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Human Dynamics
Leveraging Others’ Personalized Models for Better Decision-Making Hossein Rahnama Visiting Professor, MIT Media Lab, Professor, Toront…
AI Agents are coming quickly. How can we build robust systems to make sure we know who AI agents act on behalf of, verify that they are pe…
"Leveraging Large Language Models for Learning Complex Legal Concepts through Storytelling," published by the Association for Computat…
Space stations serve as unique and isolated environments where astronauts must collaborate closely to achieve mission objectives. Effective…
By unifying proprietary data with third-party and contextual data sources, customer-centric leaders in financial services can create e…
Advanced AI using Reason-Ready Graphs to facilitate machine reasoning or automated inferenceReason-Ready Graphs are cutting-edge frame…
We imagine digital twins can be used in any number of ways to gain insights and enable interactions: imagine if you could engage with a tru…
Perspective-Aware AI (PAI) is a new approach to AI that goes beyond simply avoiding bias. It focuses on understanding, representing, and in…
We crowdsourced and published a first-of-its-kind open dataset that contains Amazon purchase histories, spanning 2018 to 2022, from more th…
Science is not just about discovery; it’s an art of communication too.In this project, we are exploring how complex scientific topics can b…
A massive audit of 1800+ AI text datasets, tracing their provenance and composition from origin to creation.The race to train language mode…
The Atlas of Opportunity is a platform that allows communities to derive insights from their own data. The tool was created in collabo…
Urban socioeconomic segregation is an important indicator that is crucial for social, economic, and health outcomes. Segregation is inheren…
Voyage Viewer is an online, open source interactive tool especially designed to visualize and study human mobility and migration.
This strand of work seeks to develop new interventions to reduce the spread of information, and deploy those interventions towards a crowds…
Autonomous vehicles (AVs), drones, and other types of robots will revolutionize our way of traveling and understanding urban space. In orde…
Segregation is hurting our societies and especially our cities. But economic inequality isn't just limited to neighborhoods. The restaurant…
Data for refugees is a big data challenge whereby Turk Telekom opens a large dataset of anonymized mobile phone records to research groups …
Modern cities have to respond to the growing demands of more efficient and sustainable urban development, as well as an increased quality o…
Mobile phones are one of the fastest growing technologies in the developing world with global penetration rates reaching 90%. Mobile phone …
Participants in cryptocurrency markets are in constant communication with each other about the latest coins and news releases. Do thes…
To better understand and improve the quality of our lives, there has been a need for measuring non-economic capital such as social capital …
Algorithmic FairnessSociety increasingly relies on machine learning models for automated decision making. Yet, efficiency gains from automa…
Open Algorithms (OPAL)
We use high-resolution geospatial data collected from mobile phones to measure social segregation at an unprecedented resolution in cities …
Have you ever wondered what a friend would do if she was in your decision-making situation? Or thought about where a family membe…
Leveraging the power of platforms, big data, and advanced analytics for species protection and the public good in a privacy-preserving, sca…
The well-known "small-world" phenomenon indicates that an individual can be connected with any other in the world through a limited number …
Earlier studies proved that behavior is highly shaped and constrained by one's social networks, and demonstrated ways in which individuals …
The recent availability of quantitative behavioral data provides an opportunity to study human behavior at unprecedented scale. Using large…
Growth in leisure travel has become increasingly significant economically, socially, and environmentally. However, flexible but uncoordinat…
bandicoot provides a complete, easy-to-use environment for researchers using mobile phone metadata. It allows them to easily load their dat…
Even when real names and other personal information are stripped from metadata datasets, it is often possible to use just a few pieces of i…
A peer-to-peer network, enabling different parties to jointly store and run computations on data while keeping the data completely private.…
Location prediction is a critical building block in many location-based services and transportation management. This project explores the i…
A critical question relevant to the increasing importance of crowd-sourced-based finance is how to optimize collective information processi…
The understanding and modeling of social influence on human economic behavior in city environments can have important implications. In this…
Data mining of email has provided important insights into how organizations function and what management practices lead to greater producti…
Data-Pop Alliance is a joint initiative on big data and development with a goal of helping to craft and leverage the new ecosystem of big d…
We believe that the narrative of only listening to experts or trusting the wisdom of the crowd blindly is flawed. Instead we have developed…
In a world where sensors, data storage, and processing power are too cheap to meter, how do you ensure that users can realize the full valu…
We present Open Badges, an open-source framework and toolkit for measuring and shaping face-to-face social interactions using either custom…
The Mobile Territorial Lab (MTL) aims at creating a "living" laboratory integrated in the real life of the Trento territory in Italy, open …
Cooperation in a large society of self-interested individuals is notoriously difficult to achieve when the externality of one individual's …