Media Lab

Cellphone data helps pinpoint source of traffic tie-upsStudy: Congestion can be alleviated throughout a metropolitan area by altering the trips of drivers in specific neighborhoods.

Graduate student David Sengeh gives back to Sierra LeoneMedia Lab doctoral student created a competition to help youth in his home country create their own solutions.

Precisely engineering 3-D brain tissuesNew design technique could enable personalized medicine, studies of brain wiring.

The robotic equivalent of a Swiss army knifeReconfigurable robot a step toward something that can become almost anything.

J.J. Abrams: 'It’s like driving in the fog'Movie and television writer-producer shares his thoughts on how his production company compares with MIT’s Media Lab.

When it comes to fostering innovation, student group says 'Do it!'Lady Gaga collaborator and Interscope executive highlights do.it@MIT’s wide-ranging approach.

Imaginary Beings: Mythologies of the Not YetNeri Oxman at the Centre Pompidou

New books on the shelf from SA+PRecent publishing news from School of Architecture + Planning faculty and alumni

Composing for loudspeakers: computer music pioneer John Chowning visits MITThe inventor of FM synthesis, Chowning revolutionized the music industry; saw a glimpsing into the future of music at the Institute.

Customizing your cityhome in the skyNew tools for urban dwellers

Inspired ideas to improve the worldSchool of Architecture + Planning students win thousands in grants for business startups

Glasses-free 3-D TV looks nearerA new method for producing multiple-perspective 3-D images could prove more practical in the short term than holography.

Watch ‘The Story and the Algorithm’ liveCivic Media Conference to be broadcast and liveblogged at knightfoundation.org/live.

Finding good music in noisy online marketsMIT researchers revisit data from a seminal online experiment but draw more encouraging conclusions.

Is that smile real or fake?A computerized system developed at MIT can tell the difference between smiles of joy and smiles of frustration.

The guiding light and the glass infrastructureNew developments in way finding

Robots that reveal the inner workings of brain cellsNew method offers automated way to record electrical activity inside neurons in the living brain.

Robert Lepage dazzles MIT community during spectacular campus residency April 24-26, 2012Robert Lepage dazzles MIT community during spectacular campus residency April 24-26.

Gauging seizures’ severitySimple wrist sensors let neurologists collect better data about patients with epilepsy — and could alert patients that they need to seek medical care.

Institute faculty share prestigious neuroscience prizeEd Boyden and Feng Zhang awarded the Perl/UNC Neuroscience Prize

Confronting global disasters from afarCreative responses to devastation

A camera that peers around cornersA new imaging system could use opaque walls, doors or floors as 'mirrors' to gather information about scenes outside its line of sight.

Video: The Paradiso SynthesizerMedia Lab associate professor’s massive modular synthesizer now on exhibit in the MIT Museum.

Visiting Artist Ben Houge leads lively 'Sound and Real-Time Systems' panelArtists discuss the convergence between video games, digital media and music composition.

MIT faculty speak at the World Economic Forum in DavosTalks explore the mind/machine interface and the science of predicting the economy, among other topics.

Boyden named inaugural recipient of IET’s Harvey Engineering Research PrizeHonored for his pioneering research contributions to the field of optogenetics, in which neurons are genetically modified to respond to light.

Sep Kamvar joins the MIT Media Lab