Media Arts and Sciences (Media Lab)

MIT spinout Cogito developed voice-analytics software for call centers that tracks and analyzes voice patterns of customers and agents — such as interruptions and rapid speech — and offers real-time feedback to make the conversations more productive.

Watch your tone

Voice-analytics software helps customer-service reps build better rapport with customers.

January 20, 2016

Gen9's BioFab process, now being used by dozens of researchers and companies, cuts costs and accelerates the creation and testing of genes.

Scaling up synthetic-biology innovation

MIT professor’s startup makes synthesizing genes many times more cost effective.

December 10, 2015

By combining the information from the Kinect depth frame in (a) with polarized photographs, MIT researchers reconstructed the 3-D surface shown in (c). Polarization cues can allow coarse depth sensors like Kinect to achieve laser scan quality (b).

Making 3-D imaging 1,000 times better

Algorithms exploiting light’s polarization boost resolution of commercial depth sensors 1,000-fold.

December 1, 2015

MIT researchers have developed a new biomedical imaging system that harnesses an off-the-shelf depth sensor such as Microsoft’s Kinect. The coloration of these images depicts the phase information contained in six of the 50 light frequencies the system analyzes.

Biomedical imaging at one-thousandth the cost

Mathematical modeling enables $100 depth sensor to approximate the measurements of a $100,000 piece of lab equipment.

November 23, 2015

(Left to right) Edward Boyden, Larry Guth, and Liang Fu

Edward Boyden wins 2016 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences

MIT physicists share prize in fundamental physics; Larry Guth and Liang Fu win New Horizons Prizes.

November 9, 2015

Smarter lenses

Newly launched mobile eye-test device could lead to prescription virtual-reality screens.

October 19, 2015

Maya Beiser brings her unique performance style to MIT

September 22, 2015

A future fueled by design

Speakers at MIT Media Lab's inaugural Knotty Objects summit discuss the purpose of design.

September 17, 2015

3 Questions: Economies as computers, products as information

New book argues that economic development is a special case of the growth of information.

June 9, 2015

Connecting the masses

Startup’s advertising platform provides free mobile data to prepaid cellphone users in developing countries.

May 5, 2015

Visualizing the abstract: A life in computer science

Senior Walter Menendez applies dynamic visuals to conceptual datasets.

April 23, 2015

A new wearable device, NailO, turns the user’s thumbnail into a miniature wireless track pad. Here, it works as a X-Y coordinate touch pad for a smartphone.

Thumbnail track pad

Unobtrusive wearable sensor could operate digital devices or augment other device interfaces.

April 17, 2015

Brian Forde, former White House senior advisor for mobile and data innovation, joins the MIT Media Lab as director of digital currency.

Brian Forde joins the MIT Media Lab as director of digital currency

Former White House senior advisor for mobile and data innovation to coordinate a broad research initiative focused on digital currencies

April 15, 2015

Graduate student Steven Keating holds a 3-D-printed copy of his cancerous astrocytoma brain tumor. It was printed by Keating with data from Brigham and Women’s Hospital.

Cerebral curiosity

Graduate student Steven Keating takes a problem-solving approach to his brain cancer.

April 1, 2015

Illustration showing the back of a head facing a computer screen with a wall and window in the background

Crowdsourced tool for depression

Peer-to-peer application outperforms conventional self-help technique for easing depression, anxiety.

March 30, 2015

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