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Executive Director

The Executive Director (ED) is a newly created leadership position within the MIT Media Lab.
Nov. 15, 2024
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Connected Mind + Body: Unlocking Women's Health through Transformative Technologies

Imagine what cutting-edge technologies can achieve in transforming women's health + wellbeing.Every day at the MIT Media Lab, we harne…
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Media Lab Faculty Search: Cultivating Creativity, Constructionist Learning, and Human Flourishing

We welcome applicants with research and teaching interests aligned with the Media Lab mission to create transformative tech and experiences.
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“Wearable” devices for cells

These devices could help scientists probe subcellular regions of the brain, and might even help restore some brain function.
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Thinking with Sand: A Talk Series Exploring New Software Tools for Creative Exploration and Augmented Thinking

Thinking With Sand, a virtual talk series exploring new software interfaces and tools for augmented thinking and creative exploration.
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AI simulation gives people a glimpse of their potential future self

By enabling users to chat with an older version of themselves, Future You aims to reduce anxiety + guide young people to make better choices
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Human detection of political speech deepfakes across transcripts, audio, and video

Groh, M., Sankaranarayanan, A., Singh, N. et al. Human detection of political speech deepfakes across transcripts, audio, and video. Nat Commun 15, 7629 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-51998-z

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Member Collaboration Story—At World Mental Health Day, Samsung + MIT Media Lab Highlight Sleep’s Impact on Mental Health

In honor of World Mental Health Day, Samsung is emphasizing its collaboration with the MIT Media Lab to explore the mind-body connection, a…
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Behnaz Farahi joins MIT Media Lab Media Arts + Sciences Program as Assistant Professor, Transformative Design

Behnaz Farahi joins the MIT Media Lab's Program in Media Arts and Sciences (MAS) as Assistant Professor, Transformative…
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Startup’s displays engineer light to create immersive experiences without the headsets

“We are adding a new layer of control between the world of computers and what your eyes see,” says Barmak Heshmat, co-founder of Brelyon
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Empowering the Next Generation of Innovators

This video series features our current students, offering glimpses into their backgrounds, their research, and the passions behind the work
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Media Lab Research Theme: Cultivating Creativity

Cultivating Creativity | Catalyzing a global movement enabling everyone to unlock and unleash their individual and collective creativity
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Earth observation technology trends for climate intelligence

As climate-related disasters become more frequent, the need for actionable climate intelligence has never been greater.  Earth Observa…
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Study evaluates impacts of summer heat in U.S. prison environments

MIT researchers identify facility-level factors that could worsen heat impacts for incarcerated people.
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First AI + Education Summit is an international push for “AI fluency”

The three-day, hands-on conference hosted by the MIT RAISE Initiative welcomed youths and adults from nearly 30 countries.
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Study: Transparency is often lacking in datasets used to train large language models

Researchers created a tool that enables an AI practitioner to find data that suits their model, which could improve accuracy and reduce bias
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Media Lab Research Theme: Life with AI

Life with AI | Designing the future of smart systems to improve the human experience
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Paul Liang joins MIT Media Lab Media Arts + Science Program + EECS/Schwarzman College of Computing as Asst. Professor, AI + Human Experience

Paul Liang joins the MIT Media Lab's Program in Media Arts and Sciences (MAS) and MIT Schwarzman College of Computing with a shar…
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Fall 2024 Media Arts and Sciences Course List

Classes offered by the Program in Media Arts and Sciences for the Fall 2024 semester
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Castrol collaboration supports research on Lunar Landings

Castrol supports the AstroAnt Payload Program, a robotic swarm designed for tasks on spacecraft, rovers, and landers.
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Mohammad Tariqul Islam receives MIT-Novo Nordisk Artificial Intelligence Postdoctoral Fellowship

Artificial intelligence (AI) is at the heart of NCB’s research, which fuses AI with life sciences.
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A parabolic roller coaster into the future of space and lunar exploration

Media Lab SEI’s 2024 microgravity flight features 37 parabolas and projects focused on health in space, walking in zero gravity, and more!
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Hao-Tung Yang wins the T.S. Lin Fellowship Award

Hao-Tung's goal is to advance non-invasive treatments for brain diseases.
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Prof. Deblina Sarkar receives prestigious NSF CAREER Award

NSF's Career Awards support early-career faculty who have the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education.
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The Media Lab at the 2024 Core77 Design Awards

Congratulations to the winners and honorees of the 2024 Core77 Design Awards!
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Media Lab Research Theme: Connected Mind + Body

Connected Mind + Body | Revolutionizing the future of mental and physical wellbeing
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Protein study could help researchers develop new antibiotics

Researchers created a water-soluble version of an important bacterial enzyme, which can be used in drug screens to identify new antibiotics.
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Danielle Wood named 2024 Just Tech Fellow

Wood will lead projects that apply satellite Earth Observation technology for environmental management.
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A prosthesis driven by the nervous system helps people with amputation walk naturally

A new surgical procedure gives people more neural feedback from their residual limb. With it, seven patients walked more naturally
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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.
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Where art meets science, creativity knows no bounds: Tod Machover featured in PBS's CONFLUENCE | Episode 2

Join Professor Tod Machover and artist Zoe Laughlin in episode 2, "Material World," of the PBS Series CONFLUENCE
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MIT scientists learn how to control muscles with light

A new study suggests optogenetics can drive muscle contraction with greater control and less fatigue than electrical stimulation.
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Meet the 2024 LEGO Papert Fellows

Congratulations to Kayla, Ila, and Ana on receiving this fellowship!
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Mouth-based touchpad enables people living with paralysis to interact with computers

The startup Augmental allows users to operate phones and other devices using their tongue, mouth, and head gestures.
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Media Lab Research Theme: Future Worlds

Future Worlds | Design and action for the future we want to live in
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Research Group Overviews

Learn more about all of the research groups, centers, and initiatives at the MIT Media Lab.
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"AI Comes Out of the Closet" seeks to merge AI and LGBTQIA+ advocacy in a way as innovative as it is necessary

This research shows how AI can support LGBTQIA+ advocacy, how technology might help create a more accepting + understanding society.
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Designing for outer space

With NASA planning permanent bases in space and on the moon, MIT students develop prototypes for habitats far from planet Earth.
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Researchers leverage shadows to model 3D scenes, including objects blocked from view

This technique could lead to safer autonomous vehicles, more efficient AR/VR headsets, or faster warehouse robots.
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The Benefits of Data Sharing — Ramesh Raskar on PBS/NOVA Documentary: Secrets in Your Data

Whether you’re on social media or surfing the web, you’re probably sharing more personal data than you realize. The NOVA documentary, …
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Ultrasound offers a new way to perform deep brain stimulation

MIT engineers’ implantable ImPULS device could become an alternative to the electrodes now used to treat Parkinson’s and other diseases.
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Featured Video: Researchers discuss queer visibility in academia

In “Scientific InQueery,” LGBTQ+ MIT faculty and graduate students describe finding community and living their authentic lives.
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Media Lab Community Awards and Recognitions

View recent awards and recognitions received by members of the Media Lab community in the modules attached here.
Jan. 1, 2023
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Congratulations to everyone graduating in 2024!

We're so proud of everything you've accomplished here, and can't wait to see what you do next.
May 16, 2024
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Media Lab Research Theme: Decentralized Society

Decentralized Society | Architecting the new internet for the good of the people
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New England Journal of Medicine Series: Wearable Digital Health Technologies

Researchers in the Affective Computing group have been invited to edit a series of articles in the New England Journal of Medicine.
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Seven from MIT elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences for 2024

The prestigious honor society announces more than 250 new members, which includes Tod Machover, head of Opera of the Future.
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Weaving memory into textiles

For the MIT Visiting Artist Chloé Bensahel, who has collaborated with the Media Lab's Future Sketches group, fabric itself tells the story.
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Propelling atomically layered magnets toward green computers

MIT scientists address issues to bringing 2D magnetic materials into practical use, setting the stage for more energy-efficient computers
Publication Research

Open e-commerce 1.0, five years of crowdsourced U.S. Amazon purchase histories with user demographics

Berke, A., Calacci, D., Mahari, R. Yabe, T., Larson, K., & Pentland, S. Open e-commerce 1.0, five years of crowdsourced U.S. Amazon purchase histories with user demographics. Sci Data 11, 491 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-024-03329-6
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MIT Media Lab x Smart Living Lab

In January 2024, members of the Media Lab traveled to Fribourg, Switzerland to conduct a workshop on sensing, interactions, and augmentation
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Second round of seed grants awarded to MIT scholars studying the impact and applications of generative AI

A number of Media Lab researchers and alumni are included in the cohort.
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Alessandra Davy-Falconi wins 2024 MIT Excellence Award

The award acknowledges the extraordinary efforts made by members of the MIT community.
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Hatched in Zürich and Honed at MIT: A sonic tour through time and technology featuring the Paradiso synthesizer

Prof. Joseph Paradiso gave a talk on his synthesizer rig at the Swiss Museum and Centre for Electronic Music Instruments. Watch the video!
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Space Enabled launches two payloads on Blue Origin Suborbital Space Flight

Space Enabled experiments study dynamics of liquid wax in microgravity to inspire future low cost satellite fuel options
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Researchers harness 2D magnetic materials for energy-efficient computing

The researchers precisely controlled an ultrathin magnet at room temperature, which could enable faster processors and computer memories.