LocationMIT Media Lab, E14 6th Floor DescriptionJoin the Facebook eventCo-HostsMIT Media LabCenter for Civic MediaThe Berkman Center for In…

Fadel Adib reflects on the whirlwind first year of his group, Signal Kinetics.

Chris Schmandt

Ars Electronica FestivalSeptember 5-9, 2019 at POSTCITY, Linz, Austria 50 years after the Apollo 11 lunar landing, we are seeing …

Alum Mihir Sarkar looks back at the 10 years since his dissertation defense, and reflects on both the joys and the challenges of that time.

Urrea, C. "One to One Connections: Building a Community Learning Culture"

It’s been a turbulent 2017 here at the Media Lab and in the world beyond.

Revisit Human 2.0, a 2007 Media Lab symposium focused on the future of human adaptability.

Sponsored by the US Department of State, the Fulbright US Student Program offers grants in over 150 countries.

Former Research Affiliate

Thoughts from the Media Lab's Space Enabled group and Space Exploration Initiative

Scratch Day @ MIT was one of over 1,110 such events around the world in May.

Greater Boston’s annual festival of ideas finds new avenues for celebrating and connecting innovators.

Professor Paul Liang will speak, and External Relations Director Mirei Rioux will host a Media Lab booth at this conference in Bangkok.

By Joi Ito, Director, MIT Media Lab

Sara V. Fernandez, a first-year graduate student in the Conformable Decoders group, was selected as the sole MIT awardee of the 2024 Amazon…

In December of 1968, the first human voyage to the moon catapulted the population of Earth into a new era of space exploration and self-ref…

A visiting scientist from NHK, Takahito Ito joined the Lab as a company member and left as a crew member.

Baju is at the forefront of developing subcellular-sized magnetic devices designed to wirelessly modulate and monitor biological systems.

An initial experiment with cloud-enabled audio production software.A collection of docker containers work together to stream the audio and …

A look at the special touches that DLCS has added to its process for onboarding new group members.

GeekWire reports on research that people were less likely to visit socioeconomically different areas while returning to pre-pandemic habits.

LocationE14-6th Floor DescriptionMusic | MACHINES will be a full day and evening experience at MIT’s new Media Lab Complex celebrating the …

View awards and recognitions received by members of the Media Lab community during the 2024 fiscal year (July 1, 2023 through June 30,…

Former Director's Fellows Program Alumnus

Nina Lutz, "A Year (2020) of (almost) Daily (code) Sketches"

In the Boston Globe, Media Lab director Dava Newman shares her vision for the future.

A paper led by Ehsan Hoque, alum of the Affective Computing group, receives UbiComp's 10-Years Impact Award.

"Out of those approximately 17,000 articles, I profoundly enjoyed and learned from this one, written by Alex Berke, MIT Media Lab."

Bell was a high school intern with the Fluid Interfaces group, where he helped to develop assistive cognitive tools.

Jacob Collier calls from Chile, where he’s in the middle of a South American tour. He’s a long way from the London bedroom where he got his…

For the paper "Modeling the Co-evolution of Behaviors and Social Relationships Using Mobile Phone Data"

The MIT Quarter Century Club recognized Andrew Lippman, head of the Media Lab's Viral Communications group, as a 50-Year Achiever in 2022.

In this visual brainstorming, we present the next 30 years of VR in a set of concept designs.

MIT Libraries and MIT Media Lab collaborate on Public Library Innovation Exchange

Space Exploration Initiative director Ariel Ekblaw speaks with WIRED’s Ramin Skibba about the beginning and future of space tourism.

Researchers hope the system can zero in on the right patients to enroll in clinical trials, to speed discovery of drug treatments

The extremely dextrous robot features a 24-joint human-hand-like design and took only four minutes to complete the task.

For years African countries have championed the idea of solving the continent’s myriad of problems with innovation and innovative thinkers.

2018: A year defined by a PhD | A study, analyses, and a writing spree.

Former Director's Fellow

LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-633 DescriptionProfessor Naimark's presentation is available online.[click link to view in your browser; right c…

Former Director's Fellow

Biomechatronics researcher Tyler Clites and Synthetic Neurobiology researcher Fei Chen are among the 2019 Forbes 30 Under 30 honorees.

Leaders often have to decide whether to delegate projects to individuals or a group. According to a new study, it should depend on the task.

How We Will Connect To Our Networked Future in a Post-IoT World

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Meet members of the Space Enabled research group and experience their celebration of the original Earthrise photo.

Reflecting on the 30th anniversary of the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA), a feature on Sasha Costanza-Chock’s book Design Justice

While research has given us high-fidelity technology, such as 24-bit digital audio, the lush jungle of one-bit sound beckons to be explored…

MIT spinoff C16 Biosciences, whose founders met in the Media Lab's Revolutionary Ventures course, has developed an alternative to palm oil,

Sourcemap is a Media Lab spinoff founded by Leo Bonanni, an alum of the Tangible Media group.

This project introduces the concept of physical one-way functions. Modern public key cryptography relies extensively on one-way functions a…

Meet 100 inspiring, influential women from around the world, including Labbers Ayah Bdeir and Rana el Kaliouby.

Quera-Bofarull, A., Chopra, A., Aylett-Bullock, J., Cuesta-Lazaro, C., Calinescu, A., Raskar, R., & Wooldridge, M. (2023). Don’t simulate twice: One-shot sensitivity analyses via automatic differentiation. Proceedings of Autonomous Agents and Multi-agent Systems (AAMAS 2023)

Aguahoja I shows how nature can help us to design new materials, highlighting the relationship between nature and technology.