the world's best dissertation award in wireless networks and mobile computing. His thesis showed how we can ...
Academia
In-Vivo Networking (IVN) is the new technology that can wirelessly power and communicate with tiny devices implanted deep within the...
A Wearable Olfactory Display That Monitors Cardio-respiratory Information to Support Mental WellbeingBioEssence is a novel wearable ...
Humans can accurately sense the position, speed, and torque of their limbs, even with their eyes shut. This sense, known as proprioceptio...
I grew up in a small town in Transylvania, and will always remember the day when I assembled my first computer and loaded the first mp3 s...
We present a multimaterial voxel-printing method enabling the physical visualization of data sets commonly associated with scientific ima...
Tuesday May 29, 2018 ...
The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) has named 19 new HHMI Investigators, including Synthetic Neurobiology head Ed Boyden.
New cohort brings social, scientific, and creative experience to extend the Lab’s reach beyond academia.
An interdepartmental collaboration brings out the music of nuclear fusion
Make the Breast Pump Not Suck hackathon at the Media Lab emphasizes social and political issues over engineering
Public buildings account for the greatest energy demands in the Andorran economy. As part of the City Science Lab @Andorra, a team of sci...
Interaction Design category
Tuesday April 24, 2018 ...
AlterEgo is a closed-loop, non-invasive, wearable system that allows humans to converse in high-bandwidth natural language with mach...
60 Minutes goes inside the MIT Media Lab.
Sleep is a forgotten country of the mind: A vast majority of our technologies are built for our waking state, even though a third of our ...
State-of-the art liquid handling systems are generally pump-driven systems connected with valves and tubes. These systems are manually a...
The MIT Museum presents The Beautiful Brain, featuring the drawings of neuroscience pioneer Santiago Ramón y Cajal, alongside an interact...
Guy Satat and Tyler Clites won in the "Drive It!" and "Cure It!" categories, respectively
How can we add the missing "T" and "E" in preschool STEAM education?
Public libraries and the MIT Media Lab are kindred spirits. Together, we hope to design new programs for libraries across the U.S.
Inertia is a platform for exploring physical interactions between real active agents and virtual elements in an augmented reality environ...
City Science researchers are developing a slew of tangible and digital platforms dedicated to solving spatial design and urban planning c...
Friday May 4, 2018 ...
The delivery of mental health interventions via ubiquitous devices has shown a lot of promise. A natural conversational interface that al...
The City Symphony project by the Opera of the Future group brings creative musical participation to everyone while encouraging collaborat...
Seeing through dense, dynamic, and heterogeneous fog conditions. The technique, based on visible light, uses hardware that is similar to ...
We cannot certify that an AI agent is ethical by looking at its source code.
The Observatory of Economic Complexity (OEC) is the world's leading data visualization tool for international trade data. The OEC makes m...
TuringBox is a platform that makes it easier for social and behavioral scientists to study Artificial Intelligence algorithms. ...
Structurally, zero gravity means that we do not have to contend with architecture's greatest arch-nemesis, gravity. This opens up a new w...
On Collective Debate, users take a test of their morality, then debate an artificial agent regarding a controversial claim: tha...
Award-winning science fiction author Neal Stephenson
The Gender Shades project pilots an intersectional approach to inclusive product testing for AI.Algorithmic Bias PersistsGender Shades is...
The new issue looks at designing a complex and unknowable future with machines
Recent advances in medications for neurodegenerative disorders are expanding opportunities for improving the debilitating symptoms suffer...
Researchers should hold themselves morally accountable for all of the consequences of their work. That can require publicly acknowledging...
Reimagining research for life in space
The Conformable Decoders group is now home to a state-of-the-art cleanroom called the "YellowBox."
Take control of your social feed.Gobo is a social media aggregator with filters you control. You can use Gobo to control what’s edited ou...
design(human)design is a tool that builds on insights about the design process inspired by research carried out at IDEO Cambridge. The id...
IdeaA lab is where unique ideas are generated and early prototypes are synthesized. A factory is where designs are mass produced and qual...
Celebrating Brain Awareness Week with a look at some of the Media Lab's brain research