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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Previous director Joi Ito resigned in 2019 after it was revealed the school had taken donations from the convicted sex offender. Corinne Reichert (she/her) grew up in Sydney, Australia and moved to ...

MIT’s famous Media Lab, the multidisciplinary idea factory that produces many a fascinating invention and influential thinker, has found a new director in its backyard after scouring the globe for ...

The MIT Media Lab has canceled a new fellowship program intended to be funded by the philanthropy of FTX, the cryptocurrency firm that imploded last week with a bankruptcy filing and billions of ...

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.

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 ...

Inside the MIT Media Lab building, a fire alarm is bleating. Outside, about a dozen people who were already at work before 9 a.m. on a chilly fall Monday are clustered on the steps, chatting ...

HBO's comedy Silicon Valley features a "decentralized internet" storyline. Here are some of the actual projects underway in the real-life, blockchain world. The MIT Media Lab's Learning Initiative and ...

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 ...