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.

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 ...

This year, as the MIT Media Lab celebrates an important 40 th anniversary, there are a lot of things going on inside its walls. One is based on the development of a new program called the Critical ...