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.

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

People win prestigious prizes in tech all the time, but there is something different about The Bold Prize. Unless you’ve been living under a literal or proverbial rock, you’ve probably heard something ...

Last week, the director of MIT’s famed Media Lab, Joichi Ito, resigned after reports about his relationship with the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein. The New Yorker reported that Ito had taken ...

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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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...