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Alum Rébecca Kleinberger (Opera of the Future) considers ways of building games that work for birds' unique needs.
Looking beyond smart cities
Spinoff company Pienso has developed a user-friendly AI builder that empowers domain experts to build solutions without writing code.
Engaging people in creative learning experiences
Enhancing human physical capability
Building intelligent personified technologies that collaborate with people to help them learn, thrive, and flourish.
Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion
In “Scientific InQueery,” LGBTQ+ MIT faculty and graduate students describe finding community and living their authentic lives.
Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks
The startup Augmental allows users to operate phones and other devices using their tongue, mouth, and head gestures.
Life with AI | Designing the future of smart systems to improve the human experience
Illuminate was featured in the AI, Metaverse + Virtual: Best Installation or Experience category.
Media Lab alum Rébecca Kleinberger, who’s now a professor at Northeastern University, talks about her work on sonic enrichment in zoos.
Space Exploration Initiative
Connected Mind + Body | Revolutionizing the future of mental and physical wellbeing
Designing Systems for Cognitive Support
Nicole L'Huillier, an alum of the Opera of the Future group, is collaborating on a sound installation at this year's Venice Biennale.
What would it be like if we could see our movement? Illuminate (2023, Chelsi Alise Cocking) is an interactive art installation in whic…
Exploring the essence of code as a creative medium
Advancing human wellbeing by developing new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion
Liu was selected from eight shortlisted artists for her work bridging art and science.
The following spinoffs were recognized in different industry sectors.
Future Worlds | Design and action for the future we want to live in
Invent new tangible and embodied interactions that inspire and engage people
Addae received the award for VocalCords, which was developed as part of his master's thesis at the Media Lab.
The close relationship between touch, gesture, and sound plays a critical role in expressive musical performance. Many acoustic instruments…
The Abu Dhabi Investment Authority Lab aims to encourage multidisciplinary collaboration and solve large-scale, complex problems.
Extending expression, learning, and health through innovations in musical composition, performance, and participation
This project is a collaboration between the MIT Media Lab and the San Diego Zoo to design and build interactive sonic enrichment systems fo…
Alum Akito van Troyer, who's now an associate professor at Berklee College of Music, talks about finding the music in everyday objects.
Cultivating Creativity | Catalyzing a global movement enabling everyone to unlock and unleash their individual and collective creativity
The Harvard Business Review dives into a technology that Media Lab alum Simon Greenwold named in his 2003 master's thesis.
Augmental co-founders have been recognized in the Social Impact category of the 2023 Forbes 30 Under 30 list.
If you’ve ever touched a plasma globe— those glowing orbs full of electrical fire—you’ve experienced the work of Media Lab alum Bill Parker.
Alum David Sengeh, now Chief Minister for the Republic of Sierra Leone, joined others for a fireside chat at the MIT Solve Challenge Finals.
For Design Milk’s Friday Five, Media Lab alum Alexis Hope shares the work of five of her favorite designers.
Designing for, with, and by nature
Exploring new forms of social justice through art
Making the invisible visible–inside our bodies, around us, and beyond–for health, work, and connection
A Distance Learning Model for Global Laboratory-Based Synthetic Biology Education Synthetic Biology ( SynBio) tools hold the…
Community Biotechnology
Engineering at the limits of complexity with molecular-scale parts
Media Lab alums, Rob Morris (Affective Computing) and J. Nathan Matias (Civic Media), are among 25 honorees for Mozilla's Rise 25 awards.
The Joy Branch project explores different user interfaces to allow parrots to shape their sonic environment. Animal agency—contr…
Alum Rébecca Kleinberger discusses her work at the intersection of new technology, animal-computer interaction, and the sonic environment.
Media Lab alum and former professor Mary Lou Jepsen talks to Danielle Newnham about her journey and inspirations.
Media Lab alum, Arwa Michelle Mboya, wins Black Immersive Creators Grant for her "immersive Pole Show."
Media Lab alum David Sengeh, now the Minister of Education for Sierra Leone, talks about efforts to transform their educational system.
Explore MIT Open Learning resources, including interviews with Media Lab Director Dava Newman, Professor Cynthia Breazeal, and more.
EBIFA (Everything Beautiful Is Far Away) is a crystalline robotic device that carried a tooth to outer space. EBIFA's form and fu…
Public libraries are one of most trusted public institutions in the U.S. and increasingly provide a broad range of education services, rang…
Overview: How will we build the coming generations of Space Architecture—the modules, space ships, and space stations that will enscon…
MIT spinoff C16 Biosciences, whose founders met in the Media Lab's Revolutionary Ventures course, has developed an alternative to palm oil,
Media Lab alum Nell Breyer discusses her new work, “Where Lines Converge,” previously on view in Manhattan’s Central Synagogue.
Media Lab alum Tomás Vega talks to ZDNet about MouthPad, a Bluetooth-enabled mouthpiece that enables hands-free control of digital devices.
7NEWS talks to Fluid Interfaces alum Tomás Vega and his Augmental co-founder Corten Singer about their bluetooth-enabled mouthpiece.
In a study presented at CHI 2023, Media Lab alumni used Pringles & audio filters to explore the intersection of sound, flavor, & perception.
Rosalind Picard and Media Lab alum, Mary Lou Jepsen, make the 2022 Forbes 50 Over 50: Entrepreneurs list.
Shara Ticku, CEO of MIT spinoff C16 Biosciences, whose founders met in the Media Lab's Revolutionary Ventures class, talks to Fast Company.
Personal Robots alum Stefania Druga and editor Keith Hammond explore the ways that crafters and makers can use generative AI techniques.
Media Lab professor Tod Machover performed a new musical composition, "A Little Hub Symphony," during the SA+P advanced degree ceremony.
Media Lab collaborators show that debris from urban beehives can be used to profile the microbiome of a city.
ScratchJr makes coding accessible to younger children (ages 5-7), enabling them to program their own interactive stories, games, and animat…
Media Lab spinoff Sourcemap and MIT spinoff Overjet have been listed among Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies for 2023.
A pandemic-fueled transformation of the MIT course "How to Grow (Almost) Anything" leads to next steps in democratizing synthetic biology
Tamiko Thiel, an innovator in VR/AR who studied computer graphics and visual imaging, talks about her work and her career.
The artist's incisive exhibition at Cuchifritos Gallery addresses the biological and political realities of childbearing and rearing.
Media Lab spinoff Brelyon has raised $15 million in Series A financing to accelerate development of headset-free immersive displays.
A capsule that tunnels through mucus in the GI tract could be used to orally administer large protein drugs such as insulin.
Hasier Larrea, an alum of the City Science research group, talks about the research that led him to co-found spinoff Ori.
In a recent MISTI course, students engaged on collaborative solutions to climate, health care, and economic development in the Middle East.
