Putting together this exhibit helped me to reflect on both my personal and academic lives.
How do your kicks collaborate with mental health?
As bikes navigate city streets after dark, they are often equipped with lights. The lights make the bikes visible to cars or other bikers...
Congratulations to all who graduated during the 2018-2019 academic year!
Disobedience Award
Our PLIX Facilitation Kits are designed to make it easy for librarians to offer creative learning programs to their patrons.
We present a review paper that analyzes how early design decisions can affect the regulatory approval process downstream.
Congratulations to all of the honorees! We are so proud of you all.
Guillermo Bernal believes virtual reality should be more expressive.
A team led by the Space Enabled group, ESA, and the World Economic Forum will address waste in Earth’s orbit
The exhibition includes work from a number of Media Lab researchers and alumni.
The projects on board the Media Lab's first suborbital rocket flight
The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) is a private, non-profit society of distinguished scholars.
The exhibition includes work from several Media Lab researchers and groups, including Neri Oxman, Joy Buolamwini, and the OpenAg Initiative.
Pip Mothersill lives and thrives at the junction of design and engineering.
Congratulations, Arnav!
This year, 120 curious students were honored at the Curiosity Challenge Celebration, along with Dr. Danielle Wood, 2019 Curious Scientist.
Machines powered by artificial intelligence (AI) increasingly mediate our social, cultural, economic, and ...
Fortune Magazine has named Joy Buolamwini to its 2019 list of the World's Greatest Leaders.
The electro-holographic video display (Holovideo) project has spanned over decades, beginning back in 1989, and continues to be a main re...
In this TED Talk, Affective Computing head Rosalind Picard explains how AI can help save lives.
Most countries are projected to see the number of people ages 65 and older surpass the population under the age of 15 by 2050. The limita...
Try Affective Network!Emotional contagion in online social networks has been of great interest over the past years. Previous studies have...
The LEGO Papert Fellowships support three graduate students working at the intersection of creativity, play, learning, and new technology.
Flavor, in addition to making our food delicious, is one way of sensing biochemical richness. A highly flavorful plant generally con...
Who should decide whether, when, and how to alter the environment? These are hard questions, especially when the decisions will impact pe...
In just three semesters, we have done a lot, and I cannot wait to experience our progress in Spring 2019 and beyond.
The technology being developed can enable personalized interactions with an autistic child, helping therapists to engage their attention.
Researchers say new facilities in space should be available to scientists from any country.
Algorithmic auditing has emerged as a key strategy to expose systematic biases embedded in software platforms, yet scholarship on the imp...
Biodiversity on planet Earth is under momentous threat, with extinction rates estimated between 100 and 1,000 times their pre-human level...
We are creating new communication interfaces for people with speech and language disorders, incorporating technologies like physiological...
MAS professor recognized for a career of contributions to human-computer interaction.
How can we add the missing "T" and "E" in preschool STEAM education?
Peoples' mindsets, meaning their beliefs about their own intellectual abilities, affect their effort and thereby their performance on tas...
Rosalind Picard is nominated to the NAE for her contributions to affective and wearable computing.
On the occasion of his bicentennial, a list of 200 people who best embody the spirit and work of Frederick Douglass.
Communication technologies, from printing to social media, affect our historical records by changing the way ideas are spread and recorde...
New 3D imaging technique can reveal, much more quickly than other methods, how neurons connect throughout the brain.
Since the release of Scratch in 2007, young people around the world have programmed and shared more than 15 million Scratch projects . Th...
In January 2019, artist Ekene Ijeoma will join the MIT Media Lab as an assistant professor.
Collective memory and attention are sustained by two channels: oral communication (communicative memory) and the physical recording of in...
We have developed a wireless system that leverages the inexpensive RFID tags already on hundreds of billions of products to sense potent...
A rare glimpse into the creative life of Arnold Schoenberg.
kinetiX is a transformable material featuring a design that resembles a cellular structure. It consists of rigid plates or rods and elast...
More ocean data has been collected in the last two years than in all previous years combined, and we are on a path to continue to break t...
The Compton Prizes are the highest awards presented by the Institute to students and student organizations.
OpenAg is invited to showcase its latest Food Computer design in the Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial, the Barbican Centre, and the V&A Museum
Civic Media PhD student Pedro Reynolds-Cuellar serves as president of the association.
Local artists explore the state of climate change today in “Untold Possibilities at the Last Minute,” an exhibition on view at Cambridge ...
The Golden Mouse is a “Best of Show” award that recognizes the best overall submission to the CHI Video Showcase.
The Unsung Hero Award from the Office of Graduate Education recognizes students who have shown commitment and passion for the community.
"Improving Students' Daily Life Stress Forecasting using LSTM Neural Networks," by Terumi Umematsu, Akane Sano, Sara Taylor, an...
This summer, the Personal Robots group will be hosting a week-long workshop at the MIT Media Lab to teach kids about AI and ethics!
Scratch in Practice (SiP) shares ideas and resources from the Scratch Team and educators around the world. Each month, the SiP website fe...
Segregation is hurting our societies and especially our cities. But economic inequality isn't just limited to neighborhoods. The restaura...
Should workers worry about automation and AI?Many workers, policy makers, and researchers are asking themselves exactly this question. Bu...
We must proactively tackle the economic, social, and societal implications that accompany the widespread deployment of AI technology. In ...
PerForm explores the intuitive meanings associated with the shape of objects, and how a shape-changing tool can allow for different forms...
The CRISPR-Cas9 system has proven to be a versatile tool for genome editing, with numerous implications in medicine, agriculture, bi...
TurboTrack is a 3D localization system for fine-grained robotic tasks, with unique capability to localize backscatter nodes with sub-cent...
Although significant progress is being made in identifying pH sensing materials and device configurations, a standard protocol for ...
Digital machine knitting is a highly programmable manufacturing process that has been utilized to produce apparel, accessories, and footw...
Teen Summit is a biennial week-long Youth Leadership event that brings Clubhouse youth together from each of the 100 Clubhouses internati...
Could a social robot collaboratively exchange stories with children as a peer and help improve their linguistic and storytelling skills? ...
The Māori of Aotearoa (New Zealand) have a long and deep connection to their island and ocean ecosystem. Concepts such as ...
ScratchBit is an effort to enable children to create more seamlessly in both the physical and digital world by creating a dedicated physi...
Programmable Water-Based Biocomposites for Digital Design and Fabrication across ScalesAguahoja is an exploration of nature’s design spac...
StoryBlocks aims to promote creative expression, literacy development, and social-emotional development through storytelling for children...
In the Civic Media group, we are exploring new theoretical frameworks for design, and novel design education methodologies that serve a f...