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In 2016, a research paper by Carlsten et. al proposed a specific type of mining attack that could occur once block subsidies disappear call…
Bitcoin Core's internal Random Number Generator (RNG) continuously seeds itself from many different sources of entropy including the operat…
This project compares the security of Proof of Work (e.g., Bitcoin) versus Proof of Stake (e.g., Ethereum 2) protocols along several dimens…
The research on Community-based Social Innovation focuses on the reshaping of urban spaces by human social behavior, incorporating an analy…
zkTax is a zero-knowledge tax disclosure system that allows individuals to make provable claims about select information in their tax retur…
This project collates and explores public data from 200+ facilitated dialogues that occurred through the Fora platform in the last several …
Making visible dynamics within conversations enables us to see conversation quality, dynamics between participants, the impact of facilitat…
Using natural language processing and machine learning, we discover emergent themes and patterns within our dialogue data set. Exploring ho…
We examine whether and how the speed of spread and decay of news events differ between social media and broadcast media based on a sample o…
A massive audit of 1800+ AI text datasets, tracing their provenance and composition from origin to creation.The race to train language mode…
Voyage Viewer is an online, open source interactive tool especially designed to visualize and study human mobility and migration.
Advances in machine learning have recently enabled the synthesis of text, images, audio and video data, in what is referred to as Generativ…
People die twice.First, when they die.Then when they are forgotten.Rokusuke Ei (1933-2016)
A world in which thousands of people can construct and release autonomous biological agents is unlikely to flourishProfessor Kevin Esvelt, …
Public libraries are one of most trusted public institutions in the U.S. and increasingly provide a broad range of education services, rang…
Although lidar is widely used for mapping the 3D geometry of surfaces, the technology has historically been challenged by specular, or mirr…
Today's children will live in a world saturated with artificial intelligence. Understanding the key idea behind the functioning of intellig…
We take as a starting point for our work the recent scholarship by Sasha Costanza-Chock, Design Justice, in which she described design jus…
CommunityLM is a research program from MIT Center for Constructive Communication (CCC) and MIT Media Lab. We are devoted to developing soci…
Black Forest is a participatory public artwork collecting the names and stories of Black lives lost to COVID-19 in the U.S. and planting tr…
Bitcoin’s (un)common goodDigital Currency Initiative at the MIT Media Lab Launches New Bitcoin Software and Security Effort with Industry L…
A Counting is an ongoing series of software-generated live-streamed sound and video works composed of an evolving neverending count fr…
ResearchTechnical Paper | Executive Summary | GitHubAboutIntroductionOpenCBDC is an open source project to engage in co…
The increasing prevalence of large-scale labor aggregation platforms, worker analytics, and algorithmic decision-making by management raise…
OverviewMost SMBs make pricing decisions using intuition and inefficient methods (the old school way), yielding sub-par sales. However, wit…
In an effort to design alternatives to opinion-based discourse at scale online that exploded with polarization, toxicity, and misinformatio…
Identity spans multiple dimensions; however, the relative salience of a dimension of identity can vary markedly from person to person. …
As part of its recommendations to increase transparency, the Aspen Institute’s Commission on Information Disorder recommended – in its…
The Atlas of Opportunity is a platform that allows communities to derive insights from their own data. The tool was created in collabo…
The Community Dialogue Data Trust (CODIDT) is an interactive digital platform designed to empower participants in facilitated dialogues wit…
Computer Vision applications are making a remarkable impact on society and advancing progress in Machine Learning. Our project aims to desi…
Data is the main fuel of the modern world enabling artificial intelligence and driving technological growth. The demand for data has grown …
Cloud based machine learning inference is an emerging paradigm where users query with their data to a service provider who runs a ML model …
A principal vulnerability of a proof-of-work ("PoW") blockchain is that an attacker can re-write the history of transactions by forking a p…
In a Proof-of-Work blockchain the equilibrium hashrate is a monotone function of the fiat exchange value of the block reward. There is no l…
Swarms of robots will revolutionize many applications, from targeted material delivery to farming. However, the characteristics that make t…
Parallelized Architecture for Scalably Executing smart Contracts (PArSEC)AuthorsJames Lovejoy, Federal Reserve Bank of BostonAnders Brownwo…
A robust and resilient communication infrastructure is essential to the development of democratic processes and knowledge formation. Decent…