Person

Weixuan 'Vincent' Chen

Former Research Assistant

Project

SmileTracker

SmileTracker is a system designed to capture naturally occurring instances of positive emotion during the course of normal interaction with…

Publication

SmileTracker: Automatically and unobtrusively recording smiles and their context

Natasha Jaques*, Weixuan 'Vincent' Chen*, Rosalind W. Picard

Person

Natasha Jaques

Former Research Assistant

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
Group

Network Computing Systems

Network Computing Systems (aka: NeCSys) develops and maintains the Media Lab's advanced network and computing infrastructure. We create and…

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Member collaboration: Wireless Mesh Networks

A breakthrough in wireless technology.

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NetMob2011

LocationMIT Media Lab, E14 6th Floor Description

Monday — Tuesday
October 10, 2011 —
October 11, 2011
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NetStories

Recent years have witnessed a surge in online digital storytelling tools, enabling users to more easily create engaging multimedia narrativ…

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City Science Network

MIT City Science has developed an international network of cooperative City Science LabsWe are developing concepts and key technology that …

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Compressing Financial Networks

Postdoc Associate, Tarik Roukny, investigates how the size of financial markets can be reduced while satisfying individual net positions an…

Thursday
October 19, 2017
4:30pm ET
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Proximity Networks

A crucial part of Montessori education is observation of the students, so teachers can assist individuals and structure the environment as …

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Lunar Sensor Net

We are leveraging current Wireless Sensor Network technology to develop an easily deployable, and inexpensive wireless sensor (LunarWSN) ne…

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Duct Tape Network

The Duct Tape Network (DTN) is a series of fun, hands-on maker clubs that encourage young children (ages 7-10) to use cardboard, tape, wood…

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Renovating road signs for infrastructure-to-vehicle networking: a visible light backscatter communication and networking approach

Wang, P., Feng, L., Chen, G., Xu, C., Wu, Y., Xu, K., ... & Liu, X. (2020, April). Renovating road signs for infrastructure-to-vehicle networking: a visible light backscatter communication and networking approach. In Proceedings of the 26th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (pp. 1-13).

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Implications of COVID-19 vaccination heterogeneity in mobility networks

Yuan, Y., Jahani, E., Zhao, S. et al. Implications of COVID-19 vaccination heterogeneity in mobility networks. Commun Phys 6, 206 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s42005-023-01325-7

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Human Goal Network

What motivates people? What changes do people want in the world? We approach questions of this kind by mining goals and plans from text-bas…

Publication

Underwater Backscatter Networking

Underwater Backscatter Networking. JunSu Jang and Fadel Adib. ACM SIGCOMM 2019

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

Event

NetMob 2015 @ Media Lab

LocationMIT Media Lab, 6th Floor DescriptionThe main conference on the scientific analysis of mobile phone datasets.

Tuesday — Friday
April 7, 2015 —
April 10, 2015
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Signed Networks in Social Media

LocationE14-493 DescriptionSocial networks in many on-line applications encode a mixture of positive (friendly) and negative (antagonistic)…

Wednesday
February 17, 2010
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Networked Playscapes + Mapping Festival + Geneva

The festival is now a major event in the fields of image generation, technological creation and exploration, attracting both professional a…

Wednesday
May 24, 2017
Event

Ramesh Jain: "Social Life Networks"

LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-525 DescriptionSocial networks have become extremely popular in the last few years. By bringing different media …

Monday
February 6, 2012
Publication

Private Delivery Networks: Extended Abstract

Berke, A., Lee, N., Chwalek, P. (2021). Private Delivery Networks: Extended Abstract. Presented at the 3rd International Workshop on Obfuscation, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands, 7 May.

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Posthoc Privacy guarantees for neural network queries

Cloud based machine learning inference is an emerging paradigm where users query with their data to a service provider who runs a ML model …

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Relational Analogies in Semantic Networks

Analogy is a powerful comparison mechanism, commonly thought to be central to human problem solving. Analogies like "an atom is like the so…

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Rosalind Picard @ Body Sensor Networks Conference

LocationUCSF Mission Bay Conference Center DescriptionYears ago, when building technology to measure emotion, Rosalind Picard quickly reali…

Wednesday
June 15, 2016
Event

Network Design Thinking & Black Male Engagement

LocationHilton Garden Inn, Colorado, 500 N IH 35 Description

Friday
March 7, 2014
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The Jeweled Net: Views of Contemporary Holography

LocationMIT Museum DescriptionThis exhibition of over 20 internationally created holograms is opening at the start of the 9th International…

Wednesday — Saturday
June 27, 2012 —
September 28, 2013
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Arlene Ducao: "Networks in Equity and Sustainability"

LocationIndian Institute of Science Description Additional Featured Research By (Unpublished) Information Ecology

Friday
March 23, 2012
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Friendship in A Music-Oriented Social Networking Site

Locationde Rothschild Room (E15-283) DescriptionSocial network sites such as Facebook and MySpace have become increasingly important Intern…

Thursday
November 19, 2009
Project

Floral Cosmonauts: Self-assembling silver dendrite networks in microgravity

Biological neuronal networks are highly complex and interconnected with superior information processing capabilities. Such networks have pr…

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Networked Playscapes + Design Week MX + Territorio Urbano Archivo Diseño y Arquitectura

Networked Playscapes will be presented as part of Territorio Urbano - a branch of Design Week Mexico - dedicated to reactivate Public Space…

Saturday — Thursday
October 8, 2016 —
March 9, 2017
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Advancing Wellbeing

In contributing to the digital revolution, the Media Lab helped fuel a society where increasing numbers of people are obese, sedentary, and…

Publication

Enabling Long-Range Underwater Backscatter via Van Atta Acoustic Networks

Aline Eid, Jack Rademacher, Waleed Akbar, Purui Wang, Ahmed Allam, and Fadel Adib. 2023. Enabling Long-Range Underwater Backscatter via Van Atta Acoustic Networks. In ACM SIGCOMM 2023 Conference (ACM SIGCOMM ’23), September 10, 2023, New York, NY, USA. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 19 pages

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Affective Computing

The Affective Computing group creates and evaluates new ways of bringing together Emotion AI and other affective technologies in order to m…

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ICCS 2018—Workshop on Blockchain Networks and Information Flow

The last couple of years have seen a torrent of innovation focused on the creation of blockchain technologies and protocols.

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The Networked Sensory Landscape Meets the Future of Documentary

At its heart, documentary cinema has always been an experimental medium. Its evolution has been driven on the one hand by the creativity an…

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The Clubhouse Network

The Clubhouse provides a creative and safe out-of-school learning environment where young people from underserved communities around the wo…

Publication

Is Access to Public Bike-share Networks Equitable? A Multiyear Spatial Analysis Across 5 U.S. Cities

Berke, A., Truitt, W., Larson, K. (2023). Is access to public bike-share networks equitable? A multiyear spatial analysis across 5 U.S. Cities. Journal of Transport Geography, Volume 114, 2024, 103759, ISSN 0966-6923. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2023.103759.

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A Scalable Networked Smart Sensate Skin

We have developed tightly coupled sensor network that tries to mimic some of the sensory characteristics of a natural skin. Developed in a …

Event

Sensor Networks for Linking Virtual and Real Worlds

DescriptionJoseph Paradiso: "Sensor Networks for Linking Virtual and Real Worlds"; 1:30 PM-2:30 PM; Fiatech Annual Meeting; Hyatt Regency H…

Monday
October 27, 2008
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Introduction to computer networks for artists

A collection of tutorials to introduce computer protocols for sharing data between computers and over the internet, for artistic purposes…

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Resynthesizing Reality: Driving Vivid Virtual Environments from Sensor Networks

Don Derek Haddad, Gershon Dublon, Brian Mayton, Spencer Russell, Xiao Xiao, Ken Perlin, Joseph A. Paradiso

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An interpretable approach for social network formation among heterogeneous agents

Yuan, Yuan, Ahmad Alabdulkareem, and Alex Pentland. "An interpretable approach for social network formation among heterogeneous agents." Nature Communications 9.1 (2018): 4704.

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Canan Dagdeviren @ NETSA's "The Future of Science" panel

"The Future of Science" is based on five themes: The Future of Artificial Intelligence, The Future of Media and Art, The Future of Entrepre…

Sunday
February 24, 2019
8:00am — 7:00pm ET
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Joi Ito @ Japan Society: Innovation in Open Networks

LocationJapan Society, NYC Description

Thursday
November 10, 2011
Event

Learning Networks of People and Places from Location Data

LocationWiesner Room, 2nd Floor, MIT Media Lab DescriptionNetworks and graphs have become essential for understanding the online world, wit…

Thursday
November 12, 2009
Publication

NetP: A Network API for Building Heterogeneous Modular Intelligent Systems

Kai-yuh Hsiao, Peter Gorniak, Deb Roy

Event

Joi Ito: "Innovation in Open Networks and the Media Lab"

LocationWeb 2.0 Expo, NY Description

Tuesday
October 11, 2011
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Sandy Pentland: "How Social Networks Shape Human Behavior"

LocationMIT (E51-376) DescriptionMore details and registration at:http://www.necsi.edu/events/upcomingevents.html

Friday
March 4, 2011
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Affective Network

Try Affective Network!Emotional contagion in online social networks has been of great interest over the past years. Previous studies have m…

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Vida Decision Support System International Network Meeting - June 2021

The goal of the June meeting was to discuss the latest Vida DSS prototypes and analyses related to COVID-19. Speakers from MIT and Blue …

Tuesday
June 15, 2021
8:00am — 9:30am ET
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Vida Decision Support System International Network Meeting - April 2021

The goal of the April meeting was to discuss the topic of  environmental analyses related to COVID-19. Speakers from Chile and the U…

Tuesday
April 27, 2021
8:00am — 9:30am ET
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City Science Network Talks Series-2024

Each year the City Science Network hosts a talks series where City Science Labs present and share their research to the Network and collabo…

Publication

The Networked Sensory Landscape: Capturing and Experiencing Ecological Change Across Scales

Mayton, Brian, et al. "The networked sensory landscape: Capturing and experiencing ecological change across scales." PRESENCE: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments 26.2 (2017): 182-209.

Publication

Network Dynamics of a Financial Ecosystem

Somin, S., Altshuler, Y., Gordon, G., Pentland, A., Shmueli, E. (2020).Network Dynamics of a Financial Ecosystem. Scientific Reports 10, 4587, pp.1-10.

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NFC+: Breaking NFC Networking Limits through Resonance Engineering

Zhao, R., Wang, P., Ma, Y., Zhang, P., Liu, H. H., Lin, X., ... & Zhang, M. (2020, July). Nfc+ breaking nfc networking limits through resonance engineering. In Proceedings of the Annual conference of the ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communication on the applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communication (pp. 694-707).

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Economic growth with mobility network

This project seeks to examine the determinants of economic growth by using large-scale urban mobility networks. Leveraging the fine-grained…

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Vida Decision Support System International Network Meeting - February 2021

The Vida Decision Support System project will hold its third international meeting to discuss the topic of public health analyses.

Tuesday
February 23, 2021
8:00am — 10:00am ET
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Vida Decision Support System International Network Meeting - November 2020

Vida Decision Support System International Network has its first meeting with collaborators from Angola, Brazil, Chile, Indonesia, & Mexico.

Tuesday
November 10, 2020
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Time Out: Reflective User Interface for Social Networks

Time Out is an experimental user interface system for addressing cyberbullying on social networks. A Reflective User Interface (RUI) is a n…

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Social networks: Emotions on Twitter

MIT has developed an extension that allows knowing the emotional impact caused by the content that everyone creates and consumes on Twitter.

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Slam Force Net

A basketball net incorporates segments of conductive fiber whose resistance changes with degree of stretch. By measuring this resistance ov…

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Tricorder Net: Mobile Browsing of Ubiquitous Sensor Network Information

Tricorder Net is a handheld sensor-network interface inspired by Star Trek's tricorder, a device that provided Science Officer Spock with i…

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Cognitive Limits of Social Networks

There is a wide cultural belief in the power of the Internet and social media as enablers of collective intelligence. They help us spread i…

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Networked Playscapes: Dig Deep

Networked Playscapes re-imagines outdoor play by merging the flexibility of the digital world with the tangible, sensorial properties of ph…

Publication

RF-CHORD: Towards Deployable RFID Localization System for Logistics Network

Liang, B., Wang, P., Zhao, R., Guo, H., Zhang, P., Guo, J., ... & Xu, C. (2022). RF-CHORD: Towards Deployable RFID Localization System for Logistics Network. arXiv preprint arXiv:2211.00272.