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These mobile games are for the birds

Alum Rébecca Kleinberger (Opera of the Future) considers ways of building games that work for birds' unique needs.
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Space Enabled

Advancing justice in Earth's complex systems using designs enabled by space
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Earth Mission Control (EMC)

Advanced Data Visualizations for Climate IntelligenceMarked by heightened awareness and global concern over the climate crisis, the MI…
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Five must-read books on teaching, learning, and digital technologies

Explore books on learning and education recommended by Media Lab Professor Cynthia Breazeal and others from MIT Open Learning.
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Conformable Decoders

Converting the patterns of nature and the human body into beneficial signals and energy
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City Science

Looking beyond smart cities
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Microgravity Research Flights with the Space Exploration Intiative

The Space Exploration Initiative charters an annual ZERO-G parabolic flight for 10-15 projects and 25 researchers across MIT Media Lab, sev…
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Life in space: Preparing for an increasingly tangible reality

The Space Exploration Initiative supports research across and beyond MIT in two microgravity flights this spring.
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Designing humanity’s future in space

The Space Exploration Initiative’s latest research flight explores work and play in zero gravity
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“We offer another place for knowledge”

Jospin Hassan has drawn on curriculum developed by MIT RAISE and the Personal Robots group to build + share data science and AI skill sets.
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Lifelong Kindergarten

Engaging people in creative learning experiences
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Biomechatronics

Enhancing human physical capability
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Personal Robots

Building intelligent personified technologies that collaborate with people to help them learn, thrive, and flourish.
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Detect DeepFakes: How to counteract misinformation created by AI

See for yourself how accurately you can identify AI-generated images at the DetectFakes Experiment and if you want to learn to sp…
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Human Dynamics

Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion
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Fluid Expressions - Art and Craft in Microgravity

When imagining human life in space, how will we express our humanity and creativity in an alien environment? Can the art we make both refle…
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MoonBRICCS

To sustain long term human presence on the moon, the problem of exposure to ionizing radiation must be addressed to protect astronauts’ lon…
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lunarNOMAD

The lunar Navigation and Observation Mobile Architecture Design (lunarNOMAD) is a modular inflatable mobile science laboratory. lunarNOMAD …
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Lunar Sandbags

With the growing presence of commercial spaceflight and NASA’s Lunar Artemis program, plans to establish a permanent lunar presence are in …
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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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PlatoNeRF: 3D Reconstruction in Plato's Cave via Single-View Two-Bounce Lidar

3D reconstruction from a single-view is challenging because of the ambiguity from monocular cues and lack of information about occluded reg…
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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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Responsive Environments

Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks
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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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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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Convergence: Artistic Explorations from Nature to Society Exhibition at NARLabs

Convergence: Artistic Exploration from Nature to SocietyNARLabs, Taipei, Taiwan May 10 - August 10, 2024 Guided by the Taiwa…
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Momo

The Design
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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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Conformable Ultrasound Breast Patch (cUSBr-Patch) for Deep Tissue Scanning and Imaging

Ultrasound is widely used for tissue imaging such as breast cancer diagnosis; however, fundamental challenges limit…
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Digital Currency Initiative (DCI)

Digital Currency Initiative (DCI)
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Cathy Fang selected for 2024 Angela Leong Fellowship

This award is given to students from Macau, Hong Kong, and Mainland China who have demonstrated academic prowess and community involvement.
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Co-creating climate futures with real-time data and spatial storytelling

WORLDING workshop organizers collaborated with research scientist Dr. Rachel Connolly to co-design their first-ever in-person event.
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This ultrasound bra could detect cancer sooner

Inspired by her aunt’s battle with cancer, Canan Dağdeviren developed a wearable ultrasound monitor that can screen women between checkups.
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AI chatbots are here to stay. Learn how they can work for you

Former Media Lab Professor W. Russell Neuman and other experts talk to CNET about the potential impacts of chatbots based on generative AI.
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conformable Ultrasound Patch (cUSP) For Cavitation-Enhanced Transdermal Drug Delivery

Ultrasound-induced transdermal drug delivery (sonophoresis) has long lingered in the by-lanes of academic and industrial research, and has …
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Space Exploration Initiative

Space Exploration Initiative
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Beyond the Cradle

Beyond the Cradle
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Camera Culture students selected for National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program (NSF-GRFP)

They've been selected as Fellows in the fields of Machine Learning and Computer Vision.
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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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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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Fluid Interfaces

Designing Systems for Cognitive Support
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The creative future of generative AI

Media Lab alumni Ziv Epstein and Alexander Reben joined a panel discussion on the creative future of generative AI.
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MIT group releases white papers on governance of AI

The papers are intended as a resource for US policymakers.
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Future Sketches

Exploring the essence of code as a creative medium
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👋 CoCo — A New Real-Time Co-Creative Platform for Young People

CoCo is a new live co-creative learning platform designed to empower educators to support young people in both physical and remote set…
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VALIS: 2023 Production

Tod Machover’s first opera (he has now composed many more groundbreaking ones) was VALIS, and it made history when it premiered for the 10t…
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The MIT Autonomous Bicycle Project

A lightweight research platform to develop autonomous technology Designed to transform bicycle-sharing systems into an on-demand mobil…
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Don't Just Tell Me, Ask Me

Critical thinking is an essential human skill. Despite the importance of critical thinking, research reveals that our reasoning ability suf…
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Viral Communications

People and intelligent machines in a creative, symbiotic loop
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Re-imagining the opera of the future

The iconic sci-fi opera VALIS, first composed by Professor Tod Machover in 1987, reboots at MIT for a new generation.
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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
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Nano-Cybernetic Biotrek

Inventing disruptive technologies for nanoelectronic devices and creating new paradigms for life-machine symbiosis
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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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Reimagining the Opera of the Future

The iconic sci-fi opera VALIS reboots for a new generation
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Affective Computing

Advancing human wellbeing by developing new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion
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Project Us

“Us” aims to help people develop their sense of empathy. It uses machine learning to analyze interlocutors’ signals (e.g., choice of words,…
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Ten important humans behind Boston’s AI revolution

The list includes Habib Haddad, founding managing partner of the E14 Fund, and Rana el Kaliouby, co-founder and CEO of Affectiva.
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Theme | Sleep + Dream Engineering

We  build technologies that interface with the sleeping mind. We track different sleep-stages using brain activity, muscle tensio…
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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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The Gravity Loading Countermeasure Skinsuit

By Rachel BellisleOverview:The Gravity Loading Countermeasure Skinsuit (GLCS or “Skinsuit”) is an intravehicular activity suit for astronau…
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Electronic Textile Sensors for Decoding Vital Body Signals: State-of-the-Art Review on Characterizations and Recommendations

Shuvo, I. I., Shah, A., Dagdeviren, C.†, “Electronic Textile Sensors for Decoding Vital Body Signals: State-of-the-art Review on Characterizations and Recommendations”, https://doi.org/10.1002/aisy.202100223, Advanced Intelligent Systems, 4, 2100223, 2022.
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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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Tangible Media

Invent new tangible and embodied interactions that inspire and engage people
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conformable Facial Code Extrapolation Sensor (cFaCES)

AbstractDevices that facilitate nonverbal communication typically require high computational loads or have rigid and bulky form factors&nbs…
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Inside your dreamscape

Dream-hacking techniques can help us create, heal and have fun. They could also become tools of commercial manipulation.
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Quick catnaps may spark creativity

The NIH reports on research from the Fluid Interfaces group and Harvard Medical School investigating the effect of naps on creativity.
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Devices to Help You Sleep, Robotic Boots and Other Technologies That Will Change Your Health

Fluid Interfaces head Pattie Maes and five other experts talk about emerging health and wellness technologies.
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Want to be more creative? Try dream-hacking while you sleep

The Washington Post reports on research from the Media Lab’s Fluid Interfaces group & Harvard Medical School that naps could aid creativity.
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Cocoon: Speculative Dream Engineering

Cocoon is our vision of a programmable dream machine from the future. This device would be enabled by the synthesis of many devices under d…
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Targeted Dream Incubation

Targeted dream incubation (TDI) is a methodology for guiding (or “incubating”) dreams towards specific themes. Please read the FAQ below to…
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Dormio: Interfacing with Dreams

InspirationSleep is a forgotten country of the mind. A vast majority of our technologies are built for our waking state, even though a thir…