Media Lab

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.

An open, collaborative spaceNew Media Lab building is designed to foster collaboration, sharing, communication and experimentation.

MIT opens new Media Lab ComplexFumihiko Maki-designed building will support technological innovation

Rebuilding HaitiMIT scholars with ties to Haiti discuss the country's future

Media Lab Complex formally opens this weekMIT community is invited to a free open house on Friday, followed by a public conference with architect Fumihiko Maki the following day.

Can a game save the world?New game will teach students collaboration skills--and might help fix climate change in the process

Silencing the brain with lightMIT neuroengineers find a new way to quickly and reversibly shut off neurons with multiple colors of light, which could lead to new treatments for epilepsy and chronic pain.

Computing with a wave of the handA new Media Lab system turns LCD displays into giant cameras that provide gestural control of objects on-screen. And that’s just for starters.

A social network that balloonedAn MIT team’s savvy use of social media to locate weather balloons as part of a $40,000 DARPA contest may shed light on how to mobilize resources during emergencies.

Rethinking artificial intelligenceBroad-based MIT project aims to reinvent AI for a new era. By going back and fixing mistakes, researchers hope to produce ‘co-processors’ for the human mind.