Media X, Stanford University's campus-wide research network for the innovative design and study of Information technologies of the future, coordinates the development and implementation of collaborative partnerships with industry, foundations, and governments in Stanford's laboratories and classrooms.

Media X influences the next generation of Information technologies relevant to commerce, media, learning, entertainment, transportation and other realms of society by bringing together interdisciplinary groups of Stanford researchers, faculty and students and by powerfully leveraging research and education throughout the Stanford campus that is relevant to technology.

Media X projects address a broad range of exciting challenges and opportunities related to uses of emerging Information technologies in society, such as ease of use, learning, emotional computing, natural user interaction, information extraction and data-mining, high-presence environments, dialog systems, and collaboration and knowledge management systems.

The technologies represented within Media X are at the cutting edge of the information and communication revolution. These include natural language processing, voice user interfaces, information visualization, ubiquitous computing, collaborative work environments, collaborative learning environments, hand-held devices, information appliances, automatic language translation, conversational interfaces, wearable computing, intelligent agents, interactive toys, sensing technologies, electronic customer relationship management, peer-to-peer networking, Internet audio, medical information retrieval, and distance learning applications. Virtual worlds, and their intersection with real-world environments, is a particular area of note, along with issues of participatory knowledge systems and intellectual property topics.