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Space Enabled

Advancing justice in Earth's complex systems using designs enabled by space
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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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Putting AI into the hands of people with problems to solve

Spinoff company Pienso has developed a user-friendly AI builder that empowers domain experts to build solutions without writing code.
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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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City Science Lab @ Andorra

Andorra and the City Science research group at the MIT Media Lab are taking on the challenge of turning Andorra into an “Internationally Re…
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Creative Text-to-Audio Generation via Synthesizer Programming

Neural audio synthesis methods now allow specifying ideas in natural language. However, these methods produce results that cannot be easily…
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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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Creative Text-to-Audio Generation via Synthesizer Programming

Cherep*, M., Singh*, N., & Shand, J. (2024, July). Creative Text-to-Audio Generation via Synthesizer Programming. International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)
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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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Creative Text-to-Audio Generation via Synthesizer Programming

Singh*, N., Cherep*, M., & Shand, J. (2023, December). Creative Text-to-Audio Generation via Synthesizer Programming. In NeurIPS Machine Learning for Audio Workshop
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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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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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Fluid Interfaces

Designing Systems for Cognitive Support
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Theme | Mobility On-Demand

Urban populations around the world are rapidly growing. To improve livability, urban residents must reduce dependency on fossil fuels and p…
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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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Making art through computation

Master’s student Chelsi Cocking combines her love for computer science and design in her research and outreach efforts at the Media Lab.
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Future Sketches

Exploring the essence of code as a creative medium
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SNAPSHOT Study

The SNAPSHOT study seeks to measure Sleep, Networks, Affect, Performance, Stress, and Health using Objective Techniques. It is an NIH-funde…
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Guadalajara Mobility Choices

Mobility Choices is used to predict transportation mode choices of students at the University of Guadalajara (UdeG) within the Guadalajara …
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Viral Communications

People and intelligent machines in a creative, symbiotic loop
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Affective Computing

Advancing human wellbeing by developing new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion
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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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Theme | CityScope

City Science researchers are developing a slew of tangible and digital platforms dedicated to solving spatial design and urban planning cha…
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Tangible Media

Invent new tangible and embodied interactions that inspire and engage people
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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…
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Fascia Ecosystem: A Step Forward in Sleep Engineering and Research

Abstract— Millions suffer from sleep disorders, and sleep clinics and research institutions seek improved sleep study methods. This paper p…
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Opera of the Future

Extending expression, learning, and health through innovations in musical composition, performance, and participation
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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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Commalla: Communication for All

​Interested in learning more about the Commalla project?  Fill out this form! 
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Sculpting Evolution

Cultivating wisdom through evolutionary and ecological engineering
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Blockchain: A new framework for robotic swarm systems

Swarms of robots will revolutionize many applications, from targeted material delivery to farming. However, the characteristics that make t…
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MIT Center for Constructive Communication

Designing tools, methods and systems that connect rather than divide us to create a healthier society
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Poetic Justice

Exploring new forms of social justice through art
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conformable Multimodal Sensory Facemask (cMaSK)

Facemasks are used to reduce exposure to viruses and other environmental hazards such as air pollution, and integrating wearable electronic…
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AttentivU

There are currently  UROP openings for this project. AttentivU is  a  device, in the  form factor of a pair of gla…
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Camera Culture

Making the invisible visible–inside our bodies, around us, and beyond–for health, work, and connection
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Signal Kinetics

Inventing, building, and deploying wireless sensor technologies to address complex problems in society, industry, and ecology
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Molecular Machines

Engineering at the limits of complexity with molecular-scale parts
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Influencing human–AI interaction by priming beliefs about AI can increase perceived trustworthiness, empathy, and effectiveness

AbstractAs conversational agents powered by large language models become more human-like, users are starting to view them as companions rat…
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Splintering with distributions: A stochastic decoy scheme for private computation

Vepakomma, P., Balla, J., Raskar, R., "Splintering with distributions: A stochastic decoy scheme for private computation." 6 Jul 2020.
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AI raises complicated questions about authorship

Robert Mahari, a PhD student in the Human Dynamics group, and other experts talk to Inside Higher Ed about copyright & generative AI tools.
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Is AI in the eye of the beholder?

Study shows users can be primed to believe certain things about an AI chatbot’s motives, which influences their interactions with the bot.
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AI and Accountability: Who is responsible for managing AI?

On the Technically Optimistic podcast, Prof. Rosalind Picard and others discuss the challenges of accountability and responsibility in AI.
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MIT scholars awarded seed grants to probe the social implications of generative AI

The 27 finalists will explore the technology’s impact on democracy, education, sustainability, communications, and much more.
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Voice Anonymization

Spoken language is an information-rich medium that combines words with various paralinguistic information such as emotion and prosody. In d…
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StoryLine: Exploring the intersection of visual storytelling and machine learning

McKinsey & Co. and LSM ask: Can we understand, and even predict, the relationship between video story content and audience consumption?
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3 Voices: A Soft-Robotic Opera Transposing Singing Experience Across the Audience

3 Voices is an artistic research project that looks beyond conventional approaches of listening to music, and instead probes at the deeper …
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3DKnITS: Three-dimensional Knitted Intelligent Textile Sensor

Three-dimensional Digital Knitting of Intelligent Textile Sensor for Activity Recognition and Biomechanical MonitoringWe present an ap…
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Does AI hold the same values as we do?

During TEDxBentleyU, Belén C. Saldías Fuentes invited the audience to consider the cultural biases built into tools like ChatGPT.
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Modeling Contingent Behaviors in Multiparty Conversations

Recognizing and interpreting group behaviors is much more challenging than that of individual behaviors. Firstly, the system must perform w…
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Objects as Cameras

Press: - MIT News:  Using reflections to see the world from new points of view- TechXplore, EuropaPress, La Nacion …
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ACM ByteCast: Pattie Maes

On the ACM ByteCast podcast, Fluid Interfaces head Pattie Maes talks to host Rashmi Mohan about the passion that has shaped her career.
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A deep dive into deepfakes

On BBC’s The Forum, host Iszi Lawrence tries a tool developed by Media Lab researchers that tests users' ability to detect deepfakes.
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FathomNet: A global image database for enabling artificial intelligence in the ocean

Katija, K., Orenstein, E., Schlining, B. et al. FathomNet: A global image database for enabling artificial intelligence in the ocean. Sci Rep 12, 15914 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-19939-2
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Social Machines

Promoting deeper learning and understanding in human networks
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MIT-Pillar AI Collective announces first seed grant recipients

Six teams conducting research in AI, data science, + machine learning receive funding for projects with potential commercial applications.
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Conformal Prediction with Large Language Models for Multi-Choice Question Answering

Kumar, B.*, Lu, C.*, Gupta, G., Palepu, A., Bellamy, D., Raskar, R., & Beam, A. "Conformal Prediction with Large Language Models for Multi-Choice Question Answering." Neural Conversational AI Workshop at ICML 2023.
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Federated Conformal Predictors for Distributed Uncertainty Quantification

Lu, C.*, Yu, Y.*, Karimireddy, S. P., Jordan, M. I., & Raskar, R. (2023). Federated Conformal Predictors for Distributed Uncertainty Quantification. Fortieth International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2023)
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If art is how we express our humanity, where does AI fit in?

MIT Media Lab postdoc Ziv Epstein discusses issues arising from the use of generative AI to make art and other media.