research groups
The Media Lab is a unique environment where an exceptional group of researchers not only think about what the world could be like in 10 or 20 years, but actually build working systems that show it.
Working with his or her advisor, each entering student decides upon his or her own unique research project.
Current advisors and their research groups are listed below.
How to create communication systems that gain an understanding of the content they carry and use it to make richer connections among users.
How to engineer intelligent neurotechnologies to repair pathology, augment cognition, and reveal insights into the human condition.
How to build social robots that interact, collaborate, and learn with people as partners.
How artists can refigure technology to address the full range of human experience.
not accepting studentsHow people and objects can tell tales of their experience and learn from others as they navigate through the vast media fabric made up of intertwining storied threads.
How to create better online environments and interfaces for human communication.
How to bring the programmability of the digital world to the physical world.
How simplifying the basic tools for digital expression will lead to a new creative digital economy.
How simplifying the basic tools for digital expression will lead to a new creative digital economy.
How to design seamless interfaces between humans, digital information, and the physical environment.
How to engineer at the limits of complexity with molecular-scale parts.
How new technology and strategies for design can make possible dynamic, evolving places that respond to the complexities of life.
How software can act as an assistant to the user rather than a tool, by learning from interaction and by proactively anticipating the user's needs.
How musical composition, performance, and instrumentation can lead to innovative forms of expression, learning, and health.
How ubiquitous, personalized interfaces can be responsive to our actions and expand our minds.
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How various phenomena of mind emerge from the interactions among many kinds of highly evolved brain mechanisms.
How buildings and cities can become more intelligently responsive to the needs and desires of their inhabitants.
- not accepting students
How to redefine and expand the conceptual framework and language of learning by creating new technologies and spheres of practice.
How sensor networks augment and mediate human experience, interaction, and perception.
- not accepting studentsHow to make mobile devices socially aware.
How computational systems can sense, recognize, and understand human emotions and respond.
How to create tools that allow humans to better capture and share the visual experience.
How to build machines that learn to use language in human-like ways, and develop tools and models to better understand how children learn to communicate.
How speech technologies and portable devices can enhance communication.
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How to design machines that use what we do, where we are, and how we feel to add to our social, educational, and functional success.
How to build intelligent music systems out of interacting audio-processing agents.
