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LocationTrento, Italy DescriptionTelecom Italia, in association with EIT ICT Labs, MIT Media Lab, Milan Polytechnic and Trento RISE, has la…
More ocean data has been collected in the last two years than in all previous years combined, and we are on a path to continue to break tha…
Big Data for Small Places is a quantitative study of the qualities that define our neighborhoods and our collective role in the production …
At EmTech 2017, Deb Roy discusses how insights gained from big data and machine learning can help us monitor the social impact of new techn…
Noyman, A., Doorley, R., Xiong, Z., Alonso, L., Grignard, A. and Larson, K., 2019. Reversed urbanism: Inferring urban performance through behavioral patterns in temporal telecom data. Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science, 46(8), pp.1480-1498.
Cesar A. Hidalgo
Noyman, A., Doorley, R., Xiong, Z., Alonso, L., Grignard, A., & Larson, K. (2019). Reversed urbanism: Inferring urban performance through behavioral patterns in temporal telecom data. Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science, 46(8), 1480–1498. https://doi.org/10.1177/2399808319840668
Artists and designers are working to address a major problem for marginalized communities in the data economy.
D’Ignazio, C., & Bhargava, R. (2015). Approaches to Building Big Data Literacy. In Bloomberg Data for Good Exchange 2015. New York, NY, USA.
Doorley, R., Noyman, A., Xiong, Z., Alonso, L., Grignard, A., & Larson, K. (2019, May 1). RevUrb: Understanding Urban Activity and Human Dynamics through Point Process Modelling of Telecoms Data. 2019 Smart Cities Symposium Prague, SCSP 2019 Proceedings. https://doi.org/10.1109/SCSP.2019.8805683
LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-240 DescriptionThe rapid progress of urbanization on earth leads to modern cities, which provide people with a c…
A first thing is to find ways to control how data can be used. Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab are devel…
Near the end of 2016 I completed an 8 week course from MIT on big data and social analytics. It was fascinating, challenging, timely, and t…
LocationVienna, Austria Description Additional Related ProjectsMedRec
In a room at The MIT Media Lab, you can find the dreamscape of small children everywhere. Giant cities, in perfect detail, constructed enti…
Danielle Wood will speak in the session on "Computational Sustainability."
City Science collaborates on a big data project with the University of Andorra
They were honored in the Small and Mighty: Fewer Than 100 Employees category.
Tune in to the livestream at 12pm August 20 for Responsible Data in the Time of Pandemic: GAEN-based Contact Tracing and Challeng…
These sessions will focus on tools for privacy-aware contact tracing.
These sessions will focus on tools for privacy-aware contact tracing.
Talk title: Novel deep learning systems for oncology imaging, digital medicines and real world dataAbout the event:The future of medic…
Thursday August 20, 2020 …
Faculty leaders highlight innovations that can close longstanding knowledge gaps and reimagine how the world responds to the climate crisis.
We built an inexpensive, portable, micro-projector-based laptop extension the purpose of which is to engage real space in remote interactio…
Inimitable and Iconic: Italian Design Stories in the USDr. Valentina Sumini, as designated Ambassador of Italian Design in the W…
MIT Media Lab + MIT CSAIL researchers present at Google Cambridge
The US Embassy in Italy & Italian Space Agency invite you to a virtual program of the From Home to Space series
During this session, Professor Danielle Wood (Space Enabled) will curate several conversations on radical sustainability.
Animal-Human-AI Interaction Design Challenge for Promoting Deeper Connection with Naturehttps://moodeng.media.mit.edu/This challenge w…
Data-driven strategies to meet the Dual Energy-Climate ChallengeThe global community stands at a critical juncture, facing the dual energy-…
Each of these discussions was dedicated to a timely, urgent topic.
Cynthia Breazeal is featured in The Big Conversation: Machine Yearning, part of a conversation series running at the Sundance Film Festival.
On Tuesday, May 26, the Media Lab hosted a lively conversation with Massachusetts Senator Ed Markey. Read more on the event page!
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These discussions, each of which was dedicated to a timely, urgent topic, were livestreamed as part of our recent Out of Lab Experience.
Four social-impact startups reveal how they manage privacy laws and concerns—even if they’re not required to.
FiftyNifty.org takes the hassle out of calling your lawmakers.
Mental wellbeing is intimately tied to both social support and physical activity. The Challenge is a tool aimed at promoting social connect…
Large Population Models for a simple audience
I believe that 30 years from now people will look back at the beginning of our century and wonder what we were doing and thinking.
Rapid advances in neural implants and AI are pushing society to defend its most private territory — the human mind.
The Big Thing is a massive, child-oriented music construction kit that allows multiple children to experiment with creating musical structu…
Lu, Charles, et al. "Data Acquisition via Experimental Design for Data Markets." Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 37 (2024): 118086-118118.
Professor Post Tenure of Media Arts and Sciences
New research from the Media Lab and OpenAI shows that heavy chatbot usage is correlated with loneliness and reduced socialization.
This session explores resilience at the Human, Community, and Society levels.
An inspiring conversation about technology, policy, equity, and access.
Optimizing environmental, social, and economic performance of citiesCities play a central role in the climate crisis. According to the late…
Hasier Larrea, an alum of the City Science research group, talks about the research that led him to co-found spinoff Ori.
Ed Boyden advances on his goal of understanding how the brain works.
This session explores resilience at the Human, Community, and Society levels.
Lu, Charles, et al. "Data Acquisition via Experimental Design for Decentralized Data Markets." arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.13893 (2024).
Media Lab researchers win three of six categories in inaugural contest.
During this session, Professor Danielle Wood (Space Enabled) will curate several conversations on radical sustainability.
This session features four conversations between Media Lab researchers and guest speakers on expanding more equitable research.
Senior Garrett Parrish combines art and technology, with dramatic effects.
This session features four conversations between Media Lab researchers and guest speakers on expanding more equitable research.
Researchers have developed a method that allows a 3D printer to identify the parameters of unknown materials to use algae, wood, and more.
In January 2019, members of the City Science team traveled to Andorra to further explore Andorra’s innovation opportunity to improve urban …
Neil Gaikwad from the Space Enabled research group is co-organizing the KDD Workshop on Humanitarian Mapping.
Former Graduate Student