The MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology fosters and develops collaborative interdisciplinary relationships with programs in architecture, urban planning, media arts and sciences, mechanical engineering, and other disciplines.

CMS

Comparative Media Studies is the examination of media technologies and their cultural, social, aesthetic, political, ethical, legal, and economic implications. At MIT, students will be trained to think critically about properties of different media and about the shared properties and functions of media more generally. The CMS Program offers a two-year course of study leading to a Masters of Science degree and an undergraduate BSAD degree.

http://cms.mit.edu

Media Lab - Media Arts and Science

In its first decade, much of the Laboratory's activity centered around abstracting electronic content from its traditional physical representations, helping to create now-familiar areas such as digital video and multimedia. The success of this agenda is now leading to a growing focus on how electronic information overlaps with the everyday physical world. The Laboratory pioneered collaboration between academia and industry, and provides a unique environment to explore basic research and applications, without regard to traditional divisions among disciplines.

http://www.media.mit.edu

STS - Science, Technology, and Society

This program attempts to increase understanding of the human-built world. In this world, science and technology have broken through the walls of industry and of the laboratory to become an inextricable and determining element of nature, culture, and history. Faculty and students in the Program address two basic, interrelated questions: how did science and technology evolve as human activities, and what role do they play in the larger civilization?

http://web.mit.edu/sts

AI - Artificial Intelligence

The Artificial Intelligence Laboratory has been an active entity at MIT in one form or another since at least 1959. Our goal is to understand the nature of intelligence and to engineer systems that exhibit intelligence. We are an interdisciplinary laboratory of over 200 people that spans several academic departments and has active projects ongoing with members of every academic school at MIT. Our intellectual goal is to understand how the human mind works. We believe that vision, robotics, and language are the keys to understanding intelligence, and as such our laboratory is much more heavily biased in these directions than many other Artificial Intelligence laboratories

http://www.ai.mit.edu