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Looking beyond smart cities
zkTax is a zero-knowledge tax disclosure system that allows individuals to make provable claims about select information in their tax retur…
Hal Abelson, co-director of MIT RAISE, talks to Kara Miller about the impact of AI on education.
Engaging people in creative learning experiences
Building intelligent personified technologies that collaborate with people to help them learn, thrive, and flourish.
See for yourself how accurately you can identify AI-generated images at the DetectFakes Experiment and if you want to learn to sp…
FuseBot is a robotic system that can efficiently find and retrieve both RFID tagged and untagged target objects in line-of-sight, non-line-…
Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion
3D reconstruction from a single-view is challenging because of the ambiguity from monocular cues and lack of information about occluded reg…
This technique could lead to safer autonomous vehicles, more efficient AR/VR headsets, or faster warehouse robots.
Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks
Decentralized Society | Architecting the new internet for the good of the people
The startup Augmental allows users to operate phones and other devices using their tongue, mouth, and head gestures.
In the 1990s, Professor Pattie Maes, head of the Media Lab’s Fluid Interfaces group, helped pioneer the concept of software agents.
Life with AI | Designing the future of smart systems to improve the human experience
Digital Currency Initiative (DCI)
Have you ever needed a single-line font rather than an outline of a typeface? For instance in the use of digital fabrication processes such…
Illuminate was featured in the AI, Metaverse + Virtual: Best Installation or Experience category.
Space Exploration Initiative
Beyond the Cradle
Connected Mind + Body | Revolutionizing the future of mental and physical wellbeing
ResearchTechnical Paper | Executive Summary | GitHubAboutIntroductionOpenCBDC is an open source project to engage in co…
Designing Systems for Cognitive Support
Master’s student Chelsi Cocking combines her love for computer science and design in her research and outreach efforts at the Media Lab.
Illuminate has been nominated for a 2024 SXSW Innovation Award in the Student Innovation category. Illuminate is an in…
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
CoCo is a new live co-creative learning platform designed to empower educators to support young people in both physical and remote set…
People and intelligent machines in a creative, symbiotic loop
MIT scientists address issues to bringing 2D magnetic materials into practical use, setting the stage for more energy-efficient computers
Inventing disruptive technologies for nanoelectronic devices and creating new paradigms for life-machine symbiosis
Advancing human wellbeing by developing new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion
Future Worlds | Design and action for the future we want to live in
City Science researchers are developing a slew of tangible and digital platforms dedicated to solving spatial design and urban planning cha…
Invent new tangible and embodied interactions that inspire and engage people
Human-computer interaction (HCI) has traditionally focused on designing and investigating interfaces that provide explicit visual, auditory…
Abstract— Millions suffer from sleep disorders, and sleep clinics and research institutions seek improved sleep study methods. This paper p…
Extending expression, learning, and health through innovations in musical composition, performance, and participation
This project hosts a few experiments of 2D visualization of 3D moving processes. All of the experiments relate to repeating, machine…
This thesis project explores how emerging (AI) technologies might transform how we shape and interact with typography. I will create three …
2D Spintronic and Neuromorphic Devices for Sustainable Artificial Intelligence
The researchers precisely controlled an ultrathin magnet at room temperature, which could enable faster processors and computer memories.
MORF FORM is a knitted animation piece on display at the Future Sketches room at ARTECHOUSE in Miami Beach.
FrameGrabber is a simple, browser-based tool that lets the user upload an animation and convert it to a grid of stills.
Future Sketches installed a group exhibition as part of Zach Lieberman's Future Sketches / Code Poems show at Artechouse, which opened duri…
By Chelsi Cocking and Manaswi MishraCode Cypher, hosted by CAST Visiting Artist and Grammy-winning rapper Lupe Fiasco and Pr…
36 Days Of Type is an initiative that invites creatives to create their version of the letters and numbers of the Latin alphabet, one…
Cultivating Creativity | Catalyzing a global movement enabling everyone to unlock and unleash their individual and collective creativity
In a study published in Nature Medicine, alum Matt Groh, Prof. Rosalind Picard, and colleagues found assistance from an AI model can help.
Groh, M., Badri, O., Daneshjou, R. et al. Deep learning-aided decision support for diagnosis of skin disease across skin tones. Nat Med (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-023-02728-3
Addressing Bias in Physician-Machine PartnershipsThis research program addresses how AI assistance can enhance physician decision-making on…
Cultivating wisdom through evolutionary and ecological engineering
Designing for, with, and by nature
Swarms of robots will revolutionize many applications, from targeted material delivery to farming. However, the characteristics that make t…
Gallery of images of the interactive art installation: Illuminate.Artwork by Chelsi Alise Cocking of the Future Sketches group. Photography…
Exploring new forms of social justice through art
Can computer graphics algorithms be taught through drawing?In this prototypical activity book, we present the steps of four computer graphi…
Making the invisible visible–inside our bodies, around us, and beyond–for health, work, and connection
Inventing, building, and deploying wireless sensor technologies to address complex problems in society, industry, and ecology
AbstractAs conversational agents powered by large language models become more human-like, users are starting to view them as companions rat…
The Power of WITHOUT is a research theme in the City Science group. The theme proposes that heavy infrastructure solutions are not financia…
Study shows users can be primed to believe certain things about an AI chatbot’s motives, which influences their interactions with the bot.
In this new adjacent implementation of Photorythms as an interactive art installation, members of the public are invited to sit in front o…
Media filter bubbles sacrifice shared reality amongst US citizens. We aim to burst these echo chambers by presenting short, automatically s…
The 27 finalists will explore the technology’s impact on democracy, education, sustainability, communications, and much more.
Photorythms: a computational art-based inquiry of portrait photographyPhotorythms investigates whether computational methods such as facial…
Overview: How will we build the coming generations of Space Architecture—the modules, space ships, and space stations that will enscon…
Three-dimensional Digital Knitting of Intelligent Textile Sensor for Activity Recognition and Biomechanical MonitoringWe present an ap…
Drawing++ Workshop: using drawing as a means of understanding computationIn this workshop participants explore computational concepts …
