Resilience Across Scales is a research theme that encompasses the work of a few Media Lab Principal Investigators and their research grou...
Papers from SafePaths: https://github.com/PrivateKit/PrivacyDocumentsSafe Paths is an MIT-led, free, open source technology tha...
Governments and researchers around the world are implementing digital contact tracing solutions to stem the spread of infectious disease,...
What anonymized geolocation data can tell us about the effectiveness of social distancingThe World Health Organization has officially dec...
Autonomous vehicles (AVs), drones, and other types of robots will revolutionize our way of traveling and understanding urban space. In or...
Segregation is hurting our societies and especially our cities. But economic inequality isn't just limited to neighborhoods. The restaura...
Data for refugees is a big data challenge whereby Turk Telekom opens a large dataset of anonymized mobile phone records to research group...
To better understand and improve the quality of our lives, there has been a need for measuring non-economic capital such as social capita...
Modern cities have to respond to the growing demands of more efficient and sustainable urban development, as well as an increased quality...
Mobile phones are one of the fastest growing technologies in the developing world with global penetration rates reaching 90%. Mobile phon...
Participants in cryptocurrency markets are in constant communication with each other about the latest coins and news releases. Do th...
Algorithmic FairnessSociety increasingly relies on machine learning models for automated decision making. Yet, efficiency gains from auto...
Open Algorithms (OPAL)
Swarms of robots will revolutionize many applications, from targeted material delivery to farming. However, the characteristics that make...
A learning framework for secure, decentralized, computationally efficient data and model sharing among multiple robot units installed at...
Leveraging the power of platforms, big data, and advanced analytics for species protection and the public good in a privacy-preserving, s...
The well-known "small-world" phenomenon indicates that an individual can be connected with any other in the world through a limited numbe...
Earlier studies proved that behavior is highly shaped and constrained by one's social networks, and demonstrated ways in which individual...
Growth in leisure travel has become increasingly significant economically, socially, and environmentally. However, flexible but uncoordin...
Location prediction is a critical building block in many location-based services and transportation management. This project explores the...
The recent availability of quantitative behavioral data provides an opportunity to study human behavior at unprecedented scale. Using lar...
The understanding and modeling of social influence on human economic behavior in city environments can have important implications. In th...
bandicoot provides a complete, easy-to-use environment for researchers using mobile phone metadata. It allows them to easily load their d...
Even when real names and other personal information are stripped from metadata datasets, it is often possible to use just a few pieces of...
Markets are notorious for bubbles and bursts. Other research has found that crowds of lay-people can replace even leading experts to pred...
A peer-to-peer network, enabling different parties to jointly store and run computations on data while keeping the data completely privat...
We believe that the narrative of only listening to experts or trusting the wisdom of the crowd blindly is flawed. Instead we have develop...
We present Open Badges, an open-source framework and toolkit for measuring and shaping face-to-face social interactions using either cust...
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...
The Mobile Territorial Lab (MTL) aims at creating a "living" laboratory integrated in the real life of the Trento territory in Italy, ope...
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 va...
Cooperation in a large society of self-interested individuals is notoriously difficult to achieve when the externality of one individual'...
Data mining of email has provided important insights into how organizations function and what management practices lead to greater produc...