Industries EdTechEducationProduct ResearchTravelDiversity Spotlight (US Headquarters Only) Women FoundedHeadquarters Regions Greater Boston Area, East Coast, New England Sub-Organization of Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyFounded Date 1985 Founders Ariel Ekblaw, Federico Casalegno, Nicholas Negroponte Operating Status Active Last Funding Type Seed Related Hubs MIT Media Lab Alumni Founded Companies, MIT Media Lab Portfolio Companies
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Phone Number 617.253.0365
Actively promoting a unique, antidisciplinary culture, the MIT Media Lab goes beyond known boundaries and disciplines, encouraging the most unconventional mixing and matching of seemingly disparate research areas. It creates disruptive technologies that happen at the edges, pioneering such areas as wearable computing, tangible interfaces, and
affective computing.
Today, faculty members, research staff, and students at the Lab work in more than 25 research groups on more than 350 projects that range from digital approaches for treating neurological disorders, to a stackable, electric car for sustainable cities, to advanced imaging technologies that can “see around a corner.”
The Lab is committed to looking beyond the obvious to ask the questions not yet asked–questions whose answers could radically improve the way people live, learn, express themselves, work, and play.
- Personal Robots Group
Subsidiary - MIT CityFARM
Subsidiary - MIT Center for Civic Media
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