What is the MIT Media Lab? It’s an interdisciplinary creative playground rooted squarely in academic excellence. Media Lab researchers focus not only on creating transformational future technologies, but also on their potential to impact society for good. Find out more about our research, our mission, and our vision for the future.
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About us
The Media Lab is an interdisciplinary creative playground rooted squarely in academic rigor, comprising dozens of research groups, initiatives, and centers working collaboratively on hundreds of projects. We focus not only on creating and commercializing transformational future technologies but also on their potential to impact society for good. Accessibility: https://accessibility.mit.edu/
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http://www.media.mit.edu/
External link for MIT Media Lab
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- Higher Education
- Company size
- 201-500 employees
- Headquarters
- Cambridge, Massachusetts
- Type
- Educational
- Founded
- 1985
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75 Amherst St
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, US
Employees at MIT Media Lab
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Congratulations to Tara Boroushaki, a PhD student in the Media Lab’s Signal Kinetics group, on receiving a 2024 Paul Baran Young Scholar Award from the Marconi Society! Boroushaki's research focuses on sensing and mobile technologies with applications in wireless networking, cyber-physical systems (including robotics), and human-computer interaction (HCI). The Marconi Society is a nonprofit organization that aims to celebrate and support visionaries building tomorrow’s technologies. https://lnkd.in/gcnyVsh3
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In a paper to be presented at the 2024 ACM, Association for Computing Machinery Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, a team of Media Lab researchers discuss their recent work crowdsourcing Amazon purchase histories from American consumers. Their dataset, published with the participants' informed consent, presents a rich source of information that is routinely collected by digital platforms, but usually inaccessible to researchers. Additionally, their collection process included an experimental design that helped them discover factors that make people more likely to share their data for open research. The research team included Media Lab PhD students Alex Berke and Robert Mahari, Professor Alex 'Sandy' Pentland, Professor Kent Larson, and alum Dana Calacci.
Insights from an experiment crowdsourcing data from thousands of US Amazon users
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"The World at MIT," a video series created by Global MIT, highlights some of the amazing scholars who've brought their creativity, expertise, and passion to MIT from all over the world. The series includes interviews with Media Lab Professor Pattie Maes—head of the Fluid Interfaces research group—and Hashim Sarkis, Dean of the MIT School of Architecture and Planning, the Media Lab’s academic home.
Bringing MIT to the world, and the world to MIT
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Last month, Media Lab Professor Tod Machover was inducted into the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. One of the nation’s most prestigious honorary societies, the Academy is also a leading center for independent policy research. Professor Machover was among 250 leaders from academia, the arts, industry, public policy, and research who were elected into the academy this year—seven of whom are MIT faculty members.
Tod Machover inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences – MIT Media Lab
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How can we reduce harm to our planet and the future prospects of life on Earth? How can we turn the tide to regenerate Earth’s systems while enabling societies to flourish? These fundamental questions are at the heart of the Media Lab's #FutureWorlds research theme, which seeks to confront the urgent challenges of supplying affordable energy, food, and security for sustained life on Earth—for all living beings. Our researchers are helping to invent transformative technologies and adapt human behavior at an unprecedented scale at this critical time in history. https://lnkd.in/gFxPZURK
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On CNN’s Tomorrow Transformed, Professor Canan Dagdeviren discusses her work developing a wearable ultrasound scanner. The device is intended to be used as a supplement to traditional mammography, for early detection of breast cancer. Professor Dagdeviren, who leads the Media Lab’s Conformable Decoders research group, sketched the original plans for the device at the bedside of her aunt, who was dying of breast cancer. “Even while she was in pain,” she says, “she was giving me feedback.” The segment begins around the 3-minute mark.
Wearable breast cancer monitor could help women screen themselves | CNN Business
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Media Lab Director Dava Newman talked to Mission Unstoppable host Miranda Cosgrove about perseverance and the importance of learning from failure. “Engineering is all about iterative design and failing," Director Newman said. "I’m probably going to fail eight times…that ninth time or tenth time? I’m gonna nail it.” Mission Unstoppable is produced in collaboration with IF/THEN, an initiative of Lyda Hill Philanthropies.
Director Dava Newman on CBS Unstoppable – MIT Media Lab
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As AI agents become more sophisticated and better able to mimic human interactions, how will people’s relationships with them change? On the Think podcast from KERA – North Texas Public Broadcasting, Media Lab PhD student Robert Mahari talks to host Krys Boyd about the potential risks of human-AI companionship.
KERA's Think
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MIT spinoff Elemind Technologies, Inc., whose co-founders include Media Arts and Sciences Professor Ed Boyden and former Media Labbers Nir Grossman and Heather Read, Ph.D., has developed a headband that uses acoustic stimulation to help users fall asleep. Additionally, the company has established a collaboration with eight universities to explore the effectiveness of the company’s approach in a range of use cases, from tremors to memory formation, Alzheimer’s progression, and more. While Elemind is focused on its sleep application for now, the company plans to develop other solutions, from medical interventions to memory and focus augmentation, as the science evolves.
Startup helps people fall asleep by aligning audio signals with brainwaves
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