Event

Wadah Khanfar: "One Year After Mubarak: The Past and Future of the 'Arab Spring'"

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

Friday
February 24, 2012
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Signal Kinetics: Year One

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

Publication

MIT Media Laboratory: a view after ten years

Chris Schmandt

Post

SEI Exhibition at Ars Electronica 2019: 50 Years After the Moon

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

Article

Mihir Sarkar: 10 Years

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.

Publication

One to One Connections: Building a Community Learning Culture

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

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10+ years of Human 2.0

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

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2017: The Year that Was

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

Article

Aashini Shah one of 13 MIT undergrads, graduate students, and alumni awarded Fulbright fellowships in 2022–23

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

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Earthrise, 50 years later

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

Person

Bob Hendrikx

Former Research Affiliate

Article

HubWeek 2019 celebrates five years of connecting MIT, Boston, and the world

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

Post

Celebrating 10 years of Scratch

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

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2016: A year in the life of the Lab

By Joi Ito, Director, MIT Media Lab

Project

Earthrise | A 50 Year Contemplation

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…

Post

My Media Lab year

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

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Baju Joy receives Whitaker Health Sciences Fellowship Award for second consecutive academic year

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

Project

The 800,000 Year Composition

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

Post

A Welcome Well Done: Onboarding Insights from Week One with DLCS

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

Article

Study shows how pandemic decreased income diversity of urban encounters, even after lockdowns

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

Event

Music | MACHINES: 50 Years of Music and Technology at MIT

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

Saturday
February 5, 2011
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Media Lab Community Awards and Recognitions Fiscal Year 2024

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

Project

Sleep and Epilepsy: Demystifying the thousand-year-long conundrum

According to WHO, epilepsy is the fourth most common neurological disease globally. CDC statistics show that 1 in 26 individuals in the U.S…

Post

2013 Affective Computing paper receives UbiComp 10-Year Impact Award

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

Article

After reflecting on the past, MIT’s Media Lab is back to the future

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

Publication

A Year (2020) of (almost) Daily (code) Sketches

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

Person

David Kobia

Former Director's Fellows Program Alumnus

Article

If You Ever Read An Article on Online Voting: Make It This One

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

Article

Model predicts cognitive decline due to Alzheimer’s, up to two years out

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

Post

Human Dynamics work recognized for 10 years of impact

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

Post

Congratulations to Andy Lippman on being inducted into MIT's 50-Year Achievers

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

Article

Jacob Collier isn’t the only wizard behind his one-man show

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…

Article

2021 was the year space tourism opened up. But for whom?

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

Article

A Year of Library Innovation at the Media Lab

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

Project

The Next 30 Years of VR

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

Post

Transitions, data, and writing, too: A rhyming guide to my year in review

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

Article

Why Sierra Leone appointed a 31-year old MIT PhD as its first chief innovation officer

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

Article

Extremely dextrous robot arm uses AI to solve Rubik's Cube one-handed

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

Article

A 29-Year-Old CEO Who's Shaking Up Diagnostics & Other Stories From The 2019 Healthcare 30 Under 30

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

Event

50 years of computer science at the JKU: Keynote by Joseph Paradiso

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

Friday
November 8, 2019
4:30pm ET
Event

Michael Naimark, "Place Representation and the 'One Earth' Model"

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

Monday
May 2, 2011
Event

Earthrise: A 50 Year Contemplation at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum

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

Friday — Saturday
July 19, 2019 —
July 20, 2019
Person

Allison Tauziet

Former Director's Fellow

Article

30 years of the ADA: Measuring progress and calling for improvements

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

Event

Sputniko! @ Afterglow

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Sunday
February 2, 2014
Article

When two heads aren’t better than one

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.

Article

A clean alternative to one of the world’s most common ingredients

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

Person

Adam Foss

Former Director's Fellow

Article

BBC 100 Women 2019: Who is on the list this year?

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

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Sourcemap named as one of TIME’s Best Inventions of 2022

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

Project

One-Bit Synthesis

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…

Article

Dezeen Awards names Aguahoja I design project of the year

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

Article

Montessori Was the Original Personalized Learning. Now, 100 Years Later, Wildflower Is Reinventing the Model

For a classroom of a dozen 3- through 6-year-olds, things are surprisingly quiet inside Wildflower Montessori. The most audible sounds, tho…

Project

Physical One-Way Functions

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

Post

City Science work honored for 10 years of impact

"Real-Time Recognition of Physical Activities and Their Intensities Using Wireless Accelerometers and a Heart Rate Monitor," presented at&n…

Publication

Burn Your Memory Away: One-time Use Video Capture and Storage Device to Encourage Memory Appreciation

P. Chi Xiao, X., Chung, K., and Chiu, C.

Event

2023 CHI SIG: Reflecting on Hybrid Events — Learning from a Year of Hybrid Experiences

​The COVID-19 pandemic led to a sudden shift to virtual work and events, with the last two years enabling an appropriated and rather simula…

Tuesday
April 25, 2023
11:10am — 12:35am ET
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Ed Boyden one of 19 new Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigators

The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) has named 19 new HHMI Investigators, including Synthetic Neurobiology head Ed Boyden.