15.376/MAS.664  Media Ventures ~ Media Lab Entrepreneurship & Digital Innovations

is the flagship Spring semester Action Lab course within the Media Lab Entrepreneurship Program.  We survey a broad landscape of emerging media technologies interwoven with live- and historic-cases of intre- and entrepreneurship-based on Media Lab ideas, culminating in a term project.  The core goal is to gain increased understanding of how emergent media and digital innovations translate into commercial reality and transform society.  We survey case examples of both successful and failed businesses and generally grapple with the difficulties of deploying and diffusing products and as a means of exploring a range of business models and opportunities enabled by emerging Media Lab innovations.  This year we will be especially emphasizing health & wellness, cities & sustainability, learning & creativity, commerce & financial services, and civic & societal innovations enabled by mobiles and social media generally with special focus on social networks, quantified self, trust and privacy systems, "Big Data" analytics, artificial intelligence and machine learning, and robotics and automation.

Also, please visit (or sign up for) MIT  Media Ventures Facebook Group  --  https://www.facebook.com/groups/mitmediaventures/