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Exploring new forms of social justice through art
Space Exploration Initiative
Looking beyond smart cities
Promoting deeper learning and understanding in human networks
Media filter bubbles sacrifice shared reality amongst US citizens. We aim to burst these echo chambers by presenting short, automatically...
Staining of tissues sections using chemical and biological dyes has been used for over a century for visualizing various tissue types and...
Virtual Beyond the Cradle
How do you spot a DeepFake? How good are DeepFake videos? How well can ordinary people tell the difference between a video manipulated by...
The Power of WITHOUT is a research theme in the City Science group. The theme proposes that heavy infrastructure solutions are not financ...
Health 0.0
An MIT research team is using supercomputers to help develop a drug to treat the disease caused by the novel coronavirus.
Advance human wellbeing by developing new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion
Code.org interviews Lifelong Kindergarten PhD student Jaleesa Trapp in honor of Women’s History Month.
Zach Lieberman talks about the illustrations he created for this week’s cover story of The NYT Magazine and translating code-based art.
Camera Culture head Ramesh Raskar talks to Rashmi Mohan about his interdisciplinary research and entrepreneurial endeavors.
Watch the interviews conducted by Career Girls with Labbers Randi Williams, Jaleesa Trapp, Marian Muthui, and Alexis Hope.
Designing systems for cognitive enhancement
Awards honor young professors in the Media Lab and departments of Biology, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Chemical Engineering, EECS, + Math
Jaleesa Trapp talks about her career path, how technology encodes the values of its designers, and the importance of play.
Electrical engineer William Oliver develops technology to enable reliable quantum computing at scale.
ML Learning
Human-computer interaction (HCI) has traditionally focused on designing and investigating interfaces that provide explicit visual, audito...
Inventing, building, and deploying wireless sensor technologies to address complex problems in society, industry, and ecology
Real World Data (RWD) and Real World Evidence (RWE) are playing an increasing role in healthcare decisions to support innovative use of E...
Building intelligent personified technologies that collaborate with people to help them learn, thrive, and flourish.
Can we build a battery-free underwater GPS? While underwater localization is a long-studied problem, we seek to bring it to ba...
Perikumar Javia, Rana A, Shapiro NI, Shah P. IEEE Xplore, Proceedings of 17th International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (2018) (Conference acceptance rate: 14%). DOI: 10.1109/ICMLA.2018.00097
Aman Rana, Yauney G, Lowe A, Shah P. IEEE Xplore, Proceedings of 17th International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (2018) (Conference acceptance rate: 14%). DOI: 10.1109/ICMLA.2018.00133
General overview:Sepsis, a life-threatening complication of bacterial infection, leads to millions of worldwide deaths requires significa...
General OverviewStaining of tissues sections using chemical and biological dyes has been used for over a century for visualizing various ...
We present Piezo-Acoustic Backscatter (PAB), the first technology that enables backscatter networking in underwater environments. PAB rel...
Extending expression, learning, and health through innovations in musical composition, performance, and participation
Engaging people in creative learning experiences
As bikes navigate city streets after dark, they are often equipped with lights. The lights make the bikes visible to cars or other bikers...
Making the invisible visible–inside our bodies, around us, and beyond–for health, work, and connection
Exploring the essence of code as a creative medium
Creating scalable technologies that evolve with user inventiveness
Papers from SafePaths: https://github.com/PrivateKit/PrivacyDocumentsSafe Paths is an MIT-led, free, open source technology tha...
Seamlessly coupling the worlds of bits and atoms by giving dynamic physical form to digital information and computation
By Hila Mor, Yu Tianyu, Ken Nakagaki, Benjamin Harvey Miller, Yichen Jia, Hiroshi IshiiThe Venous Materials project envisions a new way t...
Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion
Sparking discussion about the social, cultural, and ethical implications of emerging technologies through design and storytelling
Designing for, with, and by nature
Creating technology for social change
Overview: How will we build the coming generations of Space Architecture—the modules, space ships, and space stations that will ensc...
Changing storytelling, communication, and everyday life through sensing, understanding, and new interface technologies
Transforming data into knowledge
There is a continuous and ubiquitous collection of precise, timestamped, geolocation data from apps and devices, being amassed by private...
www.ajl.orgAn unseen force is rising—helping to determine who is hired, granted a loan, or even how long someone spends in prison. This f...
Cultivating wisdom through evolutionary and ecological engineering
Berke, A. (2020). From private location data to public good. (Masters thesis). MIT Media Lab.
The design of next-generation bionic ankles and knees aims to improve bionic actuators on all metrics: range of motion, power density, ba...
Congratulations to City Science researchers Alex Berke, Jason Nawyn, Thomas Sanchez Lengeling, and group head Kent Larson!
Reimagining human cooperation in the age of social media and artificial intelligence
We must proactively tackle the economic, social, and societal implications that accompany the widespread deployment of AI technology. In ...
Among other experts, Ethan Zuckerman reminisces about human-curated web directories and the mule-powered web browser.
Scratch is the world's most popular coding community for kids. Millions of kids around the world are using Scratch to program their ...
Mor, Hila, Ken Nakagaki, et al. "Venous Materials : Towards Interactive Fluidic Mechanisms." CHI '20, Honolulu, HI, USA, April 2020. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3313831.3376129
SpeechBlocks is a medium that allows children (4-5 years old) to engage in open-ended play with writing. They can build arbitrary composi...
City Science researchers are developing a slew of tangible and digital platforms dedicated to solving spatial design and urban planning c...
Leng, Yan. Collective Behavior over Social Networks with Data-driven and Machine Learning Models. Diss. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020.
Governments and researchers around the world are implementing digital contact tracing solutions to stem the spread of infectious disease,...
Alex Berke, Michiel Bakker, Praneeth Vepakomma, Kent Larson, Alex `Sandy' Pentland. (March 31 2020). "Assessing Disease Exposure Risk with Location Data: A Proposal for Cryptographic Preservation of Privacy." Retrieved from https://arxiv.org/pdf/2003.14412
2018 marks the second cohort of the LEGO Papert Fellowship program, which honors the legacy of educational-technology pioneer Seymour Papert
The LEGO Papert Fellowships support three graduate students working at the intersection of creativity, play, learning, and new technology.
Mechanical, electrical, and dynamic control systems recreate biological behavior with synthetic hardware.
A wearable olfactory display that monitors cardio-respiratory information with the aspiration to support mental wellbeing.BioEssence is a...