Media Lab

A committee of MIT faculty and staff, along with representatives from the new Woodrow Wilson Academy of Teaching and Learning, selected three proposals to fund.

Grant funds innovation in teacher education

New program provides funding for three projects working to improve STEM education.

May 3, 2016

"The whole premise of our project is to harness the best science and innovation to bring education to the world’s most underresourced children," Cynthia Breazeal says. Pictured are students in Ethiopia.

Can technology help teach literacy in poor communities?

Project to provide children with tablets loaded with literacy apps reports encouraging results in Africa, U.S.

April 26, 2016

Controlling RNA in living cells

Modular, programmable proteins can be used to track or manipulate gene expression.

April 25, 2016

Dan Dorsch of MIT is the $15,000 Lemelson-MIT “Drive it!” Graduate Winner for his invention, the first lightweight clutchless hybrid transmission for cars.

Collegiate inventors awarded 2016 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize

Students recognized for inventive solutions to challenges in health care, transportation, consumer devices, food, and agriculture.

April 12, 2016

The Amphibian SCUBA diving simulator, a research project from the MIT Media Lab, lets users experience the underwater world through a high presence virtual reality system. The system includes a motion platform, Oculus Rift head-mounted display, snorkel with sensors, leg-motion sensors, and gloves that enable motion detection, temperature simulation, and physical feedback of objects.

Experiencing underwater worlds, virtually

"Amphibian" SCUBA simulator advances the field of virtual reality while exploring the relationship between diving and disability.

April 11, 2016

14 people sit at round table with text on it.

Using new models and big data to better understand financial risk

Bringing together engineers, data theorists, mathematicians, economists, biologists, and policy experts, IDSS is looking at financial risk through a multidisciplinary lens.

April 11, 2016

Using data from social networks to understand and improve systems

Researchers in IDSS are learning how ideas evolve over networks, quantifying the influence of individuals in networks, and making better predictions.

April 7, 2016

April 12 symposium: Take an immersive, intellectual journey across campus

Beyond 2016: MIT’s Frontiers of the Future event offers a playful introduction to research at MIT.

April 5, 2016

MIT named No. 1 university worldwide for architecture, No. 2 for art and design

QS World University Rankings give top ratings to MIT in architecture, arts programs.

April 4, 2016

“In the 155 years of its existence, this Institute has not only withstood and adapted to, but also become a leader of constant progress and change,” said Armenian President Serzh A. Sargsyan (pictured).

President Serzh A. Sargsyan of Armenia visits MIT

Tour includes meeting with MIT President L. Rafael Reif, visit to Media Lab.

March 30, 2016

Members of the MIT Media Lab’s Camera Culture Group devised a new approach to image separation in photographs. Their system fires light into a scene and gauges the differences between the arrival times of light reflected by nearby objects — such as panes of glass — and more distant objects.

Reflection-removing camera

Device uses depth sensor and signal processing to capture clear images through windows.

March 25, 2016

Sourcemap gives companies a visual map of all connected global supplier locations for their products. The software also pulls news feeds on significant political events or environmental disasters to alert companies to potential interruptions.

Plotting the complex path of products

Startup’s software maps out convoluted supply chains for companies and consumers

March 23, 2016

Architecture symposium March 30 and 31: Exploring the campus then, now, next

Event welcomes more than 20 speakers over four sessions on designing places for inventing the future.

March 15, 2016

The Emerging Worlds innovation lab in Mumbai is a home away from home for MIT graduate students (l-r) Alicia Chong, Mrinal Mohit, Tristan Swedish, and Shantanu Sinha.

Innovating for billions

Emerging Worlds, a Media Lab and Tata Center initiative, seeks to catalyze change on a massive scale.

March 9, 2016

Empatica's wristband, called Embrace (pictured here), is “a consumer-looking, but medical-quality device” for monitoring stress and seizures, Rosalind Picard says.

Wristband detects and alerts for seizures, monitors stress

Wearable tracks increased skin conductance that signals stress, helps identify dangerous seizures.