Event

#MLSXSW: The LOLs of Nations: Understanding Global Memes

LocationAustin Convention Center, Room 10AB Description#sxsw #LOLnations #MLSXSWGlobal memes add snark and commentary to politics. Memes ha…

Saturday
March 8, 2014
Event

How Memes Become Money

The New Yorker talks to DCI head Neha Narula and other experts about the ways internet culture is transforming traditional notions of value

Event

#MLSXSW: Opposites Attract

What happens when you combine ideas from one of the oldest art museums in the US with one of the world's edgiest research labs?

Tuesday
March 11, 2014
Event

#MLSXSW: Future Futures Lounge

LocationMoonshine Restaurant, 303 Red River Description#MLSXSWDates: Friday March 7 thru Monday March 10 (11am - 5:30pm daily)Science ficti…

Friday — Monday
March 7, 2014 —
March 10, 2014
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#MLSXSW: The Future of Making

LocationAustin Convention Center, Ballroom D Description#sxsw #SxSWMake #MLSXSWThe idea of making isn’t just reserved for handmade bikes, a…

Friday
March 7, 2014
Event

#MLSXSW: Filters, Bias, & Collaboration

LocationAT&T; Conference Center, Classroom 106, 1900 University Avenue Description#sxsw #MLSXSW #sxBiasATTENTION: You must signup in advanc…

Monday
March 10, 2014
Event

#MLSXSW: 2014 SXSW Interactive Awards

Location6th Floor, Downtown Austin Hilton (500 East 4th St.). Description#MLSXSWSXSW Interactive Festival Hall of Fame Honors Top Industry …

Tuesday
March 11, 2014
Event

#MLSXSW | Democratizing the Internet of Things Is an Urgency

LocationHilton Austin Downtown, Salon JK, 500 E. 4th Street Description#sxsw #makermvmt #MLSXSWThe Internet of Things is not coming, it's a…

Monday
March 10, 2014
Event

#MLSXSW: Can't We All Just Get Along?

LocationHyatt Regency Austin, Hill Country ABCD, 208 Barton Springs Road Description#sxsw #MLSXSW #GetAlongThere's too much contention in o…

Saturday
March 8, 2014
Event

#MLSXSW: Workplace Distractions: A New Focus on Focus

LocationCourtyard Marriott, Rio Grande Ballroom, 300 E. 4th St. Description#sxsw #how2focus #MLSXSWDistracted at the office? You’re not alo…

Saturday
March 8, 2014
Event

#MLSXSW: Hacking Attention: Media, Technology & Crisis

LocationRoom 9ABC, Austin Convention Center Description#sxsw #HackAttn #MLSXSWSuperstorms, bombings and protests around the globe are chall…

Monday
March 10, 2014
Event

#MLSXSW: The BRCK–Designing from the Rest of the World

LocationAustin Convention Center, Room 9ABC DescriptionUshahidi is from Kenya; we know how hard it can be to get connected. Those who lack …

Friday
March 7, 2014
Event

#MLSXSW: Infinite Future: Beyond Cyber & Hyper (Part 2)

LocationHilton Austin Downtown, Salon D, 500 E. 4th St. Description#sxsw #MLSXSW #MLSciFiScience fiction explores our wildest dreams and bi…

Monday
March 10, 2014
Event

#MLSXSW: Infinite Future: Beyond Cyber & Hyper (Part 1)

LocationHilton Austin Downtown, Salon D, 500 E. 4th St. Description#sxsw #MLSXSW #MLSciFiScience fiction explores our wildest dreams and bi…

Monday
March 10, 2014
Event

#MLSXSW: The Avatar Will See You Now: Inside Virtual Health

LocationHilton Austin Downtown, Salon F, 500 E. 4th St. Description#sxsw #SXHealth #MLSXSWIn the future, virtual health care won’t be a lux…

Monday
March 10, 2014
Event

#MLSXSW: Build an Architectural Model of Your Own Futuristic Villian's Lair

LocationMoonshine Restaurant, 303 Red River DescriptionJoin Juliette Fritsch (Chief of Education and Interpretation at the Peabody Essex Mu…

Monday
March 10, 2014
Post

Danielle Wood speaks at United Nations' COP28 in Dubai

Danielle Wood @ COP28 in DubaiProf. Danielle Wood, director of the Space Enabled research group, will speak at several events hosted on the…

Publication

Binders Full of Election Memes: Participatory Culture Invades the 2012 U.S. Election

Graeff, Erhardt. 2015. ‘Binders Full of Election Memes: Participatory Culture Invades the 2012 U.S. Election.’ Civic Media Project.

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Danielle Wood Presents to the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space in Vienna

Prof. Wood is invited for a third time to serve as a Private Sector Advisor to the US government delegation to this UN space policy forum

Group

Digital Nations

Digital Nations (DN) aims to address major social challenges (improving education, enhancing health care, supporting community development)…

Publication

Role of emerging nations in ensuring long-term space sustainability

M. Rathnasabapathy, M. Slavin, D. Wood, "Role of emerging nations in ensuring long-term space sustainability." Acta Astronautica, 2024.

Article

An exercise at Kennedy School explores the dangers if large sums could be secretly sent to hostile nations

Neha Narula and Gary Gensler joined other experts to explore the potential impacts of digital currencies on national and global security.

Publication

The Dynamics of Nestedness Predicts the Industrial Development of Nations

S Bustos, C Gomez, R Hausmann, CA Hidalgo.

Event

United Nations Talk: Women in Science and Diplomacy for Sustaining Peace and Development

Dr. Canan Dagdeviren has been invited to speak at a panel entitled “Women in Science and Diplomacy for Sustaining Peace and Development” at…

Friday
February 9, 2018
10:00am — 1:00pm ET
Post

Minoo Rathnasabapathy and Danielle Wood Publish Paper on Emerging Space Nations and Space Sustainability

Dr. Minoo Rathnasabapathy and Prof. Danielle Wood recently published "Role of emerging nations in ensuring long-term space sustainability."

Event

Minoo Rathnasabapathy speaks at United Nations/China Forum on Space Solutions

The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (the 2030 Agenda) is the boldest agenda for humanity and the most ambitious anti-poverty, pro-pl

Thursday
April 25, 2019
Publication

The Product Space Conditions the Development of Nations

CA Hidalgo, B Klinger, A-L Barabasi, R Hausmann.

Publication

DakNet: Rethinking Connectivity in Developing Nations

Alex Pentland, Rich Fletcher, Amir Hassan

Project

Global Cooperation

Measuring Cooperation at Scale

Video

Hyper-LOCAL Solutions to GLOBAL Challenges

Optimizing environmental, social, and economic performance of cities.

Event

Ramesh Raskar @ TED Global 2012

LocationEdinburgh, Scotland Description

Thursday
June 28, 2012
Event

Joi Ito: "Global Entrepreneurial Aspirations"

LocationMIT Sloan School, E51-115, Wong Auditorium DescriptionLecture by Joi Ito, director of the MIT Media Lab, followed by a one-on-one d…

Friday
February 17, 2012
Event

2018 Global Community Bio Summit

The Community Biotechnology Initiative at the MIT Media Lab is organizing the second annual Global Summit on Community Biotechnol…

Event

Global Community Bio Summit

An International Summit on community biotechnology to be held in September 2017.

Friday — Sunday
September 22, 2017 —
September 24, 2017
Article

AI ‘Bill of Rights’ must be global

A global "AI Bill of Rights" that would help protect fairness, promote accountability, support innovation, and develop ethical guidelines.

Group

Machine Understanding

The Machine Understanding group works on understanding human cognition and developing base level technologies for intelligent computer syst…

Video

Mobile Technologies for Health and Wellness: A Global Perspective

Wednesday April 18, 2018 …

Project

Understanding Dialogue

In order to extend the Digital Intuition group's ability to understand human language, a module that fills in the gaps of current technolog…

Project

Understanding Molecular Evolution

Humanity has harnessed evolution to sculpt domesticated animals, crops, and molecules, but the process remains a black box. Which combinati…

Project

AI and Global Governance

Given the cross-border impact of AI and related technologies, what are appropriate and workable governance mechanisms that can operate at a…

Post

Dr Minoo Rathnasabapathy serves on expert group at World Economic Forum Global Future Council on Space

The World Economic Council (WEF) Global Future Councils convene more than 1000 of the most relevant and knowledgeable thought leaders from …

Event

Joi Ito @ Lincoln Center Global Exchange

LocationLincoln Center Description

Friday
September 16, 2016
Event

Ramesh Raskar @ VM Global Leadership Summit

LocationNew York Times Center Description

Wednesday
March 21, 2012
Event

Minoo Rathnasabathy to speak at Global Space Congress

What will increased, more affordable access to space mean for the sector, and what new opportunities will open up?

Event

SXSW | Inspiring Global Change Through Women’s Stories

SARAH JEHAAN KHANALAA MURABITLILA IGRAMSAKENA YACOOBIWomen and girls around the world face formidable challenges. Just two of the grim stat…

Monday
March 13, 2017
12:30pm — 1:30pm ET
Event

Space Ontologies Panel at the 9th edition of the Science Summit around the 78th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA78)

ISC and its partners will organize the 9th edition of the Science Summit around the 78th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA78) on 12-29 …

Wednesday
September 20, 2023
9:00am — 11:00am ET
Event

Networks Understanding Networks

LocationMIT Media Lab Description"No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main…."–John D…

Wednesday — Friday
October 12, 2011 —
October 14, 2011
Article

The City Science Network empowers local communities to collaborate globally

The City Science Network is a collaboration of institutions + researchers sharing a the goal of enabling more livable, equitable communities

Project

Global Brands

Every country has a brand, negative or positive, and that brand is mediated in part by its global press coverage. We are measuring and rank…

Publication

Links that Speak: The global language network and its association with global fame

Shahar Ronen, Bruno Goncalves, Kevin Hu, Alessandro Vespignani, Steven Pinker, Cesar A. Hidalgo

Project

Understanding the 15 Minute City

City Science researchers are engaging in an exploratory process to understand, develop, and model a platform with a focus on the 15-minute …

Event

Rich Fletcher @ Unite for Sight Global Health Conference

LocationYale University Description

Saturday
April 21, 2012
Article

Structural and temporal patterns of the first global trading market

We investigate the structure and dynamics of a network representative of the global trading market that emerged during the 16th century.

Event

Danielle Wood Speaks to Women in AI Global Summit

2020 has seen an acceleration of digital transformation. There have been global reactions in response to political climates, education, cli…

Tuesday
September 8, 2020
5:00am — 6:00am ET
Person

Ethan Zuckerman

Former Associate Professor of the Practice in Media Arts and Sciences; Former Director, Center for Civic Media

Article

'Complexity' Predicts Nations' Future Growth

Article

My Deep Sea, My Backyard: Empowering nations to study the deep

The deep sea is the common heritage of all of humankind and we must all share in the responsibility to be good stewards of it.

Person

Diego Antonelli

Former Visiting Scientist

Article

A global lab for teaching and practicing synthetic biology

A pandemic-fueled transformation of the MIT course "How to Grow (Almost) Anything" leads to next steps in democratizing synthetic biology

Person

Ronan Doorley

Former Research Scientist, Mobility

Person

Morgan Ryan Frank

Research Affiliate