Media Lab

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.

In the World: Easy on the eyesSimple, low-cost device that affixes to a cell phone could provide quick eye tests throughout the developing world.

Knight Foundation unveils 2010 Knight News Challenge grant recipients

Wanna come out and play? Introducing the Department of PlayResearchers with MIT's Center for Future Civic Media develop ways to use play to engage youth in their communities.

Slideshow: Mapping the oil spillMIT student leads project using balloons and kites to provide aerial documentation of the Gulf oil slick’s extent and effects

Helping out in HaitiA wave of student and faculty efforts in SA+P

3 Questions: Mitchel ResnickCreator of the popular Scratch programming language discusses Apple’s decision to disallow Scratch viewer for iPhones and iPads.

Build anythingMIT Lincoln Laboratory series teaches fabrication basics

Introducing a new program in Art, Culture and TechnologyNew initiative combines a rich legacy of academic and research practices

TV outside the boxUsing ordinary cell phones, a Media Lab system would let television programs spill off the TV screen and into the living room.