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The MIT Media Lab (also known as the Media Lab) is a department within the School of Architecture...

The MIT Media Lab (also known as the Media Lab) is a department within the School of Architecture and Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Devoted to research projects at the convergence of multimedia and technology, the Media Lab was widely popularized in the 1990s by business and technology publications such as Wired and Red Herring for a series of practical inventions in the fields of wireless networks, field sensing, web browsers and the World Wide Web. More recently it has focused on product design more generally, particularly for technologies that address social causes. The MIT Media Lab in the School of Architecture and Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology was founded by MIT Professor Nicholas Negroponte and former MIT President Jerome Wiesner (now deceased) and opened its doors in the Wiesner Building (designed by I.M. Pei), or the E15 building at MIT in 1985. It grew out of the work of MIT’s Architecture Machine Group, and remains within MIT’s School of Architecture and Planning. On February 1, 2006, Frank Moss assumed the role of Media Lab director. Under Moss's direction, much of the Lab's research has begun to coalesce as Media Lab