2025 is the 40th anniversary of the MIT Media Lab. In the coming year, people are going to be talking a lot about the lab’s history, all of the people who contributed, and all of the things that went ...

The study, from MIT Lab scholars, measured the brain activity of subjects writing SAT essays with and without ChatGPT.

Dava Newman, the new head of MIT’s Media Lab, wants the lab to take on bigger problems and reach out into the community. If Willy Wonka had microchips, his factory would have been the MIT Media Lab.

Lego's '80s strategy almost gave into fearmongering surrounding electronic toys, but instead it laid the groundwork for the beloved Mindstorms line. Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has strenuously ...

Jon Skillings is an editorial director at CNET, where he's worked since 2000. A born browser of dictionaries, he honed his language skills as a US Army linguist (Polish and German) before diving into ...

As the MIT Media Lab continues a reckoning over its ties to Jeffrey Epstein, tech and innovation leaders at other campuses say the scandal will likely have ripple effects across higher education. The ...

According to Nicholas Negroponte, founder of the MIT Media Lab, dealing with ethically dubious funders is an unavoidable part of fundraising. Jeffrey Epstein “is an extreme case,” Negroponte told the ...

For the first time in its 35-year history, the MIT Media Lab will be led by a woman. Dava Newman comes to the role with a stellar resumé. An aerospace engineer and MIT professor since 1998, she served ...

Joi Ito, the director of the MIT Media Lab, resigned from his position on Saturday following new allegations that the lab tried to hide the extent of its financial ties to convicted sex offender ...

Professor Pattie Maes deep insights working with her research team of Joanne Leong, Pat Pataranutaporn, Valdemar Danry are world leading in their translational research on tech-human interaction.

NPR's Rachel Martin talks to MIT graduate student Arwa Mboya, who had been demanding MIT Media Lab Director Joichi Ito resign after it was revealed he had financial ties to Jeffrey Epstein. Jeffrey ...

A Pritzker Prize winner, he designed notable projects in his native Japan and in the U.S., including 4 World Trade Center and the M.I.T. Media Lab’s new home. By Fred A. Bernstein The artist Ekene ...