Media Lab

MIT Media Lab and Bank of America announce Center for Future Banking

Collaboration to create an innovative engine for consumer banking solutions

March 31, 2008

Voting for more than just either-or

March 14, 2008

NYTE's Globe Encounters visualizes in real time the volumes
of Internet data flowing between New York and cities around the world. The
size of the glow on a particular city location corresponds to the amount of
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The city that never sleeps ... nor stops talking

February 18, 2008

Graduate student Adam Kumpf sits on the chair at the desk that he has made part of his clothing for the MIT visual design class Give Me Shelter.

Wearing their art on their sleeves

Grad students' fanciful clothing designs reflect emotions

January 3, 2008

John Maeda named president of Rhode Island School of Design

December 21, 2007

Hume joins MIT civic media center as research director

December 6, 2007

The low cost and foldable design of these electric scooters, as shown in this rendering outside the Duomo in Milan, could provide a convenient and efficient mode of transportation in urban environments.

Cuter scooter defined by electricity, portability

November 27, 2007

One of the School of Architecture and Planning's PLAZmA screens.

PLAZmA calls for entries

November 19, 2007

Reporting now from the future: Nov. 16-17 conference examines entertainment

November 14, 2007

Graduate student Conor Walsh demonstrates a prototype of the 'exoskeleton' he and other MIT researchers have devised. The invention can successfully take on 80 percent of an 80-pound load carried on a person's back.

21st-century pack mule: MIT's 'exoskeleton' lightens the load

September 19, 2007

Professor Hugh Herr of the Media Lab is shown here addressing h2.0, a one-day symposium in May 2007 that focused on ushering in a new era in human adaptability.

Herr wins $250,000 Heinz Award

September 12, 2007

The powered ankle-foot prosthesis developed at the MIT Media Lab by Professor Hugh Herr and researchers in the lab's biomechatronics research group.

Joint effort: Robotic ankle research gets off on the right foot

Army vet demos MIT prosthesis; device is first of its kind

July 23, 2007

Students from the Umana Barnes Middle School in East Boston (l-r Bonnie Ramos, Roberto Paredes and Kayla Bishop) participating in one of a series of Scratch software workshops held at the MIT Media Lab.

Creating from Scratch

New software from the MIT Media Lab unleashes kids' creativity online

May 14, 2007

Neurologist and author Oliver Sacks gave the keynote speech at an MIT Media Lab conference on May 9 that examined the scope of human ability. Sacks gave vivid examples of the brain's amazing adaptability. <a onclick="MM_openBrWindow('h20-sacks-enlarged.html','','width=509, height=583')">
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Creative technology meets quiet humanity in Media Lab's adaptive device event

Mission is 'hacking the human,' says director Frank Moss

May 11, 2007

Book portrays bold new campus architecture

April 26, 2007

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