Media Lab

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

Trillion-frame-per-second videoBy using optical equipment in a totally unexpected way, MIT researchers have created an imaging system that makes light look slow.

The hands-free heart monitorUsing low-cost video to measure vital signs.

Searching for balloons in a social networkThe key to mobilizing large numbers of people is incentives, study finds.

Take control of your phone’s sensorsA Media Lab group that has done groundbreaking work using cellphones to gauge human social interactions releases its technology to the public.

Classes and academic research help launch companiesA variety of course offerings are devoted to spurring new ventures.

Resnick awarded McGraw Prize in EducationMedia Lab professor is one of three honored for work in digital education.

In Profile: Ramesh RaskarAfter doing groundbreaking work in computational photography, the Media Lab researcher has trained his sights on inventing ‘brand new disciplines.’

New books from the School of Architecture + PlanningAddressing the environment, cities, architecture, angry people and ‘Creative Magic’

Chilean president visits MITSebastián Piñera views demonstrations at the Media Lab, addresses local Chilean students.