Media Arts and Sciences (Media Lab)

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Last-minute pivot leads to record-setting Microsystems Annual Research Conference

Virtual conference gathered students, faculty, and industry partners to explore the future of microsystems and nanotechnology.

March 18, 2022

Headshots of four smiling MIT students; from left to right: Lucy Chai, Jaume Vives i Bastida, Dishita Turakhia , and Praneeth Vepakomma.

Four from MIT named Meta Fellows for 2022

The honorees include four MIT graduate students in electrical engineering and computer science, economics, and media arts and sciences.

February 28, 2022

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Leveraging a 3D printer “defect” to create a new quasi-textile

Tulle-like DefeXtiles can be 3D printed with no custom software or hardware.

October 26, 2020

Students from the first academic course to use MIT.nano's facilities pose in the facility's soft lithograpy space with technical instructor Scott Poesse (left).

Meet the first undergraduate users of MIT.nano

Micro/nano processing course fabricates devices in MIT.nano’s facilities.

March 25, 2020

Postdoc Rui Qing and Principal Research Scientist Shuguang Zhang led the effort to find a simple way to make membrane-bound proteins water-soluble.

Scientists alter membrane proteins to make them easier to study

By making hydrophobic sections water-soluble, researchers hope to learn more about protein structures.

August 27, 2018

MIT Media Lab researchers have designed a system that allows underwater and airborne sensors to directly share data. An underwater transmitter directs a sonar signal to the water’s surface, causing tiny vibrations that correspond to the 1s and 0s transmitted. Above the surface, a highly sensitive receiver reads these minute disturbances and decodes the sonar signal.

Wireless communication breaks through water-air barrier

In a novel system developed by MIT researchers, underwater sonar signals cause vibrations that can be decoded by an airborne receiver.

August 22, 2018

MIT researchers have developed novel photography optics, dubbed “time-folded optics,” that captures images based on the timing of reflecting light inside the lens, instead of the traditional approach that relies on the arrangement of optical components. The invention opens doors for new capabilities for ultrafast time- or depth-sensitive cameras.

Novel optics for ultrafast cameras create new possibilities for imaging

Technique can capture a scene at multiple depths with one shutter click — no zoom lens needed.

August 13, 2018

MIT researchers aim to improve the quality of life for patients suffering from glioblastoma, the most aggressive form of brain cancer, with a machine-learning model that makes chemotherapy and radiotherapy dosing regimens less toxic but still as effective as human-designed regimens.

Artificial intelligence model “learns” from patient data to make cancer treatment less toxic

Machine-learning system determines the fewest, smallest doses that could still shrink brain tumors.

August 9, 2018

MIT Media Lab researchers have developed a machine-learning model that takes computers a step closer to interpreting our emotions as naturally as humans do. The model better captures subtle facial expression variations to better gauge moods. By using extra training data, the model can also be adapted to an entirely new group of people, with the same efficacy.

Helping computers perceive human emotions

Personalized machine-learning models capture subtle variations in facial expressions to better gauge how we feel.

July 24, 2018

An example of a therapy session augmented with humanoid robot NAO [SoftBank Robotics], which was used in the EngageMe study. Tracking of limbs/faces was performed using the CMU Perceptual Lab's OpenPose utility.

Personalized “deep learning” equips robots for autism therapy

Machine learning network offers personalized estimates of children’s behavior.

June 27, 2018

MIT researchers, working with scientists from Brigham and Women’s Hospital, have developed a new way to power and communicate with devices implanted deep within the human body.

Wireless system can power devices inside the body

New technology could enable remote control of drug delivery, sensing, and other medical applications.

June 4, 2018

Two agonist-antagonist myoneural interface devices (AMIs) were surgically created in the patient’s residual limb: One was electrically linked to the robotic ankle joint, and the other to the robotic subtalar joint.

Surgical technique improves sensation, control of prosthetic limb

New study describes first human implementation of novel approach to limb amputation.

May 30, 2018

MIT Media Lab spinout Amino Labs develops mini-lab kits with all necessary tools and materials for anyone to start engineering microbes.

Startup aims to democratize synthetic biology

Alumna’s mini-lab kits include all necessary tools and materials for anyone to start engineering microbes.

April 18, 2018

MIT composer Tod Machover, center-left, and Yannick Nézet-Séguin, conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra, center-right, at the conclusion of Machover’s new symphony “Philadelphia Voices,” at the Kimmel Center in Philadelphia, Thursday, April 6, 2018.

Q&A: Composer Tod Machover presents “Philadelphia Voices”

Ambitious new piece in his “City Symphony” series features the birthplace of American democracy.

April 9, 2018

Arnav Kapur, a researcher in the Fluid Interfaces group at the MIT Media Lab, demonstrates the AlterEgo project.

Computer system transcribes words users “speak silently”

Electrodes on the face and jaw pick up otherwise undetectable neuromuscular signals triggered by internal verbalizations.

April 4, 2018

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