In 2017, the LEGO Foundation endowed the LEGO Papert Fellowship program in honor of Media Lab founding faculty member Seymour Papert. Each year, the Program in Media Arts and Sciences selects as fellows three graduate students whose work embodies Papert’s legacy of learning, creativity, and play empowered by new technologies. …

By Kim Patch for the MIT Media Lab As she was looking for a camp last summer, Yabesra Ewnetu, who’d just finished eighth grade, found a reference to MIT’s FutureMakers Create-a-thon. Ewnetu had heard that it’s hard to detect bias in artificial intelligence (AI) because AI algorithms are so complex…

By Chelsi Cocking and Manaswi Mishra Code Cypher, hosted by CAST Visiting Artist and Grammy-winning rapper Lupe Fiasco and Professor Nick Montfort, invited MIT students to develop computational artworks that play with language and rhythm. The event was hosted from 10am to 6pm on Saturday, October 9, 2021. On the…

On September 23, 2021, at 7pm ET, as part of the Boston Film Festival, the documentary Zero Gravity will have its Boston premiere in a screening at the MIT Media Lab; the film will then be available for digital screenings until September 26 via the Boston Film…

Danielle Wood, director of the Space Enabled research group and assistant professor at the MIT Media Lab and in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, has been named as the new principal investigator (PI) for the Zero Robotics program at MIT. Founded over a decade ago by MIT’s Alvar Saenz-Otero…

By Andres Rico The past few years have seen the field of synthetic biology (SynBio) mature and expand at a notable pace. The diverse backgrounds joining the field have contributed greatly to the advancements that are already affecting our everyday lives in ways that we might not even realize or…

Economic segregation isn’t just limited to neighborhoods; it’s part of the places you visit every day. In a world of increasing urbanization, migration, and mobility, cities are becoming the epicenter of our social life. Diverse populations and social cohesion are crucial for sustainable urban development, but cities face rising segregation…

By Sarah Beckmann | MIT Media Lab The Space Exploration Initiative supports research across and beyond MIT in two zero gravity flights this spring As a not-so-distant future that includes space tourism and people living off-planet approaches, the MIT Media Lab Space Exploration Initiative is designing and researching the activities…