• Search Search
  • User Login
  • Nav Nav
Search
Work for a Member company and need a Member Portal account? Register here with your company email address. Work for a Member company and forgot your password?
  • News + Updates
  • Research
  • About
  • Support the Media Lab
  • Graduate Program
  • People
  • Events
  • Videos
  • Member Portal
We are an interdisciplinary research lab working to invent the future of
  • art

  • health

  • artificial intelligence

  • human-machine interaction

  • learning + teaching

  • robotics

  • design

  • technology

  • architecture

  • consumer electronics

  • kids

  • music

  • human-computer interaction

  • wearable computing

  • politics

  • bioengineering

  • data

  • networks

  • machine learning

  • sensors

  • entertainment

  • social science

  • cognition

  • economy

  • environment

  • space

  • wellbeing

  • history

  • storytelling

  • computer science

  • interfaces

  • covid19

  • prosthetics

  • engineering

  • ethics

  • developing countries

  • alumni

  • civic technology

  • creativity

  • biology

  • privacy

  • social robotics

  • community

  • social media

  • communications

  • computer vision

  • public health

  • augmented reality

  • neurobiology

  • imaging

  • urban planning

  • virtual reality

  • synthetic biology

  • industry

  • biotechnology

  • food

  • transportation

  • biomechanics

  • affective computing

  • energy

  • government

  • data visualization

  • social change

  • startup

  • social networks

  • ocean

  • zero gravity

  • fabrication

  • data science

  • behavioral science

  • medicine

  • climate change

  • blockchain

  • agriculture

  • cognitive science

  • women

  • prosthetic design

  • materials

  • manufacturing

  • genetics

  • 3d printing

  • racial justice

  • fashion

  • gaming

  • banking and finance

  • diversity

  • cryptocurrency

  • electrical engineering

  • construction

  • neural interfacing and control

  • performance

  • bionics

  • ecology

  • civic action

  • security

  • human augmentation

  • systems

  • open source

  • marginalized communities

  • microfabrication

  • autonomous vehicles

  • internet of things

  • natural language processing

  • collective intelligence

  • healthcare

  • mechanical engineering

  • microbiology

  • perception

  • interactive

  • language learning

  • visualization

  • voice

  • water

  • nonverbal behavior

  • mapping

  • sustainability

  • physiology

  • rfid

  • nanoscience

  • physics

  • code

  • chemistry

  • social justice

  • clinical science

  • long-term interaction

  • orthotic design

  • algorithms

  • cities

  • networking

  • trust

  • open access

  • sports and fitness

  • mechatronics

  • soft-tissue biomechanics

  • biomedical imaging

  • hacking

  • autism research

  • member company

  • pharmaceuticals

  • assistive technology

  • mental health

  • law

  • textiles

  • internet

  • exhibit

  • real estate

  • gender studies

  • wireless

  • news

  • science

  • cells

  • business

  • culture

  • decision-making

  • asl

  • Groups
  • Projects
  • Publications
  • Centers
  • Initiatives
  • Research Themes
More Close
Counter Intelligence
#architecture #consumer electronics #economy +3 more
Archived
e-markets
#robotics #human-computer interaction #cognition +6 more
Archived
Future Storytelling
#robotics #architecture #art +21 more
Archived
Consumer Electronics Laboratory
#robotics #architecture #art +20 more
Archived
Publication Research

Unpacking the polarization of workplace skills

Academic Paper, July 2018
in Scalable Cooperation
#economy
Post Research

Skillscape: How skills affect your job trajectory, and their implications for automation by AI

This blog post summarizes the key findings of our new paper Unpacking the polarization of workplace skills published in Science Advances by…

July 18, 2018
in Scalable Cooperation
#data #economy
How software can act as an assistant to the user rather than a tool, by learning from interaction and by proactively anticipating the user's
#robotics #architecture #art +22 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Archived
Publication Research

Optimal diversification strategies in the networks of related products and of related research areas

Alshamsi A, Pinheiro FL, & Hidalgo CA. "Optimal diversification strategies in the networks of related products and of related research areas." Nature Communications (2018) 9:1328. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-03740-9.

Academic Paper, April 2018
in Collective Learning
#data #economy #social science
Publication Research

Mobile Communication Signatures of Unemployment

Almaatouq, A., Prieto-Castrillo, F. and Pentland, A., 2016, November. Mobile Communication Signatures of Unemployment. In International Conference on Social Informatics (pp. 407-418). Springer International Publishing.

Article, Nov. 2016
in Human Dynamics
#economy #social science
Archived
Project Research

Collective Learning in China's Regional Economic Development

Industrial development is the process by which economies learn how to produce new products and services. But how do economies learn? And wh…

Jian Gao · Bogang Jun +1 more
#developing countries #economy #learning + teaching +2 more
Archived
Publication Research

Collective Learning in China's Regional Economic Development

Jian Gao, Bogang Jun, Alex Pentland, Tao Zhou, and Cesar A. Hidalgo. Collective Learning in China's Regional Economic Development. arXiv:1703.01369, 2017.

Article, March 2017
in Collective Learning
#economy #learning + teaching #networks
Publication Research

Collective Learning in China's Regional Economic Development

Jian Gao, Bogang Jun, Alex Pentland, Tao Zhou, and Cesar A. Hidalgo. Collective Learning in China's Regional Economic Development. arXiv:1703.01369, 2017.

Article, March 2017
in Collective Learning
#developing countries #economy #learning + teaching
Publication Research

Has the German reunification strengthened Germany’s national research system? Dynamics of the triple helix of scientific co-authorship

Yi, S. G., & Jun, B. (2016). Has the German reunification strengthened Germany's national innovation system? Triple helix dynamics of Germany's innovation system (No. 15-2016). Hohenheim Discussion Papers in Business, Economics and Social Sciences.

Article
in Collective Learning
#economy
Publication Research

The legacy of Friedrich List: the Korean history of industrialization

Jun, Bogang, Alexander Gerybadze, and Tai-Yoo Kim. The legacy of Friedrich List: The expansive reproduction system and the Korean history of industrialization. No. 02-2016. Hohenheim Discussion Papers in Business, Economics and Social Sciences, 2016.

Article, May 2016
in Collective Learning
#economy
Publication Research

Financial Hurdles for Human Capital Accumulation: Revisiting the Galor-Zeira Model

Jun, Bogang, and Won-Sik Hwang. "Financial Hurdles for Human Capital Accumulation: Revisiting the Galor-Zeira Model." (2012).

Academic Paper
in Collective Learning
#economy
Publication Research

A Neo-Schumpeterian perspective on the analytical macroeconomic framework: The expanded reproduction system

Jun, Bogang, and Tai-Yoo Kim. A neo-Schumpeterian perspective on the analytical macroeconomic framework: The expanded reproduction system. No. 11-2015. Hohenheim Discussion Papers in Business, Economics and Social Sciences, 2015.

Article
in Collective Learning
#economy
Thesis Research

Complex Systems and a Computational Social Science Perspective on the Labor Market

Almaatouq, A. (2016). Complex Systems and a Computational Social Science Perspective on the Labor Market. arXiv preprint arXiv:1606.08562. Chicago

Thesis, June 2016
in Human Dynamics
#economy #networks #social science
How people and objects can tell tales of their experience and learn from others as they navigate through the vast media fabric made up of intertwining storied threads.
#robotics #architecture #art +17 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Archived
Archived
Research
eRationality

How we can understand human behavior (rationality, semi-rationality, bounded rationality, and just plain irrationality) in day-to-day behaviors, and in particular in electronic environments.

#robotics #architecture #art +17 more
Not Accepting Applicants
How to give computers human-like intuition so they can better understand us.
#robotics #architecture #art +20 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Archived
How to engage diverse audiences in creating their own technology by situating computation in new contexts and building tools to democratize engineering.
#robotics #architecture #art +20 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Archived
How various phenomena of mind emerge from the interactions among many kinds of highly evolved brain mechanisms.
#robotics #architecture #art +16 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Archived
Archived
Research
Future of Learning

How to redefine and expand the conceptual framework and language of learning by creating new technologies and spheres of practice.

#robotics #architecture #art +18 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Archived
Research
Physics and Media

How to bring the programmability of the digital world to the physical world.

#robotics #architecture #art +17 more
Not Accepting Applicants
How to create better online environments and interfaces for human communication.
#robotics #design #architecture +25 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Archived
Next Billion Network
#consumer electronics #developing countries #economy +2 more
Archived
How to improve mobility with higher-quality and lower-power-consumption display technology.
#robotics #architecture #art +11 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Archived
How artists and engineers can refigure technology for the full range of human experience.
#robotics #architecture #art +19 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Archived
Archived
Research
SIMPLICITY
#robotics #architecture #art +16 more
Archived
Research
Digital Nations
#art #consumer electronics #developing countries +2 more
Archived
Research
Nanoscale Sensing

How to detect the activity of biological molecules with micro- and nanofabricated devices.

#robotics #architecture #art +14 more
Not Accepting Applicants
How to design machines that use what we do, where we are, and how we feel to add to our social, educational, and functional success.
#robotics #architecture #art +17 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Archived
How to give computers "common sense"�the ability to think about the everyday world as people do.
#robotics #art #artificial intelligence +10 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Archived
How simplifying the basic tools for digital expression will lead to a new creative digital economy. For more Physical Language Workshop projects, see Henry Holtzman.
#robotics #architecture #art +16 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Archived
NEXT
#robotics #art #artificial intelligence +14 more
Archived
How to create seamless and pervasive connections between our physical environments and information resources.
#robotics #human-computer interaction #architecture +23 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Archived
Archived
Research
quanta

How we can construct information technology and intelligence from the fundamental building blocks of physical media: atoms and molecules.

#robotics #architecture #art +16 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Center for Future Banking
#robotics #architecture #art +27 more
Archived

  • News + Updates
  • Research
  • About
  • Support the Media Lab
  • Graduate Program
  • People
  • Events
  • Videos
  • Member Portal

More ways to explore

  • Videos
  • Publications
  • Job Opportunities
  • Contact

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
School of Architecture + Planning

Accessibility
Donate to the Lab