Media Lab

Elissa Gibson standing in front of a lake. She is smiling and wearing binoculars around her neck.

Pilot, engineer, neuroscientist, bridge-builder

How Elissa Gibson ’22 connected the dots to form her own unique constellation of MIT experiences.

March 9, 2023

Tod Machover holds onto cello while posing next to a statue and gong.

Q&A: Tod Machover on “Overstory Overture,” his new operatic work

MIT composer’s piece premieres at Lincoln Center on March 7, with superstar Joyce DiDonato in a leading — and surprising — role.

February 27, 2023

A black and yellow augmented reality headset with a black and white-speckled background.

Augmented reality headset enables users to see hidden objects

The device could help workers locate objects for fulfilling e-commerce orders or identify parts for assembling products.

February 27, 2023

Three MIT community members walk by the colorful MIT Illuminations lighting display at the MIT Welcome Center

“MIT Illuminations,” a colorful installation and introduction to creative computation, is now open in Kendall Square

Located in the new MIT Welcome Center in Building E38, the installation expresses the dynamic, vibrant culture of MIT through the medium of programmable light.

February 14, 2023

Group photo of seven MIT and Sierra Leone representatives. The two in the center are holding up a piece of paper.

New collaboration aims to strengthen orthotic and prosthetic care in Sierra Leone

MIT’s K. Lisa Yang Center for Bionics and Sierra Leone’s Ministry of Health and Sanitation aim to develop an integrative approach to strengthening and expanding the orthotic and prosthetic sector within the African nation.

February 3, 2023

Six with ties to MIT honored as 2022 ACM Fellows

Six distinguished scientists with ties to MIT were recognized for significant contributions to computing systems.

January 31, 2023

Fadel Adib stands between 2 open glass panel sliding doors while wearing a yellow shirt and black pants.

Sensing with purpose

Fadel Adib uses wireless technologies to sense the world in new ways, taking aim at sweeping problems such as food insecurity, climate change, and access to health care.

January 24, 2023

A mixture of games of various sizes, including notched gameboards where you can make designs with black and whites. One toy is a modular tree you can build using smaller wooden pieces.

Learning Beautiful brings MIT’s “mind and hand” ethos to early childhood education

Spun out of a Media Lab project, the startup offers materials that help children explore computer science concepts through hands-on learning.

January 20, 2023

About a dozen people stand and sit around a table posing for a photo. Behind them is a screen with a five by five grid of people on a Zoom call

A global lab for teaching and practicing synthetic biology

A pandemic-fueled transformation of the MIT course MAS.S64 (How to Grow (Almost) Anything) leads to next steps in democratizing synthetic biology.

January 18, 2023

Floating chalkboards each have educational information written in chalk, including charts, equations, and a paper plane.

Program teaches US Air Force personnel the fundamentals of AI

MIT researchers developed and studied a customized AI training program for users with varied backgrounds, which could be delivered across large organizations.

January 11, 2023