Media Lab

A conversation with Joichi ItoNew Media Lab director touches on his work, his hobbies, and what he's learned from swimming with sharks.

Living in the digital ecosystemLinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman talks data mash-ups, entrepreneurship and how his site keeps people honest.

How to grow wires and tiny platesLiquid processing method developed at MIT can control the shapes of nanowires and produce complete electronic devices.

‘Radar for the human eye’Inexpensive hand-held device developed at MIT could detect cataracts even at the earliest stages.

Ethan Zuckerman, cyberscholar and activist, to lead MIT Center for Civic MediaHe will direct MIT's influential group of technologists and academics committed to empowering communities around the globe by inventing and testing civic media tools and practices.

Of minds and machinesFinal installment of MIT’s 150th anniversary symposia explores intelligence — both human and artificial.

Better glasses-free 3-DA fundamentally new approach to glasses-free 3-D displays could save power, widen the viewing angle and make 3-D illusions more realistic.

Joichi Ito named director of MIT Media LabTechnology entrepreneur and Internet freedom advocate succeeds Frank Moss.

Seeing the lightOptogenetic technology restores visual behavior in mice, holds promise for treating human blindness.

Pioneering filmmaker Richard Leacock, former MIT professor, dies at age 89Inventive MIT filmmaker helped create cinéma vérité style with path-breaking documentaries

Success stories aplenty from the MIT Center for Future Civic MediaUpdate from Center Director Chris Csikszentmihályi

Improv game puts the role-playing back in RPG“Improviso” develops AI research by asking players to take on actual roles.

In the World: Turning old oil into new mileageBrazilian waste pickers gain an inexpensive way to fuel their vehicles using leftover cooking oil.

Why do some countries’ economies grow faster?One of the Media Lab’s newest faculty members is adapting the mathematical tools of statistical physics to study development economics.

3-D TV? How about holographic TV?Using a single Xbox Kinect and standard graphics chips, MIT researchers demonstrate the highest frame rate yet for streaming holographic video.

The surprising usefulness of sloppy arithmeticA computer chip that performs imprecise calculations could process some types of data thousands of times more efficiently than existing chips.

Can telecom data help redraw political boundaries?By analyzing one of the world’s largest databases of phone data, researchers partition Great Britain into densely interconnected regions.

When the playroom is the computerA block-shaped robot that seems to roll onto a computer screen is part of an educational-media system that gets kids out of their chairs.

Illuminating researchMIT study finds potential for significant energy savings through user-controlled efficient lighting systems.

Social StudiesIn MIT's Human Dynamics Lab, Sandy Pentland PhD '82 uses cell phones and wearable sensors to research nonverbal signals, information flow, and the value of face-to-face conversation.

Vikings strike at Cambridge regattaNo, not the famous one. The other one.

Your vital signs, on cameraMIT team develops system for continuous medical monitoring using widely available video technology.

Putting heads togetherNew study: groups demonstrate distinctive ‘collective intelligence’ when facing difficult tasks

Disembodied performanceTod Machover’s Death and the Powers, which features robots as performers, premieres this month. Is this the future of opera?

MIT researchers among Technology Review’s annual list of the world’s top young innovators‘TR35’ to be honored at Technology Review’s EmTech@MIT conference next month.

NSF award funds Media Lab researchers work on Autism spectrum disordersCollaboration is the first large-scale effort of computer and behavioral scientists to jointly address ASD.

Local competition inspires creative use of public-private spaceAtlantic Ave. installations prove community value of pedestrian-friendly elements.