Doodlebot is a robot-based creative AI learning platform for high school students. It consists of an introduction to robotics, hardware, so…

We crowdsourced and published a first-of-its-kind open dataset that contains Amazon purchase histories, spanning 2018 to 2022, from more th…

Little Language Models is a co-creative AI education microworld for children (ages 8–16) within the CoCo platform. It is especially de…

CoCo is a new live co-creative learning platform designed to empower educators to support young people in Being. Creative. Together.

The fusion of ecological arts and computations to sense the presence of absence on the planet Earth - by Neil Gaikwad

CommunityLM is a research program from MIT Center for Constructive Communication (CCC) and MIT Media Lab. We are devoted to developing soci…

OverviewPAL is a  wearable platform for personalized, context-aware, and always-present user change.  PAL has mult…

Fostering students' interests in learning is considered to have many positive downstream effects. Large language models have opened up new …

"Leveraging Large Language Models for Learning Complex Legal Concepts through Storytelling," published by the Association for Computat…

Over the last few decades, numerous scholars have documented the fact that in general, people of color and other socio-economically margina…

​Say hello to FutureYou!Imagine stepping into a time machine and having a conversation with your future self. What would you ask? What unex…

WeScratch are online workshops for everyone who wants to learn how to create projects in Scratch in an inclusive, collaborative, …

More than 95% of the ocean has never been observed by humans, even though the ocean plays the largest role in the world's climate system, h…

INSPIRE: Intelligence Never Seeks Perfection, Instead Requires Effort.Stories help us expand our sense of what's possible: by hearing from …

FlowIO is the first fully-integrated and truly general-purpose, miniature pneumatics development platform for control, actuation, and sensi…

As AI evolves beyond screen assistants and into dimensional applications, decentralization emerges as the critical factor for unlocking i…

​Learning robust audio representations currently demands extensive datasets of real-world sound recordings. By applying artificial transfor…

The Atlas of Opportunity is a platform that allows communities to derive insights from their own data. The tool was created in collabo…

The Clubhouse Network has a long history of activism and advocacy. This new initiative aims to enhance and amplify the work already being d…

Society is experiencing a growing challenge of mental health and wellbeing. This year, 32.3% of U.S. adults or over 100 million individuals…

The second iteration of this hackathon featured 66 films and 400 participants from local institutions, other states, and countries.

City Science @ San Francisco (CS@SF), under development,  is a civic initiative actively seeking support to launch the lab and to…

This project transforms light into glass sculptures.  I developed a software systems to capture photographs of sunlight moving th…

In recent years, Generative AI technology has risen in popularity and has been promoted for its creative potential. However, applications o…

Neural audio synthesis methods now allow specifying ideas in natural language. However, these methods produce results that cannot be easily…

Ceramics are ubiquitous, found in household items like toilets and planters, as well as in electronic components such as capacitors and hig…

Ultrasound is widely used for tissue imaging such as breast cancer diagnosis; however, fundamental challenges limit…

Working with leading neuroscientist Richard Davidson and the Healthy Minds Institute, we are developing objective biomarkers to interpret a…

Foundation models have become invaluable in advancing the medical field. Despite their promise, the strategic deployment of LLMs for effect…

Crossroads is an interactive social game where players dig deep into each other's past experiences by collaboratively generating and r…

The Community Carbon Impact is a data visualization installation created by the MIT City Science group for the Boston Museum of Science's y…

Computer-mediated forms of communication (i.e., social media, texting) have quickly become the predominant way that we keep in touch w…

"Repairing the prosthetic science-policy rift: Challenges to improved access to and translation of prosthetic technologies," by Biomechatro…

ocularium is a tiny sensor platform designed to be flown on kites to monitor atmospheric conditions. This project is a collaboration with C…

How can we establish nurturing and circular relationships for informal settlements and allow regenerative ecosystems to envision urban…

In "A HeARTfelt Robot", we designed a social robot interaction for children age 7-11 that helped them practice their social-emotional learn…

Immersive Scope is an immersive environment designed to help people visualize complex urban designs in a more engaging and accessible …

Zero Robotics is an educational program that hosts tournaments to teach middle and high school students to write code and program with robo…

One of the six research methods used by the Space Enabled research group is creating models of complex systems by drawing on techniques fro…

A positioning paper in "PRESENCE: Virtual and Augmented Reality" that presents the design principles behind TeleAbsence

Although lidar is widely used for mapping the 3D geometry of surfaces, the technology has historically been challenged by specular, or mirr…

Precise neurostimulation can revolutionize therapies for neurological disorders. Electrode-based stimulation devices face challenges in ach…

Elinor Poole-Dayan*, Daniel T. Kessler*, Margaret Hughes, Emily S. Lin, Marshall Ganz and Deb Roy. 2025. LLMs for Public Narrative Understanding. NAACL Workshop on Narrative Understanding, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA. Association for Computational Linguistics. https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.13505