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Space Exploration Initiative
Advancing justice in Earth's complex systems using designs enabled by space
Vida OverviewThe Space Enabled research group at the MIT Media Lab is leading a US-based team of innovators from East Carolina University...
Looking beyond smart cities
Promoting deeper learning and understanding in human networks
The Guardians Project aims to use the same game design principles used in mobile games to help people form beneficial long-term habits an...
The Media Lab community brings creativity, expertise, and research to the pandemic
Neil Gaikwad from the Space Enabled research group is co-organizing the KDD Workshop on Humanitarian Mapping.
Kent Larson considers the societal stressors caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and those that the world will face post-pandemic.
The rapid advancement of electronic devices and fabrication technologies has further promoted the field of wearables and smart textiles. ...
Its potential here on Earth has much more widespread benefit potential, particularly in the era of COVID-19.
Dr. Jifei Ou, who received his PhD and graduated from the Tangible Media group in 2019, started a company called OPT Industries, Inc...
MIT spinout OPT Industries uses novel additive manufacturing systems to create intricately-designed products.
Converting the patterns of nature and the human body into beneficial signals and energy
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
Countries and cities around the world have resorted to unprecedented mobility restrictions to combat COVID-19 transmission. Here we explo...
Heroy Samuel, Loaiza Isabella, Pentland Alex and O’Clery Neave 2021COVID-19 policy analysis: labour structure dictates lockdown mobility behaviourJ. R. Soc. Interface.182020103520201035 http://doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2020.1035
Online platform harnesses collective intelligence to accelerate recovery from Covid-19 and prepare for future disease outbreaks.
MIT Center for Constructive Communication
Camera Culture head Ramesh Raskar talks to Rashmi Mohan about his interdisciplinary research and entrepreneurial endeavors.
MIT biologist Kevin Esvelt discusses the biology of the pandemic and how gain-of-function research jeopardizes public safety.
N. Oliver, et al.(2020) Mobile phone data for informing public health actions across the COVID-19 pandemic life cycle, Science Advances, pp.1-10. DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abc0764
D. Adjodah, et al (2021) Association between COVID-19 Outcomes and Mask Mandates, Adherence, and Attitudes, medRxiv, doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.01.19.21250132
CIS research affiliate describes his goals in creating a webinar series exploring sustainable development in Africa.
CNBC talks to Neha Narula and other experts about the growing interest in central bank digital currencies.
This project aims to explore how the Covid-19 pandemic might have further increased social inequalities by impacting those who were ...
Designing systems for cognitive enhancement
View the main City Science Andorra project profile.Country-scale analysis of high-resolution mobility patterns and infection spreadThe MI...
MIT students on a mission to tackle the education crisis created by Covid-19The US school system is struggling to support all of its stud...
While text-editors (e.g. Google Docs, MS Word) might be useful for writing a lecture, they’re not an intuitive medium for designing exper...
Digital Learning & Collaboration Studio
An MIT-developed vaccination card aims to cut through vaccine distribution chaos while preserving patient privacy.
Enhancing human physical capability
ML Learning
How Canan Dagdeviren helped her students and members of the Conformable Decoders group adjust to working remotely
Esvelt and Lipsitch lay out a path for slowing the spread of B.1.1.7, and ensuring that we're better prepared for future pandemics.
Designed for mass manufacture and rapid deployment, we are building an open hardware, reusable, sterilizable, modular, and filter-media a...
We propose an improved private count-mean-sketch data structure and show its applicability to differentially private contact tr...
Kevin Esvelt, master's student Anika Ullah, and other experts talk about bi-directional contact tracing, privacy, and halting Covid-19.
DAMS: Meta-estimation of private sketch data structures for differentially private COVID-19 contact tracing, Praneeth Vepakomma, Subha Nawer Pushpita and Ramesh Raskar, PPML (Privacy Preserving Machine Learning workshop) at NeurIPS
Regular disinfection of hands and frequently touched surfaces is a critical factor in preventing the spread of infectious diseases and di...
Academic research groups, especially the ones directed by new junior faculty, are under pressure to produce high-quality work timely whil...
Building intelligent personified technologies that collaborate with people to help them learn, thrive, and flourish.
The COVID-19 pandemic, caused by the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, has elicited a global health crisis of catastrophic proportions. With ...
The MIT Center for Collective Intelligence, MIT Media Lab’s Community Biotechnology Initiative, and MilliporeSigma—the lif...
Chatterjee, P., Ponnapati, M., Kramme, C. et al. Targeted intracellular degradation of SARS-CoV-2 via computationally optimized peptide fusions. Commun Biol 3, 715 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-020-01470-7
Computational modeling yields a protein fragment that could bind to coronavirus spike proteins and destroy them.
It was believed that functionalities of G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) require full-length sequences which are negated by residue de...
Unexpected findings in chemokine receptors once believed to be non-functional open up new fields of scientific inquiry.
Expert panelists discuss lessons learned from COVID-19 and progress made to better prepare our public health systems.
MIT hosts kickoff event of Massachusetts STEM Week — a statewide virtual celebration of K-12 education.
What are radically sustainable methods for knitting, making and building in the age of the Anthropocene? How can humankind and members of...
Programmable Water-Based Biocomposites for Digital Design and Fabrication across ScalesAguahoja is an exploration of nature’s design spac...
An inventor of CRISPR-based gene drive has some advice to improve science, ethics, and the life-saving potential of these technologies.
Community Biotechnology
Three most promising PPE solutions selected by expert judges on MIT Pandemic Response CoLab.
Engaging people in creative learning experiences
Tulle-like DefeXtiles can be 3D printed with no custom software or hardware.
Making the invisible visible–inside our bodies, around us, and beyond–for health, work, and connection
OverviewDefeXtiles are thin, flexible textiles of many materials that can quickly be printed into a variety of 3D forms using an inexpens...
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...
Split Learning: Distributed deep learning without sharing raw data Project Page: https://splitlearning.github.io/Abstract: ...
“We have standard operating procedures for emergencies, and everyone knew what to do,” Dagdeviren says.
Meeting up with holographic versions of distant colleagues is a great change from flat, boring video calls
Seamlessly coupling the worlds of bits and atoms by giving dynamic physical form to digital information and computation
Website created as a rapid response to Covid-19 yields unexpected insights into what’s possible for reaching learners at a distance.