MIT Media Lab

Extracted Attributes

• Founded

  1985-01-01

• Founders

  Nicholas Negroponte and Jerome Wiesner

• Location

  Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

• Headquarters

  Wiesner Building (Building E15), Cambridge, MA

• Research Groups

  23 interdisciplinary groups

• Key Research Fields

  Neurobiology, bionics, affective computing, human-AI symbiosis, and socially engaging robots

• Parent Organization

  MIT School of Architecture and Planning

• Current Executive Director

  Jessica Rosenworcel

Timeline

• The MIT Media Lab is founded by Nicholas Negroponte and Jerome Wiesner. (Source: Wikipedia)

  1985-01-01

• Stewart Brand publishes 'The Media Lab: Inventing the Future at M.I.T.', bringing the lab into the popular press. (Source: Web Search)

  1988-01-01

• Media Lab Asia (India) and Media Lab Europe (Ireland) are established as international spin-offs. (Source: Web Search)

  2001-01-01

• Media Lab Europe closes its operations in Dublin, Ireland. (Source: Web Search)

  2005-01-01

• The lab expands its physical footprint into a second building. (Source: Wikipedia)

  2009-01-01

• Director Joi Ito resigns following revelations of financial ties to Jeffrey Epstein and fundraising efforts involving Reid Hoffman. (Source: Document 7f81c1c7-1e8b-40e7-a538-3ea6083eee78)

  2019-09-07

• Jessica Rosenworcel is appointed as the Executive Director of the MIT Media Lab. (Source: Web Search (MIT Media Lab News))

  2024-12-01

MIT Media Lab

The MIT Media Lab is a research laboratory within the School of Architecture and Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It is located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.

Web Search Results

• MIT Media Lab - Wikipedia

  ## History [edit] The media lab was founded in 1985 by Nicholas Negroponte and former MIT President Jerome Wiesner, and is housed in the Wiesner Building (designed by I. M. Pei), also known as Building E15. The lab has been written about in the popular press since 1988, when Stewart Brand published The Media Lab: Inventing the Future at M.I.T., and its work was a regular feature of technology journals in the 1990s. In 2009, it expanded into a second building. [...] Growing out of the Architecture Machine Group in the MIT School of Architecture, its research does not restrict to fixed academic disciplines but draws from technology, media, science, art, and design. As of 2014( Media lab's research groups include neurobiology, biologically inspired fabrication, socially engaging robots, emotive computing, bionics, and hyperinstruments. [...] In 2001, two research centers were spun off: Media Lab Asia and Media Lab Europe. Media Lab Asia, based in India, was a result of cooperation with the Government of India but eventually broke off in 2003 after a disagreement. Media Lab Europe, based in Dublin, Ireland, was founded with a similar concept in association with Irish universities and government, and closed in January 2005. Created collaboratively by the Computer Museum and the media lab, the Computer Clubhouse, a worldwide network of after-school learning centers, focuses on youth from underserved communities who would not otherwise have access to technological tools and activities.

• MIT Media Lab - Pentagram

  Pentagram has designed a new visual identity for MIT Media Lab, the innovative, interdisciplinary research laboratory at MIT. The design began with designer Richard The’s 25th anniversary logo for the Media Lab, which was based on a seven-by-seven grid. Using that same grid, the Pentagram team generated a simple ML monogram to serve as the logo for the Media Lab. Using the same underlying grid, the designers extended that identity to each of the 23 research groups that lie at the heart of the Lab’s activity. [...] The result is an interrelated system of glyphs that at once establishes a fixed identity for the Media Lab, but celebrates the diversity of activity that makes the Lab great. Helvetica, so central to MIT’s communications when the Media Lab was new, has been reinstated to support the overall system. ### Client ### Sector ### Discipline ### Office ### Partner ## Fulton Center Identity for a new transportation hub at the busiest subway interchange in Lower Manhattan. ### News Unnamed 5 ## El Museo del Barrio Launches Rebrand by Andrea Trabucco-Campos Ah Transform Yz ## Angus Hyland Writes About the YSL and Zara Logos for Transform ## Emily Oberman at First Round NYC ## Paula Scher at ADC Festival 2026 ### New Business Inquiries ### About [...] # Pentagram ## Site navigation ### Social links # Pentagram ## Site navigation # MIT Media Lab Visual identity and wayfinding for the innovative, interdisciplinary research laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Using the same underlying grid as the previous logo, the designers extended that identity to each of the 23 research groups that lie at the heart of the Lab’s activity.

• Research - MIT Media Lab

  Building intelligent personified technologies that collaborate with people to help them learn, thrive, and flourish. Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks Cultivating wisdom through evolutionary and ecological engineering Inventing, building, and deploying wireless sensor technologies to address complex problems in society, industry, and ecology Creating reliable, resilient, and convivial infrastructures grounded in human agency, safety, and dignity Advancing justice in Earth's complex systems using designs enabled by space Invent new tangible and embodied interactions that inspire and engage people People and intelligent machines in a creative loop [...] Exploring the essence of code as a creative medium Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion Engaging people in creative learning experiences Designing tools, methods and systems that connect rather than divide us to create a healthier society Engineering at the limits of complexity with molecular-scale parts Creating human-AI symbiosis across scales and sensory mediums to enhance productivity, creativity, and wellbeing Inventing disruptive technologies for nanoelectronic devices and creating new paradigms for life-machine symbiosis Extending expression, learning, and health through innovations in musical composition, performance, and participation

• News + Updates — MIT Media Lab

  Jessica Rosenworcel, former FCC Chairwoman, joins the MIT Media Lab as Executive Director, bringing bold vision and civic-minded leadership. Post Research ## MIT Media Lab Appoints Dr. Pat Pataranutaporn as Assistant Professor of Media Arts and Sciences Pioneering researcher joins the MIT faculty to explore the future of human flourishing with technology. Article Research ## Future of Space Exploration Danielle Wood on Future of Space Exploration on Bloomberg’s The Close. Post People ## Dr. Karrie Karahalios Joins MIT Media Lab as Professor of Media Arts + Sciences Dr. Karrie Karahalios returns to the MIT Media Lab as Professor, advancing AI that’s transparent, equitable, and people-centered. Article Research ## A bionic knee integrated into tissue can restore natural movement [...] ## Handweaving shows potential in robotic textiles Liquid crystal elastomer fibers incorporated into different weave designs create programmable and reversible structures. Article Research ## Scientists focus on genetically engineering mice to cut Lyme disease transmission MIT Media Lab’s Kevin Esvelt leads a community-driven effort on Nantucket to engineer Lyme-immune mice and stop the disease at its source Post Member Portal ## Welcome to the MIT Media Lab, HCLTech We’re happy to welcome HCLTech as the newest member of the MIT Media Lab—joining a global network of organizations working together to shap… Post Research ## MIT Media Lab in the News Explore stories about the Media Lab from global news outlets. Post Member Portal [...] Article Research ## Karrie Karahalios named to Fast Company's AI 20 List for 2025 MIT Media Lab’s Karrie Karahalios named to Fast Company’s AI 20 for 2025 for pioneering work in contestable, human-centered AI systems. Article Research ## Injectable antenna could safely power deep-tissue medical implants The technology would allow battery-free, minimally invasive, scalable bioelectronic implants. Post Research ## Media Lab on Bloomberg: Conversations on Technology, Women's Health, and Human Potential Media Lab researchers share insights on innovation, technology, and health in recent interviews featured on Bloomberg Businessweek. Post Research ## TD Joins MIT Media Lab to Explore the Future of Responsible AI in Financial Services

• Projects - Research — MIT Media Lab

  ## Computational Wallpaper inspired by the retina I wrote code to generate a large computational wallpaper that covered the front of the Compton Gallery for the Interconnectivity: Seeing in… Project Research ## Feather Editor: Experiments with a shape-blending GUI Over the summer, I experimented with a graphical editor that automatically interpolates between neighboring shapes. This originated fr… Project Research ## Neural Notes We are building an intelligent musical partner that plays duets with you and teaches music. This research teaches us how to design mo… Project Research ## Collaborative Innovation: Best Practices from and for the City Science Network [...] Doppelmarsh is a cross-reality sensor data browser built for experimenting with presence and multimodal sensory experiences. Built on evolv… Project Research ## Sleep Research Tools Our group is developing tools for sleep research with smartwatches, smartphones, and similar devices. These includeOpen Sleep Staging (Tech… Project Research ## A(I)nimism Re-enchanting the World Through AI-Mediated Object InteractionThe world used to be a sacred place. Animist traditions across cultures treat… Project Research ## Tap To Remember Tap To Remember is a wearable memory prosthesis. We are testing whether laboratory techniques for enhancing memory—such as targeted m… Project Research ## Sleep++ [...] ## Memoro: Wearable Personal Memory Assistant ​Memoro is a wearable AI memory assistant that continuously captures audio through a bone conduction headset, transforming everyday convers… Project Research ## Canopy Competition - MITxMAF GHAF Woods Development, Dubai First Prize, Canopy Competition - MITxMAF GHAF Woods Development, DubaiWe are thrilled to announce that Leticia Izquierdo and Thomas Sanche… Project Research ## Towards a science of scaling agent systems: When and why agent systems work? Through a controlled evaluation of 180 agent configurations, we derive the first quantitative scaling principles for AI agent systems, reve… Project Research ## Computational Wallpaper inspired by the retina

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• Country

  United States

• Founder

  Nicholas Negroponte

• Instance Of

  Q180958

• Coordinates

  Lat: 42.3608, Lon: -71.08768

• Inception Date

  1/1/1985